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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Sympathy and Cosmopolitanism: Affective Limits in Cosmopolitan Reading in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis paper argues that contemporary understandings of cosmopolitan literature are significantly limited by their dependence on sympathetic attachments as constitutive of cosmopolitan practice. I trace a genealogy of the connection between sympathy, cosmopolitanism, and the novel that extends from Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant to Martha Nussbaum and…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited J. M. Coetzee’s Literature of Hospice in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines scenes portrayingcare for the aging, ill, and dying across J.M. Coetzee’s fiction. Even as Coetzee’s work models an ideal of hospice that resonates with Derrida’s conception of unconditional hospitality, it also attends to how this ideal is constrained by a global neoliberal regime that conceives of dying as a crisis to be ma…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Connected Academics – New York City in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThere’s a Career Insights event on Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I don’t know more about it–I just happened to get an email–but I thought it may be of interest to some members of this group. It’s open to current students, according to the event info.
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both texts maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects such as migrant workers a…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited “To Be from the Country of People Who Gave”: National Allegory and the United States of Adichie’s Americanah in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCurrent debates about Afropolitan literature alternately value it for challenging western stereotypes about Africa and critique it for embracing western capitalism. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) complicates these debates by articulating a Nigerian dream that, while imbued with the class mobility of its American counterpart, d…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Jobs in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi everyone!
The MLA is looking for a development coordinator. This is more or less an entry level position and (if I am honest) it probably does not pay great, but it would be a good way to get your foot in the door of the development world (much of which does pay extremely well). I would think of it as a postdoc.
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Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThanks for your willingness to serve, Jess. –Tom Long
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Jessica Waggoner started the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHello everyone!
My name is Jess Waggoner and I am running for the MLA TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Executive Committee. At MLA’s suggestion, I wanted to use this space to introduce myself and some of my goals.
I currently serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of H…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago=======================================================
FRENCH NATURES featuring BRUNO LATOUR’s conference-spectacle “INSIDE”
October 26-27, 2018, New York UniversityA two-day conference-festival about how literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy mediate our relationship to the planet in our times of environmental catas…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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Candace Cunard replied to the topic Victories in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis is a story about how I landed a (part-time) high school teaching job at an awesome private school in Manhattan. I’m happy to talk more about the job itself (benefits and drawbacks) but in the spirit of what helped me actually FIND the job, here are the major strategies I found helpful in the process:
I’d always known I cared more about…[Read more]
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Candace Cunard replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone! I’m Candace Cunard and I was in the latest Proseminar class (2017-18). I finished and defended my dissertation (on eighteenth-century British novels) at Columbia in May 2018, and have just survived my first month in a job as a part-time high school English teacher at a progressive private school in New York City (where I teach 2…[Read more]
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Molly Appel replied to the topic Recommended Reading in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi, all!
I’m Molly Appel – I did the Connected Academics Boot Camp at MLA 2018. My blog for the Connected Academics site led me to an opportunity for a career exploration series with Interfolio. Here’s my first post:
Three steps to stay in touch with the alternative academic job market
Cheers!
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Sara Wilson started the topic Connected Academics – Philadelphia in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi all! I know there are still a few of us in Philly so I’m starting a thread for us. I always love to hear what you’re doing.
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Sara Wilson replied to the topic Victories in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi all,
This victory is a bit old, but I started my first post-PhD job in August 2017 (after defending in March 2017). I direct communications and run public programming for Temple University Libraries. I manage a team of two and a designer and will be adding to my team over the next few years. I really like the job, though it was definitely a…[Read more]
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Sara Wilson replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi all!
I’m Sara Wilson, and I’m a 2016-17 proseminar alum. I currently direct communications and outreach (including public programming) for Temple University Libraries. I got my PhD at Temple in 20th century British Literature. I’m always happy to talk about my job or hear what others are doing. Like Natalie, I’m about to write more about my…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman replied to the topic Victories in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone!
Let me be the first to share the news about my new (and now official, since I passed my trial period!) job:
A few months ago, at the end of my PhD at Princeton, I found myself facing a choice with an obvious right answer, but which was psychologically rather difficult (as I’m sure you can all imagine). I had been offered two great…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone! My name is Natalie and I just completed my PhD at Princeton in French literature (specifically hi to Brian — remember me from Urbino? Fun times!). At the end of my program, I had a few postdoc offers and had a campus visit scheduled for a tenure-track job in Alabama, but I really wanted to move to Paris to live with my husband, so t…[Read more]
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Maria Seger replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi all! I’m Maria Seger, and I’m currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I finished my PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2016, and I was part of the inaugural cohort of the Connected Academics in 2015-16. I’m not committed to a lifetime on the tenure track, so I’m looking forward to learning…[Read more]
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Beth Seltzer replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi all! I’m Beth Seltzer, and I do digital pedagogy and scholarship as an Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College. I have a Ph.D. in Victorian literature. Happy to talk to people about Ed Tech type positions, and to hear about opportunities!
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