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 available for open peer review on MLA Commons. As the volume focuses on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please do take a moment to read t…[Read more]

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]

Panel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016

Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[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]

Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)

We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]

Revisiting William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner:
Fifty Years Later
Editor: Michael Lackey
The University of Virginia Press has expressed interest in publishing a collection of essays commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was published in 1967. So that the boo…[Read more]

Hastings College Press welcomes proposals for chapters for an edited volume focused on Midwestern regionalism during the first half of the twentieth century. The volume is tentatively entitled “The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early-Twentieth Century Midwestern Regionalism.” Midwestern regionalism includes writers, artists, publishers, int…[Read more]

Stacey Lee Donohue has uploaded two documents that might be of interest to this group to the new repository, CORE. You can access them by clicking on the “CORE” tab at the top of the screen, the “Deposits” tab to the right of this group’s page, or via the links below.

“What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Becoming a Community College…[Read more]

I invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.

connect.mla.hcommons-staging.org

Cahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparees (CIEC) / Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS) VOLUME 2 NUMERO 2

LA MUSIQUE POPULAIRE AFRICAINE : LES VÉRITABLES VOIX DU PEUPLE ?

ARGUMENTAIRE

Peut-être pour des raisons d’un élitisme intellectuel ou peut-être du fait de l’absence d’un outil adéquat pour leur analyse, les arts populaires afr…[Read more]