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Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.
I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Connecting with the community in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello everyone! I have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on Teaching as a Profession, and I wanted to introduce myself before the voting window opens next week. I’m a long-time teacher-researcher, and recently I began my position as an assistant professor of English education at Longwood University in Virginia.
My work centers around s…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[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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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIn his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoKirstin and Anne,
Thanks for you thoughtful responses on the topic of the MLA Commons. Let me reiterate that I do have trouble posting on my personal page and receiving technical support from the site. I do get notices on new topics, and I occasionally respond to them.
I do think that if the various southern studies sites hooked on and talked up…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoKirstin and Anne,
Thanks for you thoughtful responses on the topic of the MLA Commons. Let me reiterate that I do have trouble posting on my personal page and receiving technical support from the site. I do get notices on new topics, and I occasionally respond to them.
I do think that if the various southern studies sites hooked on and talked up…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoKirstin and Anne,
Thanks for you thoughtful responses on the topic of the MLA Commons. Let me reiterate that I do have trouble posting on my personal page and receiving technical support from the site. I do get notices on new topics, and I occasionally respond to them.
I do think that if the various southern studies sites hooked on and talked up…[Read more]
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Kirstin Squint replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThank you, Joe and Anne, for your responses. You have both pointed out issues that I have with the platform. I find it difficult to use mainly because I forget about it, and I think receiving notice of the topic would help. I received an email regarding both of your replies (apologies for my slowness to reply to you–2020 continues to present many…[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
TM The Teaching of Literature 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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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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Anne Malena replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion
LLC Southern United States via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHi Kirstin,
Actually, it’s not that hard to use but I don’t think of it unless I’m
prompted as I have been by Joseph’s response to you. Is there a way that I
would receive notice of the topic? Perhaps I did and ignored it but I
originally joined the group to keep appraised of what is being researched
and discussed. Best, Anne -
Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoKirstin Squint,
I sent you a reply on here the day you posted, but it doesn’t seem to be on here. This was the main issue I raised with MLA Commons; it is difficult to use, so nobody uses it. I use it as a webpage only because I don’t have one as a retiree. Best wishes on this request, but I bet mine will be your only response.
Joe Millichap
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Kirstin Squint started the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHello Everyone!
I currently chair the executive committee of the LLC Southern US Forum and am seeking feedback from our membership. Our forum hasn’t been particularly active in the MLA Commons, and I am currently completing a report for the MLA, one of the goals of which is to find out what would make the Commons more useful for our purposes.…[Read more]
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Annette Vee started the topic Call for Papers: Women and Language (sharing by request from the journal) in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
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 empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn this introduction to the digital humanities (DH), we will approach the field via a Caribbean Studies lens, exploring how an understanding of the digital based in the growing area of digital Caribbean studies might shape the larger field of DH.
The course aims to provide a landscape view of DH, paying attention to how its various approaches…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoProust was strongly opposed to the idea of a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.
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Adrian Versteegh replied to the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHi Jeffrey—I’d be happy to volunteer. I’m a member and I attend every year. Just let me know what you need.
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]
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Elena Garcia-Martin started the topic CFP for a volume on Pedagogies in Mixed Language Classrooms in the discussion
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues. Many thanks
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