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Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise in the group Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

For the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

For the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
Doug Steward deposited Taking Liberties: Academic Freedom and the Humanities in the group Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

The state of academic freedom today, the particular vulnerability of certain areas of study, and the special relevance of scholarship in the humanities to defenses of academic freedom.
Doug Steward deposited Taking Liberties: Academic Freedom and the Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago

The state of academic freedom today, the particular vulnerability of certain areas of study, and the special relevance of scholarship in the humanities to defenses of academic freedom.
Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago

Please see this link:

http://www.mla.org/policies_for_divisio
Divisions
Definition. The MLA divisions encompass the primary scholarly and professional concerns of the association, with each division representing a major area of membership interest. The divisions are not autonomous organizations but are an integral part of the MLA; they have no…[Read more]
Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago

The members of these divisions have not voted to endorse a resolution, nor is it their purview to do so. Executive committee members of divisions have no authority to speak for the division’s members, and only the MLA Executive Council may speak on behalf of the association in any way. I will be contacting the executive committees of the divisions…[Read more]
Doug Steward's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New Initiative for articulating support for contingent faculty in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago

I hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution. Here’s the…[Read more]
Rosemary G. Feal posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago

Have you read Profession on the Commons recently? http://profession.mla.hcommons-staging.org
Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years ago

Thank you all for the discussions.

One correction, Russell A. Berman (this claim was in another thread on the “other” MLA Commons Page) : Factually, I called for a suspension of a declared 15 minute break so that the DA could get to the MOTION on MLA governance and the inclusion of PTF, which I and others had spent many months developing, w…[Read more]
Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic #Precariat conversation at Shanker Institute in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years ago

Thanks for doing this, Nicky! I was tweeting away on another channel until Fabian Banga oriented me…
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MOTION for more PTF in governance PASSED in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years ago

We were successful in moving that a PTF be a required member of the Executive Council! The motion, put forward by the radical caucus, also asked for more governance opportunities for PTF throughout the organization. The dominance of tenured faculty in the MLA is beginning to topple. Please get in touch with me at hanzimanolis@gmail.com if you w…[Read more]
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Useful to review past, ratified MLA resolutions in the forum Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month ago

Select resolutions from 1981 and 1986, ratified by the membership

1981 Delegate Assembly Meeting; 1982 membership vote

Resolution 1

Be it resolved that the Modern Language Association express its outrage and sorrow at the suppression of human rights in Poland, which involves the persecution and harsh detention of students, teachers,…[Read more]
Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Files and materials in the forum MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month ago

Here are a few key resolutions passed in the 1980s. They are indisputably engaged with national and international issues:

1981 Delegate Assembly Meeting; 1982 membership vote

Resolution 1

Be it resolved that the Modern Language Association express its outrage and sorrow at the suppression of human rights in Poland, which involves the…[Read more]
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Monica F. Jacobe

@monicafjacobe

Monica F. Jacobe

@monicafjacobe