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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé started the topic Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages: 2018 Awards Nominations in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages (WCML) is now accepting submissions for its annual awards. The Caucus is gender-inclusive and welcomes feminist scholarship from all authors. Please note that there are no membership dues for graduate students and for those whose income is below $20,000 a year. For further information about these a…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro started the topic TC DH Executive Committee Voting in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI am honored to be one of your nominees for the TC DH Executive Committee. I thought it might be helpful to share a quick bio here to help you make your decision. Currently, I am the Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric at Stevenson University, a member of the MLA Executive Council, and serve on the Editorial Collective of the Journal of…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic ERA Chair vacancy announcement for a professor in DIGITAL HUMANITIES in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear all,
Sten Kauber at Tallinn University has asked me to share this opportunity with the group. Please, see below:
Tallinn University (TLU) is launching a European Commission
funded ERA Chair project on Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN). As a first step we seek to fill the Chair itself – a professorship in cultural data analytics. This wo…[Read more] -
Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for 2019 Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference—due Nov. 10 in the discussion
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
November 10, the deadline to submit proposals for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) conference, is fast approaching! Have you sent in your proposal yet?
ACH is the U.S.-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Next summer, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan started the topic November 10th Deadline! CFP: ACH Conference for Computing and the Humanities: in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe deadline for submitting papers to the inaugural conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is coming up on Saturday, November 10th. Have you submitted an abstract yet?
The conference will take place in Pittsburgh, PA, July 23-26, 2019 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.
ACH is the United States-based c…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic MLA + AHA THATCamp — Call for Organizers in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOn January 2nd, we’re going to have an MLA + AHA THATCamp at University of Illinois at Chicago. We’re looking for a few people to take the lead on organizing it.
A THATCamp doesn’t have a program set ahead of time, so the work would mainly be to manage the registrations ahead of time and to facilitate on the day. Seth Denbo (director of sc…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Radiant Virtuality in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis chapter situates the Victoria’s Lost Pavilion project (https://pavilion.chass.ncsu.edu/) amid related work in virtual modeling and their interpretive problematics. Drawing from a tradition in textual criticism, the chapter renovates Jerome McGann’s notion of “radiant textuality” to extended virtual objects and built environments in digital…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic Book Reviews in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe scholarly journal Academic Labor: Research and Artistry has published its latest issue, and it includes a submission from me that reviews two recent books on contingent academic labor: “Reviews of Daniel Davis’s Contingent Academic Labor and Lisa del Rosso’s Confessions of an Accidental…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart started the topic From Candidate Maria Shine Stewart in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI first observed the starkly different working conditions of full-time and part-time faculty as an English department secretary many years ago. Fast forward 35 years: Too little has changed at too few institutions for larger and larger numbers of adjunct, non-tenure-track, term, or contingent faculty. I teach at up to four northeast Ohio colleges…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe first section of David Mitchell’s genre-bending novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), purports to be set in 1850. Narrative clues approximately date the intra-diegetic diary object of this chapter to the period 1851–1910. This article argues for the construction of a stylistic historical imaginary of this period’s language that is not based on mimet…[Read more]
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