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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoPaul Megna’s paper for the Middle English Forum at MLA 2022 invoked a Public Books piece by Irina Dumitrescu in order to prompt contemporary medievalists to ponder the events of 1/6/2021. How might 1/6/2021 cause us to reconsider the scholarly lenses through which we have typically interpreted the events of Rising of 1381 and their literary ma…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoMedieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Cultures in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023: The Ecology of the Community College Classroom in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoWe are currently looking for presenters for next year’s HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Forum. This is a guaranteed session set for the convention in San Francisco, on January 5-8, 2023. If you are interested, please see the detailed call description below and the shortened call posted on the MLA site below it.
CFP for MLA 2023: The…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Carissa Harris started the topic MLA 2023 CFPs! in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:
Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry
This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee service in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoHello Forum Members!
I recently posted information regarding the election for the community colleges representative in the MLA Delegate Assembly. The HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee is also interested in hearing from forum members who might be interested in serving on the Executive Committee. If you are interested in the committee,…[Read more]
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Grisel Y. Acosta started the topic Delegate Assembly Election Nominations for Community College Representative in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoHello Forum Members!
My name is Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, and I am the current Chair of the HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee. I hope all of you are well.
We are currently asking for nominees for the MLA Delegate Assembly election that will take place later this year. Folks who would like to represent the HEP Community Colleges forum in the…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, “Life Writing and Cognition” (Sunday) in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoJoin us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655
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Shawn Casey started the topic New 2022 Virtual Format: 600AV – Conflict and Contradiction… in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 4 years agoHi Everyone,
The HEP Community College Panel, 600AV – Conflict and Contradiction: Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Language Justice, and Institutional Priorities has been moved online. Panel time is still Saturday, January 8, 5:15 – 6:30 PM.
To access the panel, follow these instructions from the MLA Convention Online Session FAQ page. We hope to see you…[Read more]
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