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Madelyn Detloff started the topic Join our Roundtable on Gender and (anti)Social Media at MLA 16 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoJoin us for our roundtable discussion on Gender and (anti)Social Media on January 8, 2016 from 1:45–3:00 p.m. Central Time (2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
If you are at the MLA convention, join us live in room 203, JW Marriott hotel. You can join us online via live tweet at #mla16genderandmedia or via the comments stream at
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Heidi Tiedemann Darroch started the topic Invitation to coffee and chat at MLA 2016 in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession will be hosting a coffee hour on Saturday, January 9 between our two panel sessions. We invite you to join us from 11:30-1:30 in 502-503 of the JW Marriott to share ideas and initiatives. Additional information is available here: https://contingent.mla.hcommons-staging.org/.
Many thanks to all…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic An invitation to a literary trivia quiz in Austin in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this forum attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It’s free, promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but should be fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve y…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Commons literary trivia quiz at the Convention in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Headed to Austin? Come to the Commons Literary Trivia Quiz! in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite members of the group attending this year’s convention to the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which takes place on Thursday night at the JW. It promises to be extra nerdy, but in a good way. A cash bar and prizes will be available!
Sign up to reserve your s…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: MLA Panel (Jan. 7 @ 1:45 pm) on Russia & the Middle East (17th-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:
48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW MarriottA special session
Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more] -
Holly Larson deposited The Art of Negotiation: Student Writers Claiming Authority and Humility in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOne of the hardest concepts to teach first-year composition students is the role of authority in academic writing. How are young adults who have a limited social world view and older adults who have left school for several years expected to assert themselves with confidence? Equally, another difficult threshold concept for FYC students is the act…[Read more]
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions: Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Megan Massino started the topic Invitation: Open Meeting on Postdocs and the Profession in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoAt MLA2016:
Join for coffee and a discussion of postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, both best practices for positions and programs and pressing questions about the role of the postdoc position in humanities research initiatives, the casualization of the academic workforce, and the larger profession.
Members of this group may be inter…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited MLA 2016: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” is an MLA 2016 special session in which panelists consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students and contingent and full-time faculty members into an already overcrowded job market. Instead of providing advice about getting a job, participants evaluate that advice and gen…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited MLA 2016: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” is an MLA 2016 special session in which panelists consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students and contingent and full-time faculty members into an already overcrowded job market. Instead of providing advice about getting a job, participants evaluate that advice and gen…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPart-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Gender and Teaching Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay focuses on the autobiographical strategies deployed by Ambrose Bierce in response to shifting conceptions of the literary representation of everyday life. I place Bierce at the transition point between nineteenth and twentieth-century realism, between an understanding of typical experience as comfortably generic and a growing sense that…[Read more]
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