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Hatem Akil replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m writing to express my interest in representing TC Digital Humanities as its Delegate Assembly representative for the term starting in 2021. I am a co-founder and former Chair of the Global Arab and Arab American CSLS forum, where I was instrumental in building coalitions with other fora in sponsoring Delegate Assembly resolutions.
Although I…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. 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 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. 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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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold started the topic Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi All,
I wanted to share the opportunity below. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15)
Best,
Matt
Co-PI, Manifold—
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021
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Marlene Manoff deposited The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information by Paul Dourish in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA book review of The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017) by John Dourish
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Marlene Manoff deposited The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information by Paul Dourish in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA book review of The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017) by John Dourish
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoI’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.
I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Connecting with the community in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello everyone! I have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on Teaching as a Profession, and I wanted to introduce myself before the voting window opens next week. I’m a long-time teacher-researcher, and recently I began my position as an assistant professor of English education at Longwood University in Virginia.
My work centers around s…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP – Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (12/2/2020) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming General Issue with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic edited by Nicole Zeftel (SUNY Buffalo), Alexis Larsson (CUNY Graduate Center) and Teresa Ober (University of Notre Dame).
JITP’s mission is to pr…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoKaren Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
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Kate Pond started the topic seeking participants for my thesis project in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI’m attempting to collect a number of micro-stories in order to deconstruct them by their morphological functions and rebuild one story from the crowd-sourced content. I am hopeful for a diverse representation, but looking for more voices. I would really appreciate if you have 30 minutes or so, that you help contribute to my…[Read more]
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Erin Schreiner started the topic CFA: BSA Pantzer Senior Fellowship in the British Book Trades in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIn keeping with the central value the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. In addition to a range of Fellowships, we would like to call your…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoShakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo replied to the topic The Ferrante Effect in the discussion
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoMore conversations on Ferrante and on the work of translation from two remarkable women, Jhumpa Lahiri and Ann Goldstein.
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