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Brian Croxall deposited Who Teaches When We Teach DH? A Survey in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs the digital humanities have rapidly gained prominence and attention over the last decade, learning has shifted from individual experiences at training environments such as THATCamps and Institutes to more formal institutional instruction. This means that the number of people teaching digital humanities (DH) has had to increase. Who are these…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBuon giorno a tutt*,
Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.
I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoDTC 356 explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political roles of information and data. Beginning with library classification systems and Wikipedia, the course then turns to the role of metadata in organizing collections and our lives before ending with a consideration of text-mining and topic modeling. The conclusion considers these techniques in…[Read more]
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Mary Hayes started the topic Language Theory Mentorship Program in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoDear all,
I am the current chair of the Language Theory’s executive committee. At the encouragement of MLA, I am putting together a mentorship program. We are all witnessing a difficult time in the academy, and a support system for burgeoning scholars is so crucial. You can sign on as a mentee or volunteer as a mentor.
Here’s how the first step…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Transcultural Manipulations: Translation Workshop syllabus HACU 241 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis multilingual undergraduate translation workshop was co-taught in the Spring of 2014 with Prof. Norman Holland in the division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. During the course, students were introduced to translation theory and explored key concepts through intralingual translation exercises before embarking on…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2020, CFP: "Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish" in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months ago51st Convention, NeMLA, Boston, March 5-8 2020
“The Old and the New: Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish”
The session seeks papers that examine Spanish in the United States (Mexican, Caribbean, Latin American) as it relates to old and new Hispanic community practices and border crossing (geographical, political, eth…[Read more]
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Taryn Hakala started the topic EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP MLA 2020 / Being Human, Technology, and New Media in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED: FRIDAY, MARCH 29
CFP: Being Human, Technology, and New Media
The Language Change Forum seeks papers that address aspects of language change, acquisition, or linguistic transactions related to the MLA 2020 presidential theme (Being Human), technology, and new media.
300-word abstracts to Taryn Hakala (taryn.hakala@gmail.com)…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession
Contact emails…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: “Advocating for Foreign Language Departments” (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago2020 MLA CFP: Advocating for Foreign Language Departments
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession
Contact email…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear HEP Teaching as a Profession members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear LSL Applied Linguistics members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFP: Women and Language journal in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis CFP came to several of us on email, with a request to post to our group. So here it is:
Women & Language Editor <editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com> Yesterday, 10:12 AM dbalder@pitt.edu; aebc@st-andrews.ac.uk; kljohnson@wm.edu;
Hi all,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA Translation Studies forum? I’ve pasted it b…[Read more] -
Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Mary Hayes started the topic CFP: Constructed Languages Panel at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoConstructed Languages
This panel will include papers that study “conlangs” in their historical, auxiliary, and fantastic varieties. Submit 250-word abstracts by March 8, 2019 to Mary Hayes (hayes@olemiss.edu). Submission Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the…[Read more]
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