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Laura R. Braunstein deposited “And There Was a Large Number of People”: The Occom Circle Project at the Dartmouth College Library in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe Dartmouth College Library’s Occom Circle Project produced a scholarly digital edition of the papers of Samson Occom (1723–1792), a Mohegan Indian and the most widely published Native American writer of the 18th century. This chapter describes the development of the Dartmouth College Library’s project management process. The Library at the t…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s “Beneath the Roses” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Assoc/Full Professor, Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Critical Diversity in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College of Arts and Letters’ Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will f…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Candidate Introduction – MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
I am a candidate for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. Now that the voting period has opened, and following MLA recommendations, I would like to post a brief introduction.
I am professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, where I serve as associate chair and graduate coordinator in…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History.” Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoReadings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay deposited 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award commendation in the group
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Teaching Literature Book Award is an international, juried prize, awarded biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English at Idaho State University. This commendation discusses both the winning volume and an honorable mention.
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP for Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South
We are soliciting contributions to Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu
This digital platform aims to advance the field of Global South Studies by providing a conceptual mapping of key c…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2017 syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAbstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]
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Christopher Gascón posted an update in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoTranslator Dakin Matthews will be the Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker at the 2018 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) Symposium, Saturday, April 14, 2018 (see below for abstract submission details). Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of Andak Stage Company, California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays considering the intersections of visual culture with other fields related to the topic would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full ess…[Read more] -
Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays examining the topic from the perspective of gender and sexuality would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
#TransformDH on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018 Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
1. Learn “close reading” strategies for…[Read more] -
Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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