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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited “Poor Black Squares”: Afterimages of the Floppy Disk in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoChapter 21 of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, ed. Mark J.P. Wolf (New York and London: Routledge, 2019): 296-310.
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic Convocatoria Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoConvocatorias https://www.madrid-ias.eu/es/convocatoria/convocatorias/novedad/nuevas-convocatorias-del-mias/
El MIAS invita a investigadores de todas las nacionalidades. Admitido en abril de 2019 como miembro de pleno derecho de la prestigiosa red NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study), el MIAS tiene como objetivo reforzar e…[Read more]
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Nicolás Fernández-Medina started the topic Candidate Introduction for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoEstimados/as colegas,
I hope all is well! I will be running for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. With the voting period right around the corner, I wanted to introduce myself briefly.
I am Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. My training is in Spanish literature…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached flyer among any interested parties.
Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP •• Edited Collection •• The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume *The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Call for Proposals*
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic…[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
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Seminar proposal ALCESSXXI: Artes discursivas, neoliberalismo y crisis in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoConvocatoria. Queridas/os colegas, estoy preparando un seminario para ALCESXXI en Uviéu / Oviedo del 13 al 15 de julio de 2020. Más abajo agrego información. Interesados escribirme a aribascasasayas@scu.edu. Información sobre la conferencia en http://www.alcesxxi.org/home/ Hay que ser miembro de ALCESXXI para poder participar. Favor de difundir a per…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited But Does Pikachu Love You? Reproductive Labor in Casual and Hardcore Games in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSince the first Pokémon game launched in Japan in 1996, the series has been a balancing act between casual and hardcore gaming. While the first iteration and “core” series has emphasized a modified, accessible version of traditional JRPG mechanics, other titles have frequently emphasized so-called casual play; most recently, Pokémon Go lured in a…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group
TC Popular Culture 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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Eric Calderwood started the topic Reel Iberia (financial aid available) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to remind you that my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García and I
are organizing a conference on representations of Iberian history in film
and television. The conference, titled “Reel Iberia,” will take place at
the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) on March 27-28, 2020. We
would be delighted to receive paper…[Read more] -
Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLa relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoBecause it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited Period, Theme, Event: Locating Information History in History in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoExplores ‘information history’, or the study of information and its practices, as a way to arrange investigations of past and present. An invited contribution for the volume, “Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach,” edited by Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong, and Ronald Sluijter (London:…[Read more]
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Jenna Kober deposited ‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit Featuring The Awakening in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Individual and the Cultural Environment Conceptual Unit Overarching Enduring Understanding: The relationship between the individual and society Overarching Essential Question: How does society influence the individual?
Unit Objectives: -My students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the motifs and symbols in the unit’s core te…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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