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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Automation," Seminar for ACLA 2018 in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago2018 Annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
University of California, Los Angeles
March 29 – April 1
Seminar: “Automation”
Abstracts due September 21, 9am EST; submit through the ACLA online portal.
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia (jkm5ar@virginia.edu)
According to psychiatrist Ernst…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
1. Learn “close reading” strategies for…[Read more] -
Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
1. Learn “close reading” strategies for…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCourse Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months ago<h1>Call for Papers for the Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung/GKJF) 2018</h1>
The second volume[1] of the open access, peer-reviewed Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung/GKJF takes the upcoming 50<sup>th</sup> ann…[Read more] -
Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Introduction to Fiction syllabus (online course) in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSyllabus for an online, 12 week, general education literature course for non-majors.
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Spencer Keralis deposited What I’m Reading This Summer: Spencer Keralis in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoMy research bridges my interests in media history, in particular history of the book, with my duties helping catalyze conversations around digital humanities, diversity, and social justice in an academic library at a large public university. This summer’s reading has gelled around a couple of slowly converging topics – information literacy and min…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Rags Make Paper, Paper Makes Money: Material Texts and Metaphors of Capital in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoBecause nineteenth-century paper was made from rags, the materiality of paper money became a likely ground from which to debate the nature of value in modern capitalism. On one hand, if paper money was backed by nothing but itself, then it was worth little more than itself: a gathering of lowly rags. On the other hand, the process of turning…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
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Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 375: Languages, Text, and Technology (Revised for Fall 2017) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months ago“But these perceptions had to be fabricated first.”
–Friedrich Kittler, Grammophone, Film, Typewriter (1986)DTC 375 is an introduction to the historical relationships between technology, communication, and forms of writing. The course gives students an appreciation of the technological history of media, including hands-on encounters wit…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Susan Tane Travel Grants for joint PS/NHS Conference in Kyoto in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoSusan Tane Travel Grants, Flight, and Hotel Information for Poe Scholars Traveling to Kyoto:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J.…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Kyoto Conference – Deadline: August 1, 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Conference
Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan
The Poe Studies Association, The Poe Society of Japan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan invite paper and session proposals for a joint conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan on June 21-24, 2018. Our banquet speaker w…[Read more] - Load More
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