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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company of Philadelphia Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2021-2022 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoNational Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in residence at the Library Company on any subject relevant to its collections, which are capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the…[Read more]
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Kate Pond started the topic seeking participants for my thesis project in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoI’m attempting to collect a number of micro-stories in order to deconstruct them by their morphological functions and rebuild one story from the crowd-sourced content. I am hopeful for a diverse representation, but looking for more voices. I would really appreciate if you have 30 minutes or so, that you help contribute to my…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoFigures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited Ernest Hemingway, Global American Modernist in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoA Companion to World Literature. John Wiley and Sons, 2020. Available in Wiley Online Library, https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company 2020 First Book Award: Nominations due July 1 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia invites submissions for the 2020 First Book Award. This prize was established in 2018 to recognize an extraordinary contribution to early American studies using Library Company collections. This year, we have opted to recognize a significant first book published by an early-career scholar within the past two yea…[Read more]
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John Hansen deposited The New American Scholar in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago“The New American Scholar” by John Hansen
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom Leland G. Spencer:
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFinal progress report about the California Open Educational Resources Council’s work with 3 representatives from each of the California State University, University of California, and California Community Colleges, to investigate the efficacy of implementing adoption of OER textbooks and to create a repository of OER textbooks for use in all 3 systems.
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Katherine D. Harris deposited White Paper: OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoBased on its survey responses, the California Open Educational Resources Council identified several impediments to adopting OER textbooks and concluded that rigorous peer review was ultimately the first step towards advocating for adoption of OER textbooks. The Council quickly identified 50 highly-enrolled courses with expensive textbooks across…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoDespite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Claudia Stokes started the topic Inviting nominees for MLA delegate assembly in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Late-19th- and and Early-20th-Century American Literature Forum invites members to stand for election as alternate candidates for the MLA delegate assembly. Elected delegates are expected to serve a three-year term and must attend the MLA convention for two out of three of those years. If you are interested, please email Claudia Stokes at c…[Read more]
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