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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session: MLA 2016
The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market
This roundtable will consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students, contingent faculty, and even full-time faculty into an already overcrowded market. This panel seeks to initiate discussions about the psychodynamics of job candidacy in dis…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic CFP: The Dirty Coast (Special Session – MLA 2016) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoFrom Texas to Florida, the Dirty Coast shifts, contains, nurtures, kills. Abstracts and brief bio on the ecologies, economies, or peoples making this coast dirty and beautiful, alluring and disgusting. All media. By 10 March 2015. To Sharon O’Dair, sodair@ua.edu.
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP: MLA Special Session Proposal / Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.
“Circulating Notions of TB”
Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.
How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even active…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic MLA Panels for 2016 (CFP) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSouthern United States Forum (formerly the Southern Literature Discussion Group) at MLA 2016
Sounds of the South
When we listen to the South, what do we hear?
Taking advantage of the MLA Convention’s 2016 visit to Austin, the live music capital of the world, the Southern United States Forum is organizing a panel that aims to bring together…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic MLA Panels for 2016 (CFP) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSouthern United States Forum (formerly the Southern Literature Discussion Group) at MLA 2016
Sounds of the South
When we listen to the South, what do we hear?
Taking advantage of the MLA Convention’s 2016 visit to Austin, the live music capital of the world, the Southern United States Forum is organizing a panel that aims to bring together…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception & Subjectivity in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSociety for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PAPanel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”
This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women are represented in…[Read more]
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Therí Alyce Pickens started the topic CFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection
<div class=”paragraph”>This edited volume takes as its main question, how might we define Arab American Aesthetics? The impetus that undergirds this query is two-fold. First, the field of Arab American Studies contests the idea that Arab Americans and their various art(s) define themselves and their…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in Arab American Lit. and Culture, and Global Arab Lit., to sign up for the new website on the MLA Commons: http://m…[Read more]
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Charlotte Pressler started the topic "Florida Standards" (i.e. Common Core) and curricu7lum alignment in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoWhen Diane Ravitch spoke to the MLA two years ago, she predicted that the push for Common Core standards would soon be extended to state colleges and universities. That moment has come.
The Florida State Board of Education now is offering grants to support collaboration between state colleges and K-12 systems. I have a copy of my college’s gr…[Read more]
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Pamela Herron replied to the topic Ageism in the Writing Classroom in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoHi Margaret,
Although I teach primarily for English now, I taught Humanities for several years. In my course Challenges to Modern Culture my students were tasked with each identifying and researching a particular group of people who are disenfranchised in some way. For their final project each student would present their findings to their…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette started the topic Ageism in the Writing Classroom in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoI am looking for people who have been teaching anti-ageism, or the subject of age, in the writing classroom. Especially interested in writing assignments that counter ageism, that use ageism along with other diversity issues (racism, sexism, ableism, classism).
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Judith Anne McCarthy replied to the topic Teaching Writing / Rhetoric / Composition to Online / Distance Students in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoTo email me directly, jmccarthy@devry.edu (Judy McCarthy). Thanks!
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Judith Anne McCarthy started the topic Teaching Writing / Rhetoric / Composition to Online / Distance Students in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP (Call for Papers): I’m seeking papers in order to propose a panel for the upcoming 2016 MLA in Austin, TX. The subject is “Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition to Online/Distance Students.” I am particularly interested in (but not limited to) papers that explore the primacy of written language as instruction compared to oral, t…[Read more]
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Michael LeMahieu replied to the topic Public Arts/Criticism @ASAP/7 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoJust uploaded the full CFP for ASAP/7. Check it out! ml
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Michael LeMahieu uploaded the file: CFP: ASAP/7 "Arts & the Public" to
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoASAP/7: Arts & the Public
September 24-27, 2015
Hosted by Clemson University at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, SC
Call for Papers
ASAP/7 invites proposals from scholars and artists on the relations between the public—broadly conceived – and contemporary visual, literary, performing, musical, and media arts. From parks, schools, and museums to…[Read more] -
Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic 10th Biennial Robin Hood Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe Tenth Biennial conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies will take place on 1st and 2nd July 2015 at the University Centre, High Melton, Doncaster.
And the official Call for Papers:
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>The theme for this conference will be: Outlaws in their Contexts (local heroes to global outlaws,…[Read more]
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Samuel Cohen replied to the topic Public Arts/Criticism @ASAP/7 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoFeel free to share!
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Public Arts/Criticism @ASAP/7 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoNo problem! I loved yesterday’s misophonia tweets, by the way. My husband and I spent quite some time trying to compose suitable haiku last night.
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Samuel Cohen replied to the topic Public Arts/Criticism @ASAP/7 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoThanks!
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Public Arts/Criticism @ASAP/7 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoHi Samuel,
I fixed the tags. If you go into the “Visual” rather than the “Text” tab, you’ll be able to see how your post should work.
Cheers,
Nicky
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