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Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThank you Leigh! Who has a nomination or self-nomination for someone to run for a term of service on the delegate assembly for TC Disability Studies? The Executive Committee, as Leigh notes, will be considering nominees at our meeting at the January MLA.
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Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLatinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Panel at MLA 2023 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoHello everyone!
We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!
Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWhat follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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aecklund started the topic New MLA International Bibliography tutorial on cross-cultural communication in the discussion
MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoWe at the MLA have recently released a new tutorial on the subject of researching cross-cultural communication in the Bibliography. Please share with your students and colleagues! And let us know if you have suggestions for topics we should cover in our tutorials.
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aecklund started the topic New MLA International Bibliography tutorial on cross-cultural communication in the discussion
Bibliographic Instruction Materials Group on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoWe at the MLA have recently released a new tutorial on the subject of researching cross-cultural communication in the Bibliography. Please share with your students and colleagues! And let us know if you have suggestions for topics we should cover in our tutorials.
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023: The Ecology of the Community College Classroom in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoWe are currently looking for presenters for next year’s HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Forum. This is a guaranteed session set for the convention in San Francisco, on January 5-8, 2023. If you are interested, please see the detailed call description below and the shortened call posted on the MLA site below it.
CFP for MLA 2023: The…[Read more]
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Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy started the topic Call for Proposals for two 2023 MLA Convention sessions in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoI thought some of the members of this group would potentially be interested in presenting at these two sessions:
Advocating for Library Resources
The MLAIB advisory committee seeks 250-word abstracts for this roundtable discussion. Topics may include: strategic partnerships/collaborations (by librarians, faculty, administrators), open education…[Read more] -
Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee service in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoHello Forum Members!
I recently posted information regarding the election for the community colleges representative in the MLA Delegate Assembly. The HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee is also interested in hearing from forum members who might be interested in serving on the Executive Committee. If you are interested in the committee,…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Delegate Assembly Election Nominations for Community College Representative in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoHello Forum Members!
My name is Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, and I am the current Chair of the HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee. I hope all of you are well.
We are currently asking for nominees for the MLA Delegate Assembly election that will take place later this year. Folks who would like to represent the HEP Community Colleges forum in the…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear colleagues,
The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2023.
The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]
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