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David Pratt started the topic CFP: MLA 16 Special Session – The Publics of Charles Bukowski and Henry Chinaski in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:
Bukowski/Chinaski and media other than print (film, television, audio recording, etc.)
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic CFP — Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis session looks terrifically good — what a timely and important topic. Thanks for posting the CFP here.
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Nicole Seymour started the topic CFP — Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi All,
Please see the CFP below for an MLA 2016 panel I’m organizing with Clare Echterling. Circulate as you see fit. Thanks!
Best, Nicole
Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities
For this panel, organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, we invite proposals for papers that place…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic Check out "Sustainability and Population in American Literary History" in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCome join the conversation at http://sustainabilityandpopulationinalh.mla.hcommons-staging.org/!
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.
“Circulating Notions of TB”
Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.
How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even activ…[Read more]
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Stephanie LeMenager replied to the topic Suggestions for Sessions @ #MLA16 Austin in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoHi, All,
There were so many rich suggestions here that rather than choose one, we decided to bring different strands of each together for the committee’s sponsored roundtable in 2017. Look forward to a diverse media roundtable that touches upon post humanism, post-coloniality, and other lively sites of intersectional frisson.
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Stacy Alaimo replied to the topic Suggestions for Sessions @ #MLA16 Austin in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoI’m happy to see so many ideas here. If anyone would like to submit a CFP in order to organize a special session, the deadline is February 28. It would be great to have an abundance of panels on ecocriticism and the environmental humanities at next year’s (2016) MLA. (Please note that the Forum only has one guaranteed session, so other prop…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoThank you Heather and Ted! This site is becoming quite a trove of teaching resources — what could be better?
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Ted Geier deleted the file: Intro to Lit & Composition Course: Global Environments from
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Ted Geier uploaded the file: Animal Studies Course to
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Ted Geier uploaded the file: Intro Env Hum Course to
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Ted Geier replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoSo great.
I’m uploading two recent Summer course proposals, one on Interdiscipinary Environmental Humanities and one on Animals (and other nonhumans) and Human Culture. Also a similar short-form module on Ecocinema and a full quarter Intro to Literature course (contemporary period, “global environments”) also satisfying writing requirements at…[Read more]
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Heather I. Sullivan uploaded the file: German Course on NATURE, CULTURE, CATASTROPHES to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoUpper-division German course on Nature, Culture, Catastrophes for undergraduates at Trinity University.
Includes a wide array of texts from 1800-today.
Four main Topics:
1. Nature, Culture, Catastrophes
2. The Anthropocene, Climate Change, and Weather
3. The Pastoral and “Natural” Catastrophes
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Heather I. Sullivan replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoGreat idea! Thanks, all, for the syllabi suggestions. I’m uploading two of mine right now.
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Heather I. Sullivan uploaded the file: Science Fiction and the Environment to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoUndergraduate course at Trinity University: Counts toward the comparative literature minor, environmental studies major, geosciences major and as a literary studies course for the common curriculum.
Three Sections:
1. Eco-Warriors and Science Fiction Exporers
2. Other-worldly Ecologies, Economics, and Ecotopias
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