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Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoPanel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years agoTheories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Seeking Nominations for the "Language Change" Forum in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe Language Change Forum is seeking to fill one position on its Executive Committee. The position will be for the duration of 5 years. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please send your nominations (including self-nomination) to Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, g…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited The Art of the Book in the Digital Age syllabus (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe attached syllabus was written for my Honors undergraduate seminar “The Art of the Book in the Digital Age,” taught Fall 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. Here is an excerpt from the course description: “The book’s role and significance within literary culture is being scrutinized today with an intensity unseen for five centuries. Nowhere is this quest…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoI hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:
491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual F…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Two 'Language Change' panels at MLA (Thursday and Saturday) in Philadelphia in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThursday, 5 January
The Changing Boundaries of Language Instruction
1:45–3:00 p.m., 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change
Presiding: D. Brian Mann, Univ. of North Georgia
“The Lingering Problem of the Native Speaker in Foreign Language Education,” Margaret Keneman, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Reading and Responding to Literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe invite explorations of pedagogical practices addressing specific language structures in the context of a literary text, thus, uniting literature and English language studies.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Literary and Non-literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe invite abstracts that approach texts from a linguistic perspective in order to explore potential commonalities and differences between literary and non-literary language.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Thoroughness vs Intuitive navigation for an online database in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since ther…[Read more]
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser and Gender at ALA in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Women’s and Gender Studies Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Make a Suggestion for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoLSL Language and Society will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoJust a reminder…
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoJust a reminder…the deadline approaches!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechd…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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