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A. David Lewis deposited Policy Analysis: Follow-Up Care for Refugees in Massachusetts in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoWhat actions should the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI) undertake to ensure proper follow-up for identified physical and mental health issues among Muslim refugees?
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited “Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago“Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain
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Anastasia Salter deposited But Does Pikachu Love You? Reproductive Labor in Casual and Hardcore Games in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSince the first Pokémon game launched in Japan in 1996, the series has been a balancing act between casual and hardcore gaming. While the first iteration and “core” series has emphasized a modified, accessible version of traditional JRPG mechanics, other titles have frequently emphasized so-called casual play; most recently, Pokémon Go lured in a…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoDTC 356 explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political roles of information and data. Beginning with library classification systems and Wikipedia, the course then turns to the role of metadata in organizing collections and our lives before ending with a consideration of text-mining and topic modeling. The conclusion considers these techniques in…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Introduction to Texts & Technology in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for the introductory course in UCF’s Texts & Technology PhD program. Builds on a previous iteration of the course taught by Mel Stanfill.
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both novels maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects, such as the migrant w…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Study Guide) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the role of love, as defined by bell hooks, in pedagogy as well as how it plays into anxiety in our current moment.
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