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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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Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.
The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[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 Translation 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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Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues:
I’d like to invite you to submit a proposal for the seminar at ACLA that I am organizing together with Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.
Title: The Shaping of Afro-Spaniard Identities: From the Colonial View to Counternarratives of Blackness within Spanish Culture (1920-2020)
Description: The numerous protests against systemic racism…[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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Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP due Oct 31st for ACLA online April 8-11, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoColegas, I would like to invite you to submit to an ACLA seminar that I’m proposing. The conference will be held virtually between April 8-11. I include the CFP below. I hope that you will consider submitting! Salud y saludos, Erin
Spanish Society Must Be Defended?: Revisiting Foucault, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty Today This proposed seminar rev…[Read more]
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Carmen Moreno-Diaz started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
Please find attached the CFP for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference that this year will take place online.
We look forward to your participation!
Saludos a todxs, y buen comienzo de semestre!
Carmen.
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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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Katina Rogers deposited Translations from ALLADA and EXPERIENCE D’EDWARD LEE, VERSAILLES by Gérard Gavarry in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoAt the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore simil…[Read more]
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William Nichols deposited Viajes al futuro y sociedad del simulacro: Modernidad, Disneyficación y ruinas de la resistencia en Quinteto de Buenos Aires de Manuel Vázquez Montalban in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoA lo largo de la obra de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, tanto en las obras dentro de la serie Carvalho como fuera y en la producción de libros no-ficción, el viaje sirve para como ímpetu narrativo además de eje temático para indagar las contradicciones de la globalización y explorar la memoria como estrategia de resistencia. Por un lado, el viaje o…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron created the doc CFP: PMLA Special Topic on Translation in the group
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Anne E. B. Coldiron created the doc CFP: PMLA Special Topic on Translation in the group
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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, 8 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues. Many thanks
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William Christopher Brown started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom Leland G. Spencer:
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
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…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFinal progress report about the California Open Educational Resources Council’s work with 3 representatives from each of the California State University, University of California, and California Community Colleges, to investigate the efficacy of implementing adoption of OER textbooks and to create a repository of OER textbooks for use in all 3 systems.
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Katherine D. Harris deposited White Paper: OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoBased on its survey responses, the California Open Educational Resources Council identified several impediments to adopting OER textbooks and concluded that rigorous peer review was ultimately the first step towards advocating for adoption of OER textbooks. The Council quickly identified 50 highly-enrolled courses with expensive textbooks across…[Read more]
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Roshawnda Derrick started the topic Extended deadline—please submit your abstracts by March 30th in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract by March 30, 2020 for the following panels:
Panel 1:
“A (Socio)Historical Perspective” Papers should address how language attitudes and/or ideologies have persisted, evolved, and/or changed over time and its socio-political implications. 300-word abstracts to Roshawnda Derrick, roshawnda.derrick@pepperd…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoLLC African American Forum
Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual confines of the slave narrative or sentimental novel. 250 word…[Read more]
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Dan Connor started the topic Solicite una beca de la Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoLa fecha límite de solicitud es el 1 de abril de 2020
La Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA (MLAIB) está aceptando solicitudes para becas de tres años para bibliógrafos externos. Los becarios de la MLAIB sirven como bibliógrafos externos que examinan textos académicos, escriben resúmenes informativos, y entregan citas bibliográficas para ser…[Read more]
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo replied to the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear all,
I am attaching a coupon to obtain Almudena Carracedo’s film The Silence of Others with a MLA discount.
Best regards,
Isabel
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