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Jason Doroga posted an update in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPlease join us on Friday, 5 January for our Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics session (8:30–9:45 a.m. Sheraton- Sutton Place). The program arranged by the forum LSL Romance Linguistics is as follows.
“moii i m’en fou” – topic drop in Swiss WhatsApp messages. A cross-linguistic study on French and Italian”, Franziska Stuntebeck, Universit…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society CFPs for ALA 2018 in San Francisco in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago1) Bullying, Slut-Shaming, and Stalking: Hawthorne’s Fictional Anticipations of Twenty-first Century Psychopathologies
We invite proposals for papers investigating Hawthorne’s depictions of pathologies that have become endemic this century. A focus on pedagogical applications is particularly welcome. Abstracts of 250 words to Ivonne García at g…[Read more]
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Levente T. Szabó deposited À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe first international journal of comparative literary studies, entitled Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1877-1888), was published in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Klausenburg (in former Hungary, today in Romania). The research on the pioneering multilingual journal usually foregrounds only one of the editors, Hugo von Meltzl, the young university…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
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Emily A. Hegarty started the topic CFP: Ecocomposition at the Community College in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoContributions are invited to a proposed volume of essays on teaching ecocomposition at the community college level. <span data-ccp-props=”{}”> </span>
The focus of this volume is the powerful connection between the pedagogical aims of ecocomposition and the pedagogical philosophy of community colleges. Today, all higher education faces a greater…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Romance Linguistics Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Ian Barnard started the topic Candidate for Writing Pedagogies forum executive committee in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the Writing Pedagogies forum, so I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and my commitments.
In my scholarship over the years, I have argued that we teachers of writing need to debunk common dispositions and practices around writing pedagogy (e.g., about…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Marlene Daut posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow 19th-century Americanists! This is Marlene Daut, and I am on the ballot for the 19th-Century American Executive Committee this MLA. So, I thought I’d take just a few moments to tell you a little bit about my interests.
After being at the Claremont Graduate University for 7 years, I’ve recently moved to the University of Virginia…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage
Adapt, Adopt, Adept: The Material Phenomenon
March 23rd and 24th 2018
Pacific Rim Conference
University of Anchorage Alaska: English Department
BP Energy Center, Anchorage, AKThe various forms and mediums of adaptation is, according to Linda Hutcheon, often…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark created the doc Emerson Society Awards announcement 2018 in the group
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South
We are soliciting contributions to Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu
This digital platform aims to advance the field of Global South Studies by providing a conceptual mapping of key concepts, m…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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