Donna M. Bickford
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoWonderful news, Elizabeth! Community Colleges in Oregon, too, have openings for full time, tenure track faculty in English. After years of double digit enrollment growth, and not enough of an increase in tenure track faculty, we are playing catch up.
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Katina Rogers started the topic Storified convention tweets in the forum
2014 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 12 years agoA number of people used Storify to compile tweets on particular sessions and topics during the convention. Here are a few; please reply to add more!
Session 80: Hard Mode: Games and Narratives of Marginalization (Anastasia Salter)
Session 130: Things My Computer Taught Me About Poems (Amanda French)
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Katina Rogers posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years ago
Curious about how people used Twitter during #mla14? @ernestopriego offers his analysis (part 1, part 2).
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Katina Rogers started the topic Post-Convention Reflections in the forum
2014 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 12 years agoWe hope you found the 2014 convention to be enjoyable and stimulating. Now that the convention has ended, consider posting reflections (or links to blog posts you’ve written on other sites) in this space. Thank you, and see you next year in Vancouver!
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Ben Mangrum changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 12 years ago
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Katina Rogers uploaded the file: Who Benefits? Ethics and Competing Agendas in Graduate Education to
2014 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 12 years agoSlides and draft remarks for session 471, “Who Benefits? Ethics and Competing Agendas in Graduate Education”
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Katina Rogers uploaded the file: By Albrecht Classen: The Role of the Forest in German Literature: From the Medieval Forest to the Grünes Band to
2014 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 12 years ago714. Integrating Ecocriticism into College-Level German Curricula
Sunday, 12 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Arkansas, Sheraton Chicago
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Benjamin Mangrum started the topic 75th Anniversary of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear colleagues,
Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://ethosreview.org). This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly essays abou…[Read more]
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Benjamin Mangrum started the topic Graduate Student labor series in the forum
Graduate Student Caucus on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear colleagues,
Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics. This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly blog posts about culture and politics f…[Read more]
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Benjamin Mangrum started the topic Graduate Student Labor series in the forum
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear colleagues,
Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics. This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly posts about culture and politics from i…[Read more]
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Ben Mangrum posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years ago
New posts are up at http://ethosreview.org. Check out essays on the 75th anniversary of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and a new piece in our Graduate Student Labor series.
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Convention Presentations in the forum
2014 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 12 years agoPraxis Network: Rethinking Humanities Education, Together and in Public
Session 599 (#s599)
Saturday, 11 January, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Arkansas, Sheraton ChicagoDetails about the session, including presenter bios and draft remarks, are available at http://praxisnetwork.mla.hcommons-staging.org/.
How can humanities programs better equip students for…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Convention Presentations in the forum
2014 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoOn Friday, January 10 from 5:15-6:30pm in Sheraton I at the Sheraton Chicago, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will sponsor a session, “Beyond the Digital” (#402).
In recent years, an increasing number of sessions at the MLA Convention have been devoted to the digital humanities. As we wrote in the CFP, however, what is…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers posted an update in the group
First-Time Convention Attendees on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTwo new guest posts in our series of tips for #mla14: Ernesto Priego (@ernestopriego) shares guidance on live-tweeting, and Natalie Houston (@nmhouston) offers valuable suggestions on how to thrive at the convention.
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My pleasure. Thank you for writing it!
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And now, part 3. Thanks, Ernesto!