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Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.
The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Michael A. Burke deposited “Double the Fun: Implementing “Multiple Measures” and Accelerated Learning Program Simultaneously” in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.
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Jervette Ward started the topic 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe attached documents provide a list with links to the 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels.
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aecklund started the topic Engaging Literature Students in the Virtual Classroom with the MLA Bibliography in the discussion
Bibliographic Instruction Materials Group on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLast Wednesday’s webinar on using the MLA International Bibliography in the virtual classroom, hosted by Library Journal, is now available as a recording. Register here to view the recording at any time: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2828627/53D250B9352103D18AA7D5DA574AABBD?partnerref=LJSPNSREBSCO121620
The webinar focuses on using the MLA…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CELJ professional development/mentoring opportunity: Chat with an Editor in the discussion
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSharing in my role of Secretary of CELJ…please disseminate widely to graduate students and ECRs… ~ Janine Utell
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is hosting its annual Chat with an Editor program, in an expanded edition and in conjunction with the virtual Modern Language Association Convention. The Chat provides 20-minute time…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
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Hilary Sarat-St. Peter started the topic Candidate for Election to RCWS Pedagogies Forum in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoAs I have been nominated to run for the election for the RCWS pedagogies forum executive committee, I would like to introduce myself via this forum.
I’m an associate professor of professional/technical writing in the department of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, the largest nonprofit arts college in the US. Much of my o…[Read more]
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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