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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. With the aim of inspiring the larger community to contemplate how we might reshape our thinking as we grow a…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. With the aim of inspiring the larger community to contemplate how we might reshape our thinking as we grow a…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. With the aim of inspiring the larger community to contemplate how we might reshape our thinking as we grow a…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to discuss what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. Below, we capture concisely each of the “rules” —guidelines, thinking points, and suggested practic…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic “New Rules” as we consider the futures of Early Modern CLCS in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAt the most recent MLA Convention in 2023, the CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum gathered a roundtable of scholars to think about what “new rules”might help us think about how we do scholarship, teaching, and service in the field today. Below, we capture concisely each of the “rules” —guidelines, thinking points, and suggested practic…[Read more]
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Thomas Leitch replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoI’m writing to second Leigh’s invitation for nominations of any member of the Adaptation Studies Forum to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Kate Gillen has graciously agreed to accept the Executive Committee’s nomination to this position, but the MLA would be happier if we had at least one other nomination from the Forum at large.
I’d ask any member who…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng started the topic CFP MLA LLC 16c English: “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.
Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alo…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP for MLA 2024: Renaissance Eating: Routes, Representations Re-Creations in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years agoGuaranteed session for CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern!
Papers of no more than 10 minutes for a roundtable on new insights into the cultures of early modern eating and food. How did the circulation of food carry with it encounters with new ideas and new people? How did changing culinary practices and tastes both reflect and influence cultural…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: MLA 2024 session of the TC Forum on Religion and Literature in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years ago“20th-Century ‘Saints’ and Struggle”
If “spirituality” relates to a concern for the transcendent and a “saint” is one who has made a significant contribution to a spiritual tradition, this panel focuses on 20th-century saints whose spirituality intersected significantly with social and political struggle. Abstracts demonstrating familiarity…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]
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Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoEvery year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThere is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoIn the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited From War Crimes to ‘Truce Thinking’ in Shakespeare’s Henry V in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years agoShakespeare’s Henry V (1600) concludes with a treaty between England and France, enabled through the marriage of King Henry and Princess Katherine, the compromises of France and Burgundy, Queen Isabella’s advocacy and even Henry’s own willingness to let his delegates speak on his behalf. Although the final scene dramatizes the historical treat…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited From War Crimes to ‘Truce Thinking’ in Shakespeare’s Henry V in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years agoShakespeare’s Henry V (1600) concludes with a treaty between England and France, enabled through the marriage of King Henry and Princess Katherine, the compromises of France and Burgundy, Queen Isabella’s advocacy and even Henry’s own willingness to let his delegates speak on his behalf. Although the final scene dramatizes the historical treat…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited ‘It was the best butter’: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 3 years agoSeries of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic 2023 MLA Convention session 377 – Making Sacred, Making Holy in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoIf you are at the Convention in San Francisco, please consider attending the Religion and Literature Forum Session 377 on Friday, 6 January 2023, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM.
“Making Sacred, Making Holy: The Canonization of People and Texts” in the Marriott Marquis – Sierra Suite H (Level 5)
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Jason Lewallen, U of Dallas
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David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group
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Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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