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Nicky Agate started the topic Headed to Austin? Come to the Commons Literary Trivia Quiz! in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite members of the group attending this year’s convention to the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which takes place on Thursday night at the JW. It promises to be extra nerdy, but in a good way. A cash bar and prizes will be available!
Sign up to reserve your s…[Read more]
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Holly Larson deposited The Art of Negotiation: Student Writers Claiming Authority and Humility in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOne of the hardest concepts to teach first-year composition students is the role of authority in academic writing. How are young adults who have a limited social world view and older adults who have left school for several years expected to assert themselves with confidence? Equally, another difficult threshold concept for FYC students is the act…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:
http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
– Nicky Agate (Manag…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Items of Potential Interest in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and even to share some of your own.
– Nicky Aga…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Extended Deadline for 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoExtended Deadline!
Call for Papers
The 21st Summer Meeting
of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic CFP w/ extended deadline for Hawthorne ALA panels in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago*Extended Deadlines!*
Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.
“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”
Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/5 -
Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions: Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns deposited The Horizon’s Hoop: Emerson’s “Monadnoc” in Contingency and History in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoWhen it is spoken of at all, Emerson’s “Monadnoc” is described as a solicitation of natural sublimity. But a close rhetorical analysis of the poem reveals greater ambivalence about this sublimity than is apparent—linking it to later American philosophic poems by Frost, Stevens, Ammons, and Kinnell that at once solicit and question natural plenitu…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:
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Carrie Johnston deposited MLA 2016: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” is an MLA 2016 special session in which panelists consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students and contingent and full-time faculty members into an already overcrowded job market. Instead of providing advice about getting a job, participants evaluate that advice and gen…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 4: Ilit Ferber (TAU) “A Feel for Benjamin”:
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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