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Stephanie LeMenager replied to the topic Suggestions for Sessions @ #MLA16 Austin in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoHi, All,
There were so many rich suggestions here that rather than choose one, we decided to bring different strands of each together for the committee’s sponsored roundtable in 2017. Look forward to a diverse media roundtable that touches upon post humanism, post-coloniality, and other lively sites of intersectional frisson.
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Stacy Alaimo replied to the topic Suggestions for Sessions @ #MLA16 Austin in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoI’m happy to see so many ideas here. If anyone would like to submit a CFP in order to organize a special session, the deadline is February 28. It would be great to have an abundance of panels on ecocriticism and the environmental humanities at next year’s (2016) MLA. (Please note that the Forum only has one guaranteed session, so other prop…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP: MLA Special Session Proposal / Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.
“Circulating Notions of TB”
Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.
How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even active…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoThank you Heather and Ted! This site is becoming quite a trove of teaching resources — what could be better?
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Ted Geier deleted the file: Intro to Lit & Composition Course: Global Environments from
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Ted Geier uploaded the file: Animal Studies Course to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years ago(and others)
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Ted Geier uploaded the file: Intro Env Hum Course to
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Ted Geier uploaded the file: Ecocinema Course to
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Ted Geier replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoSo great.
I’m uploading two recent Summer course proposals, one on Interdiscipinary Environmental Humanities and one on Animals (and other nonhumans) and Human Culture. Also a similar short-form module on Ecocinema and a full quarter Intro to Literature course (contemporary period, “global environments”) also satisfying writing requirements at…[Read more]
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Heather I. Sullivan uploaded the file: German Course on NATURE, CULTURE, CATASTROPHES to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoUpper-division German course on Nature, Culture, Catastrophes for undergraduates at Trinity University.
Includes a wide array of texts from 1800-today.
Four main Topics:
1. Nature, Culture, Catastrophes
2. The Anthropocene, Climate Change, and Weather
3. The Pastoral and “Natural” Catastrophes
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Heather I. Sullivan replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoGreat idea! Thanks, all, for the syllabi suggestions. I’m uploading two of mine right now.
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Heather I. Sullivan uploaded the file: Science Fiction and the Environment to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoUndergraduate course at Trinity University: Counts toward the comparative literature minor, environmental studies major, geosciences major and as a literary studies course for the common curriculum.
Three Sections:
1. Eco-Warriors and Science Fiction Exporers
2. Other-worldly Ecologies, Economics, and Ecotopias
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoStephen, that’s GREAT — thank you for sharing both the syllabus and the link to the blog. I’m a fan of asking students in environmental courses to practice at being public intellectuals!
Here’s a blog my own students did for a grad course with some ecological leanings a few years back: http://eboveer.blogspot.com/
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Stephen Siperstein uploaded the file: Introduction to Climate Change Fiction to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoSyllabus for an introductory lit course on “Climate Change Fiction.” The students are almost entirely non-humanities majors and mostly underclassmen and the course is designed to be an introduction both to the study of literature and to the study of climate change.
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Stephen Siperstein replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoThis is a fantastic idea! I just posted a syllabus in the “Files” dropbox for a new course I’m teaching this term at the Univ. of Oregon on Climate Change Fiction. My students and I are also collaborating on a course blog, which the students recently voted to make public: http://blogs.uoregon.edu/eng104/
If you have a few minutes to check it ou…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception & Subjectivity in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSociety for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PAPanel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”
This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women are represented in…[Read more]
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Therí Alyce Pickens started the topic CFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Arab American Aesthetics, edited collection
<div class=”paragraph”>This edited volume takes as its main question, how might we define Arab American Aesthetics? The impetus that undergirds this query is two-fold. First, the field of Arab American Studies contests the idea that Arab Americans and their various art(s) define themselves and their…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
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Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in Arab American Lit. and Culture, and Global Arab Lit., to sign up for the new website on the MLA Commons: http://m…[Read more]
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