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Grant Glass deposited Resisting the Machine: Learning a New Method in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoPaper for Session 417: Critical Computation: What’s Next?
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Molly Des Jardin deposited Teaching “East Asian DH” in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis presentation explains my undergrad/grad seminar “East Asian DH” (EALC111/511) at University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2018. I focus on the survey format of the seminar, as dictated by the challenge of trying to reach students working on many aspects of the un-discipline of East Asian studies, which encompasses a large region, at least three…[Read more]
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Kenton Rambsy deposited African American Short Fiction & Data Driven Humanities in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDatasets, that is, digital collections of related information, and data visualizations are really crucial ways for understanding the circulation of African American short stories and black literature in general. Calculating the number of unique stories and the many reprints allow us to survey how editors collectively shaped canonical histories.…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited MLA Commons and Humanities Commons Workshop (MLA 2019) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoBuild Your Online Presence, Share Your Scholarship, and Collaborate on MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, session 140
This workshop introduces the features of MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, highlighting a number of cases that demonstrate how people are using the platform to get feedback on work in progress, develop a professional online…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin replied to the topic Recommendations for food and drinks in Chicago in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis morning I checked out the Prudential location of Wildberry. It has a vegan hash among other many tasty items, is open at 6:30 and a five-minute walk from the Hyatt. Highly recommended but go early!
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Anne Donlon started the topic Recommendations for food and drinks in Chicago in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIf you’re from Chicago, if you’ve visited before, or if you discover good food options during your time at the convention, share them here!
The Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession did an accessibility survey of restaurants.
I have not spent a ton of time in Chicago, but I did gather some recommendations from friends when I was here…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic PANEL: 040 Echoes of Sepharad, Thurs, January 3 at 1:45 pm, Sheraton Grand Huron in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:
Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Sheraton Grand – Huron
Session Information:
Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in…[Read more]
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Amanda Henrichs deposited Beyond Recovery: Computational Work and Archival Absence in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoShort paper presented for session 417 on Critical Computation.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Slots still available! in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHeading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Thursday Jan 3rd
54. And What does Colonial Mean?
1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand
Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky
Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]
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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 “Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory” in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and t…[Read more]
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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 "Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory" in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]
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Dene M. Grigar started the topic Readings & Performances at M LA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoNatural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more] -
Matthew Omelsky deposited Chris Abani and the Politics of Ambivalence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn his 2004 novel GraceLand, Chris Abani unsettles notions of youth “empowerment,” or “resistance,” creating a restless oscillation between cynicism and idealism. On the one hand, pervasive violence and restricting
norms seem to debilitate the novel’s characters, leaving little room to negoti- ate the constraints of their bleak lives in the slums…[Read more] -
Matthew Omelsky deposited The Creaturely Modernism of Amos Tutuola in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article examines the global African modernism of Amos Tutuola through the lens of his nonhuman folkloric creatures. Though the work of the early Nigerian novelist is often characterized as modernism’s inversion, or “traditional,” Tutuola in fact articulates a succession of surreal monsters in The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the B…[Read more]
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Matthew Omelsky deposited After the End Times: Postcrisis African Science Fiction in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe live in a moment of “apocalyptic time,” the “time of the end of time.” Ours is a moment of global ecological crisis, of the ever-impending collapse of capital. That we live on the brink is too clear. What is not, however, is our ability to imagine the moment after this dual crisis. In recent years, African artists have begun to articul…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic European Beat Studies Network 2019 Conf – Oct 9-12, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFrom the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.
The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTransnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!
Saturday 23 March 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Transnational Beat Generation
Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
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