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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies 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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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Asian American 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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Jennifer Buckley started the topic R.F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies (CFP) 9/30 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe R. F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies is an annual award of $1,000 USD to support research into any aspect of the life and work of Bernard Shaw by a graduate student or early-career scholar. The award, which may be held in conjunction with other awards, is intended to help defray costs associated with visits to libraries and o…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoBecause it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] -
Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] -
Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited Period, Theme, Event: Locating Information History in History in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoExplores ‘information history’, or the study of information and its practices, as a way to arrange investigations of past and present. An invited contribution for the volume, “Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach,” edited by Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong, and Ronald Sluijter (London:…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited ‘Freedom, Equality, and Race’: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay begins with my attempt to close-read a text by a recently departed colleague, Jeffrey B. Ferguson, but turns into an exploration of writing across registers, in this case the delivery of a very different version of the same paper by Ferguson, one that is far more intimate, insightful, and moving.
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Marisa Parham deposited Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoTwo-thirds of the way through Faulkner, Mississippi, his extended meditation on the prose oeuvre of the American writer William Faulkner, Édouard Glissant remarks on Faulkner’s famous ‘amused refusal to “correct the contradictions”’ introduced into his texts through his constant revisiting of characters across novels not necessarily set in proper…[Read more]
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