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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.
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Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more CFP:
NEW APPROACHES TO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds…[Read more] -
Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please note the following Slavic-related CFPs for the MLA 2015 conference!
The Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2015: Collaborative Session, Discussion Group for Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature and Division for Slavic and East European Literatures
From Siberia to the Planet Mars
Papers should analyze science fiction narratives produced in Russia, Eurasia, Eastern Europe, in any medium: literature, television, film, etc.…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2015, Discussion Group in Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature
Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation?…[Read more] -
Steve Rowland started the topic Call for participants: Survey for development of Shakespeare Central in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,
CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.
<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoAnd here is that good article in the University of Arizona newspaper with the abysmal photo…
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/01/exhibit-links-sci-fi-and-the-arts
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoSorry about the typo. OBVIOUSLY it is ARIZONA, not Atizona…
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere is more for college instructors planning curriculum…
The library display is called “Mars Madness: Sci-Fi, Popular Culture and Ray Bradbury’s Literary Journey
to Outer Space”and it opens on January 21st-though August. I am guest curating this exhibit for them.We are opening an interdisciplinary display about science fiction writer Ray B…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about part time faculty in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoFive or six articles in the current issue of the ADE Bulletin address important statistical and other issues related to PTF. Bayta Weinbaum, Karen Lentz Madison, Sue Doe, Jack Longmate and other contingent and precarious faculty members, or their allies, have written excellent analyses of the current status of PTF in the academy. We would like…[Read more]
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Mahli Xuan Mechenbier started the topic Sue Doe's ADE article in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoHi, Group.
I want to share a link to Sue Doe’s ADE article, and I invite comments from everyone:
http://www.mla.org/adefl_bulletin_d_ade_153_23.pdf
It was a pleasure to see everyone in Chicago!
–Mahli
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Election of new members! Next Year's Panel ideas? in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoVirginia Cooper joins us from Montana, and Lee Skallerup Bessette from Kentucky! We are overjoyed to have new members join the committee!
If you would like to work with the committee as a non-member of the Executive committee, please use this forum to direct us to initiatives that you believe will be useful for MLA 2015 in Vancouver, or during…[Read more]
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Gerry Canavan started the topic CFP: SFRA at WisCon in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere’s the CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will convene at the WisCon feminist fan convention in Madison, WI. The deadline is February 1.
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Janelle A. Jenstad replied to the topic Globe to Globe Shakespeare in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoSteve: I’m the Assistant Coordinating Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (internetshakespeare.uvic.ca). If you are willing to share your work in our open-access environment (used by students and scholars in 149+ countries), we’d love to host your stories and interview excerpts. Would you be in touch at your convenience?
Janelle Jenstad…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoNOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the PTF Committee!
The Executive Committee for the Part-time Faculty Discussion Group would encourage members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other active and hard-working Part time faculty member to serve on the committee. The term is four years. The group is eligible to put forward a…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoThis is an important call for 800 word responses to a congressman’s inquiry about working conditions of part time faculty. Please make time this week or next to write your story.http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/eforum
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