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Spencer Keralis deposited Disrupting Labor in the Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDigital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the CLCS 18th-C. forum, please reply to this post here or email Allison Bigelow at…[Read more]
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William Nichols deposited Telling the Story of Iberian Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis is a paper that I presented at the 2019 MLA in Chicago. In this paper I situate discussions of the field of Iberian Studies within the context of the crisis of the Humanities and the future of Cultural Studies.
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Amanda L. Watson deposited Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoSlides from MLA 2019 session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” an open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum.
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop-and-Frisk-style Profiling in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes Stop-and-Frisk policing within the long history of lynching through the analytical framework of performance studies. Contemporary audio recordings of stop-and-frisk procedures are thought in relation to the historical examples of the Zoot Suit Riots and late 19th-century and early 20th-century lynchings of African Americans.
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Thursday Jan 3rd
54. And What does Colonial Mean?
1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand
Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky
Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen My…[Read more]
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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 “Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory” in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and t…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language journal Editor: Leland G. Spencer in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language journal in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Ben Doyle started the topic *New Humanities programme and DH list – call for proposals* in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago*NEW HUMANITIES PROGRAMME AND DH LIST: CALL FOR PROPOSALS! *
Emerald Publishing (2018 IPG Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year) is pleased to announce investment in a new Humanities book programme. Our commitment to interdisciplinary research means that we are moving into the Humanities for the first time, building new lists primarily in…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic European Beat Studies Network 2019 Conf – Oct 9-12, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFrom the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.
The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan deposited This Talk Doesn’t Have A Name in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis talk discusses various aspects of working with data: the choices that we make when we create data, when we analyze data, and some of the social implications of those choices.
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Ryan Cordell posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoHello all, I’m posting this CFP at the request of Leland Spencer, the editor of *Women & Language*. It can also be found online at: http://osclg.org/women-language/call-for-papers-women-language
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTransnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!
Saturday 23 March 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Transnational Beat Generation
Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Christopher Warren deposited Historiography’s Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoBehind the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a deep substrate that includes a vast data management system, highly detailed SGML markup conventions, extensive international labor, and the enormous cultural weight of the Victorian-era DNB. In this article, I argue that it is only by investigating components of our historiographical…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Historiography’s Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoBehind the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a deep substrate that includes a vast data management system, highly detailed SGML markup conventions, extensive international labor, and the enormous cultural weight of the Victorian-era DNB. In this article, I argue that it is only by investigating components of our historiographical…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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