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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the MLA’s Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. A role on that Committee demands real attention to a host of responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to ensure that all of the Forum’s convention panels, roundtables, and workshops refle…[Read more]
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Hélène Bilis started the topic TC Digital Humanities Executive Forum Elections in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello Fellow TC Digital Humanists,
I’m happy to be nominated for the executive committee for the TC DH Executive Forum and I would be honored to serve. My platform, if I were to articulate one briefly, is to continue to make DH studies in North America more multilingual (specifically, showcasing projects and initiatives beyond English and…[Read more]
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Kathleen M. Lubey started the topic LLC Restoration and Early 18th C Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello colleagues! I’m happy to be nominated to the executive commitee for the LLC Early Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century forum, and I hope you’ll consider a vote in my direction. I’ve posted a short bio and CV on my Humanities Commons page –have a glance if you’d like to know more about me and my work. Thanks, and here’s wishing you all…[Read more]
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Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m writing to express my interest in representing TC Digital Humanities as its Delegate Assembly representative for the term starting in 2021. I am a co-founder and former Chair of the Global Arab and Arab American CSLS forum, where I was instrumental in building coalitions with other fora in sponsoring Delegate Assembly resolutions.
Although I…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Liam Lanigan started the topic Executive Committee Election: Liam Lanigan in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA chairde,
I’m very pleased and honoured to have been nominated for election to the Irish forum executive committee. This Fall I was appointed Assistant Professor of British and European Literature at Governors State University in Chicago, having spent the last two years as a VAP at Texas Woman’s University. Previously I was the NEH Keough…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold started the topic Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi All,
I wanted to share the opportunity below. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15)
Best,
Matt
Co-PI, Manifold—
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021
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The Manifold Team invites you to apply for a…[Read more] -
Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
“SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations”
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship: UVA, 2021 application cycle in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHappy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies,…[Read more]
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