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Beth Seltzer replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi all! I’m Beth Seltzer, and I do digital pedagogy and scholarship as an Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College. I have a Ph.D. in Victorian literature. Happy to talk to people about Ed Tech type positions, and to hear about opportunities!
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Jobs in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI’ve just uploaded two PDF’s to the Files section of jobs that were recently posted to Versatile PhD.
One is a 50% position at UC Merced that involves providing logistical support for a grant that builds community partnerships and graduate mentorship in the interdisciplinary humanities. (I imagine they might be willing to supplement the other 50%…[Read more]
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Nicole Marie Gervasio replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHello everybody! My name is Nicole, and I just received my Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature with a certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Columbia University in May 2018. Right now, I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. I still spend a lot of…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman started the topic General Questions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDo you have a general question about job hunting? Are you looking for an informational interview in a particular field? Post your question to the group here!
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Recommended Reading in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI’ve recently starting compiling a Connected Academics reading list. On the list are the following:
Designing the Professional by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (muscle your way past the class assumptions and the design thinking cultishness and there is excellent advice)
Not for Profit by Martha Nussbaum (not sure this is her best book but I think…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Jobs in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe office of the dean of the graduate school at Princeton has a new position open for a professional development program specialist with a deadline of 1 October.
This job will report to Amy Pszczolkowski, Assistant Dean for Professional Development and friend of Connected Academics.
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone! I’m Stacy Hartman, and I’m the Project Manager of Connected Academics at the MLA. I got my PhD from Stanford in German Studies in 2015 and moved to NYC to start with the MLA a week later. I’m currently working on an edited volume around the topic of transforming graduate education called Mission Driven: Reimagining Graduate Education…[Read more]
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Brian Tholl replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi all!
My name is Brian and I’m a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and a Lecturer in Italian at Penn State University. I’m interested in the public humanities and I’m a huge believer in the way in which shared human experience and cross-cultural exchange can develop and improve community relations, especially in the fully digital age of the 2…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Resisting the cul-de-sac in Disgrace, Master of Petersburg and Life & Times of Michael K in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSamuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ends in both acts with the two tramps not moving in spite of agreeing that they should leave. Even though Vladimir and Estragon realize the futility of their wait, they remain adamant in the hope that Godot may arrive. Likewise, the Unnamable who cannot go on chooses to go on. What essentially translates in b…[Read more]
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoFrom the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many tribes and subcultures of Britain’s teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of the most important contemporary British wri…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Race in Chicago Story: Farrell “The Fastest Runner on 61st Street” in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoRESEARCHGATE:
Update on Rust Belt Lit. Projects for July 19, 2018James T. Farrell’s (d. 1979) 1950 short story “The Fastest Runner on 61st Street, A Story” is set during the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.
LINK: https:…[Read more]
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Brian Tholl started the topic Welcome – read here first! in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWelcome to the Connected Academics group on Humanities Commons! Please read through the following information, and then head over to the Discussion to introduce yourself, where you can also tell us about your goals and what you would like to see from this group!
This is a networking group for academics pursuing a wide range of careers. Feel free…[Read more]
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Rachael King deposited “Interloping with my Question-Project”: John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan deposited PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoAn analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens’s popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical…[Read more]
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited Isherwood’s Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture and Queer Relationality in A Single Man in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoPart of the Introduction in lieu of an abstract:
Christopher Isherwood’s celebrated novel A Single Man portrays a gay man as an ordinary human being. For its time, the novel’s depiction of homosexuality as a legitimate minoritarian identity, rather than individual pathology, was a radical political gesture. Given this context, literary critics…[Read more] - Load More
