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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Narrative and the Reading Public in 1870s Beirut in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoABSTRACT This paper reads narrative published in the journals of 1870s Beirut in the context of an emerging bourgeois readership and argues that the significance of this archive to modern Arabic fiction has been neglected by critics. Taking the intensification of the silk trade with France following the civil war of 1860 as a point of historical…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia,” Routledge Handbook to the Global Sixties in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoABSTRACT Cultural cold war played out in Arabic from the late 1950s into the early 1970s in the
conference halls, hotel lobbies, cafes, bars, magazine offices, publishing houses, kiosks,
and streets of Beirut and Cairo. Berlin, Paris, Tashkent, Khartoum, London, Baghdad1,
and Tunis all have their place in this built landscape of cultural cold…[Read more] -
Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoAbstract
In 1950, the United States Central Intelligence Agency created the Congress for Cultural Freedom,
with its main offices in Paris. The CCF was designed as a cultural front in the Cold War in
response to the Soviet Cominform, and founded and fiinded a worldwide network of literary
journals (as well as conferences, concerts, art exhibits…[Read more] -
Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962–67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoABSTRACT
Extensively quoting from the archives of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, a Cold War organization founded as a CIA front in 1950, this chapter provides a history for their Arabic literary activities, including the journals Aṣwāt, Adab, and their best known work in the region: Ḥiwār (1962–67), edited by Palesti…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management- MLA 2020 panel abstract in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis panel will consider the changing landscape of research support for digitally-inflected scholarship in higher education through the lens of digital humanities project management. Digital humanists acting as project managers must continually adapt their practices in response to shifting institutional priorities and concomitant changes in the…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Disability 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 Disability 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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Jennifer Buckley started the topic R.F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies (CFP) 9/30 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe R. F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies is an annual award of $1,000 USD to support research into any aspect of the life and work of Bernard Shaw by a graduate student or early-career scholar. The award, which may be held in conjunction with other awards, is intended to help defray costs associated with visits to libraries and o…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Winner and Honorable Mention 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy announces “Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other,” edited by Miriamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton) and Tison Pugh (University of Central Florida) as the winner of the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award. “Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Tra…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis undergraduate seminar on author Margaret Atwood fulfills the Major Author course at Stevenson University. Students will read A Trio of Tall Tales and The Year of the Flood, as well as both read and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. The course assignments include live-tweeting, creating a webtext, and an intertextual analysis essay.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession 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 Disability 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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Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoBecause it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoBecause it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] - Load More
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