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Cheryl E. Ball started the topic Petition for Literacy Studies forum in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Teaching of Writing forum members:
MLA has tentatively approved a new forum for Literacy Studies under the Rhetoric and Writing Studies group, but it needs 35 MLA members to sign the petition by June 15 in order for the forum to make for the 2014 year. Currently, 8 people have signed the petition, which is located here:…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.
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Susannah Mary Chewning started the topic Committee for the Community College MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:
The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP MLA15: Teaching Writing in Context in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA
While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a learning…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPlease check the Two Year College Discussion Group Forum and Blog pages for new Calls for Papers for MLA 2015!
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CCHA (MLA Allied organization) CFP for MLA15 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
contact email: sdonohue@cocc.edu
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Two Year College Discussion Group CFP for MLA 15 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA
contact email:
While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a…[Read more]
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Susannah Mary Chewning started the topic Committee for the Community College MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:
The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]
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Kellie Charron started the topic CFP Winter 2014 in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoThe Winter 2014 (Vol. 18, Iss. 4) Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice. Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical…[Read more]
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Kellie Charron started the topic Call for Papers: AEQ Winter 2014 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoThe Winter 2014 (Vol. 18, Iss. 4) Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice. Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
Dean Albert Ramser replied to the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoI too have noticed more listings for FT TT Instructors, and I am blessed to have interviewed for a few of the recent openings. In addition there are more adjunct assignments – I taught 11 classes last semester and I’m teaching 8 this semester, plus I picked up new campus as well. Times are better!
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoWonderful news, Elizabeth! Community Colleges in Oregon, too, have openings for full time, tenure track faculty in English. After years of double digit enrollment growth, and not enough of an increase in tenure track faculty, we are playing catch up.
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Elizabeth Schwartz Crane started the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoDue to budget improvements in California, many CA Community Colleges are hiring FT TT English & FL faculty members. Check the Chronicle of Higher Ed and MLA JIL for postings!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about part time faculty in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoFive or six articles in the current issue of the ADE Bulletin address important statistical and other issues related to PTF. Bayta Weinbaum, Karen Lentz Madison, Sue Doe, Jack Longmate and other contingent and precarious faculty members, or their allies, have written excellent analyses of the current status of PTF in the academy. We would like…[Read more]
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Mahli Xuan Mechenbier started the topic Sue Doe's ADE article in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoHi, Group.
I want to share a link to Sue Doe’s ADE article, and I invite comments from everyone:
http://www.mla.org/adefl_bulletin_d_ade_153_23.pdf
It was a pleasure to see everyone in Chicago!
–Mahli
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Election of new members! Next Year's Panel ideas? in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoVirginia Cooper joins us from Montana, and Lee Skallerup Bessette from Kentucky! We are overjoyed to have new members join the committee!
If you would like to work with the committee as a non-member of the Executive committee, please use this forum to direct us to initiatives that you believe will be useful for MLA 2015 in Vancouver, or during…[Read more]
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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