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Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas
We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas
We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]
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Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (CLCS Global Jewish and LLC Jewish American) in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (a collaboration between the CLCS Global Jewish forum and LLC Jewish American forum)
We seek submissions for a roundtable, 30 years later, on Maus’s enduring influence; teaching and/or scholarship on/around Maus; diverse approaches wanted, eg., Memory Studies, Comics Studies, Autobiography Studies, Holocaust Studies, in…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Attached please find a call for nominations for the fourth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2019 and 2020 are due March 15, 2021. For more information about the nomination…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Can We Buy Virtue? Implications from State University Funding On Musical Instrument Performance Teacher Mandate in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years agoRecent world developments have put a strain on the humanities in general, and higher education music performance study degree-programmes in particular. In an educational system currently promoting consumer product relationships where the music performance teacher is very much accountable for the students’ development into professional musicians a…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Thomas Kilduff deposited The Gift of the Gab: Exploring the Audiobook and the Festive Direction in the American Library in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe audiobook, in its modern form, was created in the 1930s to assist the blind community, World War I veterans and others unable to engage in Sustained Silent Reading (SSR). This dissertation investigates exactly how the audiobook and, to a lesser extent, the podcast have been received and celebrated by the world of library and information…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Teachers’ Sleep, Religious Tasks, and Suicidal Thoughts: A Preliminary Assessment in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years agoBecause of the unexpected and debilitating effect of the current pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on teachers is detrimental. This paper investigated the public-school teachers’ sleep, religious tasks, and suicidal thoughts. The study used a descriptive correlational de-sign with the online survey as the primary data…[Read more]
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Thomas Kilduff deposited Gift of the Gab: Exploring the Audiobook and the Festive Direction in the American Library in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years agoAbstract
The audiobook, in its modern form, was created in the 1930s to assist the blind community, World War I veterans and others unable to engage in Sustained Silent Reading (SSR). This dissertation investigates exactly how the audiobook and, to a lesser extent, the podcast have been received and celebrated by the world of library and…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2021 conference in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats. The Society is keen to welcome new participants and encourage…[Read more]
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Yung-Tse Hung deposited Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association (OCEESA) Report, Regular Issue, February 2020 in the group
Sustainability on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis OCEESA report, which is regular issue of OCEESA Journal (Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association Journal). This report is OCEESA report number: OCEESA/JL-2020/3701, February 2020, ISSN 1072 -7248. This report is also OCEESA Journal, Volume 37, Number 1, February 2020. Yung-Tse Hung, Permanent Executive Director,…[Read more]
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Yung-Tse Hung deposited Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association (OCEESA) Report, Regular Issue, February 2020 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis OCEESA report, which is regular issue of OCEESA Journal (Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association Journal). This report is OCEESA report number: OCEESA/JL-2020/3701, February 2020, ISSN 1072 -7248. This report is also OCEESA Journal, Volume 37, Number 1, February 2020. Yung-Tse Hung, Permanent Executive Director,…[Read more]
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Stefano Verri deposited L’arte e il pensiero ecologico sul paesaggio in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMai come in questo periodo così difficile torna attuale il tema del rapporto tra l’uomo e la Natura. Una relazione dinamica e complessa che ha visto nella progressiva emancipazione tecnica dell’essere umano, la necessità dell’altra di essere salvaguardata, conservata e protetta, in un’inesorabile inversione dei ruoli che ha visto l’uomo da…[Read more]
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Dorothy Kidd deposited Standing rock and the Indigenous commons in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA new cycle of communications commons has become part of the contemporary repertoire of Indigenous first nations in North America. The mobilization of the Standing Rock Sioux is perhaps the best-known example of a continent-wide cycle of resistance in which Indigenous communities have employed a combination of collectively governed land-based…[Read more]
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