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Anne Donlon started the topic Recommendations for food and drinks in Chicago in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIf you’re from Chicago, if you’ve visited before, or if you discover good food options during your time at the convention, share them here!
The Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession did an accessibility survey of restaurants.
I have not spent a ton of time in Chicago, but I did gather some recommendations from friends when I was here…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic PANEL: 040 Echoes of Sepharad, Thurs, January 3 at 1:45 pm, Sheraton Grand Huron in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:
Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Sheraton Grand – Huron
Session Information:
Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in…[Read more]
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Amanda Henrichs deposited Beyond Recovery: Computational Work and Archival Absence in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoShort paper presented for session 417 on Critical Computation.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Slots still available! in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHeading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Thursday Jan 3rd
54. And What does Colonial Mean?
1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand
Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky
Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]
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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 "Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory" in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]
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Dene M. Grigar started the topic Readings & Performances at M LA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoNatural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more] -
Matthew Omelsky deposited Chris Abani and the Politics of Ambivalence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn his 2004 novel GraceLand, Chris Abani unsettles notions of youth “empowerment,” or “resistance,” creating a restless oscillation between cynicism and idealism. On the one hand, pervasive violence and restricting
norms seem to debilitate the novel’s characters, leaving little room to negoti- ate the constraints of their bleak lives in the slums…[Read more] -
Matthew Omelsky deposited The Creaturely Modernism of Amos Tutuola in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article examines the global African modernism of Amos Tutuola through the lens of his nonhuman folkloric creatures. Though the work of the early Nigerian novelist is often characterized as modernism’s inversion, or “traditional,” Tutuola in fact articulates a succession of surreal monsters in The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the B…[Read more]
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Matthew Omelsky deposited After the End Times: Postcrisis African Science Fiction in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe live in a moment of “apocalyptic time,” the “time of the end of time.” Ours is a moment of global ecological crisis, of the ever-impending collapse of capital. That we live on the brink is too clear. What is not, however, is our ability to imagine the moment after this dual crisis. In recent years, African artists have begun to articul…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations
Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic A GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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bonnie lenore kyburz started the topic CFP: Women & Language (via Leland G. Spencer, Editor) in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCamp, January 2nd in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Lire, une histoire simple in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis book constitutes the result of a pedagogical experimentation, that I conducted for the Master in Linguistic and Literary Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, during the academic year 2017-2018. The critical essays that are here collected have been written by some students of my class, and show clearly enough that…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Pour une pédagogie créative de la littérature. Enseigner la littérature au musée, « La Nuova Secondaria », 3 Novembre 2018, pp. 87-89. in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis article describes a pedagogical project that took place between 2015 and 2016, and involved my students of the French Literature class, third year of Bachelor of Arts (foreign languages). The intersection and interrelation between figurative art and poetry were at the centre of the theoretical insight, whereas the necessity of adapting our…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Professional Development Opportunity from CELJ in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year. This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]
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