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Alexa Huang deposited The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn Interview with Alexa Huang, George Washington University | The Blotted Line
“I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn Interview with Alexa Huang, George Washington University | The Blotted Line
“I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited THE BALKAN HIGHER-EDUCATION EXPRESS in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoBalkan universities are in a hurry to beat Oxbridge and Ivy League universities. But, from their dire straits, can Balkan teachers afford the train ticket to compare and contrast? Therefore, in this paper we will talk about the situation in the higher education system in the Former Yugoslav countries which has lost its vigour and rigour with the…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 101: Introduction to Digital Technology and Culture in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoCatalog Description
101 [ARTS] Introduction to Digital Technology & Culture 3 Inquiry into digital media, including origins, theories, forms, applications, and impact with a focus on authoring and critiquing multimodal texts.Course Description
This course is an introduction to digital technology and culture that integrates interdisciplinary…[Read more] -
Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoChristopher Newport University
College of Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers
Global Status of Women and Girls:
“Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”
March 24-26, 2017
to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited bringing the war back home (to women) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoattempt to bring the horrors of the indo-china war to the most intimate part of women, 1967, xuan loc, rvn
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Spring 2015 syllabus in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus was my third version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; reading a novel collaboratively with courses at other colleges and…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Spring 2014 syllabus in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus was my second version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around three projects: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; reading a novel collaboratively with courses at other colleges and universities while building a multimedia response; and text…[Read more]
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Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on 20th and 21st-century American literature:
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 criti…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe 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 examinations of her entire body…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3386: Studies in American Literature “Versioning Digital Humanities” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoEnglish 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHemingway’s In Our Time has been long recognized as a major development in American literature and Modernism, but limited access to its various publication states has meant that the 1930 edition superseded all others. This edition makes the 1923 version of “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?” available for the first time since…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSince its first publication, critics have recognized Hemingway’s 1924 in our time as a major development in American literature and Modernism. This edition makes the 1924 version of in our time available for the first time since the 1977 facsimile edition, which was in a print run limited to 1700 copies. The original edition was printed in only 1…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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