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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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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
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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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Anne Donlon started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: Reflection & Making it Official in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWelcome to the last day of our second Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop session! If you missed out on joining us for either session, or if you want to do it all over again, you absolutely can! These posts, as well as the ones on our group site, will remain there indefinitely. Feel free to complete the activities in your own time and even…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited EGL 194: Intro to Film (Fall 2019) in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis is the syllabus I’ve designed for my Fall 2019 undergraduate-level Introduction to Film course. I focused the course as a genre study of American horror films. I want my students to be able to consider the socio-political contexts of popular films and to detect and explain the arguments and worldviews produced by film.
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: Sites in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIt’s day four of the second Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop session, and we’re focusing on updating and creating HC sites!
Why should you build and maintain a site through HC?
Humanities Commons allows users like you to build wordpress sites that are linked directly to their HC profile page. Once you create a site, a link to your…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: CORE in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWelcome to the third day of the second Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop! Today we’re focusing on the CORE Repository.
The importance of taking time to refresh your digital presence through CORE is twofold. First, we hope that a greater awareness of the open access materials available in the CORE Repository will help you to locate helpf…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] -
Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: Groups in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWelcome to Day 2 of the second round of the Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop! I hope you all had a chance to update your profile pages yesterday, but if not, feel free to move through this workshop at your own pace. Today we’re going to focus on HC groups. Joining and participating in groups is vital to taking full advantage of the net…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: Profiles in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoHi all! I’m looking forward to refreshing my Commons presence this week. Despite working on some aspect of Humanities Commons almost every weekday, my own profile had gotten somewhat outdated. I’ve added some recent publications and reworked my “about” statement slightly.
I’ve followed a few new people as well. I want to highlight one of the…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: Profiles in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWelcome to the second round of the Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop, which will run from today, August 5th to Friday, August 9th. Each day, we will focus on a different component of your online professional presence and encourage each other to make any necessary updates. By participating in this workshop, you will give yourself a week s…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 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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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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