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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Pleasure of the Blog: The Early Novel, the Serial, and the Narrative Archive on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

This paper explores the literary potential of the personal blog, arguing that the form may usefully understood in relationship to the early novel. As it has been argued that the representations of individual characters in the early novel helped to bring the modern understanding of the individual into being, so this paper argues that the character…[Read more]
Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Open on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

Critical credo: on the significance of openness in humanities scholarship.
Dennis Looney deposited "What Should You Expect from the MLA Job Interview? And What Do Your Interviewers Expect from You? in the group Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

Short piece on the structure of the typical academic job interview in languages and literatures.
Dennis Looney deposited "What Should You Expect from the MLA Job Interview? And What Do Your Interviewers Expect from You? on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

Short piece on the structure of the typical academic job interview in languages and literatures.
Dennis Looney deposited "Some of My Best Friends Are Foreign Language Teachers" in the group Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

Short reflection on the marginalization of foreign language departments and teachers on the typical college campus (written in 2001).
Dennis Looney deposited "Some of My Best Friends Are Foreign Language Teachers" on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

Short reflection on the marginalization of foreign language departments and teachers on the typical college campus (written in 2001).
Cristina León Alfar's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago
Cristina León Alfar's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago
Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago

Please see this link:

http://www.mla.org/policies_for_divisio
Divisions
Definition. The MLA divisions encompass the primary scholarly and professional concerns of the association, with each division representing a major area of membership interest. The divisions are not autonomous organizations but are an integral part of the MLA; they have no…[Read more]
Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago

The members of these divisions have not voted to endorse a resolution, nor is it their purview to do so. Executive committee members of divisions have no authority to speak for the division’s members, and only the MLA Executive Council may speak on behalf of the association in any way. I will be contacting the executive committees of the divisions…[Read more]
Dennis Looney's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
Dennis Looney changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New Initiative for articulating support for contingent faculty in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago

I hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution. Here’s the…[Read more]
Rosemary G. Feal posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago

Have you read Profession on the Commons recently? http://profession.mla.hcommons-staging.org
Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic CFP: Scientific Study of Literature (journal) in the discussion Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago

For information, go to https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ssol/main .
Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years ago

Thank you all for the discussions.

One correction, Russell A. Berman (this claim was in another thread on the “other” MLA Commons Page) : Factually, I called for a suspension of a declared 15 minute break so that the DA could get to the MOTION on MLA governance and the inclusion of PTF, which I and others had spent many months developing, w…[Read more]
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Christopher John Newfield

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Christopher John Newfield

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