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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session Proposal in the discussion
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This panel examines auto/biographical narratives that challenge the myth of a homogeneous United States. What complex and nuanced aspects of American national identities are revealed…[Read more]
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Julie Ward replied to the topic CFP MLA 2017: Specifications Grading: Case Studies in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoCorrection: This is for presentation at the 2018 Convention of the MLA.
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Specifications Grading: Case Studies in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoInteractive workshop focusing on Nilson’s Specifications Grading. Presenters share best practices for specs grading in the classroom, using real examples. 250-word description of use of specs grading by 1 March 2017; Julie Ward (wardjulie@ou.edu) and Ashwini Ganeshan (ganeshan@ohio.edu).
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Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years agoPanel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies
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Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoPanel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Literary Research Guide in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years agoHi, all. The office of scholarly communication is thinking about the future of the Literary Research Guide, and we would benefit from your input.
Simply put, we’d like to know more about how you, your faculty members, and/or your students use the LRG. Anything you’d be willing to share, either here or via direct message to me, would be e…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track in the group
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 9 years agoAs humanities scholars increasingly recognize the value of public engagement, and as the proportion of tenure-track faculty positions available continues to decline, many humanities programs are focusing renewed attention on equipping graduate students for careers as scholars both within and beyond academe. To support those efforts, the Scholarly…[Read more]
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Brian Vetruba started the topic CFP New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, & Partnerships: 10/13/17, Frankfurt in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Center for Research Libraries and its Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) and German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) international programs, together with French and German partners, invite proposals for papers, presentations, and posters to be presented at an international symposium. New Directions…[Read more]
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Robert H. Kieft replied to the topic Session at Philly convention and doc for review in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoColleagues, I’m sending this reminder as you pack your bags to travel to Philly. My task force colleagues and I look forward to seeing you to discuss this document.
Thanks.
Bob
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Robert H. Kieft started the topic Session at Philly convention and doc for review in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoColleagues, hello. I am writing today to call your attention to a newly released document of potential interest as posted to Humanities Commons at https://printrecord.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ and to a discussion session about the document from 1:45-3:00 PM Fri, 6 January, Marriott 401-403. The meeting immediately precedes the Libraries and Re…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
<span class=”_4n-j _3cht fsl”>Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!</span>
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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