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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP – Special Issue – Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (11/30/19) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming special issue, “Extended Reality (XR) Pedagogies & Applications:Interactive & Immersive Educational Technologies,” edited by Amanda Licastro (Stevenson University), Angel David Nieves (San Diego State University) &…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited ENGL64.05: Cultural Analytics in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 64.05 “Cultural Analytics,” taught Fall 2019 at Dartmouth College.
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Carrie Johnston deposited Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management- MLA 2020 panel abstract in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis panel will consider the changing landscape of research support for digitally-inflected scholarship in higher education through the lens of digital humanities project management. Digital humanists acting as project managers must continually adapt their practices in response to shifting institutional priorities and concomitant changes in the…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Winner and Honorable Mention 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy announces “Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other,” edited by Miriamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton) and Tison Pugh (University of Central Florida) as the winner of the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award. “Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Tra…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis undergraduate seminar on author Margaret Atwood fulfills the Major Author course at Stevenson University. Students will read A Trio of Tall Tales and The Year of the Flood, as well as both read and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. The course assignments include live-tweeting, creating a webtext, and an intertextual analysis essay.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Introduction to Texts & Technology in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for the introductory course in UCF’s Texts & Technology PhD program. Builds on a previous iteration of the course taught by Mel Stanfill.
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Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoBecause it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Transcultural Manipulations: Translation Workshop syllabus HACU 241 in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis multilingual undergraduate translation workshop was co-taught in the Spring of 2014 with Prof. Norman Holland in the division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. During the course, students were introduced to translation theory and explored key concepts through intralingual translation exercises before embarking on…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Moonbit in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoMoonbit is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readings and re-writings of a singular text, the source code of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer or the…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Focus on “Henry V”: Navigating Digital Text, Performance, and Historical Resources in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Focus on ‘Henry V'” is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on the innovative digital publishing platform Scalar. Chapters include guides to early printed editions, sources, and performance and cinematic histories of the play, as well as…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Appropriation and Design of an Online Shakespeare Journal in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoAccount of the genesis and creation of the first born-digital humanities periodical to publish rich multimedia and the first scholarly journal devoted to the study of Shakespearean appropriation.
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Jenna Kober deposited ‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit Featuring The Awakening in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Individual and the Cultural Environment Conceptual Unit Overarching Enduring Understanding: The relationship between the individual and society Overarching Essential Question: How does society influence the individual?
Unit Objectives: -My students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the motifs and symbols in the unit’s core te…[Read more] -
Jenna Kober deposited ‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit Featuring The Awakening in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Individual and the Cultural Environment Conceptual Unit Overarching Enduring Understanding: The relationship between the individual and society Overarching Essential Question: How does society influence the individual?
Unit Objectives: -My students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the motifs and symbols in the unit’s core te…[Read more] -
Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar Syllabus: Literature of the American Civil Wars in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe plural, wars, of this course’s title signals two competing traditions in Civil War memory and periodization:
* the Civil War as a distinct and defining event, from 1861 to 1865, that splits American history (and most English departments’ surveys of American literature) into two distinct halves; and
* the Civil War as an ongoing fea…[Read more]
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