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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Community College Faculty and the MLA in the group
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoArgument for community college faculty engagement with the MLA.
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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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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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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compil…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Comments on the Commons Newswire in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHi all,
I just wanted to alert this group’s members to the fact that there have been a couple of comments on the Commons Newswire piece on your work. I thought one of you might like to respond.
https://thewire.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ecocriticism-environmental-humanities/
Yours,
Nicky
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Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.
What difference does age make in w…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThank you Simon Richter for uploading the latest syllabus. Your course on Waterworlds looks terrific!
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Simon Richter uploaded the file: Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoAs a result of climate change, the world that will take shape in the course of this century will be more water inundated than we’re accustomed to. The polar ice caps are melting, glaciers are retreating, ocean levels are rising, polar bear habitat is disappearing, countries are jockeying for control over a new Arctic passage, while low-lying c…[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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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Teaching Memory Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Members of the Teaching of Literature 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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Gwynn A. Dujardin started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 Re-approaching the Survey Course in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoProposals invited for MLA roundtable session on innovative approaches to teaching literature surveys. Papers may encompass the practical (e.g., syllabus design, teaching strategies, assignments/assessment), the institutional (i.e., ways of introducing curricular innovation), and/or the theoretical (i.e., on place of the survey course in our…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic CFP: After Transnational American Studies (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago“After Transnational American Studies” (MLA 2016): What does it mean to come after Transnational American Studies? Papers may consider transnationality, Americanity, globality, planetarity, empire, and/or the anthropocene. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Abby Goode (abby.l.goode@gmail.com).
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic CFP — Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis session looks terrifically good — what a timely and important topic. Thanks for posting the CFP here.
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Nicole Seymour started the topic CFP — Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi All,
Please see the CFP below for an MLA 2016 panel I’m organizing with Clare Echterling. Circulate as you see fit. Thanks!
Best, Nicole
Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities
For this panel, organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, we invite proposals for papers that place…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Check out "Sustainability and Population in American Literary History" in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCome join the conversation at http://sustainabilityandpopulationinalh.mla.hcommons-staging.org/!
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Stephanie LeMenager replied to the topic Suggestions for Sessions @ #MLA16 Austin in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoHi, All,
There were so many rich suggestions here that rather than choose one, we decided to bring different strands of each together for the committee’s sponsored roundtable in 2017. Look forward to a diverse media roundtable that touches upon post humanism, post-coloniality, and other lively sites of intersectional frisson.
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Stacy Alaimo replied to the topic Suggestions for Sessions @ #MLA16 Austin in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoI’m happy to see so many ideas here. If anyone would like to submit a CFP in order to organize a special session, the deadline is February 28. It would be great to have an abundance of panels on ecocriticism and the environmental humanities at next year’s (2016) MLA. (Please note that the Forum only has one guaranteed session, so other prop…[Read more]
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