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Madeline Gangnes started the topic MLA 2020 Panel #265 "Databases and Print Culture Studies" Livetweet Thread in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years agoI was asked by the moderator of this morning’s MLA session #265 “Databases and Print Culture Studies” panel, so here is the link: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215697238107750404. (Official panel info found here: https://www.sharpweb.org/main/mla-2020-sharp-session-databases-and-print-culture-studies/) I hope it will be of some use to the…[Read more]
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Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS SOUND Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Panels at MLA 2020 in Seattle!!! in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 6 years agoMS Sound will be in full force at the MLA convention this week in Seattle! Check out these three great panels that the MS Sound Executive Forum is sponsoring and co-sponsoring this year. Sound studies is making interventions this year on so many levels– these aren’t the kind of panels we usually see and hear at MLA and it’s exciting!
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease consider attending our forum’s session on “Bibliopedagogy” at MLA in Seattle on Thursday, 9 January in WSCC – 401. Our panel features three presentations:
“Student-Scribe: A Hands-On Approach to Codicology and Book History” — Sarah J. Sprouse and Sarah Banschbach Valles
“Rewriting the Canon: Cultivating Student Creativity in the…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez deposited Database of titles of presentations in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists 1998-2018 in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDatabase in Excel format with all the titles and authors of the papers presented during the last 21 years in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists – Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas
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Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Panels organized by CLCS 18th-C. (MLA 2020, Seattle) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for two panels on race, science, and the limits of the human in the global 18th c.:
Panel #1
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human. Jan 9, 2020, 1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sheraton – Ravenna C“Diagramming Race in Eighteenth-Century Science and History,” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara
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Pamela Phillips started the topic UPCOMING DEADLINE • The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues: Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by: Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río P…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Table of contents, in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoTable of contents.
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Sarah Tindal Kareem started the topic Fall 2019 MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear forum members,
The executive committee of the forum LLC Late-18th-Century English has nominated me to stand for election to the executive committee this year. It was suggested that I submit a post describing my interests and goals to the Late-18th-Century forum’s Commons group, which is how I find myself here. I am an Associate Professor in…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThree faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]
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Katrina Dunn started the topic Reimagining Theatre Education in the Era of Climate Crisis in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues.
What might we teach Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg if she were to choose post-secondary education in theatre? As she says, she has no reason to fear speaking the truth: what approach to acting and theatre-making might we take with…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume* The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited “Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago“Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]
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