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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe 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 revise the standards in order to…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff replied to the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this CFP is for MLA 2015…
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe CFP below may be of interests for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
Ted Atkinson started the topic CFP: SLDG @ MLA 2015 in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 in Vancouver, January 8-11
Region and its (Dis)Contents
Participants sought for a roundtable assessing the meaning, value, and/or limitations of region as a framework for U.S. literary and cultural studies. What is “region”? How have notions of region been deployed in literary or other histories? How have the meanings of region or…[Read more]
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George Louis Scheper replied to the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoSplendidn — for Litrerature and the Other arts, here is another NEH summer Institute fellowship opportunity
NEH Fellowship Opportunity
<b>Pictorial Histories and Myth-Histories: “Graphic Novels” of the Mixtecs and Aztecs</b>
<p align=”center”> A Summer Institute in Oaxaca, Cholula, and Mexico City. June 29 – July 26, 2014</p>
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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Ana Simon uploaded the file: Pre-Civil War (1936) Images of Iberian Masculinity(ies). Nemla 2014 to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoThis panel will discuss different types of male hegemonic discourses which circulated in Spain until 1936. Panelists will analyze types of masculinities that did not adhere to archetypical hegemonic models, but that shared the same spheres of influence, and had similar visual and textual expression. Topics to be discussed include, but are not…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]