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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Lecture on The Sopranos – July 22, 2020 from 3-4EST in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoJoin Jon Cavallero’s for a lecture on family in The Sopranos. See the flyer for more information.
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn this introduction to the digital humanities (DH), we will approach the field via a Caribbean Studies lens, exploring how an understanding of the digital based in the growing area of digital Caribbean studies might shape the larger field of DH.
The course aims to provide a landscape view of DH, paying attention to how its various approaches…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Maheswari D deposited தமிழ் இலக்கியங்களில் பெண்ணிய கட்டமைப்பும் கட்டுடைப்பும்/CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF FEMINISM IN TAMIL LITERATURE, VOL – 2 in the group
MLA International Symposium 2019 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 3 : VOL – 2, FEBRUARY 2020.
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Maheswari D deposited இலக்கியங்களில் மருத்துவச் சிந்தனைகள்/ THOUGHTS OF MEDICINE IN LITERATURE, Volume-2, March 2020 Special Issue-4, Vol-2 in the group
MLA International Symposium 2019 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 4: VOL – 2, MARCH 2020 issue.
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Maheswari D deposited இலக்கியங்களில் மருத்துவச் சிந்தனைகள்/ THOUGHTS OF MEDICINE IN LITERATURE, Volume-2, March 2020 Special Issue-4, Vol-1 in the group
MLA International Symposium 2019 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 4: VOL – 1, MARCH 2020 issue.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: LLC Italian American – MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTitle: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]
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Lina N. Insana started the topic 5-7 November 2020 | IASA in Pittsburgh, PA | Call for Papers and Sessions in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference November 5-7, 2020
Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA formerly the American Italian Historical Association AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic inquiry…[Read more] -
Maheswari D deposited INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES in the group
MLA International Symposium 2019 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe Papers are scholarly writings about the nobility of Thirukkural in World Culture.
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Silvia Guslandi started the topic Silvia Guslandi – candidate for upcoming forum delegate election in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy name is Silvia Guslandi. I hold a Ph.D. in Euro-American Comparative Literature and I am currently a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (working on Emanuel Carnevali, among other things). Thank you for the honor of considering me as a candidate for the Delegate Assembly. As my research interests are situated…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic Teaching of Literature Executive Forum Nominee in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoI have been nominated to serve on the Teaching of Literature Executive Forum, and I wanted to share a few details about my experiences and my goals with forum members. I am a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where I’ve worked since 2008. I specialize in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, book history, and the d…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThree faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers
May 28-31, 2020
Fondazione Campus
Via del Seminario Prima, 790
Lucca, Italy
http://www.fondazionecampus.it
Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit The I…[Read more]
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Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan – Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoFellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,
My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee member, an…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBuon giorno a tutt*,
Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.
I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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