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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA Heine in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim c…[Read more]
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic [MLA 2017 CFP] Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Pedagogy in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago“Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Humanistic Pedagogy”
This session seeks papers that offer effective strategies for confronting mental health issues amongst educators. Potential topics may include (but not necessarily exclude): the rise in depression amongst graduate students and faculty; the prevalence of mental health iss…[Read more]
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Mary-Beth Brophy started the topic Call for Roundtable Participants: MLA 2017 Convention in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession is planning a roundtable for the 2017 MLA convention in Philadelphia tentatively entitled: “Could this get me fired? Employment rights and risks for just-in-time faculty.”
We’re particularly interested in ensuring that our least job-secure colleagues are represented on the roundtable, so I’d l…[Read more]
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more p…[Read more]
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA 2017 Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more productively thought together as tangled and i…[Read more]
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Charlotte Ann Melin deposited Beyond Enrollment Data: Why Students and Program Evaluation Matter in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoSession #339: paper for AAUSC panel QUO VADIMUS?
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Tiffany Kraft deposited Je Suis Contingency: MLA 16 s. 526 in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years agoA reflection on MLA 16 from the adjunct perspective.
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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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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Laraine R. Fergenson deposited Final Report of the MLA Committee on Diversity and Tolerance in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance was formed in response to a motion passed by the Delegate Assembly in 1999 calling for the reconstitution of what had been the Task Force against Campus Bigotry. The new committee was to be charged with “working to establish a climate in which all students, faculty, and other college employees, no m…[Read more]
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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies 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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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues 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 Community Colleges 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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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Kafka and ideology of race in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoHi, all,
As someone partly of both German and Czech background, I feel very torn in some ways similarly to the old boy Kafka himself. Rather than ignoring the issue of Czechs and Germans as so many writers are doing, or–worse–siding with one or other, why not take a more interesting question: given that Czech-speakers and German-speakers (and…[Read more]
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Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Connecting Curriculum to Context: Our Story of Two Liberal Arts College Spanish Programs Engaged in a Changing South in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe purpose of this article is to refl ect upon the process by which two professors in Spanish programs at small liberal arts colleges in the southeastern United States developed courses with civic engagement components that enabled our students to engage with the local Hispanic community in meaningful ways. From the outset, we focused on what we…[Read more]
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