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Charlie Gleek deposited Centuries of Black Artists’ Books in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBlack artists have created, modified, or otherwise treated the book as an object of aesthetic expression since at least the nineteenth century. African American artists’ production and circulation of friendship albums and scrapbooks, democratic multiples and artist publishing, accordion folds, enclosures, and fine printing editions, all work to…[Read more]
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Taryn Hakala started the topic EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP MLA 2020 / Being Human, Technology, and New Media in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED: FRIDAY, MARCH 29
CFP: Being Human, Technology, and New Media
The Language Change Forum seeks papers that address aspects of language change, acquisition, or linguistic transactions related to the MLA 2020 presidential theme (Being Human), technology, and new media.
300-word abstracts to Taryn Hakala (taryn.hakala@gmail.com)…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Towards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics. History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoBlog post, published with the blog “History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences”. Here shared in form of a paper draft. Please cite as:
List, Johann-Mattis. 2018. Towards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics. History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences. http://hiphilangsci.net/2018/10/31/concept-list-compilation/
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear LSL Global English members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography Guaranteed Session CFP in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoGuaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Bibliopedagogy : Book history, print cultures, lexicography in the classroom. Seeking panelists with engaging, hands-on approaches to the study of manuscript, print, and digital cultures. 250-word abstract and one-page CV to Laura Forsberg at laura.forsberg@rockhurst.edu. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 18 March 2019
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIn this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago<h1>Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South</h1>
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more] -
Paige Morgan deposited Delivering on the Deliverables in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMany digital humanists in centers or libraries—interdisciplinary positions that cater to multiple departments—are expected to demonstrate the products of their digital labor to high-ranking administrators and stakeholders on a consistent basis. As such, they often are on tight and over-extended timelines to produce high-quality digital sch…[Read more]
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Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
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Jan Rijkhoff deposited Relationelle adjektiver på dansk / Relational adjectives in Danish in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoENGLISH ABSTRACT Due to their special properties, relational adjectives (in particular when serving as classifying modifiers) have been the subject of detailed investigations in many languages, including Russian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch and German, but they are not mentioned in Danish reference grammars. The main goal of this article is to…[Read more]
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams deposited ‘Irreversible’: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoSince mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police
records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve v…[Read more] -
Mary Hayes started the topic CFP: Constructed Languages Panel at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoConstructed Languages
This panel will include papers that study “conlangs” in their historical, auxiliary, and fantastic varieties. Submit 250-word abstracts by March 8, 2019 to Mary Hayes (hayes@olemiss.edu). Submission Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Farrah Lehman Den uploaded the file: Engaging Students with the MLA International Bibliography: The Scholarly Conversation Project to
MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools Group on MLA Commons 7 years agoA variation on the Scholarly Conversation Project that asks students to capture the MLA International Bibliography’s indexing metadata in order to perform an initial survey of a scholarly field. Students gather evidence that can be used to draw conclusions about the ways that the “literary conversation” has changed during the last sixty…[Read more]
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