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Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAccording to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]
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Paula Park started the topic Call for announcements for the Global Hispanophone Forum Newsletter in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoStarting this fall, the Global Hispanophone Forum will publish a newsletter to highlight the work of Hispanists who specialize on areas beyond Spain and Latin America. To share recent publications (past academic year) or other relevant information related to Global Hispanophone Studies with members of the “Global Hispanophone” MLA Commons group,…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoChapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA).
Memory studies is an increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field of knowledge that spans multiple disciplines. Sociologists, psychologists,…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
TC Digital Humanities 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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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
Digital Pedagogy 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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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
Digital Humanities 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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Carol Chiodo deposited The Role of the ESU in Creating a Values-Driven DH Community in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited The Role of the ESU in Creating a Values-Driven DH Community in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 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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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North & South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anticolonial Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North & South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anticolonial Digital Humanities in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Cathy Davidson deposited “How To Upload A File”: Instructions from 1994 in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.
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Catherine Fountain replied to the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMy main area of research is linguistic historiography, the history of linguistics. Within that field, I’m particularly interested in how indigenous languages of the Americas have been described and documented, and by whom, and how description and documentation of these language shaped linguistics in the US and elsewhere.
That said, my current…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain started the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSome forum members may have received a survey last week, as I did, inquiring about how we use the Humanities Commons and what we would like it to be. I realized that 1) I don’t use the Humanities and MLA Commons all that much and 2) I would very much like for them to be spaces that spark connections and collaborations.
To that end, I thought I’d…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2024, Language and the City: An Ecolinguistic View of Philadelphia Spanish. in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMLA 2024, Philadelphia
Special Session: Language and the City: An Ecolinguistic View of Philadelphia Spanish
We take our language for granted: its existence, its social, its cultural and its aesthetic values. Yet, no language is immortal as change is inexorable. In biodiversity, we fight to protect endangered species, mourn the extinction of…[Read more]
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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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Ervin Malakaj started the topic CfP: Sessions Organized by the Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCfP: Sessions Organized by the MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching2024 Modern Language Association Annual ConventionJanuary 4-7, Philadelphia
The MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2024 MLA…[Read more] - Load More