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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, 7 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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Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
Saint’s progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay…[Read more] -
Dennis Looney deposited "What Should You Expect from the MLA Job Interview? And What Do Your Interviewers Expect from You? in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort piece on the structure of the typical academic job interview in languages and literatures.
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Dennis Looney deposited "Some of My Best Friends Are Foreign Language Teachers" in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort reflection on the marginalization of foreign language departments and teachers on the typical college campus (written in 2001).
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Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoFor the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: Elizabeth Keckley Reader in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoProposals are invited for A Determined Life: The Elizabeth Keckley Reader edited by Sheila Smith McKoy. The reader seeks to present a comprehensive view of Keckley’s remarkable life. Much like Keckley herself, the reader will be multi-faceted in its approach, examining her life through a variety of lenses. We are seeking essays, drama, fi…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Keith Tse started the topic Teaching Chinese language and linguistics in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoI have just started a group on teaching Chinese language and linguistics. If anyone is interested, please join the group and we’ll discuss aspects of our experiences as teachers and students of Chinese. I look forward to hearing from many of you!
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Common Core and Writing by John Warner in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWarner’s essay is concerned that students will continue to be ill prepared for college because of Common Core testing: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/unfortunately-i-am-ready-common-core
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoToni Morrison CFP
We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Teaching as a Profession group,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:
Teaching Memory Studies
Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by 15 March…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere (Corrected) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session (sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that eng…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MLA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session (sponsored by the Forum on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages pub…[Read more]
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Charlotte Pressler started the topic "Florida Standards" (i.e. Common Core) and curricu7lum alignment in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoWhen Diane Ravitch spoke to the MLA two years ago, she predicted that the push for Common Core standards would soon be extended to state colleges and universities. That moment has come.
The Florida State Board of Education now is offering grants to support collaboration between state colleges and K-12 systems. I have a copy of my college’s gr…[Read more]
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Pamela Herron replied to the topic Ageism in the Writing Classroom in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoHi Margaret,
Although I teach primarily for English now, I taught Humanities for several years. In my course Challenges to Modern Culture my students were tasked with each identifying and researching a particular group of people who are disenfranchised in some way. For their final project each student would present their findings to their…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette started the topic Ageism in the Writing Classroom in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoI am looking for people who have been teaching anti-ageism, or the subject of age, in the writing classroom. Especially interested in writing assignments that counter ageism, that use ageism along with other diversity issues (racism, sexism, ableism, classism).
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Judith Anne McCarthy replied to the topic Teaching Writing / Rhetoric / Composition to Online / Distance Students in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoTo email me directly, jmccarthy@devry.edu (Judy McCarthy). Thanks!
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