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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Panels organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello Everyone,
We thought you’d be interested in attending one or all of the sessions that we have organized for the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum. This is our first official presence at the MLA, so we would welcome your support! Below are the panels we have organized. Hope to see you there!
Politics of Solidarities and…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic Last Minute CFP – Vienna in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear all,
A last minute call for papers that may be of interest to Arabic literature scholars: The International Comparative Literature Association meeting to be held in Vienna in July seeks abstracts for the panel “Cultural Anxiety as Creative Potency of Cosmopolitan Perspective in Comparative Literature.” Abstracts should be send directly to…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP NEMLA 2016 Digital Humanities in the Modern Language Curriculum in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThis session seeks to expand scholarly dialogues about digital humanities beyond so-called content courses to include all levels of the language curriculum. In particular, it will explore the following questions: How can the pedagogical affordances provided by digital humanities be used in language courses? Can digital humanities applications…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThe City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail Bakhtin insists on the “sharp and categorical boundary l…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoVisual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Comparative Literature…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry started the topic Penn State: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature & Arabic literatures a in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Department of Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position (tenure-track) with a specialization in comparative approaches to Arabic literatures and cultures. Applicants’ research and teaching should move across regional boundaries to engage the Eastern Mediterranean, Af…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]
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General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSilvia Marijuan’s talk was titled ‘Spanish vernacular use in college L2 language classrooms amongst Spanish heritage speakers in Washington, DC’
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Modern Arabic Literature and Culture in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHello everyone,
The Forum on Modern Arabic Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for its three sponsored panel at the next MLA convention in Austin, Texas, 7–10 January 2016:
1. Who Reads Arabic Literature?
The publics of Arabic literature, its translation into other languages, worldwide circulation, reception, teaching, and a…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoDear Colleagues,
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 the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/
We still need your support because GAAM…[Read more]
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Salah D. Hassan started the topic MLA Members for Justice in Palestine in the discussion
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Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …
After more than 3 hours of committee reports and discussion of organizational changes within the MLA, the Delegate Assem…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham uploaded the file: Brunner & Diemer – The Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE) – MLA 2015 – Applied Linguistics to
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years agoBrunner & Diemer – Handout – MLA 2015 – Applied Linguistics
Session 562. Language Use in Multilingual Contexts, MLA 2015
Division of Applied Linguistics
This PDF contains information about The Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE) mentioned in Brunner & Diemer’s presentation
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Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years agoSession 562. Language Use in Multilingual Contexts, MLA 2015
Division of Applied Linguistics
Handout: “It’s All in the Corpus: Corpus-Based Approaches to English Cultural and Intercultural Studies in the EFL Classroom”
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