Papers and Presentations available on MLA Commons

Statements for our Division panel #414, “Literature and Media in the 19thC US” have been posted at our WordPress site.  Read through them, if you can, before the panel meets this afternoon at 5:15 pm  (Marriott Hotel;  Chicago A-B).

This is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:

http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/

If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]

6TH CONFERENCE OF THE APHRA BEHN EUROPE SOCIETY
Aphra Behn and the Challenges of Genre
University of Huelva, Spain
12-14 June, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aphra Behn was not only one of the most prolific writers in the seventeenth century, but also one able and willing to tackle all genres. She earned a name in the theatre in her own time, and showed…[Read more]

Call for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Sessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more]

Dartmouth College announces a One Week Summer Institute: States of American Studies

Monday, June 16 — Sunday, June 22, 2014
Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
Co-Directors: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University), Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University), J. Martin Favor (Dartmouth Col…[Read more]

The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses. Grants of $40,000 will be offered…[Read more]

I’ve joined a journal as “Digital Appropriations” editor for reviews of digital projects and texts related to William Shakespeare. For details, contact me and/or see the  Call for Submission here: http://ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/2013/09/27/bl/

Mein Lebenslauf, an autobiographical cantata by Georg Schönberg with text by himself , was and remains an important linguistic, cultural, and historical document as well as a work of art.

Georg Schönberg (1906-74) was the son of renowned composer Arnold Schönberg by his first wife, Mathilde Zemlinsky, sister of his good friend Alexander Ze…[Read more]

Hi all,

I’m excited to be participating in DH2013, my first-ever DH conference. I’m sure many others are attending as well. I wonder if there are ways to create some useful crossover here with the conversations […]

Does anyone have some good examples or guidelines to share?

This group is an outgrowth of a session at the 2013 THATCamp MLA at Northeastern University, “Starting a DH Center from Scratch.”  The google doc with information on that session is available […]

Hello, THATCamp MLA attendees! I’m hoping that we can use today’s 4pm session to create some activity in the network. I’d love to hear what you might want to know more about, or what you’d like to be able to do.