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Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Teaching Literature Book Award Winner 2015 in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP (ACLA 2016): Public Humanities in a Digital Age in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoSubmissions due 09/23.
The NEH’s recently launched Public Scholar program, a burgeoning number of public humanities initiatives and centers all over the country, and the increasing requirement of grant and job seekers that their work have a public component all indicate a redefinition of the public intellectual. Many of the products of such i…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”' in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on…[Read more]
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Jodi Melamed started the topic Finance Capital and the University in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider attending the following panel sponsored by our division:
Sunday, 10 January
803. Finance Capital and the University
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Presiding: Christopher John Newfield, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
1. “Securitization and University of Finance,” Am…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Marie-Eve Monette started the topic CFP: "Digital Humanities in the Global North and South" in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to consider participating in the panel “Digital Humanities in the Global North and South: Trends, Debates, Initiatives” that I am co-organizing for the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2016 in Connecticut. You can access the Call for Papers by opening the following link:…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic French Academics Report on University Conditions in Palestine in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe French organization AURDIP (Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine) has recently released the report of a delegation to Palestine of 8 academics from 5 European countries. The full report on conditions for Palestinian scholars, teachers and students under occupation and blockade is available he…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Invitation to Comment on New MLA Volume on Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoWe are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now open for peer review on MLA Commons. As is this is a volume on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please take a look and add your tho…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education Deadline Extended in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
The…[Read more]
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Salah D. Hassan started the topic Executive Council Statement against Censorship in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe MLA Executive Council has issued a statement against the censorship of controversial speech and reaffirmed its endorsement of academic freedom.
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Dennis Looney deposited "What Should You Expect from the MLA Job Interview? And What Do Your Interviewers Expect from You? in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort piece on the structure of the typical academic job interview in languages and literatures.
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Dennis Looney deposited "Some of My Best Friends Are Foreign Language Teachers" in the group
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoShort reflection on the marginalization of foreign language departments and teachers on the typical college campus (written in 2001).
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Siendou Konaté started the topic CFP Hegemony and Domination in Translation Studies in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparées (CIEC)/ Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS)
Volume 2 Numéro 1
Hégémonie et domination en traductologie
La traduction a été perçue comme la “reproduction du message” du texte original dans la langue-culture cible par Eugene Nida et Charles Taber (Theory and Practice of Translation, Leiden: E.J.…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Talal Asad on academic boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoThis brief essay by Talal Asad gives a very economical account of the rationale and necessity of academic boycott:
Talal Asad: Why do I support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement?
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Martin B. Shichtman started the topic Zionism and the Left in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoIn this brilliant article written in 2003, Ellen Willis considers the the arguments America’s left has deployed in turning from Zionism. She suggests that for her, as a leftist and as a feminist, such arguments ultimately ring hollow.
Is There Still a Jewish Question? Why I’m an Anti-Anti-Zionist
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Keith Tse started the topic Teaching Chinese language and linguistics in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoI have just started a group on teaching Chinese language and linguistics. If anyone is interested, please join the group and we’ll discuss aspects of our experiences as teachers and students of Chinese. I look forward to hearing from many of you!
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