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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CF Beat P – Louisville Conf for Lit and Culture – 21-23 Feb 2019 in the discussion
Beat Generation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers:
The Beat Studies Association sponsors an annual panel at the Louisville Conference for Literature and Culture Since 1900, to be held at the University of Louisville Feb. 21-23, 2019.If you are interested in presenting at this conference, please submit a brief (250 word) abstract and a one-paragraph bio to Deborah Geis (…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.
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David Squires deposited Open Access and the Theological Imagination in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe past twenty years have witnessed a mounting crisis in academic publishing. Companies such as Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and Taylor and Francis have earned unprecedented profits by controlling more and more scholarly output while increasing subscription rates to academic journals. Thus publishers have consolidated their influence despite…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan deposited The consequences of framing digital humanities tools as easy to use in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article examines the recurring ways in which some of the most popular DH tools are presented as easy to use. It argues that attempts to couch powerful tools in what is often false familiarity, directly undermines the goal of encouraging scholarly innovation and risk taking. The consequences of framing digital tools as either easy or more…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoI look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. As a result of the lim…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoOur work in this course will center around two questions. First, what were the material and social conditions for Black men, women, and children living in the territory that would become the United States, from roughly 1750 until on or about 1860? While slavery is likely the first concept that comes to mind, additional concepts such as racism,…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Is there a Beat Studies organization? in the discussion
Beat Generation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoIs there a Beat Studies organization? What a great question! There IS an organization for Beat Studies and Beat Generation Scholars.
Visit http://beatstudies.org/ to learn about the Beat Studies Association, which promotes Beat Studies, publishes The Journal of Beat Studies, and is a great repository for Beat scholars. Membership information is there too.
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – NeMLA 2019 – Transnational Beat Generation in the discussion
Beat Generation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoCall For Papers: The Transnational Beat Generation
Moderator: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” asked Jack Kerouac. Apparently across many borders, because that hip, counterculture Beat Generation impact has lasted. This panel invites papers which explore how Beat Generation cul…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, January 4, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago, on Friday, January 5, 2019 from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Session 374, Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape, will feature a discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer agenda with discussion…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Don’t Write About September 11th”: Meta-poetic Elements in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis article focuses on three post-9/11 meta-poems – “My Wife Says Don’t Write About September 11th” by Ryan G. Van Cleave, “How to Write A Poem After September 11th” by Nikki Moustaki and “To the Words” by W. S. Merwin – to demonstrate the point that the current scholarly understanding of post-9/11 aesthetics as something functioning like…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited “Modernist Jane: Austen’s Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDespite their commitment to Ezra Pound’s commandment to “make it new!:” modernist authors like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, and Thornton Wilder referred to Jane Austen surprisingly often in their public and private writings. Although they excoriated her sexual inexperience and limited…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic CfP: International Conference: Migration Studies, Transnational Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics
May 2—4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call f…[Read more]
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