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Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.
Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum. We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.
We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman deposited ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’: The Great Gatsby in the 1980s in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis essay illustrates the application of reception study, the subfield of literary history that emphasises the historical experiences of readers, to pedagogical contexts by investigating the teaching of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) in American high schools during the 1980s. Focusing on the episode in which Jay Gatsby leads Nick a…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman deposited Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoLiterary historical overview of the genre of the captivity narrative in colonial North America.
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Jobs in Digital Publishing and Digital Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoKnow a talented digital humanist with Python and Docker skills, or someone with experience in digital publishing and an interest in building collaborative partnerships? The growing Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is hiring for two new positions—please share!
Digital Scholarship Programmer (…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoTo encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Derrick R. Spires started the topic CFP: New Citizenship Studies (special issue of American Literature) in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoGreetings colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),
Please share the CFP for our co-edited special issue of American Literature: New Citizenship Studies. Essay submissions are due June 9, 2022. See information below and attached. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.
Thanks,
Carrie Hyde (UCLA) and Derrick R. Spires (Cornell…[Read more] -
Kristin Moriah started the topic Tenure-Track Faculty Assistant Professor, McGill University in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position in African-Canadian and/or African-American Literatures. We welcome candidates who specialize in Black diasporic, transnational, and global Black literatures, cultures, and media. We likewise welcome applications from candidates across the full…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Mapping the Latent Spaces of Culture in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAs neural language models begin to change aspects of everyday life, they understandably attract criticism. This position paper was commissioned for a roundtable at Princeton University, dedicated to one of the most influential critiques: “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru,…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited «دوک همت» در دستان عنکبوت دورگه: پذیرش خلاق پروین اعتصامی از شعر والت ویتمن in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoپروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵ـ ۱۳۲۰)، شاعر نامدار معاصر، در شعرهایش از منابع متعددی بهره بردهاست؛ اما نکته جالب توجه این است که او در تمام این برداشتهای ادبی، اشعار خود را کاملاً از آثار پیشین متمایز میکند. پروین عناصری را که از آثار دیگران وام گرفته است هنرمندانه با عناصر شعر خود و سنت ادبی فارسی درمیآمیزد و آن را از آن خود میکند؛ به گ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Hemingway in Spain in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA disingenuous look on Hemingway Cutthroat and on Hemingway in Spain: Retropost, 2011: Hemingway, días de vino y muerte https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/08/hemingway-dias-de-vino-y-muerte.html
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Critical Making for Humanist Scholarship in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoFall 2021, fully online, asynchronous course: Critical making is a practice of making as scholarship, grounded in the humanities, that interweaves design, function, and theory towards born-digital scholarly practice. Engaging in scholarly communication through digital platforms demands attention to code, software, and hardware. This course…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more] - Load More
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