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Asa Simon Mittman deposited “Gates, Hats, and Naked Jews: Sorting out the Nubian Guards on the Ebstorf Map,” FKW: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, Nr. 54 (2013): 89-101 in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoMedieval Christian mapmakers represented a range of peoples, animals and monsters against which they defined their place what they believed to be God’s divine plan. Rooted in earlier anti-Semitic tropes, the detailed world maps of the thirteenth/early fourteenth centuries contain multiple problematic representations of Jews, perceived at once as d…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Asa Simon Mittman, “This Would Be Better If I Had a Co-Author,” How We Write, ed. Suzanne Akbari (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2015) in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn account of why I am a strong advocate for collaborative writing, and why I seek co-authors as often as I do.
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Understanding Central Europe in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBook review. Marcin Moskalewicz and Wojciech Przybylski “Understanding Central Europe,” Routledge, 2017.
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Lauren Russell started the topic CW Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
RCWS Creative Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am honored to be nominated for the Creative Writing Forum Executive Committee. As I said in an interview once, I was a poet with a GED long before I was a poet with an MFA–and like many creative writers who have found a kind of home in academia, it is sometimes an uneasy one. Five years ago, the first executive committee of…[Read more]
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Megan Brown started the topic Call for Papers: “Un/Bound” Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: “Un/Bound”
Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
36.3 Autumn 2021
http://www.tandfonline.com/rautSubmissions Deadline: February 1, 2020
Memoirs and other auto/biographical genres that describe selfhoods at, on, or over borders have long been a subject of scholarly interest but have recently acquired greater urgency. Border cro…[Read more]
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Maurizio Brancaleoni deposited Thomas Wolfe’s Passage to England: A Ghostly Account of a Real Voyage [Excerpt] in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoA series of sketches written in 1924 during an ocean crossing from New York to Tilbury, “Passage to England” was published only in 1998 by the Thomas Wolfe Society and is hardly Wolfe’s most popular or most accomplished work. Nonetheless I always felt that Passage to England had something unique and idiosyncratic and that despite a certain a…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: “What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?” in the group
RCWS Creative Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Juliane Watson deposited iDAI.field 2: A Modern Approach to Distributed Fieldwork Documentation in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoAn archaeological field research database that can be used for different projects poses an advanced technical problem. It does not only have to deal with different needs of a variety of disciplines and methods like excavation and survey but also be usable for architectural or object studies. Therefore, a generic data model is required that can…[Read more]
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Steven Aoun deposited Question Mark? Mass Murder, the Mass Media and Mental Health in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSeung-Hui Cho, the mass murderer who called himself Question Mark, left a lot of questions behind him. One of them obviously speaks for itself: what motivated him to kill thirty-three strangers at Virginia Tech? Another question almost goes without saying: why do we seek refuge behind moral explanations? Like ‘the question mark kid’ the adult…[Read more]
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Jim McGrath deposited Digital Public Humanities Syllabus (Brown University Graduate-Level Course; Spring 2016) in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoPrint-friendly remediation and backup copy of my course site for “Digital Public Humanities,” part of the Spring 2016 offerings in the Public Humanities MA program at Brown University. Course web site can be found here: http://digitalpublichumanities.jimmcgrath.us/. While not the first DH course offered at Brown or the first course in Public…[Read more]
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Jim McGrath deposited “Leadership and Media Literacy in The Age of Fake News and Big Data” Syllabus (Summer 2018; Brown University Leadership Institute course for high school students) in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoPDF of syllabus for Brown University Leadership Institute course on media literacy. Course was taught over two weeks on Brown University campus in the summer of 2018. “Leadership” language and “Action Plan” part of Institute branding and course requirements. Syllabus may be of interest to students and instructors interested in high school /…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the role of love, as defined by bell hooks, in pedagogy as well as how it plays into anxiety in our current moment.
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited The Afrofuturist Historical Novel in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe recent surge of interest in Afrofuturism has resulted in some groundbreaking work looking at the ways technology and race intersect in film, fashion, music and literature, as is evidenced by the important collection of essays “Afrofuturism 2.0” (2016), edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones. However there has not yet been an aca…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Righting, Riting, and Rewriting the Book of Odes (Shijing): On “Filling out the MIssing Odes” by Shu Xi in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA series of derivative verses from the late-third century has pride of place in one of the foundational collections of Chinese poetry. These verses, “Filling out the Missing Odes” by Shu Xi, can be found at the beginning of the lyric-poetry (shi 詩) section of the Wenxuan. This essay seeks to understand why such blatantly imitative pieces may have…[Read more]
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Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Reminder–Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]Overview:
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that p…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Disturbing the Wednesday-ish Business-as-Usual of the University Studium: A Wayzgoose Manifest in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).
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