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Kathi Inman Berens replied to the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoFantastic speech.
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Maria Maisto started the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoFull speech at http://www.kevinbirmingham.net/research/
I accept the Truman Capote Award in this spirit of justice. I would be remiss, therefore, if I did not address another injustice tarnishing the literary critical profession. I am, so far as I can tell, the first adjunct faculty member to receive this award. To be sure, I have one of the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis, the first critical collection on Delarivier Manley, revisits the most heated discussions and adds new perspectives that will change the conversation on the foremost woman writer in the age of Queen Anne. This compilation demonstrates the wide range of thinking about Manley’s literary production and significance. While contributors r…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMy paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTechnology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]
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Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTechnology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Introduction to Autobiography syllabus (online course) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSyllabus for a general education introduction to autobiography course taught entirely online.
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Intertextual Approaches to Teaching The Tempest in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper describes approaches I use to teach Shakespeare’s The Tempest using intertextuality in the undergraduate introductory literature course.
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Essential Kafka, Josephine the Songstress in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoKafka’s last short story: Josephine die Saengerin – as translated by Phillip Lundberg. Copyright Free translation as stated on the copyright page of Essential Kafka.
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