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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTechnology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Essential Kafka, Josephine the Songstress in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoKafka’s last short story: Josephine die Saengerin – as translated by Phillip Lundberg. Copyright Free translation as stated on the copyright page of Essential Kafka.
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Susan Zieger started the topic Executive Forum Candidacy in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI’m Susan Zieger and I am running for the Executive Committee of CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. I’ll briefly introduce my academic work and my plans for the Committee should I have the honor to represent our fields and critical interests to the MLA.
I am Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside; I received my Ph.…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The Syllabus as Scholarship in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOne of a series of blog posts reflecting on #HumetricsHSS, the work of the Humane Metrics for the Humanities team at the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute in 2016.
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Gillian Dooley started the topic Immortal Austen – a conference in Australia, 13-16 July 2017 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Immortal Austen
An International Conference
Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 13-16 July 2017
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Devoney Looser (Arizona State)
Prof Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Assoc. Prof Clara Tuite (Melbourne)
When Jane Austen…[Read more] -
James Mulholland started the topic MLA Ballot 2016 in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Everyone,
Now that the ballot is open for the MLA nominations, I thought I’d introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me already and have a sense of who I am. My name is James Mulholland and I’ve been nominated to serve on this forum’s executive committee.
I am an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University and…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP: 18th-Century Camp! (Special Issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue: 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” Fo…[Read more]
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Laura R. Braunstein deposited Approximating the University: The Information Literacy Practices of Novice Researchers in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn a seminal essay, David Bartholomae asserts that novice writers need to “invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language.” Instructors and librarians who work with beginning academic writers confirm Bartholomae’s assertion. Our research asks how, precisely, novice writer-researchers go about inventing the university before they…[Read more]
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Lenora Hanson started the topic Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis year the MLA Executive Council is sponsoring the roundtable session “Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor” on Saturday, January 7th from 8:30-9:45 in 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center. Please share information about this session widely:
Participants include: Laura Goldblatt, Global Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the…[Read more]
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Val Dumond replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago
After a five year struggle, my book, American-English: The Official Guide, has been published and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle. Not a “rule” book, it is aimed at writers and emphasizes the benefits of creating Your Style Manual and recording personal choices of grammar and punctuation usage. A special section offers…[Read more]
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Pamela Herron replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoMy chapter “East to West – The Inter-Connectedness of All Things Created” will be published in the forthcoming book Sustainability in/and Writing Intensive Courses as part of the Lexington Books’ Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series. The book should be out by MLA 2017.
Thanks!
Pam
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHave you recently published a book, presented a project, or won an award? Share your news with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter. Message me your news here on the Commons (@terrainsvagues) or e-mailcommons@mla.org over the next couple of days to be included in the September issue!
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Thomas Oliver Beebee deposited Introduction: Departures, Emanations, Intersections in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis is the introduction to the book German Literature as World Literature published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014.
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: What is German Literature? (30.09.16) NEMLA in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis panel at the NEMLA Annual Convenion in Baltimore, 23-26 March 2017, will consider the question of how “German” literature has been conceived in the past, and of how such conceptions may be changing as we head into the future. We begin with the polyvalence of the adjective “German,” which can refer either to the language, or to an ethnic…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data within & without in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan deposited Let's Get Real: The Victorian Novel in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for an advanced graduate course on realism and the Victorian novel taught at Temple University in Fall 2015.
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