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Peter Powers started the topic CFP: NEMLA Session. College in Crisis: Higher Ed in Literature and Pop culture in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCFP: NEMLA Session, Toronto, 4/30-5/3. College in Crisis: Higher Education in Literature and Popular Culture
Higher education in the United States is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy as constituents question its costs and benefits. Many scholars in various disciplines have analyzed this crisis, and simultaneously, narratives about higher…[Read more]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid uploaded the file: International Jarmusch colloquium/ April 2014 Call for papers to
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoAppel à communications
Colloque international Français/Anglais
Le cinéma de Jim Jarmusch
8-9 avril 2015, Université d’Artois, Arras (Pas-de-Calais), France
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
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Susannah Mary Chewning started the topic Committee for the Community College MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:
The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP for MLA 2015: Close Reading, Slow Reading, and Teaching Literature in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis session is sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature:
Whether instructors opt to have students engage in “close reading” or “slow reading,” there is an increasing interest in encouraging them to spend more time lingering over texts–reading carefully, attentively, and thoughtfully. In large part a response to a cultural…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic Call For Papers: MLA Convention 2015 Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the adoption…[Read more]
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Steve Rowland started the topic Call for participants: Survey for development of Shakespeare Central in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,
CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.
<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
The English Romantic Period on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014<…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about contingent and PTF in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 12 years agoI Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!
Here’s the link:
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Maureen Noelle McLane posted an update in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTO: Romanticists and Friends of:
There will be FOUR panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the Division on the English Romantic Period at the upcoming MLA: MARK YOUR CALENDARS and support Romanticism!
Please do attend: in the middle of various MLA consolidation pushes (see the Restoration and late-18th C. Divisional duress), it is important…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE Translating Social Movements Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014 The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as the…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
the Jarmusch Colloquium is in French and/or English (see flyer)