Jeremiah Mercurio
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Katherine D. Harris started the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoNote: I’m going to post this across a few of the groups in which I participate, including Book History and Romantic/19th Century
I just attended the above session organized by this group. While the room was packed and the panel was stacked with a variety of venerable scholars doing interesting work, the panel completely ignored an important area…[Read more]
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Brian Vetruba started the topic CFP New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, & Partnerships: 10/13/17, Frankfurt in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe Center for Research Libraries and its Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) and German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) international programs, together with French and German partners, invite proposals for papers, presentations, and posters to be presented at an international symposium. New Directions…[Read more]
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Robert H. Kieft replied to the topic Session at Philly convention and doc for review in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years agoColleagues, I’m sending this reminder as you pack your bags to travel to Philly. My task force colleagues and I look forward to seeing you to discuss this document.
Thanks.
Bob
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Robert H. Kieft started the topic Session at Philly convention and doc for review in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoColleagues, hello. I am writing today to call your attention to a newly released document of potential interest as posted to Humanities Commons at https://printrecord.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ and to a discussion session about the document from 1:45-3:00 PM Fri, 6 January, Marriott 401-403. The meeting immediately precedes the Libraries and Re…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Thoroughness vs Intuitive navigation for an online database in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since ther…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Designing a database for visula artists and for scholars in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since there are…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper started the topic CFP: George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21st Century–Book Collection in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for this volume, a collection of critical essays.
We are interested in a broad range of new interdisciplinary topics, new theoretical approaches, and innovative insights. A few possibilities might be as follows: Eliot and…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Peer Review in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPeer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Suggestions
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative 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 nom…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoA reminder to scholars of literature and visual arts/comics scholars:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the c…[Read more]
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Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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Marlene Manoff deposited Mapping Archival Silence: technology and the historical record in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoRecent theorizations of archival silence signal a heightened and expanding concern with information that is lost, concealed, destroyed or simply not available for scholarly use. As our access to the archive becomes more dependent upon technologies of the interface, scholars exhibit increasing concern about the impact of digital affordances and…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTechnology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Social Networking in the Scriptorium in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis course examines the literary, cultural, and material life of written correspondence from the poetic epistle to the snarky tweet. And while we will read and analyze epistolary literature (both fiction and nonfiction) such as Ovid’s Heroides, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and
Alice Walker’s A Color Purple, we focus our efforts on “real” letters o…[Read more] -
Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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