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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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Laurie Ringer deposited Entangled States: Putting Affect Theory into Play with Nnedi Okorafor and Ann Leckie in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhatever your theory and whatever your fandom, you don’t have to abandon it to do affect theory. This is because affect theory isn’t about telling you which side to pick in an agonistic contest; it’s about finding out what a body can do as it moves with other bodies in entangled states, whether or not we notice them. Affect theory offers more…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCourse syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.
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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Polish Culture in Lesson 0 in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCulture and traditions constitute the essential elements in the process of Polish language education. The textbook Hurra po polsku. Podręcznik studenta by Małgorzata Małolepsza & Aneta Szymkiewicz in Lesson 0 introduces briefly Polish phonetic system and greeting expressions without offering any follow up exercises in the Hurra po polsku. Ze…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.(Sponsored by LLC…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: CFP deadline extended, March 15 in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change extended its CFP for the 2019 MLA in Chicago to March 15. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity performance. 300-…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum, CFP 2019: deadline today in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2019 MLA in Chicago. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity per…[Read more] -
Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Canada’s Troubling Indifference to the Air India Bombing in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhy has the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing not claimed a more prominent place in Canadian history and public memory?
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2019 – Please share! in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWe are pleased to share the CFP for our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored sessions and the CFP for a collaborative session with the LSL Language and Society Forum. Please share with colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal for either session.
RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored session:
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are…[Read more]
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureAn LLC EAST ASIAN Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with…[Read more]
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Carolina Gonzalez started the topic Call for Papers: Selected Topics in Romance Lingusitics at MLA 2019 in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDate: January 03-06, 2019.
Location: Chicago
Contact Person: Carolina González (cgonzalez3@fsu.edu)Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Romance Linguistics; Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: March 15, 2018
Meeting Description and Call for Papers:
The Romance Linguistics Forum welcomes a…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers started the topic CFP: Community College and the Future of the Humanities (NYC), due March 31 in the discussion
The Two-Year College via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for:
“Community College and the Future of the Humanities”*#humsCC*
A National Conference Convened by LaGuardia Community College and the
Graduate Center, City University of New YorkOctober 18 and 19, 2018
Community colleges are redefining the importance and centrality of the
humanities to the lives of the “new majority” of…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest Hungary,29-31 August 2018 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThe comparative studies journals Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University), Neohelicon (Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary), and Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (East China Normal University, Shanghai), with support of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, will sponsor an international conference in Budapest, Hungary, from 29-31 Augu…[Read more]
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Michael A. Burke started the topic CFP (MLA 2019, Chicago): Transcending Boundaries in Composition in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 8 years agoHow might first-year writing students negotiate multiple audiences, modalities, and technologies? What textual and transactional hijinks might ensue?
300-word abstracts to Mike Burke, mburke@stlcc.edu, by 9 March 2018.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: 2019 CFP in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2019 MLA in Chicago. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity per…[Read more] -
Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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