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Taryn Hakala started the topic CANCELED: Session 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 6 years agoUnfortunately, two of our roundtable speakers were unable to attend the MLA convention this year, so we have canceled our Thursday afternoon session: 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions. Apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you at our Saturday afternoon session: 545 – Being Human, Technology, and New Media.
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease consider attending our forum’s session on “Bibliopedagogy” at MLA in Seattle on Thursday, 9 January in WSCC – 401. Our panel features three presentations:
“Student-Scribe: A Hands-On Approach to Codicology and Book History” — Sarah J. Sprouse and Sarah Banschbach Valles
“Rewriting the Canon: Cultivating Student Creativity in the…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Table of contents, in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoTable of contents.
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Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThree faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]
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Mary Hayes started the topic Language Theory Mentorship Program in the discussion
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoDear all,
I am the current chair of the Language Theory’s executive committee. At the encouragement of MLA, I am putting together a mentorship program. We are all witnessing a difficult time in the academy, and a support system for burgeoning scholars is so crucial. You can sign on as a mentee or volunteer as a mentor.
Here’s how the first step…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Focus on “Henry V”: Navigating Digital Text, Performance, and Historical Resources in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Focus on ‘Henry V'” is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on the innovative digital publishing platform Scalar. Chapters include guides to early printed editions, sources, and performance and cinematic histories of the play, as well as…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Shakespeare and the post-millennial cancer novel in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay considers the use that twenty-first-century fictionalized cancer narratives make of Shakespeare’s words, the Shakespeare industry, and editorial and textual apparatuses to trope the ambiguous status of the post-millennial cancer patient. In the so-called “women’s novel” The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, the genre thriller What Time De…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Upcycling Shakespeare: Crafting Cultural Capital in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this paper I argue that the flowering of adaptation and appropriation surrounding Shakespeare indicate not a holy “bard” who is the apotheosis of Western culture but an ambiguous Shakespeare who provides a creative space for artisans and artists (among whom, I will suggest, we can include critics and scholars). Having identified a “Sh…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited “Strange beasts of the sea”: Captain Cook, the sea otter and the creation of a transoceanic American empire in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoOn 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook and his crew left England in search of the famed
Northwest Passage. Spanish, French, and Russian explorers before him had set out to
find this Arctic waterway, which was thought to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
and promised to open up a new, more direct trading route with Asia. After seven
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2020, CFP: "Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish" in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months ago51st Convention, NeMLA, Boston, March 5-8 2020
“The Old and the New: Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish”
The session seeks papers that examine Spanish in the United States (Mexican, Caribbean, Latin American) as it relates to old and new Hispanic community practices and border crossing (geographical, political, eth…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic First Biennial Innovation Award, Library Company of Philadelphia (CFP) in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFirst Biennial Innovation Award
The Library Company of Philadelphia
Call for Proposals
The Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its First Biennial Innovation Award. The recipient of the Innovation Award will receive a $2,000 prize, a spotlight interview in our “Talking in the Library” podcast, and reco…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Ph.D. Examination List in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMy Ph.D. examination bibliography in the fields of Contemporary Southern Literature and Contemporary Book History and Print Culture
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Charlie Gleek deposited Centuries of Black Artists’ Books in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBlack artists have created, modified, or otherwise treated the book as an object of aesthetic expression since at least the nineteenth century. African American artists’ production and circulation of friendship albums and scrapbooks, democratic multiples and artist publishing, accordion folds, enclosures, and fine printing editions, all work to…[Read more]
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Taryn Hakala started the topic EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP MLA 2020 / Being Human, Technology, and New Media in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED: FRIDAY, MARCH 29
CFP: Being Human, Technology, and New Media
The Language Change Forum seeks papers that address aspects of language change, acquisition, or linguistic transactions related to the MLA 2020 presidential theme (Being Human), technology, and new media.
300-word abstracts to Taryn Hakala (taryn.hakala@gmail.com)…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear LSL Global English members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear LSL Applied Linguistics members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography Guaranteed Session CFP in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoGuaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Bibliopedagogy : Book history, print cultures, lexicography in the classroom. Seeking panelists with engaging, hands-on approaches to the study of manuscript, print, and digital cultures. 250-word abstract and one-page CV to Laura Forsberg at laura.forsberg@rockhurst.edu. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 18 March 2019
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Reimagining the Dutch Golden Age (MLA2020, Seattle, WA) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, MLA 2020, JANUARY 9-12, 2020 (SEATTLE, WA)
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of work on the literary culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Renewed attention to major figures such as Vondel, Huygens, and Bredero alongside lesser known writers, both in Dutch and Neo-Latin, continues to uncover the intricate ways in…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIn this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]
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