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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
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Ted Underwood deposited Culture, Theory, Data: An Introduction in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled “Culture, Theory, Data,” which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa.
The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where “culture” and “data” seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing t…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Culture, Theory, Data: An Introduction in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled “Culture, Theory, Data,” which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa.
The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where “culture” and “data” seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing t…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Culture, Theory, Data: An Introduction on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
The introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled “Culture, Theory, Data,” which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa.
The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where “culture” and “data” seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing t…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic Walter Scott Conference – 2024 in the discussion
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWalter Scott Conference – 2024
According to Mark Twain, writing in 1883, most of the world had by then outlived the “harms” associated with Walter Scott’s “Middle-Age sham civilization.” But in “our south,” he continued, “they flourish pretty forcefully still.” Twain was refering to the US south, and at the Thirteenth International Wal…[Read more] -
Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
In this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Samuel Cohen's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
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Kate Ozment's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Into the Fediverse: An Opportunity for Academics to Reclaim the Public Sphere in the group
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoWith the brazen privatization, if not pending chaotic collapse of Twitter, millions of people are looking for alternative spaces to share their work, thoughts, and ill-conceived memes. Among the many digital migrants are a significant number of academics who looking for guidance, and familiar faces, as they try to make sense of the many new…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Into the Fediverse: An Opportunity for Academics to Reclaim the Public Sphere on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
With the brazen privatization, if not pending chaotic collapse of Twitter, millions of people are looking for alternative spaces to share their work, thoughts, and ill-conceived memes. Among the many digital migrants are a significant number of academics who looking for guidance, and familiar faces, as they try to make sense of the many new…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
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Alan Liu started the topic Calls for two MLA 2024 sessions by MLA Committee on Information Tech in the discussion
Jobs and Opportunities on HASTAC Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (Jan. 4-7), the MLA’s Committee on Information Technology is organizing two sessions to help generate ideas related to: (1) revising MLA’s “Guidelines” for evaluating digital scholarship; and (2) possibly formulating future professional guidelines for using artificial intelligence. [Abstracts: 300 words…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic MLA 2024 Drama and Performance CFPs in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPlease find below the cfps for the MLA 2024 Drama and Performance Forum panels:
<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Adaptation: Migrations Across Form(s) </span>
In her classic work A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon contended that “to deal with adaptations as adaptations is to think of them as . . . inherently ‘palimpsestuous’…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Grumbach's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
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