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Tiffany Potter started the topic CFP: Teaching the 18th Century. CSECS. Kingston ON October 2016 in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCanadian Society for 18th Century Studies Conference (October 26-30 2016) Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
CSECS is developing a tradition of offering panels on pedagogy as it relates to teaching courses with an eighteenth-century focus. Papers on any pedagogical approach are welcome. One panel will relate to the conference…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Letitia Ileana Guran started the topic CFP MLA 2017–reading Eastern Europe Digitally in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2017
Reading Eastern Europe Digitally: Promises for the New Millennium
What does the Digital Age hold in store for Eastern European cultures? In an era dominated by the opening of secret archives, by an intense re-writing of the socialist past, the opportunities offered by a wide dissemination of texts and works of art too long hidden…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoTeaching of Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the impli…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
TC Digital Humanities 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, 11 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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Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions: In geveb, A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion
Yiddish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoIn geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb began…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[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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Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/careLiterature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]
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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
TM The Teaching of Literature 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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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP ASA 2016: Home Screens in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP for American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-20, Denver, CO
Home Screens: Digitizing Belonging and Place in American Studies
This panel seeks contributors who have been involved with a digital project that preserves, recreates, or generates notions of “home” in the American context. In keeping with the conference theme, Home/Not H…[Read more]
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Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years agoRead 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]
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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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