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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: "Coping with the ‘New Normal’: Adjunct Faculty’s Treatment…- NeMLA, 2015 in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoCFP: “Coping with the ‘New Normal’: Adjunct Faculty’s Treatment in Higher Education” – NeMLA, 30 April – 3 May 2015 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
46th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 April – 3 May 2015SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2014
Coping with the ‘New Normal’: Adjunct Fa…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: "Preparing Successful Course Syllabi" – NeMLA, 30 April – 3 May 2015 -Toron in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months ago[Please feel free to circulate this CFP as widely as possible]
CFP: “Preparing Successful Course Syllabi” – NeMLA, 30 April – 3 May 2015 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
46th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 April – 3 May 2015SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2014
Panel…[Read more]
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William E. Lenz started the topic CFP Travel Culture at Popular Culture 2015 in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
PCA/ACA Travel & Tourism
CALL FOR PAPERS AT NATIONAL PCA/ACA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, APRIL 1-4, 2015
We had 7 panels in Travel and Tourism last year in Chicago; I hope to see 15 this year.
I’m looking for any and all interesting papers or presentations regarding travel and tourist culture. This i…[Read more]
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Aaron DeRosa started the topic CFP: Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies
Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles
Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016
The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The…[Read more]
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Aaron DeRosa started the topic CFP: Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCFP: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies
Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles
Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016
The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The consequences of the…[Read more]
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Peter Powers started the topic CFP: NEMLA Session. College in Crisis: Higher Ed in Literature and Pop culture in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCFP: 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]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: L.A. Perspectives on Disability Studies, NeMLA in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoNeMLA 2015, Toronto
Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also…[Read more] -
Francesco Levato replied to the topic Minorities and the Writing Classroom in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoHi Pedro,
Below is an article that might be of interest:The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued
Abstract:
Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local…[Read more] -
Rita Bode started the topic CFP: Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Conference in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoSSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Call for Proposals
Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals.
For the 2015 Triennial Conference of the…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic CFP Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2015 Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoSSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Call for Proposals
Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals.
For the 201…[Read more]
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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf 6-7 Jan 2015) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Greeson, Matthew Lassi…[Read more]
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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf 6-7 Jan 2015) in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Greeso…[Read more]
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Peter Powers started the topic CFP: NEMLA 2015 Session–College in Crisis: Higher Education in Li in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCFP: 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]
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Hilarie Ashton started the topic CFP NeMLA 2015: Growth in Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 – May 3, 2015
Toronto, CanadaSubmission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Growth in Writing, Teaching, and Learning
In his classic composition text Writing Without Teachers, Peter Elbow asks us to consider the metaphor of growing as a way to encourage and teach fluid, flexible writing. The idea of growth…[Read more]
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Annemarie E. Hamlin started the topic CFP: What is College Reading? in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoBelow is a link/URL to a call for papers from the NCTE for a new book: What is College Reading?
http://ncte.connectedcommunity.org/discussions/viewthread/?GroupId=1153&MessageKey=b91c30b8-eb63-49b7-b8d1-ce8ce53ef3bd
Please pass along to interested colleagues.
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoForgive me for cross-posting, please.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Susan. Thank you for your interest in this project. You may e-mail me your proposal at laura_savu@yahoo.com. I’m looking forward to it!
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Susan Gorman replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks for posting this, Laura; it sounds really interesting. Where/ when should we send abstracts?
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Endorsing or Volunteering for the New MLA Forum on Global Arab & Arab American in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues,
I wonder if those of you who are interested in Arab American literature and culture can take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.
You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab…[Read more]
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