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Seo-Young Chu deposited Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoDream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism
(Entries organized in chronological order by date of obsolescence)
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]
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Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoEssay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic 4/20 – Global South Cinephilias: A Virtual Roundtable in the discussion
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoGlobal South Cinephilias: A Virtual Roundtable
Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 6:00 pm EDT
Register in advance here (required): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tppti7IbSuuEEXk3UMmJsA
The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’s…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor, Queer and Sexuality Studies, UW-Milwaukee in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWomen’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in Queer and Sexuality Studies for 2022-2023. Must be able to teach Queer Theory and Feminist Theory courses. Apply by April 10, 2022 to ensure consideration. https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/33994
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies in the discussion
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature invites submissions for its guaranteed MLA 2023 session: “Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies”
The COVID-19 pandemic forced professors to rely on technology to teach online. This session aims to share innovative methodologies used for teaching grad…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Reviewers in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoiEnglish Journal is considering proposals for book reviews and review essays. iEnglish expects potential reviewers to have received their Ph.D. in English or a related field, or to have evidence of relevant publications or expertise.
All prospective reviewers must adhere to our ethics and conflict of interest policy: they are expected to not…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoIn this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited MLA 2023- San Francisco, CA – CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Calls for Papers in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMLA 2023- San Francisco, CA – CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Calls for Papers
Writing and Cultural Production as Oppositional Work
Oppositional work of writing and cultural production in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, including protest and dissident literature/art/activism that resists surveillance and discursive/cultural…[Read more] -
Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more] -
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoComo homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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