Christina Ann Karas
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Augusta Rohrbach started the topic Session 773: The Graphic Nineteenth Century in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoPapers and Presentations available on MLA Commons
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Meredith L. McGill started the topic #414 Literature and Media in the 19thC US — statements posted! in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoStatements for our Division panel #414, “Literature and Media in the 19thC US” have been posted at our WordPress site. Read through them, if you can, before the panel meets this afternoon at 5:15 pm (Marriott Hotel; Chicago A-B).
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James E. Dobson started the topic 2014 Futures of American Studies Institute in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDartmouth College announces a One Week Summer Institute: States of American Studies
Monday, June 16 — Sunday, June 22, 2014
Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
Co-Directors: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University), Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University), J. Martin Favor (Dartmouth Col…[Read more] -
Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoNOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the PTF Committee!
The Executive Committee for the Part-time Faculty Discussion Group would encourage members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other active and hard-working Part time faculty member to serve on the committee. The term is four years. The group is eligible to put forward a…[Read more]
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Dawn Childress posted an update in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoRequest for Proposals: Prototyping Projects for the HathiTrust Research Center
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoThis is an important call for 800 word responses to a congressman’s inquiry about working conditions of part time faculty. Please make time this week or next to write your story.http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/eforum
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoCalifornia part time faculty! Please join CPFA http://www.cpfa.org/ This is the only advocacy and educational organization in California that is specifically devoted to Part time faculty issues. We are involved in legislative analysis, advocacy, and building networks of activists. It’s only $40 per year, or $3.33 per month. The New Faculty…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoDeadline for travel grant application is November 1.
Here’s the link: http://www.mla.org/assist_nontenure
Awards of up to $300 for NTT(which includes Part time faculty!) and graduate students. Hitch is that you don’t actually receive the money until a month or so after the convention. You can only apply once every three years. Please make use…[Read more] -
Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoYou recently received a notice from the MLA that you are invited to participate in the discussion of the groups and how they are organized. Several respondents have suggested that the “Part-time faculty” group should be “changed” to the Non-Tenure-Track faculty group. There is a group that is “contingent labor in the professions” . It is a…[Read more]
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Definitely keep this as part-time faculty. Universities such as Tiffin University do not have ANY tenure track employees/faculty as all full-time faculty are not tenured and no tenure is possible there. There is definitely a distinction between full-time and part-time and that does not necessarily equal tenured/non-tenured.
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Thanks for your input<karen.. Can you post this to the "document" . I think it is paragraph 146!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoMLA can provide travel funds for the annual convention for Part-time and contingent faculty, and graduate students. Up to $300 will be awarded to qualifying PTF to defray convention expenses. for those who are also income eligible. Please make use of this generous travel grant!
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I didn’t know this. My English Dept. refused to support my travel which is why I didn’t attend last year’s conference. Where and how do we apply for the funds?
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Hi Pamela, Here’s the link:
http://www.mla.org/assist_nontenureIf you do make it, please join the Part time faculty for a great planned panel on “defining” –the language issues around contingency and Part time faculty members. I think it is saturday, around 5:00 pm!
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Thanks! This is very helpful. Maybe I’ll be able to make it. Let me look into airfares.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoCocal updates (posted weekly) from Joe Berry. To subscribe to these, write to Joe Berry: joeberry@igc.org
UPDATES IN BRIEF AND LINKS
1. Backlash against online education
http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Backlash-Grows-Against/139049/2. Possible strike at Columbia College,…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 10 months agoIs anyone interested in talking to a radio producer from NPR (marketplace show) on PT faculty issues? They are interested in “savings and spending” patterns and “whether the reliance on PTF is “sustainable”. They are particularly interested in California adjuncts, but if anyone is interested I would forward your name. Thanks!
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Margaret, I am a California Adjunct (San Diego) and would be delighted to speak with NPR/Marketplace. pjacoby@sdccd.edu
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When will they be airing the story?
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Not sure about that, Louisa. I will let you know!
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Thank you! Since you posted, I have heard a few segments about adjuncts from various NPR shows. Also, there’s a big meeting planned this weekend for adjuncts trying to organize in the Boston area. It makes me hopeful that change for the better could be coming.
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Margaret — How long ago did you get this request? I just heard from a colleague that NPR Marketplace already aired the story and that it did NOT accurately represent PTF issues. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet. See
“They boiled the issue down into a minute and a half, barely mentioned adjuncts. They mention fewer tenure track jobs…[Read more]-
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OK Good to know — this must mean that the request actually IS in response to the story that aired yesterday. Feel free to give them my contact info if they want to talk to someone outside of California and in a state where PTF face significant obstacles to unionizing.
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HI Peter. Thanks for writing. I will forward your contact info to the producer!
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Thanks.
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I would be willing to be contacted by NPR, but am in Arizona.
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Thank you so much Gloria. I will forward your contact details. You might want to message me an EDU address (peter, you too!)
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Dawn Childress posted an update in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 12 years, 10 months agoThe Libraries and Research in Languages and Literature blog has relocated to MLA Commons! You can visit the blog by clicking the “Blog” option in the left-hand menu or visiting http://mlalibraries.mla.hcommons-staging.org/.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 10 months agoInteresting session at NEMLA this week: Joseph Ramsey speaks on unionism in higher education:
“Beyond Alienation and Contingency: the role of unions in higher education today”
Date, Time: Saturday, March 23rd, 11:45-1:15 am
Place: the Hyatt Regency Hotel (in the Ipswich Room).
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA Chicago!
Discussion Group: Part-Time Faculty Members
Perspectives on the language used to describe employment status. Short, focused presentations that examine distinct frameworks of definition, institutional integration, and resistance. Short roundtable presentation ideas. by 15 March 2013; Margaret Hanzimanolis…[Read more]
