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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic 129. Politics of Invocation. Forum LLC Early American. MLA 2017 in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoEan,
Now that groups have their own event calendars, you can add this panel to the calendar by clicking Events above.
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Thoroughness vs Intuitive navigation for an online database in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since ther…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Striking a balance between usability and thoroughness at online site in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am developing an online database on the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility (intuitive navigation is my motto) for…[Read more]
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Edward Edward started the topic 2017 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) is delighted to announce winner of the 2017 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award. The 2017 winner is the distinguished narrative theorist and independent scholar, Marie-Laure Ryan. She will be receive her award during the Awards Luncheon at the 2017 a…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Peer Review in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPeer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Peer Review in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPeer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic Prize for 19th-century thesis topic (last 2 years) in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPrix 2017 du Comité de liaison des associations dix-neuviémistes
Désireux de récompenser et promouvoir les travaux de chercheurs portant sur le XIXe siècle, le Comité de Liaison des Associations Dix-neuviémistes (CL 19) a créé un prix annuel destiné à couronner une thèse de doctorat ou un mémoire de troisième cycle portant sur le XIXe siècle (…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Digital American Cultural Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSyllabus for a graduate level methods survey (introductory) course for the digital humanities. Taught Fall 2016 at Dartmouth College for the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program.
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic Call for Papers — International Dreiser Society at the ALA in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two: Gender, Political Ideology, and Dreiser
Papers are invited on topics…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Solicitation of Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSuggestions from members are needed in advance of the next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative, which will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will consider these suggestions when it takes up the matter of nominations during its business meeting at the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Tho…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic "Style." 2017 NCFS CPF in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for papers for “Style.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies (University of Virginia, November 9-11, 2017). Abstract due March 15, 2017.
Organized by Cheryl Krueger and Claire Lyu
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Alison Booth deposited Cyborgs Thirty Years On in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSteering committee’s opening roundtable for conference on the present and future of digital humanities at UVA: the career path of a feminist who embraced “A Cyborg Manifesto,” learned to love bibliography, libraries, and technology, and urges cross-pollination: “thrilling tedium of growing things together,” getting our hands dirty in humanist…[Read more]
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Marlene Manoff deposited Mapping Archival Silence: technology and the historical record in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoRecent theorizations of archival silence signal a heightened and expanding concern with information that is lost, concealed, destroyed or simply not available for scholarly use. As our access to the archive becomes more dependent upon technologies of the interface, scholars exhibit increasing concern about the impact of digital affordances and…[Read more]
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Marlene Manoff deposited Mapping Archival Silence: technology and the historical record in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoRecent theorizations of archival silence signal a heightened and expanding concern with information that is lost, concealed, destroyed or simply not available for scholarly use. As our access to the archive becomes more dependent upon technologies of the interface, scholars exhibit increasing concern about the impact of digital affordances and…[Read more]
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