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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Esther Jones started the topic Position Announcement: Health Humanities & Race, Clark University, Worcester MA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoTeaching Fellowship in Health Humanities and Race
CLARK UNIVERSITY, WORCESTER, MA. Health Humanities and Race. Renewable Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, beginning Fall 2017. The successful applicant will teach three courses the first year and four in the second year, beginning undergraduate to graduate level; give one public lecture based o…[Read more] -
Nate Mickelson started the topic CFP Writing as a Way of Being Conference – DUE FEB 1, 2017 in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years agoWriting as a Way of Being Human
Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
2017 Summer ConferenceYMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO
June 22-25, 2017Inspired by keynote speaker Robert Yagelski’s Writing as a Way of Being, the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL)’s summer 2017 conference will bring together tea…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years agoThanks for the update, Stacey! That makes sense, especially with next year’s conference theme. I’ll look forward to the session.
We’ll pursue another session separately, and I’ll connect with others on the thread as we begin planning.
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years agoHi Katrina
The CC Executive Committee is going in a different direction with our one session this year, focusing on external pressures that affect academic freedom and student learning and how we can respond.
However, Ian Sherman-Youngblood of the ADE Executive Committee is going to be in contact with you to discuss a possible collaborative…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years agoHi everyone, and happy new year! For those of you who were in Philly last week, I hope you had a great convention.
Our Humanities Alliance team at the Graduate Center is beginning to plan for next year’s conference opportunities, and I wanted to check back and see how the CC Forum Executive Committee meeting went. If there was interest in a…[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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month 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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Suzanne del Gizzo started the topic Hemingway Society Founders' Fellowship: Updated Link in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoUpdated Link–the link in my first post did not work. Here is the post again with a working link. Thanks.
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>The Hemingway Foundation and Society invites applications for two $1000.00 Founders’ fellowships to support scholars working in Hemingway studies. Although the competition is open to all scholars, pre…[Read more] -
Evie Shockley started the topic CSWP Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoGreetings, Colleagues!
On behalf of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, I’d like to invite you to the two linked panels we’ve organized for this year’s convention, which we hope will be of interest to many of you:
Friday, 6 January
<b>283. Embattled Rhetorics: Claiming Otherness, Recasting Privilege</b>
<i>12:00 noon–1:15 p…[Read more]
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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Miles McCrimmon posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCheck out the Comments section of Session 412 in the MLA Program at https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=412&year=2017 for bios and intros for our four panelists’ talks from 5:15–6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6th, in Franklin 11, Philadelphia Marriott.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the presence of the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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