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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
1. Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic Q&A about Academic Boycott in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoIn the wake of the Delegate Assembly’s discussion of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions at MLA 2015, a DA member sent the following important queries regarding the scope and practice of the boycott. Some MLA Members for Justice in Palestine reply to her questions here. It’s a long document, but provides a concrete sense what is implied (…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Calls for Papers for the 2016 MLA: Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months ago“Citizenship and Social Death”
Explorations in literature and film of “social death” (Orlando Paterson, Jared Sexton) in relation to issues of citizenship and quality of life for all ethnic groups. 300 word abstract, one page CVs by March 8.
Stephen Knadler (knadlers@spelman.edu) and Amritjit Singh (singha@ohio.edu)
“Archival Legibility an…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session: MLA 2016
The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market
This roundtable will consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students, contingent faculty, and even full-time faculty into an already overcrowded market. This panel seeks to initiate discussions about the psychodynamics of job candidacy in dis…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP: MLA Special Session Proposal / Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.
“Circulating Notions of TB”
Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.
How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even active…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoThanks Amy!
Patti Marxsen
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Amy Rubens replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoPatti,
Your angle is not off-point at all. What I’m interested in–and this intentionally connects with the conference theme–is the way that these imagined/reconstructed notions of patients’ experiences might shape public behavior (via public health initiatives) or public thought. Exploring how textual representations of TB might shape mu…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoMy forthcoming biography of Helene Schweitzer (1879-1957), wife of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, addresses Helene’s struggle with TB throughout most of her life. It certainly shaped her image of “frailty”, thereby strengthening her husband’s persona of a larger-than-life, invincible male “hero.” Not sure if this is what you are looking for, Amy, as my “a…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Special session proposal for the MLA 2016.
“Circulating Notions of TB”Papers examining the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis. How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with or actively shape prevailing public health initiatives?
Send 300-word abstracts to Amy Rubens, PhD at arubens@fmarion.edu by March 15.
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception & Subjectivity in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSociety for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PAPanel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”
This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women are represented in…[Read more]
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Therí Alyce Pickens started the topic CFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection
<div class=”paragraph”>This edited volume takes as its main question, how might we define Arab American Aesthetics? The impetus that undergirds this query is two-fold. First, the field of Arab American Studies contests the idea that Arab Americans and their various art(s) define themselves and their…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in Arab American Lit. and Culture, and Global Arab Lit., to sign up for the new website on the MLA Commons: http://m…[Read more]
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Charlotte Pressler started the topic "Florida Standards" (i.e. Common Core) and curricu7lum alignment in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoWhen Diane Ravitch spoke to the MLA two years ago, she predicted that the push for Common Core standards would soon be extended to state colleges and universities. That moment has come.
The Florida State Board of Education now is offering grants to support collaboration between state colleges and K-12 systems. I have a copy of my college’s gr…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic MLA Members for Justice in Palestine in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …
As well, we have a Facebook page by the same name, that now has 655 members and we’d like it to reach 1000:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/
Please consider joining these sites to bu…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic Pls. join MLA Members for Justice in Palestine in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …
As well, it would be great if you want to join the Facebook page by the same name:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/
These are spaces to build support for a resolution on Acade…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic Please consider joining MLA Members for Justice in Palestine in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …
As well, it would be great if you’d like to join the Facebook page set up for this group, that has the same name:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/
After more than 3 hours of commit…[Read more]
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Pamela Herron replied to the topic Ageism in the Writing Classroom in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoHi Margaret,
Although I teach primarily for English now, I taught Humanities for several years. In my course Challenges to Modern Culture my students were tasked with each identifying and researching a particular group of people who are disenfranchised in some way. For their final project each student would present their findings to their…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette started the topic Ageism in the Writing Classroom in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoI am looking for people who have been teaching anti-ageism, or the subject of age, in the writing classroom. Especially interested in writing assignments that counter ageism, that use ageism along with other diversity issues (racism, sexism, ableism, classism).
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Judith Anne McCarthy replied to the topic Teaching Writing / Rhetoric / Composition to Online / Distance Students in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoTo email me directly, jmccarthy@devry.edu (Judy McCarthy). Thanks!
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