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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoTeaching of Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the impli…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI @ MLA: Call for Papers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoIl poeta civile: ieri, oggi e domani
Call for Papers: AATI @ MLA (Philadelphia, PA)
January 5-8, 2017
For Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death marked the loss of a great poeta civile whose work uniquely bore a Leftist political stamp.
“La poesia civile era sempre stata a destra in Italia, dall’inizio dell’Ottocento, da Foscolo…[Read more]
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Charlotte Ann Melin deposited Beyond Enrollment Data: Why Students and Program Evaluation Matter in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoSession #339: paper for AAUSC panel QUO VADIMUS?
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Nancy Caronia started the topic Two CFPs: Italian American Lit Forum MLA 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoSee below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian…[Read more] -
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: AATI @ Naples June 2016! in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoNOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES
Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.
Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.
<u>Completed Sessions and Roundtables</u> with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.
FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, CO…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: AATI @ Naples June 2016 in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoNOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES
Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.
Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.
<u>Completed Sessions and Roundtables</u> with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.
FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, CO…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: AATI @ Naples June 2016 in the discussion
Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoNOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES
Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.
Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.
<u>Completed Sessions and Roundtables</u> with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.
FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, CO…[Read more]
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Connecting Curriculum to Context: Our Story of Two Liberal Arts College Spanish Programs Engaged in a Changing South in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe purpose of this article is to refl ect upon the process by which two professors in Spanish programs at small liberal arts colleges in the southeastern United States developed courses with civic engagement components that enabled our students to engage with the local Hispanic community in meaningful ways. From the outset, we focused on what we…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: MLA 2017 Session on "The 'Uses' of Literature" in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Executive Forum Session on The Teaching of Literature:
“The ‘Uses’ of Literature”
The focus of this session will be to explore the “uses” of literature and literary study from a wide variety of points of view. In her book The Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), Rita Felski argues that “reflecting on why literature matters . . . allows us…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited "Why Do Research?" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoPMLA Forum piece that argues for the direct and indirect value of the scholarly enterprise to the sacred art of teaching.
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited "Write YOUR Story" children's writing workshop in the news! in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn this free workshop, children and preteens (age 8-12) creatively explore and expand their sense of self by thinking and writing about their life – past, present, and future. Group activities, games, solitary writing, and illustrating provide for a fun and productive setting. Students will receive individual attention and gradually realize how…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Items of Potential Interest in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and even to share some of your own.
– Nicky Aga…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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Kimberly K. Dougherty deposited Urban Assault, Past and Future: Firebombing and Killer Robots in Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIn this article I examine the way Collins, in her young adult novel Mockingjay, connects historical context of an urban firebombing like those frequently seen during World War II, with the fictional presentation of a firebombing reminiscent of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five to present the horrors of war to a new generation. I then show how she m…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Executive Committee-Courtmanche in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMy name is Jason Courtmanche and I have been nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the Teaching of Literature Forum. For the last nine years I have been the Director of the Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs and Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut. I was a high school English teacher for 12 years before earning my PhD,…[Read more]
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Tia Black deposited Worldviews in Literature: An Anthology in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWorldviews in Literature: An Anthology responds to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s 2012 global initiatives for study of world literature for a “New Humanism” along with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s directive for world literature “to discover what is universal across national literatures.” Worldviews includes fifteen authors fro…[Read more]
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