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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]
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Jay Rajiva deposited “Secrecy, Sacrifice, and God on the Island: Christianity and Colonialism in Coetzee’s Foe and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis essay argues that the tension in Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe springs from the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death, which outlines how Christianity tacitly incorporates (but doe…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Mary Arnstein started the topic The 2019 Marc Raeff Book Prize in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe 2019 Marc Raeff Book Prize
The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the seventh annual Marc Raeff Book Prize. We encourage both presses and individual scholars to submit nominations to the me…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Tobin started the topic Announcing Candidacy – HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m honored to have been nominated to serve on the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee, and I write to introduce myself and my qualifications beyond the information that you’ll find in my MLA Commons Profile or at my personal web site. In brief, as a member of the executive committee, I’d like to expand my e…[Read more]
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Jessica DeSpain started the topic Teaching of Literature Executive Forum Nominee in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoI have been nominated to serve on the Teaching of Literature Executive Forum, and I wanted to share a few details about my experiences and my goals with forum members. I am a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where I’ve worked since 2008. I specialize in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, book history, and the d…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature 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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Mary Arnstein started the topic CfP: ICCEES 10th World Congress in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 3 months agoNEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 23h59 ESTICCEES, the International Council for Central and East European Studies, is a global consortium of national scholarly associations dedicated to multi-disciplinary research into Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Its aims are to:
- promote international scholarly ex…
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Brian Croxall deposited Who Teaches When We Teach DH? A Survey in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs the digital humanities have rapidly gained prominence and attention over the last decade, learning has shifted from individual experiences at training environments such as THATCamps and Institutes to more formal institutional instruction. This means that the number of people teaching digital humanities (DH) has had to increase. Who are these…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Winner and Honorable Mention 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy announces “Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other,” edited by Miriamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton) and Tison Pugh (University of Central Florida) as the winner of the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award. “Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Tra…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic CfP: Western Slavic and Eurasian Association Annual Conference in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 4 months agoCfP: Western Slavic and Eurasian Association Annual Conference (Portland, 1-4 April 2020)
by Evguenia Davidova
The Call for Papers and registration are now open for the annual conference of the Western Slavic and Eurasian Association (WSEA) to be held from 1-4 April 2020, in Portland, OR at the Marriot Downtown Waterfront.
WSEA holds its…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic CfP: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Annual Meeting in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS 58th Annual Meeting Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Greenville, SC
March 12-14, 2020 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: January 15, 2020
The Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will be held at the Westin Poinsett Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, March 12-14, 2020. The…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis undergraduate seminar on author Margaret Atwood fulfills the Major Author course at Stevenson University. Students will read A Trio of Tall Tales and The Year of the Flood, as well as both read and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. The course assignments include live-tweeting, creating a webtext, and an intertextual analysis essay.
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Natalia Ermolaev started the topic Four-day workshop at Princeton on DH and visual resources in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoDigital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives of Eastern European and Russian Artifacts
Princeton University, September 3-6, 2019
This four-day workshop will explore digital humanities theories and tools for Slavic Studies scholars working with visual resources.
Hands-on instructional sessions will cover…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History Award
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Named for an eminent historian and founding member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Oskar Halecki Award recognizes a scholar in the field of…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Wacław Lednicki Award in the HumanitiesPolish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Named after the first director of the Literature and Arts Section of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Wacław Lednicki Award recognizes the most outstanding book or c…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social SciencesPolish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Named for an eminent social scientist and founding member and first president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Bronisław Malinowski Award recognizes a sch…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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