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Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner Announced in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy has announced “The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study” as the winner of the 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award. The Teaching Literature Book Award (TLBA) is a national prize that recognizes the best book on teaching literature at the college level.
The award is pres…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a 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.
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a 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.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited “TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT” in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAn Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]
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Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited “TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT” in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAn Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago“The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities.”
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Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAccording to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]
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