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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
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American group:
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
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
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
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, 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
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCall 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
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two: “New” Theoretical Approaches
Papers are invited on…[Read more] -
Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDavid Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct ‘authors’ using anything above the nineteen most-common words…[Read more]
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Marlene Daut posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow 19th-century Americanists! This is Marlene Daut, and I am on the ballot for the 19th-Century American Executive Committee this MLA. So, I thought I’d take just a few moments to tell you a little bit about my interests.
After being at the Claremont Graduate University for 7 years, I’ve recently moved to the University of Virginia…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage
Adapt, Adopt, Adept: The Material Phenomenon
March 23rd and 24th 2018
Pacific Rim Conference
University of Anchorage Alaska: English Department
BP Energy Center, Anchorage, AKThe various forms and mediums of adaptation is, according to Linda Hutcheon, often…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more] -
Alex Feldman posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoExecutive Committee Candidacy
Dear all,
I am writing to introduce myself as a candidate/ nominee for the upcoming Executive Committee elections. I am a Lecturer and Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in the English Department at the University of Haifa, specialising in Modern British, American and European drama, with a particular focus on the representation…[Read more] -
Prentiss Clark created the doc Emerson Society Awards announcement 2018 in the group
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Heather I. Sullivan posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI’m delighted to be a candidate for the Science and literature Group in the upcoming MLA Executive Committee Elections! My current work in the environmental humanities, the “DARK GREEN,” builds on interdisciplinary discussions of literature (English- and German-language) and ecological science. I’ve worked on such projects my entire career,…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2018 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS – 2018 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania invite submissions for the annual meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior S…[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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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (New York: Palgrave, 2014), ed. Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin. in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAt a time when Shakespeare is becoming increasingly globalized and diversified it is urgent more than ever to ask how this appropriated ‘Shakespeare’ constructs ethical value across cultural and other fault lines. Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.
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Mary Gallucci deposited “The Skull and Hair of Alessandro de’ Medici: Reading Racial Signs in Historical Perspective.” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIn this essay I discuss the racial formations of Alessandro de’ Medici, first duke of Florence. These formations derive from different sources: verbal descriptions, portraiture, and the material evidence of Alessandro’s remains. I examine whether a painted “description” tallies with a verbal one, considering the variety of terms used to describ…[Read more]
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