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Nicole Seymour started the topic Fellowships — Rachel Carson Center in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, has released its call for a new group of fellows. Both academics and artists working in the environmental humanities, of any nationality, are eligible. Applications are due 31 January 2016. Please see the following link for more information — and spread the w…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Douglas E. Green deposited On "The Coddling of the American Mind" in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoEditorial response to “The Coddling of the American Mind” in the September issue of “The Atlantic”
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue on Transatlantic Ecocriticism.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
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Susan Signe Morrison replied to the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCan’t wait to see folks there!
Cheers, Susan Morrison
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen started the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoIf you are attending the MLA convention in Austin, TX please join us at Container Bar (made of recycled shipping containers!) for a happy hour on Thursday January 7 beginning at 8 PM. The gathering is co-sponsored by ASLE and the MLA Ecocriticism and Environmental Forum. All are welcome!
The Container Bar is located at 90 Rainey St, Austin, T…[Read more]
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Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP NEMLA 2016 Digital Humanities in the Modern Language Curriculum in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThis session seeks to expand scholarly dialogues about digital humanities beyond so-called content courses to include all levels of the language curriculum. In particular, it will explore the following questions: How can the pedagogical affordances provided by digital humanities be used in language courses? Can digital humanities applications…[Read more]
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Thomas Berenato started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Seminar on Poetry and Forgiveness in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoSubmit an abstract by 23 September 2015 at http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-and-forgiveness:
W. H. Auden: “Every beautiful poem presents an analogy to the forgiveness of sins.” Geoffrey Hill: “the technical perfecting of a poem is an act of atonement, in the radical etymological sense—an act of at-one-ment, a setting at one, a bringing…[Read more]
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Nate Mickelson started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Poetry as Practice, Practice as Poetry in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoAbstracts due September 23 via http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-practice-practice-poetry
The philosopher Pierre Hadot worked throughout his career to locate poetry, particularly Goethe’s, within forms of “spiritual exercise” grounded in western philosophical and religious traditions. For Hadot, spiritual exercises (or practices) are forms…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave and Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith…[Read more] -
Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Teaching Literature Book Award Winner 2015 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour started the topic Masculinity and Environment in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear All:
I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Alan Lopez deposited "Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”' in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Invitation to Comment on New MLA Volume on Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoWe are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now open for peer review on MLA Commons. As is this is a volume on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please take a look and add your tho…[Read more]
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Amanda L. French deposited Refrain, Again: The Return of the Villanelle in the group
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoPoets and scholars are all wrong about the villanelle. While most reference texts teach that the villanelle’s nineteen-line alternating-refrain form was codified in the Renaissance, the scholar Julie Kane has conclusively shown that Jean Passerat’s “Villanelle” (“J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle”), written in 1574 and first published in 1606, is the only…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education Deadline Extended in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
The…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Shared Governance at Community Colleges: Challenges and Successes in the group
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoAddresses the question: is there shared governance at community colleges and if so, how’s it going?
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