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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Kath Burton replied to the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTo find out more about the fabulous work of the HuMetricsHSS Initiative, the team have just released a new format newsletter that provides updates on how the project has been evolving.
And check out Section 6 of Publishing Values-Based Scholarly Communication to explore how the HuMetrics Values Sorter can support values-based publishing…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Welcome to MLA Sit and Writes! in the discussion
MLA Sit and Writes on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoWelcome to MLA Sit and Writes! Our first gathering is 8 February 2023 at 3pm ET, and will feature a snack by Anne Fernald (Fordham University, editor of Modernism/modernity) on creating a kind writing schedule. Throughout the session, we’ll put up discussion topics so participants can share their process, goals, and reflections.
You can find all…[Read more]
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Bonnie Russell replied to the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoI’m delighted that the OER has finally been released! Gathering real-life examples from those engaged in this work has been a journey of discovery. I’ve learned so much from those we’ve interviewed, as well as thinking through how values frameworks can help negotiate both the work itself and the interpersonal relationships that work resides. This…[Read more]
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Catherine Cocks replied to the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoIt’s so exciting to see the OER go live! Many thanks to Kath Burton and to Bonnie Russell for making it a reality, and also to Rebecca Kennison for coming up with the idea. My favorite parts are video interviews with several people who have broad experience in publicly engaged work: Michelle May-Curry, director of Humanities for All; Teresa Mangum…[Read more]
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Kath Burton started the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoHow do OERs support values-based publishing?
As we launch into 2023, members of the Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities Group have teamed up with the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in Humanities and Social Science) initiative to co-author a new open educational resource (OER).Publishing Values-based Scholarly Communication is a wholly…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years agoHello everyone!
I hope all of you have arrived safely in San Francisco and are having a great experience at the MLA this year.
This is a friendly reminder that our session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” is tomorrow, Saturday, 1/7/23, at 10:15 am, in Moscone West – 3018.
For more information about the panel, click here.
This…[Read more]
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams deposited Where the Money Resides: Demystifying Academic Job Negotiations in the group
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoReport on negotiations for academic jobs, drawing from stories from over 300 faculty members.
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Marley Treloar deposited Recycle Archaeology: Community Reuse of Archaeological Disposals in the group
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIn this paper, I interview Dr Helen Wickstead, director of Recycle Archaeology about the reuse of usually discarded archaeological materials as an alternative to disposal. I explain through recent pilot projects partnered with Recycle Archaeology, how archaeological materials can be used by students, researchers, artists and the public to create…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Panel at MLA 2023 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoHello everyone!
We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!
Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoWar diaries are often written under duress, and are attempts at documenting events as they unfold, or narrating stories of how people survive under trying circumstances. She argues that conditions of war under which authors produce their work dictate the form itself. When an author’s life is under threat, when safety is compromised, m…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]
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EJ Thomas started the topic Alt-Ac Job Posting: Partner and User Support Specialist ITHAKA (JSTOR/Artstor) in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHello all! I’m a former academic and now the manager of the Partner and User Support Team at ITHAKA. We support resources you are probably familiar with, including JSTOR, Artstor, JSTOR Forum and Portico. We’re currently hiring for our Partner and User Support Specialist role, the role I started in 6 years ago when I made the decision to leave my…[Read more]
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Cara Jordan started the topic How to Write a Cover Letter for an Academic Job in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoApplying for an academic job? The process can often be opaque and, unless your advisor is particularly helpful, you might feel alone in the process.
Never fear! In a recent blog post, former art history professor and department chair Matt Shoaf tells you how to research, write, and avoid common mistakes when applying for jobs as a…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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