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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Jay Paul Gates started the topic Cfp Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Call for PapersCrosscurrents: Recontextualizing Early Medieval Studies
Columbia University September 13-14, 2019
“Cross-Currents” aims to provide a different context for the conceptualization of medieval literature by putting the field, broadly conceived, into direct contact with scholarship in Afri…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Reimagining the Dutch Golden Age (MLA2020, Seattle, WA) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, MLA 2020, JANUARY 9-12, 2020 (SEATTLE, WA)
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of work on the literary culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Renewed attention to major figures such as Vondel, Huygens, and Bredero alongside lesser known writers, both in Dutch and Neo-Latin, continues to uncover the intricate ways in…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Medieval Literature in the Contact Zone — review essay in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExemplaria review essay by Sarah Elliott Novacich of recent books by Simon Gaunt, Jonathan Hsy, and Shirin Khanmohamadi on medieval contact zones.
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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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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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Jay Paul Gates started the topic IONA Conference, April 2019, in Vancouver in the discussion
CLCS Nordic on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoDear Colleagues:
Registration is open for the IONA conference on early medieval Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. The conference is interdisciplinary, experimental, and collaborative. Seminars, labs, and workshops open to all registrants and there are four great headlining plenaries. Please consider coming to Vancouver in the spring to take…[Read more] -
Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Worlding the Low Countries (London, UK, November 6-8, 2019) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 7 years agoWorlding the Low Countries: 13th international conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS2019)
6–8 November 2019, University College London, UK
Call for Papers
As the truism goes, we are all connected, yet research on the worldliness of the Low Countries is still a rather minor fraction of Dutch Studies. The ALCS2019 c…[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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Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]
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Helen Davies deposited Recovery and Loss: (Multispectral) Imaging and Image Rights in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoSingle author works do not properly represent the multifaceted collaboration that goes into a digital humanities project. At the Lazarus Project, a multispectral imaging initiative based out of the University of Rochester, we are experimenting with new modes of collaborative publishing. Furthermore, as a multispectral imaging project, we recover…[Read more]
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Harriett Green deposited “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” panel response in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe response paper given by Harriett Green, panel presider, for Session #613, “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” .
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Grant Glass deposited Digital Humanities is No Object in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoAbout my Spring 2018 Writing Class: Writing in the Digital Humanities
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Vanessa Ceia deposited Mapping the Movida: Re-Imagining Counterculture in Late 20th-Century Spain in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoVanessa Ceia’s talk features her project, “Mapping the Movida,” which visualizes the Movida, a sociological phenomenon and cultural renaissance that emerged in Madrid during the first decade of Spanish democracy (1976-1986). Ceia demonstrates how combining the use of digital tools and deep mapping techniques with traditional archival resea…[Read more]
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