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Martin Paul Eve deposited Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIf you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term ‘open access’ in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of ‘pay-to-say’ publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited Post-Traumatic Responses in the War Narratives of Hanan al- in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis chapter extends the focus of wartime trauma scholarship to recognise female
non-combatants’ variants of traumatic victimisation and agency, as presented in the
Middle Eastern and African contexts. The agency of such actors, who suffered
tragically from the traumas of war, was inexplicably overlooked in both Middle
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Bios in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoBiography: I am Associate Librarian at the University of Kansas Libraries where I currently serve as co-director of KU’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities. My work focuses on engagement with faculty and students in areas related to scholarly communication, digital publishing and digital scholarship, and I have administrative,…[Read more]
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Andrea Kaston Tange replied to the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIt is great to know you are running, Pamela! Thank you.
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]
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Rachel Arteaga deposited Introductory Digital Humanities Curriculum for the High School English Classroom in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThese lesson plans and corresponding handouts introduce students to methods in digital humanities (distant reading, narrative mapping, and sentiment analysis). They are aligned with the K-12 Common Core State Standards and informed by university-level DH discourses. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, these materials are…[Read more]
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Alexandra Saum-Pascual started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Bios in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlex Saum-Pascual
Biography: I am Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California Berkeley where my work has focused on the intersection between literature and digital technologies, specifically as these are expressed in electronic literature. I am both part of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Executive Committee…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Wikipedia as Imago Mundi in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWikis have become enormously attractive to Internet users because they are open-access web pages or networks of web pages that can be modified by any interested editors, making them perpetual works-in-progress that evolve and change at the behest of their contributors. Wikipedia, the limitless fountain of collected, and sometimes inaccurate,…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar deposited Thugs and Bandits: Life and Law in Colonial and Epicolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn examination of crime and criminality in colonial and postcolonial India through life-writing and the examples of Thugs and Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen.
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Pamela K. Gilbert started the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am not quite sure what the protocol is for these statements now that we are on a blog format, but here goes. I am Pamela K. Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor at the University of Florida, and I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the division, representing our interests to the MLA. You can all google if you are interested in s…[Read more]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic WESS/SEES DeGruyter European Librarianship Study Grant in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoPlease consider applying for the WESS/SEES DeGruyter European Librarianship Study Grant, which funds a research project relating to the acquisition, organization, or use of library resources from or relating to Europe, either historical or current.
The DeGruyter Foundation will offer €2500 to the recipient to cover airfare, lodging, and other e…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic Libraries and Research Forum's Open Meeting at 2016 Convention in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoFor the 2016 Convention in Austin, TX, the Libraries and Research Forum has decided to hold an open meeting. The theme: “What Was, Is, and Shall Be an Academic Library – and Who Will Work There?”
The session is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, at 3:30 PM. Bill Thompson (Western Illinois U. Libraries) and Amanda Watson (NYU Libraries) will be…[Read more]
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Amanda Waugh started the topic UMass Achebe Symposium in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoInterdisciplinary Studies Institute
Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
A Special Symposium, University of Massachusetts 14-15 October
Goodell Building: Wed 14 October, 2 – 6 pm; Thurs 15 October 1.30 – 6 pmOn 18 February 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the U…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Due Tomorrow: ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature & Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
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Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Studies Association Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoLatina/o Studies Association
Call for Papers
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity July 7-9, 2016, Westin Pasadena Pasadena, California
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity builds on the 2014 Chicago conference that asked participants to reflect on the past,…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP: Globalization and Violence in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections, ACLA 2016 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: h…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic Literature and Human Rights (CFP for ACLA 2016) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting a paper to the following ACLA seminar:
Organizer: Sonali Perera, Hunter College, City University of New York (sonali.perera@hunter.cuny.edu)
Co-Organizer: Janice Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder (janice.ho@colorado.edu)
This seminar will explore the historical and ideological conjunctions between literary forms a…[Read more]
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