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Miles McCrimmon uploaded the file: Susan Jacobowitz to
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 6 years agoFrom Faculty-Driven Initiative to Institutional Acceptance and Support: The Queensborough CC Food Pantry
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Miles McCrimmon uploaded the file: Natalie Serianni, Crossroads of Support to
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 6 years agoPaper for 2020 MLA Panel
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Miles McCrimmon uploaded the file: Joanie Crandall, Humanities and the Real Co-Curriculum in Canada to
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 6 years agoPaper for 2020 MLA Panel
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Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years agoMelody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45). She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations. Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Theory and Practice of Interactive Storytelling Syllabus in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years agoPart of the Digital Media MA / Texts & Technology PhD Digital Media track at the University of Central Florida. In this graduate course, we’ll engage with the making and critique of interactive works ranging from “Choose Your Own Adventure” comics to electronic literature and interactive fiction. Drawing on readings including Janet Murray’s Hamlet…[Read more]
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Douglas Lanier started the topic Follow-up to the Adaptation Studies forum proposal in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi, all. As you know from my last e-mail, the proposal to found an MLA Adaptation Studies forum has been approved, and we’re now up and running. I have a small favor to ask of you in support of this fledgling forum.
There is now an official site for Adaptation Studies on the MLA Commons. (This e-mail comes to you from the old site I created for…[Read more]
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Miles McCrimmon uploaded the file: Abstracts for the 2020 MLA HEP Community Colleges Forum Sponsored Session to
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoSession 326. Human or Student? Faculty Members Respond to the Real Co-Curriculum
Friday 10 January from 1:45-3:00 p.m. in Room 615 WSCC
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A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Composition and Rhetoric in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Rhetoric (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric, specialize in the teaching of Composition, and demonstrate a proven…[Read more]
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Douglas Lanier started the topic Success! in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear all,I’m very pleased to announce that the MLA Executive Committee has approved the petition to make Adaptation Studies an official MLA Discussion Forum. Many thanks to all who have contributed to making this application a success. Please invite your colleagues in adaptation studies to join the forum. I’m looking forward to interesting…[Read more]
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Megan Brown started the topic Call for Papers: “Un/Bound” Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: “Un/Bound”
Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
36.3 Autumn 2021
http://www.tandfonline.com/rautSubmissions Deadline: February 1, 2020
Memoirs and other auto/biographical genres that describe selfhoods at, on, or over borders have long been a subject of scholarly interest but have recently acquired greater urgency. Border cro…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: “What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?” in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Focus on “Henry V”: Navigating Digital Text, Performance, and Historical Resources in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Focus on ‘Henry V'” is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on the innovative digital publishing platform Scalar. Chapters include guides to early printed editions, sources, and performance and cinematic histories of the play, as well as…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the role of love, as defined by bell hooks, in pedagogy as well as how it plays into anxiety in our current moment.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Unfurling Unflattening (edited collection) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoCall for Chapters—Edited Volume
Unfurling Unflattening: Tracing Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical Possibilities
Janine Utell, Widener University, Amanda O. Latz, Ball State University, Andrea Kantrowitz, SUNY at New Paltz, Editors
The publication of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening (2015) created an unprecedented stir among schol…[Read more]
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Miles McCrimmon started the topic Seeking Nominations for Forum Representation in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoGreetings! I am writing with two opportunities for you to serve your HEP Forum for Community Colleges of the coming years:
If you are interested in being nominated to serve on the MLA Delegate Assembly during the 2021-2023 MLA Conventions or to serve a five-year term on the Forum Executive Committee (starting with the 2021 convention through 20…[Read more]
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Kay Sohini deposited On the Crisis of Creation: A Short Comic in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoOn the Crisis of Creation is a short comic about the comic artists’ equivalent of a writer’s block.
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Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Deadline extended to July 31, 2019 — Call for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]
Overview:
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFor at least the last twenty years, scholarly attention has been drawn to the numerous depictions of cancer in comic books as well as oncology’s use of the comics medium (Rhode and Connor, 2012). However, little in the way of comprehensive analysis has been attempted, especially in terms of the various genres addressed. In this presentation, a ca…[Read more]
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