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Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award honorable mention for 2017 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives, edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside) and Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University), as an honorable mention for the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was pub…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award winner for 2017 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Service Learning and Literary Studies in English, edited by Laurie Grobman (Penn State University, Berks) and Roberta Rosenberg (Christopher Newport University) as the winner of the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was published by the Modern La…[Read more]
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited History of Scholarship Project (MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoObjective: Using the MLA International Bibliography, students will develop a presentation that demonstrates their understanding of how scholarship on a single work of literature changes over time.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Deadline Extended until September 30 – Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello everyone,
The deadline for submissions to the Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas has been extended until September 30th. Please consider submitting your work and spread the word. Below is the text of the CFP:
Call for Papers for a special issue of Amerasia – Deadline Extended till September 30, 2017
Guest Editors: Dr. Sarah Gualtieri (…[Read more]
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
Forgive the intrusion, but I thought some members of this group might be interested in the following (and the HuMetrics team would certainly be interested in hearing the perspectives of those interested in writing pedagogies):
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and p…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Introduction to Fiction syllabus (online course) in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSyllabus for an online, 12 week, general education literature course for non-majors.
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Xiaofan Amy Li started the topic CFP – interdisciplinary conference 'Play, Recreation, Experimentation' in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Call For Papers: ‘Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times’, 8-9 Dec 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury. (details of dates and venue tbc)
Invited speakers: Professor Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter), Dr Thomas Karshan (UEA)
This inte…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoColoniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoColoniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for Climate Change (cli-fi) Literature Syllabus (Tachtiris, Antioch) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis course, under the broad heading of literature and science, takes on the subject of climate change fiction (cli-fi). It was first taught at Antioch College in winter of 2017. The course included field trips to the OSU climate research center, a local nature preserve, and the College’s farm.
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces
49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
“Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds”
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaNeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries…[Read more]
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