We are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now open for peer review on MLA Commons. As is this is a volume on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please take a look and add your tho…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

The…[Read more]

I have just started a group on teaching Chinese language and linguistics. If anyone is interested, please join the group and we’ll discuss aspects of our experiences as teachers and students of Chinese. I look forward to hearing from many of you!

Dear Members of the Teaching as a Profession group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]

The Politics of Public Celebrations: This session would call for an exploration of the uses to which festive culture lent itself in 17th, 18th and 19th-century Italy. Lavish public celebrations were often meant to project the power of local rulers to the general public and served to underline or enforce ideas of universal order and transcendental…[Read more]

Public Opinion, Literary Successes and Failures: “Public opinion is the most powerful instrument in every country for influencing the actions of the great” (Ugo Foscolo, “The Women of Italy,” 1826). This panel will investigate the sway of public opinion on the creation, production and reception of Italian literature. Was public opinion the most…[Read more]

Exoticisms and Their Italian Publics:   Often when Italy is part of the exoticism equation, Italians sit front and center as the exotic object of the subject-other’s (British, French, aristocratic, “enlightened”) gaze. This panel takes a different angle — it seeks to explore the various currents of 17th-18th-and 19th century exoticism as…[Read more]

Emotions in Ink: Sentiment, affection, passion, feelings… emotions: in literature, philosophy, religion, the arts, medicine. How were emotions rendered public through writings? How were displays of public emotions portrayed? Are emotions and writings about them gendered? We welcome papers that address these questions and others exploring the ro…[Read more]

The Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites the submission of abstracts for the 2016 Convention exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical or applied) within any framework. Although preference is given to papers addressing more than one…[Read more]

Please consider attending the Delegate Assembly in order to support this MOTION:

Motion 2015-1:
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
Supporting materials: Click here to see the information provided by the proposers.

Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF)…[Read more]

Abstracts below:

Friday, 9 January

Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir

10:15–11:30 a.m., West 210, VCC West

Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association

Presiding: Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community Coll.

“Photo-graphics: Mediating Memory in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” David Bahr, Borough of Man…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:

The faculty in the Ph.D. program in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the Teaching Literature Book Award. This new, nationally-juried prize seeks to encourage and recognize excellence in teaching by honoring every other year a book-length work on teaching literature at the…[Read more]

 
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning  as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
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When engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

“the work of the classroom [becomes] a site for…[Read more]

46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015
Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015
Host institution: Ryerson University
Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms

This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional

The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for L2…[Read more]

46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015

Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015

Host institution: Ryerson University

Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms

This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional

The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for…[Read more]

Dear Forum Members,

About a year ago, one forum member raised a question about preparing graduate students for positions with 4-4 teaching loads. Given this question, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that aims to prepare students for these types of jobs.…[Read more]

CFP: NEMLA Session, Toronto, 4/30-5/3. College in Crisis: Higher Education in Literature and Popular Culture

Higher education in the United States is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy as constituents question its costs and benefits. Many scholars in various disciplines have analyzed this crisis, and simultaneously, narratives about higher…[Read more]