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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Planning for MLA17 in Philadelphia in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoCommunity College faculty,
The Community College Forum’s Executive Committee will be meeting at MLA16 in Austin on January 8th to plan ahead for the next MLA Convention in Philadelphia. We invite you all to help us brainstorm ideas for sessions for 2017: post ideas below or email Stacey Donohue or Michael Burke.
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Sessions of Interest to Community College faculty at MLA16 in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDemocratic Vistas: Reading and Writing in the Community College Classroom
Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 9A, ACC
Threshold Concepts in First-Year Composition (FYC) at the Community College
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 10B, ACC
Career Opportunities in Community Colleges
Saturday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 202, JW Ma…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited MLA 2016: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago“The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” is an MLA 2016 special session in which panelists consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students and contingent and full-time faculty members into an already overcrowded job market. Instead of providing advice about getting a job, participants evaluate that advice and gen…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]
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Douglas E. Green deposited On "The Coddling of the American Mind" in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoEditorial response to “The Coddling of the American Mind” in the September issue of “The Atlantic”
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Rachel Arteaga deposited Introductory Digital Humanities Curriculum for the High School English Classroom in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThese lesson plans and corresponding handouts introduce students to methods in digital humanities (distant reading, narrative mapping, and sentiment analysis). They are aligned with the K-12 Common Core State Standards and informed by university-level DH discourses. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, these materials are…[Read more]
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Joe Lockard started the topic CFP — Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning with Imprisoned Writers in the discussion
The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis edited collection will address educational practices and pedagogies for teaching writing in prisons. The collection’s framing concept argues for social and political consciousness within prison writing education that represents equal and shared learning between writers and teachers. The collection will offer material that advocates an e…[Read more]
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Joe Lockard started the topic CFP — Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning from Imprisoned Writers in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning with Imprisoned WritersThis edited collection will address educational practices and pedagogies for teaching writing in prisons. The collection’s framing concept argues for social and political consciousness within prison writing education that represents equal and shared learning between w…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Teaching Literature Book Award Winner 2015 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”' in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoIn this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Invitation to Comment on New MLA Volume on Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoWe are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now available for open peer review on MLA Commons. As the volume focuses on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please do take a moment to read t…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Invitation to Comment on New MLA Volume on Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoWe are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now open for peer review on MLA Commons. As is this is a volume on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please take a look and add your tho…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education Deadline Extended in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
The…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Shared Governance at Community Colleges: Challenges and Successes in the group
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoAddresses the question: is there shared governance at community colleges and if so, how’s it going?
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Nicky Agate started the topic Two CC articles added to CORE in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoStacey Lee Donohue has uploaded two documents that might be of interest to this group to the new repository, CORE. You can access them by clicking on the “CORE” tab at the top of the screen, the “Deposits” tab to the right of this group’s page, or via the links below.
“What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Becoming a Community College…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: Becoming a Community College Professor in the group
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPersonal narrative on the journal from PhD program to community college professor.
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