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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI welcome your interest, Janet!
We are adding borderlands to Rust Belt Literature including bordering Windsor, Canada, and bordering Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Our Welcome has been revised to reflect this after someone at a different group pointed out the omission. So we go a bit beyond the Midwest, Janet. we already have interest from Pe…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic RUST BELT LITERATURE on the Commons in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
NOTE to those who attend: We are calling for people to host a panel at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Friends,
I’m also interested in this group. However, I would like to give the group a more positive or neutral name than “Rust Belt.”
We may also want to connect with the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which has annual conferences in June in East Lansing at Michigan State University. These conferences include films, c…[Read more]
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Sandra Katherine Sprows replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am interested in being a part of the discussion group on “Rust Belt Literature.”
Thank you for starting this discussion.
Sandra
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoNicky Agate told me how to create the group “Rust Belt Literature” so it is now an independent discussion group–I think. I tried to make it as open as possible, since it may be a low traffic group.
Our first offering is my story Whiting Rich and Strange to be found in the CORE file deposit area (on your toolbar–keyword CORE.)
Please send me…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello, 20th-21st C. Am. Lit. Admins,
I spoke to Nicki Agate, one of the admins of the MLA Commons, about a category for “Rust Belt Literature.” There hasn’t been much space for those of us who grew up in steel mill and other industrial communities to discuss our attempts at transforming our life experiences into literature.
MLA CORE DEPOSIT N…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello,
Thank you for this message. I recently won an award and I would like to have this news
shared with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter to be included in the
September issue!
Professor Maria Figueredo wins 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching
Award (Full-Time Faculty Category)
This prestigious award is an important recogni…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic P4P Classes — Register Now! in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoProgramming for Humanists
A continuing education course and online webinar Offered by the
Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture – Texas A&M
UniversityRegistration is still possible!
Go to: Fall 2016 Programming4HUMansits Registration:Beginning Friday, September 2, 2016 – 9:0…[Read more]
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Amanda Starling Gould deposited Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article presents a digital environmental media studies (DEMS) framework that shifts the primary focus of digital media study from one grounded in computation to one fully rooted in the earth. DEMS proposes a relational, metabolic ontology wherein popular media theory terms like atmospheric media, elemental media, cyborg, and digital labor are…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic CfP: Worlding Minor/Small Literatures in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe concept of “minor/small literatures” is Eurocentric, provincial, and regional not only because it has been defined along the lines of European standards, such as the geopolitics of small nations, the sociolinguistics of minority languages, and the aesthetics of revolutionary modernism, but also due to its identification with the lit…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
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Enthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)On the intersection of the tenth ann…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic Registration for Bucknell's Digital Scholarship Conference is now open in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago(With apologies for cross-posting)
Registration is now open for #BUDSC16, Bucknell University’s third annual Digital Scholarship Conference, October 28-30. This year’s conference, “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration,” will feature speakers with a range of interests and specializations, including faculty, librarians, students, an…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Yukio Ninagawa in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoStemming from a culture of translation, Ninagawa’s interpretations of Shakespeare were nurtured by Japan’s rebirth and consolidation of its national identity after the war. His stage works thrive in the contentious space between cultures. In fact, the notion that ‘modern Japan is a culture of translation’ has been taken for granted by many Japanes…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
http://elinas.fau.de/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Alexa Huang deposited Global Shakespeare 2.0 and the Task of the Performance Archive in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoWhat are digital video’s functions? How can those functions be best facilitated in the field of Shakespeare studies when the disciplinary boundary between text and performance is blurred by virtual performative texts? This article surveys the state of global Shakespeare and analyses the implications of digital video in scholarly and pedagogic practice.
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