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Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 "Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory" in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Sheraton Grand – Superior B
Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]
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Dene M. Grigar started the topic Readings & Performances at M LA 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoNatural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTwo-Act Play
Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, I’m posting this CFP at the request of Leland Spencer, the editor of *Women & Language*. It can also be found online at: http://osclg.org/women-language/call-for-papers-women-language
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Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCamp, January 2nd in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Lire, une histoire simple in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis book constitutes the result of a pedagogical experimentation, that I conducted for the Master in Linguistic and Literary Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, during the academic year 2017-2018. The critical essays that are here collected have been written by some students of my class, and show clearly enough that…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Pour une pédagogie créative de la littérature. Enseigner la littérature au musée, « La Nuova Secondaria », 3 Novembre 2018, pp. 87-89. in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis article describes a pedagogical project that took place between 2015 and 2016, and involved my students of the French Literature class, third year of Bachelor of Arts (foreign languages). The intersection and interrelation between figurative art and poetry were at the centre of the theoretical insight, whereas the necessity of adapting our…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Professional Development Opportunity from CELJ in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year. This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa replied to the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA chance to revisit Chicago when the weather is much improved!
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Dust and the Digital Archive in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis paper links the medieval and early modern production of parchment and paper with modern electronics manufacturing, in order to examine some of the occluded ecological and political dimensions of archival study.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man’s “Gary, Indiana” song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSince I’m on the ballot as a candidate for the Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself.
I am an Assistant Professor of Print and Material Culture Studies in the Department of English at the University of Delaware, where I teach African American print culture and public humanities. My…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Radiant Virtuality in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis chapter situates the Victoria’s Lost Pavilion project (https://pavilion.chass.ncsu.edu/) amid related work in virtual modeling and their interpretive problematics. Drawing from a tradition in textual criticism, the chapter renovates Jerome McGann’s notion of “radiant textuality” to extended virtual objects and built environments in digital…[Read more]
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C. Beth Burch started the topic Syllabi Content for American Literature Survey Courses in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am a Professor of Judaic Studies at SUNY Binghamton. For a research project I am doing on the canon that is taught—or the teaching canon, as I’m calling it—I would like to know what works you are teaching or listing on your syllabi for American literature survey courses for any period. I would appreciate receiving de-i…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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