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Paul Fyfe deposited Reading Literature in the Digital Age in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes a first-year interdisciplinary honors course undertaken in fall 2014 at NC State University. It welcomes students into a hands-on environment for thinking about and practicing with new and old platforms for reading, interpretation, and understanding. It attempts to bridge book history and digital humanities into an…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for special session, "Archival Boundaries" in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPosting this on behalf of colleagues – a special session called “Archival Boundaries” that will have the format of a roundtable discussion. Please consult the CFP: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_9146. 200-word abstracts are due by Friday, March 18.
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces- (Palgrave Macmillan) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago<div></div>
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Brooke Carlson deposited Effective Practices for Teaching Online??? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn 2011, U.S. News & World Report indicated that online courses had been increasing for nine straight years in a row. Or, the online presence has been continuously growing since roughly the turn of the century. The Online Learning Consortium just published a report on online learning for 2015, from which we can the pervasiveness of the online…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Letitia Ileana Guran started the topic CFP MLA 2017–reading Eastern Europe Digitally in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2017
Reading Eastern Europe Digitally: Promises for the New Millennium
What does the Digital Age hold in store for Eastern European cultures? In an era dominated by the opening of secret archives, by an intense re-writing of the socialist past, the opportunities offered by a wide dissemination of texts and works of art too long hidden…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP: Graphic Narratives (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoTitle of session: Graphic Narratives
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
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250 word abstractsContact person information
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Nós, Portugal, o poder ser. Um universalismo virtual como resultado dum processo de auto-mitificação da cultura in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.
The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Transl. the esoteric – Soul in Metamorphosis. in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoAnyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of t r a n s f o r m a t i o n — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP ASA 2016: Home Screens in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP for American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-20, Denver, CO
Home Screens: Digitizing Belonging and Place in American Studies
This panel seeks contributors who have been involved with a digital project that preserves, recreates, or generates notions of “home” in the American context. In keeping with the conference theme, Home/Not H…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec started the topic CFP: "Machine Translation Before 1800" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoContributors are invited for a special session on “Machine Translation Before 1800” for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (January 5–8, 2017).
Translation has usually been conceived as a relationship between individual persons or texts across languages. How does thinking in terms of systems, teams, and conditions instead of indiv…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Pedagogical / Research Items of Interest? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester, and happy holidays! I wanted to alert you to the research papers, book chapters, annotated bibliographies, and pedagogical materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members using CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read you…[Read more]
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Lawrence M. Venuti started the topic Call for Papers: “Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation.” in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies
Second Call for Papers (new deadline: January 29, 2016)
“Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation”
University of Calgary (Alberta)
May 30 to June 1, 2016
The 29th annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies is plea…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Dear colleagues,
The new issue of Caracteres, vol. 4 n. 2, is now available both in our website and as a downloadable PDF file: http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n1mayo2015/ In this issue you will find a monograph coordinated by María Ángeles Grande entitled “Wolds under…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colega:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Rethinking the Dissertation: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a position paper for an upcoming workshop convened by the Council of Graduate Schools on rethinking the dissertation. In it, I reflect on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the shift…[Read more]
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