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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoTeaching of Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the impli…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Suzanne Malley started the topic MLA 2017 Literacy Studies Forum CFP in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe frame of literacy studies, a subject of complex research across many disciplines, has long offered Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) both a focus of research and a methodological foundation. As such, RCWS scholars have contributed, and continue to contribute, significantly to broadening the field of inquiry related to…[Read more]
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.
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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: MLA 2017 Session on "The 'Uses' of Literature" in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Executive Forum Session on The Teaching of Literature:
“The ‘Uses’ of Literature”
The focus of this session will be to explore the “uses” of literature and literary study from a wide variety of points of view. In her book The Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), Rita Felski argues that “reflecting on why literature matters . . . allows us…[Read more]
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Rebecca Day Babcock deposited Live from MLA-Writing about Writing in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years agoBlog on writing about writing sessions from MLA 2016
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Rebecca Day Babcock deposited Live from MLA-Writing about Writing in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 10 years agoBlog on writing about writing sessions from MLA 2016
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Helene Meyers deposited "Why Do Research?" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoPMLA Forum piece that argues for the direct and indirect value of the scholarly enterprise to the sacred art of teaching.
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Helene Meyers deposited "Why Do Research?" in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years agoPMLA Forum piece that argues for the direct and indirect value of the scholarly enterprise to the sacred art of teaching.
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Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years agoI argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoI argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 10 years agoI argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth uploaded the file: The Fetish of Style to
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis was a talk given at the Literacy Studies Forum session at MLA 2016. I argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation, including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a…[Read more]
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This is great, Laura! Might you consider uploading this to CORE so others can find and read it too? mla.hcommons-staging.org/core
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Yes, I was meaning to do that! Got caught up in other work this morning!
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Suzanne Malley started the topic Ideas for Literacy Studies Forum Sessions for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Literacy Studies Forum Executive Committee members will be putting together a call for papers for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia over the course of the next couple of weeks. Please use this discussion thread to suggest any ideas you have framing the CFP (keeping in mind that we only have 35 words).
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