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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) o…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) o…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on March 31-April…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
@louise_bethlehem Well put about the witnessing needed and post-colonialism. Glo McMillan–who is witnessing for Rust Belt Literature
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic 75 years old today: How Green was my Valley (Welsh Coal Mining Valley) in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSEE; Essay listed under “FILES” at left.
Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley turn 75 in a Time of Demagogues.
-Gloria McMillan
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Gloria Lee McMillan uploaded the file: Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley trun 75 in a time of Demagogues to
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay challenges the dominant discourse on two highly controversial 1941 films Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley.
Film critics tend to be outraged and marvel today how this miscarriage of aesthetic justice ever could have happened. Why, they cry, did How Green was my Valley ever get chosen as 1942’s Best Picture of the Year over O…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic 75 years old today: How Green was my Valley (Welsh Coal Mining Valley) in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY released Oct. 28, 1941.
Today is the 75th anniversary of this controversial (and prophetic) film that won Best Picture Oscar 1942 over Orson
Welles’ Citizen Kane.HGWMV shows the industrial growth and de-industrialization of a Welsh coal mining town long before people thought
of these problems.I have written an essay…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Writing in a Wind Machine: Do Politicians Obsess over Steel workers? in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThere is an article in the New York Times concerning the amount of attention that steel workers are getting. The gist of the essay itself is that far too much attention is being paid to manufacturing and steel worker sin particular by politicians.
The cure is to become something else, get a new job, and leave all the baggage behind. How do we f…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago
a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States, Bor…[Read more]
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we are seeking hosts for a panel on Bust belt Literature at the next NLA national convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary resp…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons (Folklore, too!) in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoEver since Indiana University Folklore professor Richard M. Dorson (1975) surveyed NW Indiana to see if industrial workers had their own folklore (they did) we have been part of your area. His Land of the Mill Rats (Harvard UP) is a landmark folklore study.
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Thank you Gloria, and apologies for my belated response!