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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities in the discussion
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The MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities will offer two panels and a special session at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia. Please join us as we consider challenges to shared governance, bullying, and climates of fear.
Combat Management: The End of Shared…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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Rachel Arteaga replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues:
I truly could not be more excited about this discussion. As Ian mentioned, at the University of Washington (and with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation), we are placing doctoral students into mentoring collaborations with two-year college faculty in Seattle. It would be difficult to overstate how transformative this…[Read more]
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Ian Sherman-Youngblood replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi, Jessica, Stacey, and Katrina,
Indeed, I’m thinking of something precisely on this topic! I’ve been working quite a bit with the Simpson Center for Humanities at the University of Washington, and they offer a fellowship program in which current grad students mentor with faculty at Seattle-area community colleges.
I’ve heard of similar /…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: American Documentary Poetics in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American documentary poetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including p…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the 20th and 21st Century American Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe deadline approaches…
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe members of this forum will need to elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWonderful! I’m so glad these ideas are of interest. Do keep me posted if the executive committees decide to move in this direction; the Humanities Alliance team would love to be actively involved.
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Katrina and Jessica
I, too, love this idea! The Two Year College Forum Executive Committee will discuss this in January as we plan for the New York convention for sure, and I’ll be in touch.
I also know that Ian Sherman, faculty member at Olympic College in Washington and member of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Executive…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Stacey and Katina,
I love the idea of “connecting graduate education and community college teaching.” I just finished a six-year stint as director of graduate studies in English at Idaho State University, where the Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English explicitly aims to train students for and place students in tenure-track (or…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Stacey, and hello to others in the forum,
I’m part of a team at CUNY Graduate Center that is working to connect graduate education and community college training. We are in our first year implementing the Humanities Alliance, which embeds Graduate Center students as teaching fellows at LaGuardia Community College. The team has discussed a few…[Read more]
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Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Nominate yourself for the Community College Executive Committee! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Lisa (and others):
The Forum Executive Committee members sign on for a 5 year appointment (something that needs to be changed—I think that’s too long–though each member only spends one year as secretary and one of those years as chair). The Executive Committee meets annually at the convention to discuss possible nominees for the co…[Read more]
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