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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Seattle – "Comparative Orientalisms" — CLCS-Medieval Forum in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJust as there are many Orients, there are many Orientalisms, or approaches to, constructions of, and lenses upon the Orient. This CLCS-Medieval Forum session invites examinations of Comparative Orientalisms including (but not limited to): the comparative rhetoric of description and association attaching to different eastern spaces (the Holy Land,…[Read more]
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Baltasar Fra-Molinero started the topic CFP Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 MLA Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Haunting Raveloe in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExploration of how “Silas Marner” is George Eliot’s means to distinguish herself from those who are truly guilty of abandoning parental mores… ancestors, parents, themselves. An argument is made that the reason for the text is as provision for the author to temporarily relieve herself of guilt.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazons’ Swamp: Elizabeth Gaskell braves her terrors for freedom in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExploration of how Elizabeth Gaskell uses her textual creation, “Cranford,” to insert a male “bomb” into specifically delineated memories of her pre-adult life, thereby effecting displaced matricide.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Having Your Beefcake, and Leaving Him Too in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExploration of how Aphra Behn uses her textual creation “Oronnoko” to engage in a guiltless sexual affair that bypasses all societal and inner-psychic censors.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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David Wacks started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Seattle: New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe MLA Forum for Medieval Iberian Literatures, Languages, and Cultures seeks proposals for a session titled “New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies.” We invite abstracts for 15 minute papers featuring new work, issues or approaches in medieval Hispanic or Iberian studies. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 8, 2019. Please send…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Sarah Ruth Jacobs started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, May 15, 2019 in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming general issue, edited by Shelly Eversley (Baruch College) and Krystyna Michael (The Graduate Center, CUNY). JITP’s mission is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of technology in teaching,…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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