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Anastasia Salter deposited Theories of Text and Technology Syllabus in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for a graduate-level course with the following overview: “We will examine how theoretical discourse has evolved through shifting technological platforms, with particular attention to the challenges software, code, and networks present to our understanding of texts. We will engage with examples of complex procedural works ranging from…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Dont’ Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRCWS Literacy Studies Sponsored Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies
Presentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska,… -
Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 3: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe Stage 3 revision sets up the Theory Palette with hues and tones of green (author, history, and nature), yellow (culture), purple (psyche), grey (text), red (reader), dark blue (literature), light blue (language), rose (embodiment/perception), and hot pink (intersectional feminisms).
Airbrush and pencil tools suggest color blending without…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 1: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA clean copy of the Theory Palette http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6581T, this (almost) blank canvas is open to artistic and textual interventions, variations, and compositions with the intersecting concerns of author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception as blendable paint colors.
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEvoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Song of Myself: Autobiography in Pop Music in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn essay on autobiography in pop songs by women: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/singing-about-yourself-autobiography-in-pop-music.html
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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Kendra Leonard deposited The Past is a Foreign Country: World Musics Signifying History in/and Elizabethan Drama in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoResearch on global Shakespeare has focused on the ways in which the plays have been adapted for indigenous languages and customs. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which non-British directors have treated the Elizabethan drama. Yet there are a number of works that create direct musical dialogues between Elizabethan drama, history, and…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Call for Papers: Teaching and Resistance in the Age of Trumpism in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe 2016 election of Donald Trump has brought with it a wave of dangerous, reactionary developments, including an emboldened white supremacy; brazen sexism; a belligerent foreign policy posture; an ever-more punitive stance on “law and order”; racist, xenophobic immigration and border policies; denial of scientifically-proven climate change; an…[Read more]
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and…[Read more] -
Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Linguistics and Literature Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics…[Read more] -
Ian Barnard started the topic Candidate for Writing Pedagogies forum executive committee in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the Writing Pedagogies forum, so I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and my commitments.
In my scholarship over the years, I have argued that we teachers of writing need to debunk common dispositions and practices around writing pedagogy (e.g., about…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Candidate Introduction – MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
I am a candidate for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. Now that the voting period has opened, and following MLA recommendations, I would like to post a brief introduction.
I am professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, where I serve as associate chair and graduate coordinator in…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS: Exploring the Potential for Altmetrics as Value-Based Indicators in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation introduces the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences [HSS]) initiative (http://humetricshss.org/), which aims to develop and support values-based research indicators in HSS disciplines.
Because researchers’ practices are closely linked with the evaluation metrics by which they are judged, H…[Read more]
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