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Nicky Agate started the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPlease introduce yourself and tell us a little about your interest in Connected Academics by replying to this thread.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Welcome in the discussion
Connected Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoHello all! Welcome to our Commons group for graduate students, recent PhDs, and faculty interested in exploring a wide range of humanities careers. We invite you to use this space to ask questions, offer advice, share articles and other resources, make connections…
Don’t forget to check out the project’s Web site: connect.mla.hcommons-staging.or…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Getting Your Work Out There With CORE in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoMLA Commons now comes with a repository (the CORE button in the top menu on the right) which allows you to upload articles, syllabi, dissertation chapters, conference papers, data sets, works-in-progress, talks, blog posts, etc. You retain the copyright to your work, but you get the opportunity to publicize it or request feedback on a draft by…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Korean Literature Survey & CFProposals in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoDo you teach Korean literature? Please fill in our survey designed to gather information about instructors’ materials for teaching texts and translations of Korean works. We are also currently accepting proposals for this new initiative.
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP and Survey: Korean Texts and Translations in the discussion
Prospective Forum: LLC Korean on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoTeach Korean literature? Please answer the few questions on this MLA survey (and find out how to submit a proposal for our new Korean Texts & Translations initiative): https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons-staging.org/in-development/survey-call-for-proposals-korean-texts-and-translations
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Nicky Agate started the topic Two CC articles added to CORE in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoStacey Lee Donohue has uploaded two documents that might be of interest to this group to the new repository, CORE. You can access them by clicking on the “CORE” tab at the top of the screen, the “Deposits” tab to the right of this group’s page, or via the links below.
“What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Becoming a Community College…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
Saint’s progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay…[Read more] -
Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago
Gay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
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Doug Steward deposited The Foreign Language Requirement in English Doctoral Programs on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago
The decline of the language requirement in English doctoral programs will have to be reversed if those in the English profession are to treat global and ethnic studies seriously, to refuse to replicate “spread-eagle” isolationism in their work, to research and teach world literature and English-language literature’s place in it responsibly, and t…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Academic Freedom: Norms, Methods, Contestations on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago
Because academic freedom is a function of and entrusted to the corporate faculty, defenses of academic freedom must be articulated in the terms of curricula that are thoughtfully constructed according to disciplinary norms. But this potentially powerful system of protection is weakened when the faculty has little sense of how its curriculum fits…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited The Master's Degree in the Modern Languages since 1966 on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago
The story of the master’s degree in English and foreign languages since 1966 is most dramatically a story about women’s access to areas of study traditionally dominated by men and more generally a story about how economic shifts influence students’ degree decisions.
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Doug Steward deposited Report on Second Majors in Language and Literature, 2001-13 on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago
In some fields—notably, foreign languages—second majors make up an unusually large share of the students receiving degrees. If we compare the number of second majors in a field with the number of first majors, we see that second majors range from 3%–5% of the number of first majors in fields like communication and psychology to 10%–16% in economi…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic New MLA site for Connected Academics in the discussion
Future of the Humanities PhD on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.
connect.mla.hcommons-staging.org
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Nicky Agate started the topic Connected Academics resource site in the discussion
Graduate Student Caucus on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.
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Nicky Agate started the topic New resource for alternative careers in the humanities in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.
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