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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoZunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoRevised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe International Committee’s Focus panel for the 2024 Children’s Literature Association Conference is “Memories”. Please see attachment for details.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Tekla Babyak started the topic My virtual talk on bringing in disabled guest speakers in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
My name is Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014)—I’m an independent scholar and disability activist with multiple sclerosis. As an MLA Delegate Assembly Member representing Disability in the Profession, I’m committed to fighting against ableism in academia.
To that end, I’m writing to let you know about my upcoming v…[Read more]
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Katherine Elkins started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Good and Evil in Fairytales (and folktales) in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoHello,
I’m guest editing a special issue of humanities and we have room for a few more essays. The due date for final drafts will be a year from this August in 2024. The CFP is attached.
If you’re interested, please send me a 250-word abstract by August 2023 to elkinsk@kenyon.edu. I’m also happy to answer any questions/inquiries.
We have a g…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoVery excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoVery excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle
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andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPutting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia
Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture
Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).
New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval I…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Teaching Beyond University in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]
Teaching Beyond University
In its effort to recognize other spaces for postgraduate careers beyond 4-year institutions, the Teaching as a Profession Forum is inviting submissions for a virtual roundtable focused on teaching beyond a traditional university department. We are…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Ungrading as Liberatory Practice in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]
Ungrading as Liberatory Practice
As a pedagogical practice, ungrading decenters grade-based assessment and focuses instead on student learning. It is based on the philosophical premise that grades are not an accurate assessment of learning, and institutionalized grading…[Read more]
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James R. Britton started the topic Three CFPs–MLA 2024 in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.
- The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to a…
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores trans…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHere are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.
Adapting Middle English Literature
Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma
This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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