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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Noreen O'Connor started the topic CFP: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield (due March 15) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence Conference: 19 & 20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Conference web site: EvAandKM2017.org
Keynote Speakers: Professor Emerita Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State University) and Professor Christine Froula…[Read more]
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Lucinda Newns started the topic Deadline Tomorrow: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention on Globalisation in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Studies Association Convention
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London
18–20 September 2017Special Topic: Globalisation
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Aamir Mufti (University of California, LA), Prof. Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford), Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)
A reminder that the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Murphy in the group
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Samuel Beckett’s Murphy. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Murphy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Samuel Beckett’s Murphy. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES The Handmaid’s Tale in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Civilization and its Discontents in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Samara Hayley Steele replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoBut this I suppose isn’t a case of English pilfering the coffers of other languages, but rather its own, it seems.
…language and culture. The things they do to each other!
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Samara Hayley Steele replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago@katinalynn – Hi Katrina – yes, the reason I brought this up, actually is I’m new to the MLA, and while scrolling through the Commons earlier this week, I had a double-take moment & actually took a screen shot of the group name in preparation for a social media post along the lines of “My god! They’ve infiltrated the MLA!” That fear of co…[Read more]
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Josef Horacek replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMerging this group with Connected Academics would make sense.
As for the alt-ac term, I found it rather confusing even before the resent resurgence of the alt-right. Para-academic seems more accurate and sounds kind of badass.
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHi Samara, this has been on my mind, too. I edit #Alt-Academy and have felt some concern about how the term may be read in the current political climate. While Brian is right about the history, I think the term has outlived much of its original usefulness and tends to provoke a somewhat negative reaction in people now. In my own work, I favor…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Nicky Agate replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWe’ve tried to avoid using “alt-academic” and “alt-ac” in Connected Academics discussions, focusing instead on humanities careers. If this group is interested in moving discussion over to the Connected Academics group, or alternatively over to the broader Humanities Commons platform (in order to engage with non-members and humanities practitioners…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThat’s an interesting idea, Samara, and one that frankly hadn’t occurred to me. I think it’s important to recognize that the term “alt-ac” came about serendipitously and stuck in part because it filled a need that hadn’t been visible until the term was coined by Jason Rhody. Bethany Nowviskie wrote a short piece a few years ago that traced the…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele started the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoIt would seem connecting the term “Alt-” these days to anything now denotes a type of political affiliation–alt-right, alt-facts, etc–and I assume those political affiliations do not describe this group.
As a para-academic myself (an academic who works alongside & in conjunction with an academic institution, but not within it in a tra…[Read more]
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John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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