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Steven J. Syrek started the topic CFP for MLA 2017 – Open Source Lit, Open Source Crit in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe official blurb is below, and I’m asking for brief proposals/bios by March 25. This could certainly be a forum, so 20 minute talks are not strictly necessary. Email me for more info. steven.syrek@gmail.com.
Open Source Lit, Open Source Crit
The “open source” movement’s potential for literary studies. Literature as source code? Criticism as…[Read more]
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Philip Goldstein replied to the topic MLA-Philadelphia. CFP: Form and The Public Intellectual in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Professor Bahr:
Below is a proposal for the forum on the status of the public intellectual. It is titled “Critical Theory: From Ideological Critique to Cultural Practices.” I hope you will consider it acceptable.
Best,
Philip Goldstein
Emeritus Professor of English,
University of Delaware
Unlike Marxist theory, which has declined in…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited Types of Literature in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“You taught me language, and my profit on ‘t Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!” (The Tempest, I.ii.362-4).What does a home mean to you? Have you left it? How did you get there? Would you go back? Starting with the foundational travel narrative in Western literature, Homer’s The Odyssey…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited Types of Literature in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWhere do we come from? Our families play an instrumental role in our development. Indeed, the idea of the individual, apart from the family, challenges notions of family as a continual process, as something permanent. How old is the idea that the individual can strike out on her own, separate from her family, and thus do as she pleases?…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited English 102 Expository Writing in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Expository Writing” is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing. In addition to several short essays, you will also be writing a mul…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease support efforts to establish a Forum for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Literatures, Languages, and Cultures by signing the petition.
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease sign the petition to help establish a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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Tiffany Potter started the topic CFP: Teaching the 18th Century. CSECS. Kingston ON October 2016 in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCanadian Society for 18th Century Studies Conference (October 26-30 2016) Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
CSECS is developing a tradition of offering panels on pedagogy as it relates to teaching courses with an eighteenth-century focus. Papers on any pedagogical approach are welcome. One panel will relate to the conference…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoTeaching of Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the impli…[Read more]
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Crystal Parikh started the topic CFPs for the 2017 MLA: LLC Asian American Forum in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Forum in Asian American Literature has posted four CFPs for the 2017 MLA. Please consider whether you might have a paper that fits one!
1. Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita
Forum: LLC Asian American
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
MS Visual Culture 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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Monika Dix replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
The 2017 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference will take place January 5-8, 2017 in Philadelphia.
Please see the cfp below.
Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia
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Forum: LLC East Asian
How does literature negotiate boundaries, cultural awareness, or individual self-definition in…[Read more] -
Orna Shaughnessy started the topic CFP Music and Literature (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals exploring the intersection of music and Japanese literature (broadly interpreted) from the Meiji period onwards. Proposals may engage with a variety of critical approaches, including interrogations of the relationship of poetry and music as mutually contingent arts; music and literary form; musico-literary polyglossia or po…[Read more]
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP: The Sonic Imagination of Modern Korean Literature (MLA 2017) in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThe Sonic Imagination of Modern Korean Literature
Viewing implied reader as situated listener, the panel examines the significance of voice, rhythm, and music in the literary production of modern Korea. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Jina Kim (<u>kimji@dickinson.edu</u>).
Literary modernization in Korea is seldom discussed…[Read more]
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP: Translation and in-between Spaces in Korea and East Asia (MLA 2017) in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoTranslation and in-between Spaces in Korea and East Asia
Papers engaging postcolonial approaches to translation in Korea and East Asia. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Heekyoung Cho (hchohcho@uw.edu).
This panel seeks papers that consider in-between spaces where translation and cultural transference take place in Korea and…[Read more]
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP: Foreign Bodies in Korean Literature (MLA 2017) in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoForeign Bodies in Korean Literature
The panel addresses representation of bodies that do not respect borders, including those of foreign, non-human, migrant, spectral, infected, illegal or criminal nature. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Kelly Jeong (kelly.jeong@ucr.edu).
This panel seeks papers that address the representation…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Space to Discuss CORE Deposits in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoSome members of this group have sent insightful comments about CORE deposits shared with the TC Literary Criticism forum (see the left hand menu on this page) to the MLA Commons e-mail address. Please use this space to respond or discuss items uploaded to CORE so that everyone—including the author—can benefit from your insight.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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