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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Mozárabe in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years agoEste término tiene que ver con la caracterización socio-religiosa, se trata de cristianos, y no con una caracterización lingüística. No hubo ni lengua ni dialectos mozárabes, es decir, limitados a los cristianos. Hubo un romance andalusí, polimórfico, que era utilizado por los diversos habitantes de al-Ándalus, cristianos, musulmanes y judíos,…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited VAT. LAT. 12900. EL FRAGMENTO LATINO VISIGÓTICO DE LA EPÍSTOLA A LOS GÁLATAS Y SU VERSIÓN ÁRABE ANDALUSÍ* 1 in the group
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years agoLa expansión del islam no significó la desaparición del cristianismo en esos territorios,
donde, en condiciones más o menos precarias, según las épocas y los lugares, se ha mantenido
hasta hoy; pero incluso en los escritos cristianos, el latín fue sustituido por el árabe,
hasta el punto de que esta última lengua se utilizó para el aprendiza…[Read more] -
Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Briana Martino deposited And None of it Fits Inside Panels: Graphic Silence in Graphic Medicine in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoLightning Talk from Session 393: Keywords and Keyimages in Graphic Medicine
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Kim Adams started the topic High Theory Happy Hour in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoHigh Theory is a podcast that asks simple questions about difficult concepts.
We invite you to a happy hour this evening to gossip about the conference and plan how critical theory can save (or destroy) the world.Join us any time between 7 and 8pm at https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93233776393
Please visit our website, hightheory.net to learn more…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean, and…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight: Join us for joyful conversation in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Good afternoon. We are so excited that this evening we are holding the annual multi-forum reception. It will be held via zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m. We hope that you might write to your forum list-serves and/or post to your H-Commons page a reminder of the event. It is listed as event 548 in the MLA Meetings Calendar. Elena M…[Read more]
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Michael A. Burke deposited “Double the Fun: Implementing “Multiple Measures” and Accelerated Learning Program Simultaneously” in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.
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Michael A. Burke deposited “Double the Fun: Implementing “Multiple Measures” and Accelerated Learning Program Simultaneously” in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.
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Kim Adams deposited High Theory Podcast Invitation 2 in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe are hosting a happy hour to celebrate our podcast “High Theory” in conjunction with the MLA conference.
We cannot buy you a drink, but we will charm you on Zoom with silly games like theory Pictionary.
Please join us on Saturday, January 9, any time between 7 and 8 pm EST.
RSVP to info@hightheory.net or visit http://www.hightheory.net to learn…[Read more] -
anna doyle deposited Paradjanov Tallk, POetics of the Minor, Draft in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoParadjanov poetics of the minor – From Deleuze to Georges Bataille
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Francisco Antonio Montaño started the topic Nominations sought for the LSL Romance Linguistics Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LSL Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA Linguists,
The LSL Romance Linguistics Forum of the MLA is currently seeking candidates to participate in the group’s governance. Nominees will have a chance to decide the forum’s priorities, organize panels, and interact with other standing member organizations of the MLA. The terms are generally for five years. We are currently see…[Read more]
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Kim Adams deposited High Theory Podcast Invitation in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoHigh Theory is a podcast that takes on difficult ideas from the academy with irreverence. We invite you to join us for a MLA happy hour on Saturday January 9, from 7-8pm. We would love to hear your podcast ideas! Email us at info@hightheory.net or RSVP for a Zoom link on our website hightheory.net
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Anne Donlon deposited Using MLA Commons and Humanities Commons to Tell the Story of Your Work (MLA 2021) in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis presentation introduces ways to use MLA Commons and Humanities Commons to curate your online presence, increase the impact of your scholarship, and tell the story of your work. It introduces profiles, sites, groups, and the CORE repository, highlighting the ways members can use these networks for collaboration, discussion, and experimentation…[Read more]
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Anoff Nicholas Cobblah deposited George Romanes and Recreational Interdisciplinarity: Why We “Find Recreation in Each Other’s Labours” in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn 1879, Scots-Canadian biologist George Romanes suggested a physiological defense for working outside one’s discipline. In his essay on “Recreation,” Romanes theorized that different activities use up nutrients and energy in different muscles and parts of the brain. According to Romanes, a historian practicing science and a scientist study…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Elena Machado Sáez posted an update in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels
Dear MLA members,
Join us today at one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
• Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM EST.…[Read more] -
Amanda Caleb deposited “Baby is as big as a guinea pig”: The (non)heteronormative Experience of Pregnancy in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis is a copy of my presentation for Session #140: Bodily Persistence: Curating Better Medicine through Posthumanism. The presentation considers the posthumanism of pregnancy representation in the Ovia pregnancy app and the short story collection _With Animal_.
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