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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Dont’ Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRCWS Literacy Studies Sponsored Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies
Presentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska,… -
Levente T. Szabó deposited À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe first international journal of comparative literary studies, entitled Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1877-1888), was published in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Klausenburg (in former Hungary, today in Romania). The research on the pioneering multilingual journal usually foregrounds only one of the editors, Hugo von Meltzl, the young university…[Read more]
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Emily A. Hegarty started the topic CFP: Ecocomposition at the Community College in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoContributions are invited to a proposed volume of essays on teaching ecocomposition at the community college level. <span data-ccp-props=”{}”> </span>
The focus of this volume is the powerful connection between the pedagogical aims of ecocomposition and the pedagogical philosophy of community colleges. Today, all higher education faces a greater…[Read more]
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Ian Barnard started the topic Candidate for Writing Pedagogies forum executive committee in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the Writing Pedagogies forum, so I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and my commitments.
In my scholarship over the years, I have argued that we teachers of writing need to debunk common dispositions and practices around writing pedagogy (e.g., about…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA sobering look at adjunct faculty: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty?CMP=share_btn_fb
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Laurence D. Roth started the topic CFP: American Jews and Music: Assembling New Canons and Contexts in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoSpecial Issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature
Guest editors: Jonathan Freedman and Laurence Roth
If the first major waves of popular interest in, philanthropic funding of, and scholarship on contemporary Jewish music and songwriters in the U.S. have finally receded, they’ve left a treasure in their wake. From Orthodox popular music and…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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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, 6 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 Community Colleges on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSyllabus for an online, 12 week, general education literature course for non-majors.
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Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThank you so much! I’m certain they will be.
–Veronica
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Sarah P. Casteel replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDear Veronica,
Thanks very much for your interest in our cfp. Below are the references you requested–I hope they are helpful!
All the best,
Sarah
Boyarin, Jonathan. Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992.
Cheyette, Bryan. Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the N…[Read more]
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Anthony Adler deposited Deconfabulation: Agamben’s Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAgamben’s self-professed epigonism underwrites his entire project, serving as an even more fundamental methodological concept than the signature, paradigm, and archeology. In Infancy and History, Agamben maintains that transcendental experience is no longer a viable source of philosophical insight; philosophers go astray referring their thinking b…[Read more]
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Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoI’m sorry to show my ignorance, but these topics sound really important to a project I’m working on, and I don’t know the sources you are citing. I’d love to look them up. Would you be able to give me the citations you reference in the parentheses? Thank you so much. Again, I apologize if I should already know this.
–Veronica Schanoes
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Anthony Adler deposited The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau” in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAn analysis of the politics of sound and noise in Kafka’s “Der Bau.”
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