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Laurie Ringer deposited Excerpt: Concordance A in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoExcerpt: Concordance A from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).
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Hanan Elsayed posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWe would like to send a letter of concern to the Editor of The French Review about a recent article in The French Review, “L’islamisme à la conquête de la République française” by S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey. The letter explains how the article is a sub-scholarly exercise in Islamophobic discourse that has no place in an academic journal of any kin…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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Ian Barnard started the topic Candidate for Writing Pedagogies forum executive committee in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the Writing Pedagogies forum, so I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and my commitments.
In my scholarship over the years, I have argued that we teachers of writing need to debunk common dispositions and practices around writing pedagogy (e.g., about…[Read more]
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Jonathan Sterne deposited How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriachy in Communication Scholarship? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.
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Jonathan Sterne deposited How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriachy in Communication Scholarship? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.
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Melanie Le Forestier deposited Representation of Indian diasporic female subjectivities in women’s diasporic cinema in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper discusses the emergence of a women’s diasporic cinema that challenges the representation of Indian women as guardians of Indian values. Through the examination of three films directed by women filmmakers (Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta and Nisha Pahuja), this analysis proposes to delve into the reconfiguration of Indian identity in a context o…[Read more]
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Jean Marie Carey deposited Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA review of “Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask,” catalogue for the eponymous 2017 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Laurie Ringer deposited List of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoList of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).
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Patrick R. O'Malley started the topic Executive Committee Election: O'Malley in the discussion
Anglo-Irish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to have been nominated for a position on the executive committee of the LLC Irish forum this year and I want here to give you some information about me and my work. I’m an associate professor in the English Department at Georgetown University, where I’m an active member of our recently formed Irish Studies Initi…[Read more]
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Rosanne Kennedy posted an update in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Memory Studies Colleagues,
I’m pleased to have been nominated for the Executive Committee for Memory Studies, and wanted to tell you about my activities. My early work (World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, ed with Jill Bennett, 2003) stimulated dialogue between postcolonial studies and memory studies. I examined memory and t…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] - Load More