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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Jobs in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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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David Palmer started the topic 13th International Arthur Miller Conference in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe Arthur Miller Society (http://arthurmillersociety.net/) is planning a conference at Ashland University in Ohio next October. The call for papers is attached. Thank you for considering this call.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts 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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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form 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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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Drama 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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Alexa Joubin deposited Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful ideological narrative, Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance examines…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago‘Dirt’ and ‘Trash’ in Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_:
Update on the rhetoric of social stratification in R&J…Gloria McMillan June 21, 2018
Shakespeare in early modern period of English culture demonstrates how modern exogamy (voluntarily marrying outside your group) rattles the social stratification structure in modern western societi…[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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Alexa Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook 17: Shakespeare and Value, Edited by Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Simon Haines (New York: Routledge, 2018) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHow do Shakespearean plays sustain clashing values within them, or imposed on them? Is Shakespeare anti-Semitic? Can Shakespeare be a feminist? How is value subject to context, to market, and demand? A wide range of moral, political, and aesthetic values—profitable or heartening or threatening from case to case—have been associated with Sha…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare Theatre Company’ s Macbeth and the Limits of Multiculturalism.” Early Modern Culture 13 (2018): 240-246 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe STC Macbeth’s setting and predominantly multiethnic cast brought to mind Orson Welles’s landmark 1936 Macbeth which was set in Haiti and featured an all-black cast. In both cases, the ethnicity and race of the cast matched that of the characters and cultures in the adaptation’s respective universe. Tommy’s production engaged in two models…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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