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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
The article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
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Matthew K. Gold's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
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Devoney Looser changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
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What would my vita look like if it recorded not just the successes of my professional life but also the many, many rejections?
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic P4P Classes — Register Now! in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoProgramming for Humanists
A continuing education course and online webinar Offered by the
Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture – Texas A&M
UniversityRegistration is still possible!
Go to: Fall 2016 Programming4HUMansits Registration:Beginning Friday, September 2, 2016 – 9:0…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOur Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists SeriesBeginning Friday, Au…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoDo you have colleagues and students who are interested in DH and want an introduction to it? Our Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
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Laura C. Mandell posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months ago
I just now published in MLA Commons a syllabus called, “Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home.” It is a syllabus for faculty meetings, proposing that people from various humanities fields meet together in order to figure out what methodologies are common to humanities disciplines. The goal is twofold: to figure out ways to make those methods…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months ago
This syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Ryan Cordell started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: What Is Critical Bibliography? in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoWe are excited to announce our first panel for MLA 2017 in Philadephia and provide the abstracts. Be sure to add this session to your convention schedule!
Chair: Ryan Cordell
Respondent: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (University of Virginia and Director, Rare Book School)
Barbara Heritage (University of Virginia), “Literature as Artifact: Critical…[Read more] -
Paul Fyfe's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago
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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
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography 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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