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Andrea Kaston Tange replied to the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIt is great to know you are running, Pamela! Thank you.
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Douglas E. Green deposited On "The Coddling of the American Mind" in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoEditorial response to “The Coddling of the American Mind” in the September issue of “The Atlantic”
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Pamela K. Gilbert started the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am not quite sure what the protocol is for these statements now that we are on a blog format, but here goes. I am Pamela K. Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor at the University of Florida, and I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the division, representing our interests to the MLA. You can all google if you are interested in s…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoAs the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.
Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Teaching Literature Book Award Winner 2015 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”' in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: In/Security with cluster on "Labour, Precarity, and the University" in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: In/Security
Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individual…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Invitation to Comment on New MLA Volume on Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoWe are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now open for peer review on MLA Commons. As is this is a volume on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please take a look and add your tho…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education Deadline Extended in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
The…[Read more]
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Elif Sendur started the topic support in the discussion
Prospective Forum: HEP Activism, Advocacy, Public Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoI support the formation of this forum
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Elif Sendur replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: HEP Graduate Student Issues on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoI support the formation of this forum
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[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 New MLA resource site for humanities careers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members 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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Dennis Looney deposited "What Should You Expect from the MLA Job Interview? And What Do Your Interviewers Expect from You? in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort piece on the structure of the typical academic job interview in languages and literatures.
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Dennis Looney deposited "Some of My Best Friends Are Foreign Language Teachers" in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort reflection on the marginalization of foreign language departments and teachers on the typical college campus (written in 2001).
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