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Élika Ortega started the topic ERA Chair vacancy announcement for a professor in DIGITAL HUMANITIES in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear all,
Sten Kauber at Tallinn University has asked me to share this opportunity with the group. Please, see below:
Tallinn University (TLU) is launching a European Commission
funded ERA Chair project on Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN). As a first step we seek to fill the Chair itself – a professorship in cultural data analytics. This wo…[Read more] -
Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth and Pura Fernández. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Cal State, Long Beach in…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoIn his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan started the topic November 10th Deadline! CFP: ACH Conference for Computing and the Humanities: in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe deadline for submitting papers to the inaugural conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is coming up on Saturday, November 10th. Have you submitted an abstract yet?
The conference will take place in Pittsburgh, PA, July 23-26, 2019 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.
ACH is the United States-based c…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic MLA + AHA THATCamp — Call for Organizers in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOn January 2nd, we’re going to have an MLA + AHA THATCamp at University of Illinois at Chicago. We’re looking for a few people to take the lead on organizing it.
A THATCamp doesn’t have a program set ahead of time, so the work would mainly be to manage the registrations ahead of time and to facilitate on the day. Seth Denbo (director of sc…[Read more]
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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic Literary Universals Workshop at the University of Connecticut in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLITERARY UNIVERSALS WORKSHOP
The University of Connecticut, Storrs24 May 2019
Announcement and Call for Papers
Literary universals include properties and structures ranging, for example, from genre patterns through metaphor and imagery, and from ethical or political themes through formal features of prosody. Technically, literary universals are…[Read more]
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Tobias Warner started the topic Warner — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,
I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.
I am an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis where I teach literature and film from West Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Radiant Virtuality in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis chapter situates the Victoria’s Lost Pavilion project (https://pavilion.chass.ncsu.edu/) amid related work in virtual modeling and their interpretive problematics. Drawing from a tradition in textual criticism, the chapter renovates Jerome McGann’s notion of “radiant textuality” to extended virtual objects and built environments in digital…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic Book Reviews in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe scholarly journal Academic Labor: Research and Artistry has published its latest issue, and it includes a submission from me that reviews two recent books on contingent academic labor: “Reviews of Daniel Davis’s Contingent Academic Labor and Lisa del Rosso’s Confessions of an Accidental…[Read more]
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Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOffering a reading of Mongane Wally Serote’s Revelations (2010) alongside other recent novels by black South African writers, this essay answers calls for more careful analyses of the roles that race plays within post-apartheid literature and culture. As it questions the shift away from a concern with institutional racism and white supremacy t…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart started the topic From Candidate Maria Shine Stewart in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI first observed the starkly different working conditions of full-time and part-time faculty as an English department secretary many years ago. Fast forward 35 years: Too little has changed at too few institutions for larger and larger numbers of adjunct, non-tenure-track, term, or contingent faculty. I teach at up to four northeast Ohio colleges…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe first section of David Mitchell’s genre-bending novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), purports to be set in 1850. Narrative clues approximately date the intra-diegetic diary object of this chapter to the period 1851–1910. This article argues for the construction of a stylistic historical imaginary of this period’s language that is not based on mimet…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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