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Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Michael A. Burke deposited “Double the Fun: Implementing “Multiple Measures” and Accelerated Learning Program Simultaneously” in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Hilary Sarat-St. Peter started the topic Candidate for Election to RCWS Pedagogies Forum in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoAs I have been nominated to run for the election for the RCWS pedagogies forum executive committee, I would like to introduce myself via this forum.
I’m an associate professor of professional/technical writing in the department of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, the largest nonprofit arts college in the US. Much of my o…[Read more]
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic Connecting with Colleagues in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I am honored to have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues and I wanted to briefly introduce myself before MLA voting opens this week. As a Spanish instructor and contingent employee, I have been a “freeway flier” and “roads scholar” traveling among institutes of higher learnin…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Feisal G. Mohamed posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoColleagues: Please consider signing the petition ‘1% for Adjuncts,’ which would have the MLA annually set aside 1% of its assets to support adjunct unionization.
And, just as importantly, please share the petition widely: on email lists, via social media, and the like.
Full petition here: https://forms.gle/qgjBJi4KMjh2Tj2Q6With best wishes,
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Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.
I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Connecting with the community in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello everyone! I have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on Teaching as a Profession, and I wanted to introduce myself before the voting window opens next week. I’m a long-time teacher-researcher, and recently I began my position as an assistant professor of English education at Longwood University in Virginia.
My work centers around s…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Kate Pond started the topic seeking participants for my thesis project in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoI’m attempting to collect a number of micro-stories in order to deconstruct them by their morphological functions and rebuild one story from the crowd-sourced content. I am hopeful for a diverse representation, but looking for more voices. I would really appreciate if you have 30 minutes or so, that you help contribute to my…[Read more]
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