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Rachael King deposited “Interloping with my Question-Project”: John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
Presentations
The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
Presentations
The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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Walescka Pino-Ojeda deposited The Return to the Social through the Collective “I”: Disrupting the Uneventful Face of Neoliberal Precariousness in the Chilean Documentary El otro día in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoProduced 21 years after the return to institutional democracy in Chile, Ignacio Agüero’s El
otro día (The other day, 2012) picks up a set of social topics that were left in suspension
under authoritarianism. In doing so, it evidences two main divergences in this renewal of
social projects. Firstly, rather than adopting old hierarchies of det…[Read more] -
Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas deposited A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoA family tale inspired the author to explore seemingly minor, but related details of the Saint-Domingue, French, and American Revolutions, including the population movements to and from the United States. “A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions” is a documented historical and personal narrative through cultures and continents, as…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue on Archives in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago<h4>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue: Teaching and Research with Archives</h4>
Issue Editors:
Jojo Karlin, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen Klein, Digital Service Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center
Danica Savonick, CUNY Graduate CenterAs an open-access journal comprised of educators, scholars, and librarians deeply c…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue on Archives in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago<h4 align=”center”><i>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
</i>Themed <i></i>Issue</h4>
<p align=”center”><b><i></i></b>Issue Editors:
Jojo Karlin, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen Klein, Digital Service Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center
Danica Savonick, CUNY Graduate Center</p><h2>Teaching and Research with Archives</h2>
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago<b>The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures</b>
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by <b>March 18.</b>(Sponsored by…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic CfP for MLA 2019 in Chicago: Literary/Historical Research Partnerships in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn honor of the MLA Convention’s co-location with the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in 2019, this panel will feature short presentations by pairs or teams of literature scholars and historians who have worked collaboratively on research projects. We seek presentations of no longer than 15 minutes that address the challenges, met…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic CFP: European Studies Research Forum #alaac18 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: European Studies Research Forum
American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 21-26, 2018The ACRL European Studies Section will host its annual European Studies Research Forum at the ALA annual conference in New Orleans on Sunday, June 24th, from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
The ESS Research and Planning Committee invites…[Read more]
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Nadine Mondestin deposited Haitian Dance and Movement Bibliography in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoBibliography of scholarly works on Haitian (diasporic) dance and movement.
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoGood Morning!
In the fall you’ll see my name on the ballot. I am a candidate to represent the TM Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I am thrilled to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. Thus, I am writing to ask you for your support as well as i…[Read more] -
Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoHello everyone,
Here’s the CFP for the MLA forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” (guaranteed panel for MLA 2019). Please consider submitting or spreading the word:
Health Humanities and Digital Life
Short (10-15min) papers for guaranteed roundtable on health / illness / medicine / wellbeing and the digital realm. Diverse proje…[Read more] -
Michael Hancher posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoImaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a “Bewick” and one for Dickens. https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/home/miscellany/imaging-wood-blocks
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Allison Margaret Bigelow posted an update in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP (MLA 2019), sponsored by CLCS 18th-Century: “Afterlives of the Enlightenment: Sovereignty.”
The eighteenth century world placed sovereignty in the heart of global political, economic, and cultural debates. In the past ten years, scholars have examined sovereignty in matters of aesthetics (Anderson, “Zombie Sovereignty”), literary cri…[Read more]
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Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, TrackHow do we study the expansion, contraction, and development of material texts and corpora? Papers sought that explore erasure, cancellation, deletion, supplementation, and textual change. 350-word proposals cvs by 10 March 2018; Eleanor F. Shevlin (eshevlin@wcupa.edu)…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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