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Petar Penda deposited THE BALKAN HIGHER-EDUCATION EXPRESS in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoBalkan universities are in a hurry to beat Oxbridge and Ivy League universities. But, from their dire straits, can Balkan teachers afford the train ticket to compare and contrast? Therefore, in this paper we will talk about the situation in the higher education system in the Former Yugoslav countries which has lost its vigour and rigour with the…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited THE BALKAN HIGHER-EDUCATION EXPRESS in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoBalkan universities are in a hurry to beat Oxbridge and Ivy League universities. But, from their dire straits, can Balkan teachers afford the train ticket to compare and contrast? Therefore, in this paper we will talk about the situation in the higher education system in the Former Yugoslav countries which has lost its vigour and rigour with the…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 101: Introduction to Digital Technology and Culture in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoCatalog Description
101 [ARTS] Introduction to Digital Technology & Culture 3 Inquiry into digital media, including origins, theories, forms, applications, and impact with a focus on authoring and critiquing multimodal texts.Course Description
This course is an introduction to digital technology and culture that integrates interdisciplinary…[Read more] -
Fabiana E. Martínez deposited 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPeter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.
12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Exercices de Style Activity in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis PowerPoint can be used to accompany a creative writing workshop in an intermediate or advanced French language class. It serves as an introduction to French literature and notions of style, which will be important once the students have satisfied their language requirements, as well as a tool for creative student production in the target language.
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOur Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists SeriesBeginning Friday, Au…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to the group for interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on the teaching of literature:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comic…[Read more]
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Gema Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Convocatoria para enviar propuestas IV Jornadas de ALCESXXI Julio 4-8 de 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSEMINARIO DE TRABAJO Y ESTUDIO: “Acercamientos transnacionales y afectivos al estudio del género y la sexualidad en la literatura y la cultura visual contemporáneas en el Estado Español”
Fecha de envío de propuestas: 10 de agosto de 2016
<u>Organizadores:</u>
Alfredo Martínez-Expósito (m@unimelb.edu.au), Head of School of Languages and Lingu…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas uploaded the file: Cfps. NACS Colloquium to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017). The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016.
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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Patrick Herald deposited Eng 260/AAS 264 – Introduction to Black Writers: Global Black Fiction in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis course focuses on developing skills of close reading and literary analysis, both in class discussion and in assignments, through the study of major black writers. This section will be a study of global black literature—novels, drama, and poetry—written in English from the twentieth century to the present. We will consider how major aut…[Read more]
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
This review only analyzes the work as a u…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for ACL(x) '16: Extra-Disciplinarity Due date 30 June in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoWhat if disciplines were organized differently — or didn’t exist at all? Or existed, but none of us “belonged” to one? What if literary scholars were to go about interdisciplinary work the way scientists do, building large teams from distinct disciplines to produce work with many co-authors? How do other disciplines reach their audiences? What…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students entering in the fall, one for an M.A.…[Read more]
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Peter C. Pfeiffer started the topic Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThe Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education (CUALHE) is a loose confederation of programs and departments engaged and interested in learning outcomes assessment of humanities and languages. We have had a couple of meetings where projects have been presented and certain issues of humanities learning have been highlighted.…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay describes and illustrates the activities associated with the University of California at Berkeley’s Shakespeare Program, over the last forty years, covering teaching innovations, numerous research publications, multiple productions and videos of Shakespeare’s plays, and creation of websites, Shakespeare’s Staging and Milton Revealed.
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
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