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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Jay Paul Gates started the topic Cfp Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Call for PapersCrosscurrents: Recontextualizing Early Medieval Studies
Columbia University September 13-14, 2019
“Cross-Currents” aims to provide a different context for the conceptualization of medieval literature by putting the field, broadly conceived, into direct contact with scholarship in Afri…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Repurposing Chaucer” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat are/should be Chaucerian scholarship’s ethical commitments? What is/could be its relation to Chaucerian adaptations in various media? Gender, sexuality, race, and class; politics of Chaucer scholarship and amateur or creative Chauceriana. 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations by March 15 to Catherine Sanok (sanok@umich.edu) and C…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Periodizing Race” (LLC Chaucer & Shakespeare Forums) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat can/should be the role of the premodern in the transhistorical history of race? Chaucer/Shakespeare’s entanglements in the history of racialization; the history of race before race. Please submit 250-word abstracts of roundtable-length papers by March 1 to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern U (susie-phillips@northwestern.edu) and M…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Chaucer's Walls” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu) and…[Read more]
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Jay Paul Gates started the topic IONA Conference, April 2019, in Vancouver in the discussion
LLC Old Norse on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues:
Registration is open for the IONA conference on early medieval Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. The conference is interdisciplinary, experimental, and collaborative. Seminars, labs, and workshops open to all registrants and there are four great headlining plenaries. Please consider coming to Vancouver in the spring to take part.…[Read more] -
Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Call for Papers for Women & Language (posted on behalf of Leland G. Spencer, PhD in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers from Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University:
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, in…[Read more]
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Molly A. Martin started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited “Rowned She a Pistel”: National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited “Rowned She a Pistel”: National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited “Rowned She a Pistel”: National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in the group
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley started the topic MLA Committee Elections: LLC Middle English in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow Middle English Forum members! My name is Susan Nakley, and I am both honored and thrilled to be nominated for election to our forum’s executive committee. Currently, I am an Associate Professor and the Associate Chairperson in the English Department at St. Joseph’s College, New York, where I began teaching after defending my dis…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Elaine Treharne deposited ‘The shock of the old: Early English and its modern re-tellings’ in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDescribes translation practice in relation to Old English Poetry.
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Tom White deposited Paper and Digital Ecologies in the Glastonbury Miscellany (Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38) in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoOne of a number of leaves in the manuscript to have been badly damaged in the sixteenth century, folio 89 of the Glastonbury Miscellany reminds its modern readers of the fragmentary nature of the medieval textual record. Work began on this paper manuscript in the middle of the fifteenth century at Glastonbury Abbey. Transported to London in the…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Germanic Philology on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Old Norse Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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