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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TOMORROW SUNDAY: Panel “Words on Food” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us tomorrow Sunday for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee, “Words on Food.” Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent?
Sunday, J…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TODAY: Panel “French Eyes on California” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee. Panelists will examine the role, symbol, and landscapes of California in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought.
Saturday, January 7
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Marriott Marquis – Nob Hill C (Lower B2 Level)
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years agoHello everyone!
I hope all of you have arrived safely in San Francisco and are having a great experience at the MLA this year.
This is a friendly reminder that our session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” is tomorrow, Saturday, 1/7/23, at 10:15 am, in Moscone West – 3018.
For more information about the panel, click here.
This…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic 2023 MLA Convention session 377 – Making Sacred, Making Holy in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoIf you are at the Convention in San Francisco, please consider attending the Religion and Literature Forum Session 377 on Friday, 6 January 2023, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM.
“Making Sacred, Making Holy: The Canonization of People and Texts” in the Marriott Marquis – Sierra Suite H (Level 5)
Presider
Jason Lewallen, U of Dallas
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic TODAY: Roundtable on Démission/resignation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a roundtable on démission/resignation as a multifaceted motif and a critical stance in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone cultural and literary imagination, and on the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this dual phenomenon, whether it proceeds from the stasis of discontent or as an…[Read more]
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Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!
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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]
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John Gruesser deposited Poe’s Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in “Hop-Frog” in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoAs I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]
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Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic Two Tenure-Track Teaching Positions in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoColumbus State Community College is a great place to work! The college has amplified our efforts to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across hiring, curriculum, and teaching.
Our positions are posted here:
Link to Tenure-Track Instructor – Rhetoric and Composition
If you have questions about the positions, college, or Columbus, feel f…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoJames Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited A Beginner’s Guide to Using Voyant for Digital Theme Analysis in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago“Digital Theme Analysis” depicts the role that thematic analysis plays in literary criticism, places traditional thematic analysis approaches alongside digital ones, and offers best practices for carrying out digital thematic analysis in the context of Voyant Tools. The chapter identifies thematic analysis as a meaningful pattern that can be tra…[Read more]
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Cathy Davidson deposited The HASTAC Vision: A 2004 “White Paper” in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis white paper was written early after HASTAC’s founding (in 2002-03) and early convening at NSF as part of the “collaboratory” initiative of “centers without walls” to support researchers across institutions and disciplines. This is an early defining document of HASTAC. The Summary begins: “HASTAC (“Haystack”) is a consortium of hum…[Read more]
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Asha Nadkarni started the topic CFP: MELUS 2023 in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues and friends,
On behalf of Butler University, which is sponsoring the MELUS 2023 conference in Indianapolis, April 20-23, 2023, we’d like to reach out and invite you to send a proposal for the upcoming conference and announce our extended deadline of November 30th. We encourage individual, panel, and/or roundtable proposals. Please…[Read more] -
Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Panel at MLA 2023 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoHello everyone!
We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!
Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]
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