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Janine M. Utell's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
MLA Sit and Writes on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article…
One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]
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Cathy Davidson deposited “How To Upload A File”: Instructions from 1994 in the group
Hybrid Pedagogy on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.
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Cathy Davidson deposited “How To Upload A File”: Instructions from 1994 in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.
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Cathy Davidson deposited “How To Upload A File”: Instructions from 1994 on HASTAC Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
This is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.
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Stef Craps started the topic Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory

London, UK, 27-29 June 2023
The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the Regent’s Stre…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell created the event First Sit and Write in the group MLA Sit and Writes on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Title: First Sit and Write
Description: Join a community of writers this spring for the MLA Sit and Write sessions, virtual writing retreats designed to support members at all stages of their careers. These monthly ninety-minute sessions feature a solid hour of dedicated, quiet writing time for you to focus on your work in the (digital) company…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Welcome to MLA Sit and Writes! in the discussion
MLA Sit and Writes on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoWelcome to MLA Sit and Writes! Our first gathering is 8 February 2023 at 3pm ET, and will feature a snack by Anne Fernald (Fordham University, editor of Modernism/modernity) on creating a kind writing schedule. Throughout the session, we’ll put up discussion topics so participants can share their process, goals, and reflections.
You can find all…[Read more]
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Tahneer Oksman started the topic Seeking nominations in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through January 2029.
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<li dir=”ltr”>Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
<li dir=”ltr”>Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve… - Load More