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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
CLCS Celtic on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
A description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses.
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited History of the English Language syllabus, Fall 2018 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
The course syllabus I used for History of the English language in Fall 2018 (undergraduates and teacher ed. graduate students). This course combines historical overview, sociolinguistics, language and IPA labs and exercises, a variety of short written assignments focusing on analytical and comparative linguistic approaches, and an independent…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
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Nicole Guenther Discenza's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Call for Papers for Women & Language (posted on behalf of Leland G. Spencer, PhD in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers from Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University:
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, in…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
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Elaine Treharne deposited ‘The shock of the old: Early English and its modern re-tellings’ in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDescribes translation practice in relation to Old English Poetry.
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Elaine Treharne deposited ‘The shock of the old: Early English and its modern re-tellings’ on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
Describes translation practice in relation to Old English Poetry.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Violence, Time, and Memory in Beowulf: The Feast Hall as Cultural Reliquary in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoA reading of Beowulf that theorizes Heorot as a cultural reliquary, in so doing troubling the more standard readings of this poem as a series of episodes and digressions, in favor of focusing more on the as-yet inadequately examined queer temporalities of human experiences in the world that are embedded within the feast hall and the poem that contains it.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Violence, Time, and Memory in Beowulf: The Feast Hall as Cultural Reliquary in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoA reading of Beowulf that theorizes Heorot as a cultural reliquary, in so doing troubling the more standard readings of this poem as a series of episodes and digressions, in favor of focusing more on the as-yet inadequately examined queer temporalities of human experiences in the world that are embedded within the feast hall and the poem that contains it.
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