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Spencer Keralis deposited Disrupting Labor in the Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDigital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Patterns of Violence: Critical Making and the She/Her/Hers of Early Modern Poetry in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoShort paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”
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Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 211: Bibliography and Research Methods in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the tools, methods, and history of sinology. Sinology refers to the study of China as performed in a philological manner. Philology refers to the historical study of language and literature in its fullest context. It is inherently interdisciplinary. It draws on the fields of…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for a TC Digital Humanities sponsored roundtable on Digital Hispanisms with Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College), and myself.
This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the i…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago<h3>Digital Hispanisms</h3>
Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Élika Ortega (Northeastern U.), and Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College).This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the intersections between Digital Humanities (D…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago<h3>Digital Hispanisms</h3>
Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Élika Ortega (Northeastern U.), and Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College).This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the intersections between Digital Humanities (D…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Paige Morgan deposited This Talk Doesn’t Have A Name in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis talk discusses various aspects of working with data: the choices that we make when we create data, when we analyze data, and some of the social implications of those choices.
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Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCAMP, January 2nd in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Julie Beth Napolin started the topic Candidate Statement – Executive Committee – last day to vote (December 10) in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Though a new member of the Sound forum, I am writing to ask for your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. For 20 years, I have been producing scholarship in the field of sound. Since 2001, I have presented on the topic of sound at MLA, beginning with “The Negative Dialectics of Phonographic Sound” (2001,…[Read more]
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Sarah Ruth Jacobs deposited MLA 2019: Abstracts for Special Session 728, Readership Studies in the Age of Digital Media in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis panel considers the question of how traditional readership studies and reception theory have evolved methodologically, materially, and theoretically in the context of digital reading and online networks. While the panelists find common theoretical ground between studies of pre-and-post-internet networks of readers, they also chart substantive…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoReview of James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker, eds.
Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and
Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. New York and London:
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Andrea Charise started the topic MLA 2019: Health Humanities & Digital Life Roundtable – abstracts/presenter info in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPlease see the presenter info and abstracts for the MLA 2019 Roundtable, “Health Humanities and Digital Life.”
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203: Health Humanities and Digital Life
Time: 8:30AM-9:45AM – Friday Jan 4 2019
Location: Hyatt Regency – Columbus H
Description: This interdisciplinary roundtable is a critical exploration of the intersection of medical and hea…[Read more] -
Nicole Dib started the topic American Literature Association 2019 – Postwar Area Literature Group CFP in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMemoir and Recovery Narratives, 1945-1980
American Literature Association 2019 – Boston, May 23-26 / Postwar Area Literature Group
Memoirs and autobiographies; lost and found objects, persons, and selfhoods in literatures of the postwar period. Abstracts by January 15 to foertsch@unt.edu
Samples and Fragments, 1945-1980
American Li…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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