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Ben Mangrum posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months ago
Do you have colleagues who lampoon students’ work on social media? Consider Jennifer Larson’s reflections on this increasingly common practice: (http://www.ethosreview.org/forum-intellectual-spaces-2/whose-text-is-it-anyway-lampooning-student-work-on-social-media/).
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Ben Mangrum posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months ago
For those interested in unions and/or grad student labor:
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Ben Mangrum posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months ago
Check out Sarah George’s reflections on “Budget Cuts and the Shrinking University” at http://ethosreview.org
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Ben Mangrum posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months ago
Are letters of recommendation a waste of time?
Consider Jessica Wolfe’s argument at ethosreview.org (http://www.ethosreview.org/forum-intellectual-spaces-2/scattered-leaves-or-are-recommendation-letters-a-waste-of-time/)-
Readers interested in this post might also like to take a look at the MLA’s draft statement on letters of recommendation, which sparked quite a lot of discussion: http://executivecouncil.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2013/07/17/draft-statement-on-letters-of-recommendation/.
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Ben Mangrum posted an update in the group
Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoWhat’s it like to interview at the MLA Convention while expecting a child? Read about Jennifer Larson’s experience at http://www.ethosreview.org/forum-intellectual-spaces-2/the-elephant-in-the-womb/.
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Ben Mangrum posted an update in the group
Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoCheck out our most recent posts that review topics ranging from the conservative turn in NC politics to Wes Anderson’s films, http://ethosreview.org.
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Ben Mangrum posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months ago
A collective of scholars, critics, and public intellectuals based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has just launched Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics. Ethos is sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. This digital project provides an online space for reflecting upon the institutions,…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months ago
Two University Press books out in 2013:
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (Liverpool UP)
http://www.amazon.com/Disability-Studies-Spanish-Culture-Representations/dp/184631870X/Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives (U South Carolina…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 5 months ago
Podcast series on the culture of cities launched with 5 conversational scholarly interviews at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com .
Cities discussed run from Madrid to Tokyo to LA/Hollywood to Valencia/Barcelona/Bilbao, and more.Click there on the Urbanculturalstudies Podcasts page or look for us on iTunes and Internet Archive. More to follow!
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
I’ve just started a series of podcasts at:
UrbanCulturalStudies Podcasts
The first one is a conversational interview inspired by scholar Stephen Vilaseca’s recent article “From Graffiti to Street Art: How Urban Artists Are Democratizing Spanish City Centers and Streets,” originally published in the journal Trans…[Read more] -
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Old English Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis three-page letter is the OE Committee’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Thank you for thinking through these issues in a powerful, well-formed reply to the myopic notion of merging O.E. and M.E. Divisions. John M. Hill
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Thank you for thinking through these issues in a powerful, well-formed reply to the myopic notion of merging O.E. and M.E. Divisions. John M. Hill
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This is an excellent response, and well argued. I hope that the MLA takes this matter and this response seriously. Thank you and all the rest of the authors for working on this letter.
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Terrific, thoughtful, compelling letter — thank you so much to the authors.
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