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Hatem Akil started the topic Invitation to the sessions of the Forum on Global Arab/ Arab American Literature in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows (sorry for cross-posting)
Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pe…[Read more] -
Dene M. Grigar started the topic Thursday Night Literary Reading of Experimental Works in the discussion
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p>MLA members who are also involved in the Electronic Literature Organization are hosting an evening of readings & performances during the Modern Language Association conference. The event takes place in the Connelly Auditorium (room 806) in the Terra Building at The University of the Arts, on January 5, 2017, from 8-10 p.m. The University of th…[Read more]
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André Carrington deposited Blackness & Utopia in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPilot for a modular course in-person, hybrid, or online format. Texts and other materials available in digital and streaming formats.
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
The MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities will offer two panels and a special session at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia. Please join us as we consider challenges to shared governance, bullying, and climates of fear.
Combat Management: The End of Shared…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities will offer two panels and a special session at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia. Please join us as we consider challenges to shared governance, bullying, and climates of fear.
Combat Management: The End of Shared Governance?
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Join us for the Age Studies events at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies
Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions
Thursday 5 January
Session 9
“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”
12 noon-1:15 p.m.
102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Session 96
“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medical Humani…[Read more]
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Speculative Modernism in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAn article relating modernism to financial speculation.
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Peer Review in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPeer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Digital American Cultural Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSyllabus for a graduate level methods survey (introductory) course for the digital humanities. Taught Fall 2016 at Dartmouth College for the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program.
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic CFP: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (15 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health,…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Popular Culture Discussion Group — You may be interested in applying:
Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election–Please Send Suggestions in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTC Popular Culture’s next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Please Send Your Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTC Disability Studies will hold an election for a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefuturesThe fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Submit Your Suggestions for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative is scheduled for the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoA quick reminder:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH SEMINAR ON KING LEAR in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Alison Booth deposited Cyborgs Thirty Years On in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSteering committee’s opening roundtable for conference on the present and future of digital humanities at UVA: the career path of a feminist who embraced “A Cyborg Manifesto,” learned to love bibliography, libraries, and technology, and urges cross-pollination: “thrilling tedium of growing things together,” getting our hands dirty in humanist…[Read more]
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Marlene Manoff deposited Mapping Archival Silence: technology and the historical record in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoRecent theorizations of archival silence signal a heightened and expanding concern with information that is lost, concealed, destroyed or simply not available for scholarly use. As our access to the archive becomes more dependent upon technologies of the interface, scholars exhibit increasing concern about the impact of digital affordances and…[Read more]
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