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Sharon O'Dair replied to the topic "Who Owns Shakespeare?" roundtable accepted for MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSujata, thank you for these crucial and forthright questions! Here are my answers or comments, since I know I won’t be at MLA. 🙂
Re: “the Folio’s a metaphor for the larger issue — something that institutions used to value and consider integral to a liberal arts education is no longer seen as necessary.” Yes, and didn’t John Guillory make t…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair replied to the topic "Who Owns Shakespeare?" roundtable accepted for MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoI don’t know what it means, in general, for literary studies–or scholars–if Shakespeare can be “deprioritized,” sold at market by an institution of higher education. Which is to say that Mills College’s decision may not have wide applicability. As I am sure we all know, many– most?–women’s colleges became co-ed around 1970, as many elite…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair replied to the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi Sujata! A good idea to use the Commons, but I find–and have always found–the site frustrating to use. Why isn’t there just one way to log in, for instance? And just now I clicked on your posted set of abstracts for 2022 and was told by the site that I should try deleting cookies. Which I did. Returned to the site and received the same me…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair replied to the topic Your Friendly Neighborhood LLC Shax Forum Secretary: AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi Sujata! A good idea to use the Commons, but I find–and have always found–the site frustrating to use. Why isn’t there just one way to log in, for instance? And just now I clicked on your posted set of abstracts for 2022 and was told by the site that I should try deleting cookies. Which I did. Returned to the site and received the same me…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair posted an update on MLA Commons 6 years ago
Happy to bring to your attention Jim Shapiro’s review of _Shakespeare and the 99%: Literary Studies, the Profession, and the Production of Inequity_, edited by Sharon O’Dair and Timothy Francisco in the _Los Angeles Review of Books_: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/occupying-shakespeare/
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP : Women and Language in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoHello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest. I assume W&L must be interested in eco approaches, since the editor asked us to post. Had to edit submission requirements. Cheers.
Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP : Women and Language in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoHello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest:
Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & 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…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic And this CFP, too! in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoForum: TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
“Energy Humanities and African Cultural Production”
How are the entanglements of modernity, energy production and consumption, and ecological impacts represented in African cultural production? What alternative futures are imagined? a 200-word abstract by 15 March 2018; Byron…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP–TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Roundtable! in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoForum: TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
“Environment/Scale/Justice”
This roundtable interrogates these three terms and their relationships. What is the environment, temporal and geographic scale, and (in)justice of environmental justice? Where? When? For/by whom? Abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2018; Sharon O’Dair (sodair@ua.edu).
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Sharon O'Dair changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago