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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThank you Leigh! Who has a nomination or self-nomination for someone to run for a term of service on the delegate assembly for TC Disability Studies? The Executive Committee, as Leigh notes, will be considering nominees at our meeting at the January MLA.
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research.
We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000…[Read more]
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Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPassages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South and the Caribbean
In Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Without Inspection,” an undocumented Haitian immigrant, Arnold, dies from unsafe working conditions at a construction site in south Florida. In the news coverage about the event, the construction company and developer release a state…[Read more]
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Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Disability and Public Health in the U.S. South in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDisability and Public Health in the U.S. South
A key part of colonizing in the U.S. South depended on the rhetoric of health, such as Ponce de Leon’s mythical fountain of youth and nineteenth-century boosterism claiming Florida as the “winter sanitarium of the country” (qtd in Knight 5). The semi-tropical warmth of the South invited justif…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic Asst. Prof. – African American Theatre and Performance – University of Georgia in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film Studies and the Institute for African American Studies seek an assistant professor whose scholarly research focuses on African American theatre and performance. Additional areas of specialization might include African American film, performance methods based in Afrocentric…[Read more]
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Lauren Russell started the topic Suggestions for Forum Executive Committee (by 1/14) in the discussion
RCWS Creative Writing on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear Colleagues,
I hope everyone had a good conference, whether in person or virtually. If you would like to suggest someone for the RCWS Creative Writing Forum Executive Committee, please message me by 12 PM ET/ 9 AM PT this Friday, January 14th. There is more information about the role and responsibilities of forum executive committees here.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Lauren Russell started the topic “Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography” Roundtable Tonight, 7 PM in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello All,
Happy New Year! If you are attending the MLA conference this week, whether virtually or in person, please consider joining us tonight at 7 PM for Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography, a virtual roundtable with Chris Martin, Joel Dias-Porter, Hannah Emerson, Estee Klar, Adam Wolfond, and Julia Miele Rodas, moderated…[Read more]
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Lauren Russell started the topic RCWS Conference Sessions in the discussion
RCWS Creative Writing on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello All,
Happy New Year! If you are attending the MLA conference this week, whether virtually or in person, please check out this list of RCWS-related sessions. There are many interesting panels!
If you’re free this evening at 7 PM, please join us for Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreography, a virtual roundtable with Chris M…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoAs the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.
The following sessions will now be held virtually:
Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Presider: Rielle Navitski
A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello, all,
If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]
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