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Rosanne Kennedy posted an update in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Memory Studies Colleagues,
I’m pleased to have been nominated for the Executive Committee for Memory Studies, and wanted to tell you about my activities. My early work (World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, ed with Jill Bennett, 2003) stimulated dialogue between postcolonial studies and memory studies. I examined memory and t…[Read more] -
Anne Donlon started the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI’m interested to hear what people have been reading lately. Today I’m reading Bécquer Seguín’s Spanish Civil Wars in Public Books:
To see Iberia instead of Spain, then, is to take the long view of history. To write an Iberian Civil War novel is to spend less time on the exceptionalness of the war itself than on how that moment places the lo…
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay deposited 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award commendation in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe Teaching Literature Book Award is an international, juried prize, awarded biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English at Idaho State University. This commendation discusses both the winning volume and an honorable mention.
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David Wacks deposited SPAN 150: Introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in Comics in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoDescription: This course is an introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with an emphasis on comics and graphic novels. In this course we will learn about the graphic novel as an artistic vehicle for studying the history and cultures of Spain and Latin America (including the Latino US). There will be a series of guest appearances from…[Read more]
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited History of Scholarship Project (MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoObjective: Using the MLA International Bibliography, students will develop a presentation that demonstrates their understanding of how scholarship on a single work of literature changes over time.
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Bill Hughes started the topic CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird
University of Hertfordshire, 6-7 April, 2018
The OGOM Project is known for its imaginative events and symposia, which have often been accompanied by a media frenzy. We were the first to invite vampires into the academy back in 2010. Our most recent endeavour, Company of Wolves:…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
1. Learn “close reading” strategies for…[Read more] -
John Robert Ziegler replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoI divide my research between early modern English literature, especially drama (the focus of my doctoral research), and contemporary pop culture, with a concentration on the pop-culture side on monsters/the supernatural/sci-fi that has increased over time. Currently, I am working on an article about shapeshifting and subjectivity in the video game…[Read more]
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Fiona Mitchell replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoExcellent idea, Caitlin. Thanks for getting it started.
I work in ancient Greek literature and myth primarily, although I’m interested in the way that Greek texts and narratives interact with those from other cultures. At the moment I’m working on the connections between ancient Greek and Indian creation narratives, including the monstrous…[Read more]
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Shaun Huston deposited Live/Work: Portland, Oregon as a Place for Comics Creation in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn the documentary, Comic Book City, Portland, Oregon USA, I construct a representation of the city as a place for comics creation. In this paper, I distill key insights from my interviews with writers, artists, and publishers regarding the decision to live and work in Portland. My documentary research suggests that creators are attracted by…[Read more]
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Shaun Huston deposited Digital Cinema, Montage and Other Visualities in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDigital technology is enabling a reconceptualization of film and cinema. The pliability of digital media opens up, particularly, the theory and practice of montage to revision. This pliability allows for cheap and easy copying and combining of images, and, relatedly, the transition from film frame to digital screen provides a less precious and…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Family Documents, Analogy, and Reconciliation in the Works of Carme Riera in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoIn La meitat de l’ànima and Temps d’innocència Carme Riera looks to the family album and personal history to reconcile with Spain’s turbulent past. The fictionalization of history emphasizes the unstable nature of the past and the improbability of “truth.” Through letters and photographs the past lives in the present yet remains elusive as m…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi Anne- I’m still gathering information and reading about Kea. Nothing in the works yet. I look forward to seeing the anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism! sounds great.
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoI recently listened to the International Communism and the Spanish Civil War episode of @sguillory‘s Sean’s Russia Blog Podcast, featuring @lkirschenb! It was excellent–I highly recommend it: http://seansrussiablog.org/2017/07/07/international-communism-and-the-spanish-civil-war/
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Thanks, Anne! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoOh, that’s so great to hear! Are you writing about Kea? I’m finalizing a chapter for an anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism about black women’s life writing and the Spanish Civil War that discusses the ambulance fundraising tour around the south & midwest of the US that Kea & Thyra Edwards undertook in 1938 (and Edwards’s scrapbook…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Introductions in the discussion
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSince we’re all approaching monsters from different disciplines, perhaps it might be helpful to briefly introduce yourself and explain how you use monsters/monstrosity in your work here.
I’ll start:
I’m an English Lit. Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. As of this Fall, I will be in my second year of the program. My research interests focu…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAnne- I have your article from the Mass. Review on Cunard in my file on Salaria Kea- I’ll definitely look for your book. African American women in the SPW is such a rich and understudied area. So glad to make this connection with you!
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSo glad that you all are here! My own work has circled around African Americans and the Spanish Civil War. I edited a chapbook of correspondence and poems: Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard & Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics & Friendship in the Spanish Civil War. I’ve also written about Cunard’s SCW scrapbook, and have some writing in the works a…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoGerda Taro’s photographs of the SPW at the International Center for Photography.
https://www.icp.org/search-results/Gerda%20Taro/all/all/relevant/0
Also, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade archives at NYU are fantastic for US participation in the war.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/alba_guides.html
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