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Samuel Amago deposited Local Landscapes, Global Cinemascapes, and the New Galician Documentary in the group
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay analyzes recent experimental documentaries by Lois Patiño and Xurxo González (aka Xurxo Chirro) within the context of the Novo Cinema Galego, its digital modes of production, its geographical aesthetics, and the ways in which it visualizes ever-evolving notions of Galician identity and point of view. While these directors’ films pro…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Language and Labor in the Digital Humanities in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis presentation addresses the opportunities and challenges of transacting digital humanities collaborative projects from the perspective of a Digital Humanities Research Designer in an academic library. While collaboration is often celebrated as a central to the success of digital humanities projects, I argue that often the language of…[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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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFP: Women and Language journal in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis CFP came to several of us on email, with a request to post to our group. So here it is:
Women & Language Editor <editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com> Yesterday, 10:12 AM dbalder@pitt.edu; aebc@st-andrews.ac.uk; kljohnson@wm.edu;
Hi all,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA Translation Studies forum? I’ve pasted it b…[Read more] -
Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]
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Helen Davies deposited Recovery and Loss: (Multispectral) Imaging and Image Rights in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoSingle author works do not properly represent the multifaceted collaboration that goes into a digital humanities project. At the Lazarus Project, a multispectral imaging initiative based out of the University of Rochester, we are experimenting with new modes of collaborative publishing. Furthermore, as a multispectral imaging project, we recover…[Read more]
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Harriett Green deposited “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” panel response in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe response paper given by Harriett Green, panel presider, for Session #613, “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” .
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