Prove participatory citizenship is still alive! Vote on the MLA resolution! Last 8 hours!

Please forgive me for being exceedingly tedious on the subject of the vote, which ends at midnight tonight. The bar of 10% of the membership that resolutions have to pass is a relatively new one, and arguably not a good one, given the general indifference (which those who proposed it probably were counting on). But it is still possible to prove…[Read more]

a bit more than 24 hours left to vote on the MLA resolution!

I apologize for possibly repeating myself. I’m writing to encourage people to vote on the Israel resolution (right of entry for Americans of Palestinian and Arab descent). I co-sponsored it, so obviously I believe it’s a good and fair and appropriate thing, but I think you will agree if you take a moment to look it over. Voting ends at midnight…[Read more]

Please forgive this graceless appeal. The Israel resolution (Right to Enter) that I co-sponsored with Dick Ohmann is now being voted on. I think it’s a moderate and necessary gesture of support for our Palestinian and Arab colleagues who, though US citizens, have been denied entry to the West Bank to teach, do research, lecture, or attend…[Read more]

The Collective Weight of Contingency. A post for the MLA Commons Convention blog: http://convention.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2013/12/02/the-collective-weight-of-contingency/

It looks like there are at least four e-lit oriented CFPs for MLA14, including mine: Electronic Literature after Flash. http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_6103

When does service become scholarship? When does anything become scholarship? I ask—and answer—here: http://www.samplereality.com/2013/02/08/when-does-service-become-scholarship/

My Mason colleague Sean Takats has posted some thoughts about going up for tenure (in History) partly based on his digital work. His post (and comments from me) might be of interest to the MLA community: http://quintessenceofham.org/2013/01/17/dh-tenure-1-the-talk/