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Patricia R. Campbell changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago
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Emily Hegarty started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Teaching Eco-composition at the Community College in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu). -
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DLS Anthology on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoAndrew Stauffer, Annie Swafford, and I are working on a piece that details the pedagogical applications and implications of the “Book Traces” project. Essentially, Book Traces is an initiative that asks librarians and researchers to search library general collections for pre-1923 books containing marginalia, inscriptions, and insertions left by…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro replied to the topic Executive Committee Candidate Bios in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoAs many of you know, nominations for the Modern Language Association Executive Council are anonymous, so I was honored to be asked to run as one of the graduate student candidates. The current council told me that my nomination was accepted based on my status as a graduate student, my experience as a part-time faculty member at a wide range of…[Read more]
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Patricia R. Campbell's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago
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Patricia R. Campbell changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Recent talk on #altac and #postac in the discussion
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn practice, Stacy, no one asked for permission to get outside jobs, and almost everyone did it at one point or another throughout grad school. That said, it’s insulting in so many different ways to think that they would attempt to police this.
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Recent talk on #altac and #postac in the discussion
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThanks, Nicky. I think the de-stigmatizing is a hard thing to do for all sorts of reasons. But the more we can talk about it out loud, the more progress we make. And I think it also helps to talk about how it felt. I was a bit more pathetic (read, pathos) in the presentation in certain parts than I published on the blog.
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Brian Croxall started the topic Recent talk on #altac and #postac in the discussion
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoI gave a talk in March at Purdue about what graduate students and faculty could individually and jointly do to help with preparing students for a variety of different employment opportunities. I posted the talk this week on my blog, and thought I would share it here as a potential resource/point of discussion: http://www.briancroxall.net/2015/07/28…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months ago
This paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months ago
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Brian Croxall posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months ago
Learning about the Connected Academics project (https://connect.mla.hcommons-staging.org/) at the May 2015 Executive Council meeting.
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Emily A. Hegarty's profile was updated on MLA Commons 11 years ago
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Brian Croxall's profile was updated on MLA Commons 11 years ago
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Emily A. Hegarty's profile was updated on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month ago
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