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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAlthough the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Teaching Beyond University in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]
Teaching Beyond University
In its effort to recognize other spaces for postgraduate careers beyond 4-year institutions, the Teaching as a Profession Forum is inviting submissions for a virtual roundtable focused on teaching beyond a traditional university department. We are…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Ungrading as Liberatory Practice in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]
Ungrading as Liberatory Practice
As a pedagogical practice, ungrading decenters grade-based assessment and focuses instead on student learning. It is based on the philosophical premise that grades are not an accurate assessment of learning, and institutionalized grading…[Read more]
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James R. Britton started the topic Three CFPs–MLA 2024 in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.
- The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to a…
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations for the Prose Fiction Forum executive committee in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.
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Tahneer Oksman started the topic Seeking nominations in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through January 2029.
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Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoVirginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic Two Tenure-Track Teaching Positions in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoColumbus State Community College is a great place to work! The college has amplified our efforts to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across hiring, curriculum, and teaching.
Our positions are posted here:
Link to Tenure-Track Instructor – Rhetoric and Composition
If you have questions about the positions, college, or Columbus, feel f…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn’s depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoWar diaries are often written under duress, and are attempts at documenting events as they unfold, or narrating stories of how people survive under trying circumstances. She argues that conditions of war under which authors produce their work dictate the form itself. When an author’s life is under threat, when safety is compromised, m…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Brechtian Theatre and the Glocal South The Case from South Africa in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe glocal scale offers a more productive frame for analyzing the transculturation of theatre, particular Brechtian theory and practice, than either the singularly local or the generalized global. Glocalization brings into focus networks of imaginative representation that may be missed in overbroad applications of global frameworks, particularly…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe’s Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoSponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023). I’m a disabled and unemployed musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote div…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.
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