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Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS: Exploring the Potential for Altmetrics as Value-Based Indicators in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation introduces the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences [HSS]) initiative (http://humetricshss.org/), which aims to develop and support values-based research indicators in HSS disciplines.
Because researchers’ practices are closely linked with the evaluation metrics by which they are judged, H…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (New York: Palgrave, 2014), ed. Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin. in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAt a time when Shakespeare is becoming increasingly globalized and diversified it is urgent more than ever to ask how this appropriated ‘Shakespeare’ constructs ethical value across cultural and other fault lines. Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.
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Matthew Levay deposited 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award commendation in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Teaching Literature Book Award is an international, juried prize, awarded biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English at Idaho State University. This commendation discusses both the winning volume and an honorable mention.
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Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award honorable mention for 2017 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives, edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside) and Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University), as an honorable mention for the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was pub…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award winner for 2017 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Service Learning and Literary Studies in English, edited by Laurie Grobman (Penn State University, Berks) and Roberta Rosenberg (Christopher Newport University) as the winner of the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was published by the Modern La…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan uploaded the file: Ethnolinguistic Prelude to Gary, IN, "Land of Rust Belt Romance and Adventure" to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThese previews are to contextualize the Calumet region of NW Indiana. These trips will include coffee hours at local Calumet Region libraries to call for fiction short stories by people who grew in steel mill / industrial towns across the US. I am limited to covering NW Indiana, but our dostribution list includes people from PA, OH, and other states.
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays (of interest to those working in film)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation sty…[Read more] -
Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945
deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the guest-editor James W. McM…[Read more] -
Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2018. Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied France. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin — his work and/or his life — this panel examines dangerous passages of all sorts. Papers might consider…[Read more] -
Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018. Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018. Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAbstract
The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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