Geffrey Davis
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Race in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years ago“Race” offers a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards: Intersections of Race and Gender // Race and Social Theory Identity // Ethnicity, and Immigration //…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American 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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Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d’autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d’autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Sarah Ruth Jacobs started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, May 15, 2019 in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming general issue, edited by Shelly Eversley (Baruch College) and Krystyna Michael (The Graduate Center, CUNY). JITP’s mission is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of technology in teaching,…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] - Load More
