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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
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History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University, May 6-7, 2016
On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the majority of…[Read more] -
Peter M. Logan deposited Introduction to Digital Research in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for beginning graduate students introducing them to the theory and methods of digital research in literary study by combining conceptual and critical reading with practical and critical writing assignments.
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Linda V Troost deposited Getting My Feet Wet in a Small DH Pond: Teaching a DH Course in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoA description of a successful team-taught introductory literature/DH course on “Identity, Ethnicity, and the Digital Humanities” at Washington & Jefferson College.
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Linda V Troost deposited Getting My Feet Wet in a Small DH Pond: Teaching a DH Course in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoA description of a successful team-taught introductory literature/DH course on “Identity, Ethnicity, and the Digital Humanities” at Washington & Jefferson College.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited John Milton: the First Modern in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoJohn Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited ENGL 4864: History and Theory of the Novel in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis syllabus delineates the readings and assignments for an advanced undergraduate course on the history and theory of the novel taught in fall 2014 at the University of Georgia.
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FMSH in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoWithin the framework of the grant program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FMSH, I’m looking for a partner in the US –the program supports only research projects whose goal is to set up or to strengthen collaborations between US and European universities. The research topic is the Republic of Letters. If interested, please contact me asap at c…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited The Presence of Digital Process in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data Envy in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPanelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Book review: A new republic of letters: Memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA book review of Jerome McGann’s A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
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Paul Fyfe deposited Interpretive Machines in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes an interdisciplinary course for first-year students in the NC State University Honors program in Fall 2015. “Interpretive Machines” offers a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit our cultural inheritance and ideas. The course also…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Interpretive Machines in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes an interdisciplinary course for first-year students in the NC State University Honors program in Fall 2015. “Interpretive Machines” offers a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit our cultural inheritance and ideas. The course also…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Reading Literature in the Digital Age in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes a first-year interdisciplinary honors course undertaken in fall 2014 at NC State University. It welcomes students into a hands-on environment for thinking about and practicing with new and old platforms for reading, interpretation, and understanding. It attempts to bridge book history and digital humanities into an…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Reading Literature in the Digital Age in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes a first-year interdisciplinary honors course undertaken in fall 2014 at NC State University. It welcomes students into a hands-on environment for thinking about and practicing with new and old platforms for reading, interpretation, and understanding. It attempts to bridge book history and digital humanities into an…[Read more]
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Jade R. Ferguson started the topic CFP: Respect, Responsibility, Coalition, Relation (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoRespect, Responsibility, Coalition, Relation
In the wake of Idle No More and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, writers and scholars are called to self-reflexively articulate and act upon a politics or poetics of relation. What forms might such a politics or poetics take? How are these reflected in…[Read more] -
Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for special session, "Archival Boundaries" in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPosting this on behalf of colleagues – a special session called “Archival Boundaries” that will have the format of a roundtable discussion. Please consult the CFP: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_9146. 200-word abstracts are due by Friday, March 18.
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited Effective Practices for Teaching Online??? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn 2011, U.S. News & World Report indicated that online courses had been increasing for nine straight years in a row. Or, the online presence has been continuously growing since roughly the turn of the century. The Online Learning Consortium just published a report on online learning for 2015, from which we can the pervasiveness of the online…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHow do we offer feedback to essays? Over time, the response as narrative has become problematic. Class sizes have increased, more classes are being taught, fewer professors are teaching composition. Time has become even more scarce as duties outside the classroom multiply for full-time faculty. In addition, technology has changed the way by…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHow do we offer feedback to essays? Over time, the response as narrative has become problematic. Class sizes have increased, more classes are being taught, fewer professors are teaching composition. Time has become even more scarce as duties outside the classroom multiply for full-time faculty. In addition, technology has changed the way by…[Read more]
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