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Gillian Dooley started the topic Immortal Austen – a conference in Australia, 13-16 July 2017 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Immortal Austen
An International Conference
Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 13-16 July 2017
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Devoney Looser (Arizona State)
Prof Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Assoc. Prof Clara Tuite (Melbourne)
When Jane Austen…[Read more] -
James Mulholland started the topic MLA Ballot 2016 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Everyone,
Now that the ballot is open for the MLA nominations, I thought I’d introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me already and have a sense of who I am. My name is James Mulholland and I’ve been nominated to serve on this forum’s executive committee.
I am an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University and…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP: 18th-Century Camp! (Special Issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue: 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” Fo…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue Overview & CFP for 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” For…[Read more] -
Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Activismo medioambiental multimodal en el Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica: medios digitales, patrimonio biocultural y de-colonialidad in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSumilla:
El presente trabajo se plantea en función de la consideración de una nueva forma de organización, formación y comunicación ciudadana que se ha movilizado en defensa del patrimonio biocultural en el Triángulo norte de América Central: la creación y el uso de espacios digitales como parte de un activismo medioambiental multimodal. En mano…[Read more] -
Eleanor F. Shevlin started the topic 2016 MLA election: Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
I am a candidate to represent the Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography, and I am writing to ask you for your support and to let you know something about me and my qualifications.
An 18th-century scholar of British literature and culture, I have nonetheless worked widely in the field of book history a…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited "Once more a kingly quest": Fan games and the classic adventure genre in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe classic adventure games—part of the earliest traditions of interactive narrative—have not disappeared, although they no longer occupy space on the shelves at the local computer store. Even as changing hardware and operating systems render these games of the 1980s and 1990s literally unplayable without emulating the computer systems of the pas…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited "Once more a kingly quest": Fan games and the classic adventure genre in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe classic adventure games—part of the earliest traditions of interactive narrative—have not disappeared, although they no longer occupy space on the shelves at the local computer store. Even as changing hardware and operating systems render these games of the 1980s and 1990s literally unplayable without emulating the computer systems of the pas…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic RUST BELT LITERATURE on the Commons in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
NOTE to those who attend: We are calling for people to host a panel at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello,
Thank you for this message. I recently won an award and I would like to have this news
shared with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter to be included in the
September issue!
Professor Maria Figueredo wins 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching
Award (Full-Time Faculty Category)
This prestigious award is an important recogni…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic P4P Classes — Register Now! in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoProgramming for Humanists
A continuing education course and online webinar Offered by the
Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture – Texas A&M
UniversityRegistration is still possible!
Go to: Fall 2016 Programming4HUMansits Registration:Beginning Friday, September 2, 2016 – 9:0…[Read more]
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Amanda Starling Gould deposited Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article presents a digital environmental media studies (DEMS) framework that shifts the primary focus of digital media study from one grounded in computation to one fully rooted in the earth. DEMS proposes a relational, metabolic ontology wherein popular media theory terms like atmospheric media, elemental media, cyborg, and digital labor are…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic Registration for Bucknell's Digital Scholarship Conference is now open in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago(With apologies for cross-posting)
Registration is now open for #BUDSC16, Bucknell University’s third annual Digital Scholarship Conference, October 28-30. This year’s conference, “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration,” will feature speakers with a range of interests and specializations, including faculty, librarians, students, an…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited Renaissance Media syllabus (ENGL 281, Spring 2016) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe attached syllabus was written for my undergraduate seminar “Renaissance Media” (ENGL 281) taught Spring 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. The learning objectives for the course were as follows:
“During this course, students will:
* learn the basic history and culture of media technologies in England during the early modern period (roughly 150…[Read more] -
Alexa Huang deposited Yukio Ninagawa in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoStemming from a culture of translation, Ninagawa’s interpretations of Shakespeare were nurtured by Japan’s rebirth and consolidation of its national identity after the war. His stage works thrive in the contentious space between cultures. In fact, the notion that ‘modern Japan is a culture of translation’ has been taken for granted by many Japanes…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Alexa Huang deposited Global Shakespeare 2.0 and the Task of the Performance Archive in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoWhat are digital video’s functions? How can those functions be best facilitated in the field of Shakespeare studies when the disciplinary boundary between text and performance is blurred by virtual performative texts? This article surveys the state of global Shakespeare and analyses the implications of digital video in scholarly and pedagogic practice.
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoIn 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]
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