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Ian Barnard started the topic Candidate for Writing Pedagogies forum executive committee in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the Writing Pedagogies forum, so I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and my commitments.
In my scholarship over the years, I have argued that we teachers of writing need to debunk common dispositions and practices around writing pedagogy (e.g., about…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Marlene Daut posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow 19th-century Americanists! This is Marlene Daut, and I am on the ballot for the 19th-Century American Executive Committee this MLA. So, I thought I’d take just a few moments to tell you a little bit about my interests.
After being at the Claremont Graduate University for 7 years, I’ve recently moved to the University of Virginia…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage
Adapt, Adopt, Adept: The Material Phenomenon
March 23rd and 24th 2018
Pacific Rim Conference
University of Anchorage Alaska: English Department
BP Energy Center, Anchorage, AKThe various forms and mediums of adaptation is, according to Linda Hutcheon, often…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark created the doc Emerson Society Awards announcement 2018 in the group
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS: Exploring the Potential for Altmetrics as Value-Based Indicators in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation introduces the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences [HSS]) initiative (http://humetricshss.org/), which aims to develop and support values-based research indicators in HSS disciplines.
Because researchers’ practices are closely linked with the evaluation metrics by which they are judged, H…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay deposited 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award commendation in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Teaching Literature Book Award is an international, juried prize, awarded biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English at Idaho State University. This commendation discusses both the winning volume and an honorable mention.
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Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award honorable mention for 2017 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives, edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside) and Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University), as an honorable mention for the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was pub…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award winner for 2017 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Service Learning and Literary Studies in English, edited by Laurie Grobman (Penn State University, Berks) and Roberta Rosenberg (Christopher Newport University) as the winner of the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was published by the Modern La…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South
We are soliciting contributions to Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu
This digital platform aims to advance the field of Global South Studies by providing a conceptual mapping of key concepts, m…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 : Call for Essays (of potential interest to scholars of American modernism and 20th-century studies)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
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David Squires deposited Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis essay demonstrates how Lynch Law suspended normative criminal law and undermined constitutional amendments made after the US Civil War. Focusing on the period between Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, the essay argues that “outlawry” provides the necessary juridical concept for understanding how a tradition of popular sovereignty wor…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis essay demonstrates how Lynch Law suspended normative criminal law and undermined constitutional amendments made after the US Civil War. Focusing on the period between Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, the essay argues that “outlawry” provides the necessary juridical concept for understanding how a tradition of popular sovereignty wor…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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