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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoSarah, that’s definitely something I can mention. I certainly remember you addressing this question in past years as the organization moved toward an exclusive relationship with EBSCO.
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Sarah G. Wenzel replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPMLA prices rose this year by a significant amount for Institutional subscribers. It may not rise to the level of the DA and it has been an issue for us in this year of budget cuts.
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Lisa Marie Rhody replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHi Brian,
Thanks so much for raising this issue. I’m deeply sympathetic to the issues relating to graduate study, but given this focus group, I feel like we should raise issues related to labor equity, expectations, and job safety for librarians. I think it would be helpful for MLA to have a statement of solidarity that demonstrates our o…[Read more]
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Cheryl E. Ball replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHey Brian– How about asking the MLA if they would propose a statement of support for open-access research in the humanities? 😉
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Brian Croxall started the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoColleagues, I’m one of two professional-issue Delegate Assembly members representing the category “Libraries and Archives.” I wanted to open a discussion about whether there are any issues that the Forum members would especially like to see brought to the DA. What concerns are on your (collective) minds?
When I have information about the…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall started the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoColleagues, I’m one of two professional-issue Delegate Assembly members representing the category “Libraries and Archives.” I wanted to open a discussion about whether there are any issues that the Forum members would especially like to see brought to the DA. What concerns are on your (collective) minds?
When I have information about the…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Cultural Diversity and the Musical Representation of California in Regional 1970s Television in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn 1970, a television-show dance contest in a small California town ended abruptly when the studio was briefly plunged into darkness because of an apparent power failure. The media coverage of the event eventually helped uncover criminal activity at the studio; over the course of this reporting, the narrative was accompanied by select genres of…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn this paper we examine the representation of crafts in video games, particularly in “crafting systems” – collections of mechanics that are described as crafting within a game’s narrative. Real world crafting practitioners value creativity, expression, and mastery of material, but the act of crafting itself is often viewed by society as repro…[Read more]
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Dennis Denisoff started the topic Election for the Victorian and Early-Twentieth Century Forum in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Thank you for considering me for the position on the Executive Committee of the Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. The MLA has supported and inspired me since I was a graduate student in the queer ’90s, and I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to serve the MLA and its members in return—especially in add…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Mujeres en papel y tinta: identificación, automodelaje y remodelaje en el archivo colonial in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDirect and indirect women’s access to the expression of their ideas and wishes on ink and paper has significantly contributed to the construction of the Latin American colonial archive. Nevertheless, this contribution to the area of Latin American women’s studies still remains little known and understudied. The colonial tradition of women’s autho…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-trau…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPlease take note of the following sessions sponsored by the Middle English Forum at virtual MLA 2021 that may be of interest to members of this group. Session 660 in particular is jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics.
205. Medieval Abstraction, Friday, 8 January, 10:15-11:30 am Presider: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago Speakers: Danielle…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOften described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[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
GS Poetry and Poetics 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
GS Poetry and Poetics 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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Jacob Heil started the topic Candidate Statement for 2020 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi, friends. Our elections for EC opened last week and I am one of the candidates you’ll see on the ballot for this Group. Therefore, I thought that I might share a little about my interests, my role(s) at the College of Wooster, and my goals for service on the Executive Committee for the Libraries and Research Group.
I have come to libraries by…[Read more]
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic Connecting with Colleagues in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I am honored to have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues and I wanted to briefly introduce myself before MLA voting opens this week. As a Spanish instructor and contingent employee, I have been a “freeway flier” and “roads scholar” traveling among institutes of higher learnin…[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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