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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Travis M. Foster started the topic CFP: Stonewall at 50 (guaranteed session). MLA 2020, Seattle. in the discussion
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoStonewall at 50: A Roundtable (guaranteed session)
Sponsored by the Sexuality Studies Forum
Approaches might include coalitions; activism; queer and trans of color critique; pride; shame; state violence; police brutality; mythologies; New York City; urbanism; gentrification; history; genealogies; nightlife; periodization; gay liberation; v…[Read more]
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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Serve on the Exec Com of LLC Pre-1990 African Literature Forum in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe Executive Committee of the Pre-1990 African Literature Forum is always looking for people willing and able to serve on the committee, as it is a four-year commitment with one person rotating off each year. The main responsibility of committee members is hosting two to four panels on pre-1990 African literature, so the labor is not onerous. It…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Mentor Members in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the LLC Pre-1990 African Literature forum, please reply to this post here or email Wendy Belcher at…[Read more] -
Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Matthew Omelsky deposited The Creaturely Modernism of Amos Tutuola in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article examines the global African modernism of Amos Tutuola through the lens of his nonhuman folkloric creatures. Though the work of the early Nigerian novelist is often characterized as modernism’s inversion, or “traditional,” Tutuola in fact articulates a succession of surreal monsters in The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the B…[Read more]
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bonnie lenore kyburz started the topic CFP: Women & Language (via Leland G. Spencer, Editor) in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Edlie L. Wong started the topic Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPlease note the following four sessions organized by the Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature at MLA 2019. We hope to see some of you there.
084: American Lives: Whitman and Melville (co-organized with the Forum on Life Writing)
Date: Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Time: 3:30 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency – Roo…[Read more]
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Nicole Dib started the topic American Literature Association 2019 – Postwar Area Literature Group CFP in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMemoir and Recovery Narratives, 1945-1980
American Literature Association 2019 – Boston, May 23-26 / Postwar Area Literature Group
Memoirs and autobiographies; lost and found objects, persons, and selfhoods in literatures of the postwar period. Abstracts by January 15 to foertsch@unt.edu
Samples and Fragments, 1945-1980
American Li…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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