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Michael Hancher started the topic MLA 2015 Discussion Group CFP: Teaching with the Oxford English Dictionary in the forum
Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoTeaching with the Oxford English Dictionary: A Roundtable
We invite proposals for 8-10 minute presentations (which will be followed by a general discussion). Topics include: teaching students to use the OED; descriptions of successful assignments; negotiating the OED Online; and broader reflections on dictionaries in the classroom.
Please send…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoDisability and the Arthurian World
From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months ago<div>From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian Literature Discussion Group will…[Read more]
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Shannon Gayk posted an update in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: “Middle English Science”
Sponsored by the MLA Division on Middle English Literature (excluding
Chaucer)Send abstracts by March 5, 2014 to me at sgayk@indiana.edu and Erin Labbie at labbie@bgsu.edu.
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Jeffery Stoyanoff started the topic CFP: Framing Memory in Late Medieval English Narrative – Sp. Session MLA 2015 in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years agoHow do late medieval English narratives frame cultural memory? From the great famines at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the ongoing Hundred Years War, the twilight of the Middle Ages in England contains many memorable events itself, yet poets and writers during this period also draw on a fantasized English past – Arthurian legend – and…[Read more]
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Ruth Evans uploaded the file: NCS Letter to MLA to
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis letter is the New Chaucer Society’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Elaine Treharne uploaded the file: Old English Division Committee's Letter to MLA President to
Old English Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis three-page letter is the OE Committee’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Thank you for thinking through these issues in a powerful, well-formed reply to the myopic notion of merging O.E. and M.E. Divisions. John M. Hill
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Thank you for thinking through these issues in a powerful, well-formed reply to the myopic notion of merging O.E. and M.E. Divisions. John M. Hill
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This is an excellent response, and well argued. I hope that the MLA takes this matter and this response seriously. Thank you and all the rest of the authors for working on this letter.
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Terrific, thoughtful, compelling letter — thank you so much to the authors.
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