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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Harrod Suarez started the topic LLC Asian American Panels @ 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years ago87V – Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions: Thursday, 6 January 2022 / 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
456V – Multilingual Asian American Newspaper Studies: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
481V – Archipelagic Thinking in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Narratives: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
630V – Radi…[Read more]
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D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke deposited Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness remained for many years one of Broadview’s best-selling titles. For the third edition the book has been completely revised and updated to take account of the scholarship of t…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza started the topic CfP: New peer-reviewed book series "Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit" in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(Version française ci-joint.)The European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée is calling for monograph proposals for its new peer-reviewed book series Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit to be published by ibidem Press (Germany).
Aims and Scope
The series welcomes the submi…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited “Decolonizing” Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDescribes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]
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Eric Prieto started the topic Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Ren in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal </p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>The Third International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of California, Santa Barbara on 17–19 February 2022. </p>
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Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOsmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Some Practices for Publishing the Precariat in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn this paper, in a panel co-sponsored by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, I summarize some of the structural and practical problems that challenge contingent scholars when they try to publish their work in scholarly journals. I share the record of the online, multimedia,…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Call for papers: please share widely! in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoGuaranteed session at MLA 2022:Where Do We Go From Here? Anti-Racism and the Future of the Profession
This panel explores the ways educators are engaging with anti-racist practices in their language and literature classrooms as we re-envision the future of our profession. We are seeking practical pedagogical experiences and reflections,…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.
Two moments fra…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original message. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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