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Eric Gary Anderson replied to the topic How to Express Your Support in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Gothic Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoI support this petition.
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Leah Richards replied to the topic How to Express Your Support in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Gothic Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoI write to express my support for the proposed LLC Gothic Studies Forum.
Leah Richards
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic How to Express Your Support in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Gothic Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThank you for visiting this group! I’m initiating the process of getting an MLA forum on LLC Gothic Studies approved. At present this is only a prospective forum. To get approval requires several steps: First, we must gather at least 35 signatures supporting a petition to create a Gothic Studies forum. We must also have at least 5 volu…[Read more]
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Pritika Pradhan deposited At the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics (proposed Special Session panel for MLA 2020 Convention in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis panel examines the paradoxical centrality of marginal elements in nineteenth-century aesthetics, to trace how they revitalize the conceptual and cultural impact of form. Abstracts forthcoming shortly.
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear RCWS Writing Pedagogies members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Awards Announcement (CFP) in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces three awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Research Grant* Provides up to $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference given to junior scholars and graduate students. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a 1-2-page project proposal, including a description of…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]
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bonnie lenore kyburz started the topic CFP: Women & Language (via Leland G. Spencer, Editor) in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Edlie L. Wong started the topic Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease note the following four sessions organized by the Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature at MLA 2019. We hope to see some of you there.
084: American Lives: Whitman and Melville (co-organized with the Forum on Life Writing)
Date: Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Time: 3:30 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency – Roo…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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C. Beth Burch started the topic Syllabi Content for American Literature Survey Courses in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am a Professor of Judaic Studies at SUNY Binghamton. For a research project I am doing on the canon that is taught—or the teaching canon, as I’m calling it—I would like to know what works you are teaching or listing on your syllabi for American literature survey courses for any period. I would appreciate receiving de-i…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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