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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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James S. Finley started the topic 2020 Thoreau Society Fellowships in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years ago2020 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fifth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family. The fellowship honors the life and legacy of Marjorie Brook Harding, who worked diligently to bring together the Thoreau Society, the Walden Woods Project, and SUNY…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez deposited Database of titles of presentations in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists 1998-2018 in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDatabase in Excel format with all the titles and authors of the papers presented during the last 21 years in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists – Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Quick start guide for indexing in the new MLAIB Production Platform in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoOur quick-start guide for indexing in the new MLAIB Production Platform is attached to this post. Ultimately, this guide will be an appendix to the full Indexing Manual which is currently being edited and should be available to you in the next month or so. At that point, there will be page references added to this guide, so you can refer to the…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Table of contents, in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoTable of contents.
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic MLA Field Bibliographer Newsletter. November, 2019. Volume 16, Issue 4 in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA Message from Mary Onorato
A Message from Greg Grazevich
MLA Convention
Indexing Tips
Training Webinars for Indexing in the New MLAIB Production Platform
Field Bibliographer Retirements
Field Bibliographer News
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Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group
MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools Group on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThree faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]
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David Laurence deposited Tenure in 2017: A Per Institution View in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs advocacy to increase tenure-track academic career opportunities for PhD recipients and reverse institutions’ abuse of an immiserated class of adjunct instructors has long deplored, the portion of the faculty with tenure or on the tenure track has declined to under a third of the academic workforce, while the segment with part-time appointments…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic New online scheduling system for individual training sessions in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoExciting news! We now have an online booking system for scheduling your MLAIB individual training session(s). You will receive a confirmation email from the system once your training session is confirmed with your selected trainer and your Zoom session is set up. Please be aware that if you schedule a session after 5pm on a Friday for the f…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Field Bibliographer Training, Session #4: Indexing. Video and topic outline. in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe link to access the recording of Field Bibliographer Training, Session #4: Indexing is: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/8814115519361631755. This link will bring you to a registration page where you will need to enter your name and email address in order to view the session. You may view the recording as many times as you…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more] -
Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more] -
Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Field Bibliographer Training, Session #3: Thesaurus. Video and topic outline. in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe link to access the recording of Field Bibliographer Training, Session #3: Thesaurus is: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/1840921516386302989. This link will bring you to a registration page where you will need to enter your name and email address in order to view the session. You may view the recording as many times as you…[Read more]
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