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selisker deposited “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article raises questions about the aesthetics of scale as they appear relative to genetically modified organisms in science fiction and especially in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). Bacigalupi makes the unusual choice of representing GMOs largely through science fictional tropes of automatism rather than the grotesque. Because of t…[Read more]
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selisker deposited The Cult and the World System: The Topoi of David Mitchell’s Global Novels in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article describes how the novelist David Mitchell employs the “topos of the cult,” a set of conventions that describe a mental state of unfreedom, in the novels Ghostwritten (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2004). This figuration of an unfree form of society—characterized by a group’s specialized language, closed social spaces, and charismatic leade…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Re-Evaluating Suvin: Brown Girl in the Ring as Effective Magical Dystopia in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis paper will begin by looking at the historical theoretical relationship between science fiction and dystopia. It will then proceed to demonstrate how recent theorists have failed to adequately incorporate the practical changes authors have introduced to the genre, which includes the incorporation of aspects of magical realism. Brown Girl in…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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William A. Gleason started the topic Princeton University Press Call for Submissions in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoNow welcoming submissions, The Pocket Instructor: Writing (edited by Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw) will be a collection of creative exercises for teaching academic writing in the undergraduate classroom. It follows in the footsteps of The Pocket Instructor: Literature, edited by Diana Fuss and William A. Gleason (Princeton University Press,…[Read more]
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David Laurence deposited Trends in Bachelor’s Degrees in English and Other Selected Fields of Study, 1987–2015 in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years agoPrepared for session 366 on the 2017 convention program, Shapes of the English Major Today, arranged by the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the English Major, this presentation summarizes trends in bachelor’s degree completions using time series degree completions data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS), as compiled by the National…[Read more]
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Julie Ward replied to the topic CFP MLA 2017: Specifications Grading: Case Studies in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoCorrection: This is for presentation at the 2018 Convention of the MLA.
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Specifications Grading: Case Studies in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoInteractive workshop focusing on Nilson’s Specifications Grading. Presenters share best practices for specs grading in the classroom, using real examples. 250-word description of use of specs grading by 1 March 2017; Julie Ward (wardjulie@ou.edu) and Ashwini Ganeshan (ganeshan@ohio.edu).
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Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years agoPanel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story in NW Times of Children of Steel unity in diversity lit. project in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoHello, and happy new year all!
Our writers have diverse roots. For instance, one such industrial community, East Chicago, Indiana (host to Arcelor-Mittal’s current flagship and largest US full process steel mill) was listed on censuses in the 1940s and 1960s as having 82 nationalities. As times have changed people have moved to suburbs s…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee Membership and Terms in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoExecutive Committee Officers
Alanna Frost MLA 2018 Secretary/MLA 2019 Chair (term Jan 2015- Jan 2020)
Peggy Otto MLA 2019 Secretary/MLA 2020 Chair (term Jan 2016-Jan 2021)
Annette Vee MLA 2020 Secretary/MLA 2021 Chair (term Jan 2017-Jan 2022)
Mya Poe 2021 MLA Secretary / MLA 2022 Chair (term Jan 2018-Jan 2023)
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Business Meeting and Call for Nominations in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoHello everyone,
We look forward to seeing many of you in Philadelphia this week. The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Annual Business Meeting will be held at 6:30pm Saturday, January 7, following session 651. Sponsoring, Stewarding, and Brokering Literacies (5:15-6:30pm, room 404 Philadelphia Marriott). We do not yet have a location for the meeting,…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoI hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:
491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual Foodways W…[Read more] -
André Carrington deposited Blackness & Utopia in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPilot for a modular course in-person, hybrid, or online format. Texts and other materials available in digital and streaming formats.
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic CFP: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (15 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health,…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Please Send Your Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoTC Disability Studies will hold an election for a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic First Forum Delegate Election–Call for Suggestions in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for RCWS Literacy Studies will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, i…[Read more]
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