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Ian Sherman-Youngblood replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi, Jessica, Stacey, and Katrina,
Indeed, I’m thinking of something precisely on this topic! I’ve been working quite a bit with the Simpson Center for Humanities at the University of Washington, and they offer a fellowship program in which current grad students mentor with faculty at Seattle-area community colleges.
I’ve heard of similar /…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited The Poetics of Practicality in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores insistently practical medieval texts—works whose explicit goal is to assist their readers to make something in the world beyond the page (a book, a culinary dish, an ointment, an object) and asks if they can be said to have a poetics. Drawing on Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of practice as well as Gérard Gene…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited The Poetics of Practicality in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores insistently practical medieval texts—works whose explicit goal is to assist their readers to make something in the world beyond the page (a book, a culinary dish, an ointment, an object) and asks if they can be said to have a poetics. Drawing on Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of practice as well as Gérard Gene…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Fall 2017 Forum Delegate Election: Call for Suggestions in the discussion
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia, this forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new Delegate Assembly representative. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been su…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWonderful! I’m so glad these ideas are of interest. Do keep me posted if the executive committees decide to move in this direction; the Humanities Alliance team would love to be actively involved.
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Katrina and Jessica
I, too, love this idea! The Two Year College Forum Executive Committee will discuss this in January as we plan for the New York convention for sure, and I’ll be in touch.
I also know that Ian Sherman, faculty member at Olympic College in Washington and member of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Executive…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Stacey and Katina,
I love the idea of “connecting graduate education and community college teaching.” I just finished a six-year stint as director of graduate studies in English at Idaho State University, where the Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English explicitly aims to train students for and place students in tenure-track (or…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Stacey, and hello to others in the forum,
I’m part of a team at CUNY Graduate Center that is working to connect graduate education and community college training. We are in our first year implementing the Humanities Alliance, which embeds Graduate Center students as teaching fellows at LaGuardia Community College. The team has discussed a few…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Nominate yourself for the Community College Executive Committee! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi Lisa (and others):
The Forum Executive Committee members sign on for a 5 year appointment (something that needs to be changed—I think that’s too long–though each member only spends one year as secretary and one of those years as chair). The Executive Committee meets annually at the convention to discuss possible nominees for the co…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler replied to the topic Nominate yourself for the Community College Executive Committee! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCould you describe the responsibilities of the members of the executive committee? I know that members have to attend MLA conferences during their term, but how long is a term, and where would the MLA conferences be? I’m replying here rather than privately because I may not be the only person who would like more information.
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Suggest session ideas for #MLA18 in New York City! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Community College Forum Executive Committee will be meeting on Thursday, Jan. 5th during #MLA17 in Philadelphia to discuss our ideas for our guaranteed session at #MLA18 in New York City.
If you have ideas for a session topic (a traditional panel or a roundtable or a poster session) relevant to Community College Forum members and allies,…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Nominate yourself for the Community College Executive Committee! in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWhen the Community College Forum Executive Committee meets in January during the Philadelphia convention, we will consider possible nominees for the fall 2017 executive committee election.
Please consider nominating someone; self-nominations are entirely welcome. The easiest way is to suggest nominees when you vote in this fall’s election at mla.…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens replied to the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoFantastic speech.
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Maria Maisto started the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoFull speech at http://www.kevinbirmingham.net/research/
I accept the Truman Capote Award in this spirit of justice. I would be remiss, therefore, if I did not address another injustice tarnishing the literary critical profession. I am, so far as I can tell, the first adjunct faculty member to receive this award. To be sure, I have one of the…[Read more]
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