-
Holly Larson deposited The Art of Negotiation: Student Writers Claiming Authority and Humility in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOne of the hardest concepts to teach first-year composition students is the role of authority in academic writing. How are young adults who have a limited social world view and older adults who have left school for several years expected to assert themselves with confidence? Equally, another difficult threshold concept for FYC students is the act…[Read more]
-
Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAbstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:
https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
-
Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agohttps://apply.interfolio.com/32882
We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
-
Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
-
Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago<div class=”expand-header”>
<div class=”field field-name-field-expand-header field-type-text field-label-hidden”>
<div class=”field-items”>
<div class=”field-item even”>Professor of English, Open Rank, TF17-05</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class=”expand-body hidden”>
<div class=”field field-name-field-expand-content field-type-text-long…[Read more] -
Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
-
Rachel Arteaga deposited Introductory Digital Humanities Curriculum for the High School English Classroom in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThese lesson plans and corresponding handouts introduce students to methods in digital humanities (distant reading, narrative mapping, and sentiment analysis). They are aligned with the K-12 Common Core State Standards and informed by university-level DH discourses. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, these materials are…[Read more]
-
Joe Lockard started the topic CFP — Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning with Imprisoned Writers in the discussion
The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis edited collection will address educational practices and pedagogies for teaching writing in prisons. The collection’s framing concept argues for social and political consciousness within prison writing education that represents equal and shared learning between writers and teachers. The collection will offer material that advocates an e…[Read more]
-
Joe Lockard started the topic CFP — Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning from Imprisoned Writers in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning with Imprisoned WritersThis edited collection will address educational practices and pedagogies for teaching writing in prisons. The collection’s framing concept argues for social and political consciousness within prison writing education that represents equal and shared learning between w…[Read more]
-
Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Panels, GLQ Caucus & Reception for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCheck out and join us for these exciting sessions and at the GLQ Caucus & Reception!!!
Thursday, 7 January
Queer Proximities 1:45–3:00 p.m. – Selected for inclusion in the Presidential Theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, Future”
Friday, 8 January
Vaqueeras/os 10:15–11:30 a.m.
Saturday, 9 January
Queer Crips ac…[Read more]
-
Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
-
Adam Dexter started the topic CFP: Queer Theory in French in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Monique Wittig have been fundamental in thinking about queer theory in English, queer theory’s…[Read more]
-
William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA Congress in Vienna; Committee on Comparative Queer/Gender Studies in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago<u>Call</u> <u>for</u> <u>Abstracts</u>
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
-
Todd W. Reeser started the topic CFP: Doing the Body in the 21st Century, U of Pittsburgh in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoBodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated, theorized,…[Read more]
-
Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
-
Nicky Agate started the topic Invitation to Comment on New MLA Volume on Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoWe are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now available for open peer review on MLA Commons. As the volume focuses on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please do take a moment to read t…[Read more]
-
Kenneth Pinion started the topic Proposed Panel Abstracts: "Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics" in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoBelow are the abstracts for the proposed MLA 2016 Special Session Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics.
David Román (University of Southern California) will serve as respondent to the following three panelists.
Octavio R. Gonzalez (Wellesley College), “The ACT UP Boston Archive: the Bio-Politics of Early Clinical Trials for AIDS Tr…[Read more]
-
Kenneth Pinion started the topic MLA 2016 Panel: Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the MLA 2016 panel, “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” will be posted here prior to the convention.
-
Matt Brim started the topic CFP: Queer Methods http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/current-call-papers in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue
QUEER METHODS
Guest Editors:
Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars…[Read more]
-
Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Common Core and Writing by John Warner in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWarner’s essay is concerned that students will continue to be ill prepared for college because of Common Core testing: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/unfortunately-i-am-ready-common-core
- Load More
Open access, open source, open to all
