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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Forgive the intrusion, but I thought some members of this group might be interested in the following (and the HuMetrics team would certainly be interested in hearing the perspectives of those interested in writing pedagogies):
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and p…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Introduction to Fiction syllabus (online course) in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for an online, 12 week, general education literature course for non-majors.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Rags Make Paper, Paper Makes Money: Material Texts and Metaphors of Capital in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoBecause nineteenth-century paper was made from rags, the materiality of paper money became a likely ground from which to debate the nature of value in modern capitalism. On one hand, if paper money was backed by nothing but itself, then it was worth little more than itself: a gathering of lowly rags. On the other hand, the process of turning…[Read more]
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Danizete Martínez started the topic CFP: Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story in the discussion
History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please consider submitting a proposal.
Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story
The editors of this collection invite proposals for essays that address issues of justice and equity that emerge through the telling, writing, and remembering of the immigrant story in the writing classroom. In particular, we invite papers…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Susan Tane Travel Grants for joint PS/NHS Conference in Kyoto in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSusan Tane Travel Grants, Flight, and Hotel Information for Poe Scholars Traveling to Kyoto:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J.…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Kyoto Conference – Deadline: August 1, 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Conference
Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan
The Poe Studies Association, The Poe Society of Japan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan invite paper and session proposals for a joint conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan on June 21-24, 2018. Our banquet speaker w…[Read more] -
Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Kyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, etc. in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoKyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, Flight, Hotel, and Contact Information:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J. Colacurcio and…[Read more] -
James Elkins deposited Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited What Is a Fragment of / in Fiction? Thoughts on Pierre Senges’s “Fragments of Lichtenberg” in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited Compulsively Fractal Writing and Its Limits: Thoughts on Stephen Dixon, and Especially “Frog” in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited The Anonymous Images in Raymond Roussel’s “New Impressions of Africa” in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams
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Timothy Robbins started the topic Seeking Contributors to The Open Anthology of Early American Literature in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p dir=”ltr”>Dear C-19 friends and colleagues,</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>We are currently seeking writers, editors, and contributors of all kinds to The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook under development with the Rebus Community. Rebus is a non-profit organization that works with faculty,…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Resource on William T,. Stead human rights / Labor advocate (UK- Chicago 1893) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA figure who should be back in our minds these days, British journalist/reformer William T. Stead came to cover the 1893 Chicago world’s fair and wrote If Christ came to Chicago about the “philistines” running the corrupt exploitation of the poor in the town. Some pillars of Chicago society pages and front pews in posh churches paid the tax on…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoReview Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Reclaiming Revolution: William Wells Brown’s Irreducible Haitian Heroes in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article focuses on William Wells Brown’s 1854 history of the Haitian Revolution.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited “Feebler than the Original”: Translation and Early Black Transnationalism in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article reads the printing and commentary on Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” in Frederick Douglass’ Paper as an act and theorization of translation.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited The North Star and the Atlantic 1848 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article explores the coverage of the 1848 uprisings in Europe by the North Star, a black newspaper edited by Frederick Douglass.
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