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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years agoHi Katrina
The CC Executive Committee is going in a different direction with our one session this year, focusing on external pressures that affect academic freedom and student learning and how we can respond.
However, Ian Sherman-Youngblood of the ADE Executive Committee is going to be in contact with you to discuss a possible collaborative…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years agoHi everyone, and happy new year! For those of you who were in Philly last week, I hope you had a great convention.
Our Humanities Alliance team at the Graduate Center is beginning to plan for next year’s conference opportunities, and I wanted to check back and see how the CC Forum Executive Committee meeting went. If there was interest in a…[Read more]
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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Rachel Arteaga replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues:
I truly could not be more excited about this discussion. As Ian mentioned, at the University of Washington (and with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation), we are placing doctoral students into mentoring collaborations with two-year college faculty in Seattle. It would be difficult to overstate how transformative this…[Read more]
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Ian Sherman-Youngblood replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi, Jessica, Stacey, and Katrina,
Indeed, I’m thinking of something precisely on this topic! I’ve been working quite a bit with the Simpson Center for Humanities at the University of Washington, and they offer a fellowship program in which current grad students mentor with faculty at Seattle-area community colleges.
I’ve heard of similar /…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser and Gender at ALA in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Women’s and Gender Studies Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Popular Culture Discussion Group — You may be interested in applying:
Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election–Please Send Suggestions in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTC Popular Culture’s next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoA quick reminder:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoJust a reminder…the deadline approaches!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechd…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Emma Lieber started the topic CFP: The Subject of Criticism (edited collection 1/1/17) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Subject of Criticism
We are told that the humanities are suffering a downturn. Even as critical thinking, analysis, and compassionate assessment—the backbones of the humanities education—are in high demand now more than ever, the world of the academy outside of science and technology continues to experience cuts, downsizing, and general dev…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWonderful! I’m so glad these ideas are of interest. Do keep me posted if the executive committees decide to move in this direction; the Humanities Alliance team would love to be actively involved.
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Katrina and Jessica
I, too, love this idea! The Two Year College Forum Executive Committee will discuss this in January as we plan for the New York convention for sure, and I’ll be in touch.
I also know that Ian Sherman, faculty member at Olympic College in Washington and member of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Executive…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Stacey and Katina,
I love the idea of “connecting graduate education and community college teaching.” I just finished a six-year stint as director of graduate studies in English at Idaho State University, where the Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English explicitly aims to train students for and place students in tenure-track (or…[Read more]
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