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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 3: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe Stage 3 revision sets up the Theory Palette with hues and tones of green (author, history, and nature), yellow (culture), purple (psyche), grey (text), red (reader), dark blue (literature), light blue (language), rose (embodiment/perception), and hot pink (intersectional feminisms).
Airbrush and pencil tools suggest color blending without…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Deck Lee and the Location of The Professor in Post Soul Literary Plots in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe professor character is no stranger to readers of contemporary African American literature. Indeed, the variety and ubiquity of a professorial character across a range of post soul fictional novels is not simply a curiosity to comment on, but phenomena available for critical interrogation. This analysis explores the location of Deck Lee’s c…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Adventures in Zoochosis in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPostcolonial theory has a people problem. By this, I am unabashedly suggesting that postcolonial theoreticians’ overemphasis on people as the site of analysis lies at the heart of the limitations of the field’s key terms, epistemological boundaries, and approach to understanding phenomena as a whole. Indeed, if postcolonial theory and its rel…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 1: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA clean copy of the Theory Palette http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6581T, this (almost) blank canvas is open to artistic and textual interventions, variations, and compositions with the intersecting concerns of author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception as blendable paint colors.
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Crisis, Science, and Mexican Texts
Sunday, January 7
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, HiltonProgram arranged by the forums LLC Mexican and TC Science and Literature
1. “From Translation to Discovery: The Emergence of Early Modern Sciences and New Spain’s Cultural Borders,” Jaime Marroquin, Western Oregon Univers…[Read more]
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Harriett Green started the topic MLA 2018 panel announcement: Partnerships beyond the Stacks in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe Libraries and Research Forum is sponsoring the following program at MLA 2018:
#352: Partnerships beyond the Stacks: Collaborations between Scholars and Librarians in Research and Teaching
Friday, January 05, 2018
1:45 PM – 03:00 PM
Hilton – Clinton
Description:
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction
Friday, January 5
1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, SheratonPresiding: Anne Stiles, St. Louis University
1. “Medical Eclecticism in the Fiction of Silas Weir Mitchell,” Kristine L. Swenson, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2. “Fractional Phantoms: Gothic Bodies in S. Weir Mitchell’…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, HiltonPresiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA
1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEvoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Metadaten und OER : Geschichte einer Beziehung in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMetadaten stellen für offene Bildungsmaterialien einen essenziellen Bestandteil dar, erfahren bei der Produktion von OER aber leider immer noch nicht genügend Beachtung. Der vorliegende Beitrag hat sich daher zum Ziel gesetzt, eine historisch-diachrone Perspektive auf die Entwicklung von Metadaten im Allgemeinen und insbesondere auf den O…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Song of Myself: Autobiography in Pop Music in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn essay on autobiography in pop songs by women: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/singing-about-yourself-autobiography-in-pop-music.html
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoInformation on the Business Meeting of the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum at 2018 MLA Conference
The meeting will be held Friday, January 5, from 1:45 to 3 pm in Madison 4 at the Sheraton New York Times Square.
The open meeting will begin shortly after Session 298 is completed. The assigned room for the business meeting is snug, but…[Read more]
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Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChildren’s and Young Adult Literature Sessions at the 2018 MLA Conference
18: Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature
Thursday, January 04, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Hilton: Clinton
PresiderPhilip Nel, Kansas State U
PresentationsAgents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Publishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Denma…[Read more]
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal – Latinx Literature & Politics Issue – Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
Chiricú Journal is a new, cutting-edge, peer-reviewed journal in Latinx studies launched by the Indiana University Press in Fall 201…[Read more] -
Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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