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Jessica Winston started the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoDear Forum Members,
About a year ago, one forum member raised a question about preparing graduate students for positions with 4-4 teaching loads. Given this question, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that aims to prepare students for these types of jobs.…[Read more]
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Terrence Potter posted an update in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoPlease plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”
Presentations during the session include:
1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]
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Terrence Potter posted an update in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoPlease plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”
Presentations during the session include:
1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]
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Peter Powers started the topic CFP: NEMLA Session. College in Crisis: Higher Ed in Literature and Pop culture in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCFP: NEMLA Session, Toronto, 4/30-5/3. College in Crisis: Higher Education in Literature and Popular Culture
Higher education in the United States is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy as constituents question its costs and benefits. Many scholars in various disciplines have analyzed this crisis, and simultaneously, narratives about higher…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2015, Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse, Division of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please join us for the following Division of Language Theory session at the 2015 Convention. Abstracts will be posted in the fall.
Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse
Temporal Relations in Narrative Discourse: Narrator’s Perspective through Tense and Aspect
Amruta Chandekar, University Of Washington
Lula versus Obama and t…[Read more] -
Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2015, Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, Division of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please join us for the following Division of Language Theory session at the 2015 Convention.
Abstracts will be posted in the fall.
Studies in Cognitive Linguistics
Cognition in Interaction: Substantiating Context in Language Use and Grammaticalization
Anneliese Kuhle, Freie Universität Berlin
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic March 25 deadline for Narrative and Discourse Session at MLA 2015 in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory solicits papers exploring recent aspects of narrative and discourse as these relate to language theory. Abstract of 300 words by 25 March 2014; Lee B. Abraham ( lba2133@columbia.edu ).
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Best regards,
Lee (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the…[Read more]
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Susannah Mary Chewning started the topic Committee for the Community College MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:
The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about contingent and PTF in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 12 years agoI Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!
Here’s the link:
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Thomas F. Shannon posted an update in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Colleagues:
The Executive Committee seeks nominees to stand in the fall 2014 election for the Division on Language Theory. Nominees for the fall 2014 election must be current MLA members (i.e., their names must appear in the membership list at the MLA Web site http://www.mla.org/member_search ).
The individual elected in 2014 will serve…[Read more]
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