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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<div>From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian Literature Discussion Group will…[Read more]
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Kellie Charron started the topic CFP Winter 2014 in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Winter 2014 (Vol. 18, Iss. 4) Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice. Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical…[Read more]
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Kellie Charron started the topic Call for Papers: AEQ Winter 2014 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Winter 2014 (Vol. 18, Iss. 4) Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice. Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical…[Read more]
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Shannon Gayk posted an update in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoCFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: “Middle English Science”
Sponsored by the MLA Division on Middle English Literature (excluding
Chaucer)Send abstracts by March 5, 2014 to me at sgayk@indiana.edu and Erin Labbie at labbie@bgsu.edu.
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Jeffery Stoyanoff started the topic CFP: Framing Memory in Late Medieval English Narrative – Sp. Session MLA 2015 in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years agoHow do late medieval English narratives frame cultural memory? From the great famines at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the ongoing Hundred Years War, the twilight of the Middle Ages in England contains many memorable events itself, yet poets and writers during this period also draw on a fantasized English past – Arthurian legend – and…[Read more]
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Dean Albert Ramser replied to the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoI too have noticed more listings for FT TT Instructors, and I am blessed to have interviewed for a few of the recent openings. In addition there are more adjunct assignments – I taught 11 classes last semester and I’m teaching 8 this semester, plus I picked up new campus as well. Times are better!
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoWonderful news, Elizabeth! Community Colleges in Oregon, too, have openings for full time, tenure track faculty in English. After years of double digit enrollment growth, and not enough of an increase in tenure track faculty, we are playing catch up.
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Elizabeth Schwartz Crane started the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoDue to budget improvements in California, many CA Community Colleges are hiring FT TT English & FL faculty members. Check the Chronicle of Higher Ed and MLA JIL for postings!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about contingent and PTF in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 12 years agoI Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!
Here’s the link:
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about part time faculty in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoFive or six articles in the current issue of the ADE Bulletin address important statistical and other issues related to PTF. Bayta Weinbaum, Karen Lentz Madison, Sue Doe, Jack Longmate and other contingent and precarious faculty members, or their allies, have written excellent analyses of the current status of PTF in the academy. We would like…[Read more]
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Mahli Xuan Mechenbier started the topic Sue Doe's ADE article in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoHi, Group.
I want to share a link to Sue Doe’s ADE article, and I invite comments from everyone:
http://www.mla.org/adefl_bulletin_d_ade_153_23.pdf
It was a pleasure to see everyone in Chicago!
–Mahli
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Election of new members! Next Year's Panel ideas? in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoVirginia Cooper joins us from Montana, and Lee Skallerup Bessette from Kentucky! We are overjoyed to have new members join the committee!
If you would like to work with the committee as a non-member of the Executive committee, please use this forum to direct us to initiatives that you believe will be useful for MLA 2015 in Vancouver, or during…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago“NOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the Two Year College Discussion Group
The Executive Committee for the Two Year College Discussion Group encourages members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other community college faculty member (full or part time) to serve on the executive committee. The term is four years. The group is…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoNOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the PTF Committee!
The Executive Committee for the Part-time Faculty Discussion Group would encourage members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other active and hard-working Part time faculty member to serve on the committee. The term is four years. The group is eligible to put forward a…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWelcome, Linda Weinhouse, from the Community College of Baltimore County, to the Executive Committee of the Two Year College Discussion Group!
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoThe Discussion Group on the Two Year College is holding a business meeting for Executive Committee members immediately following session 213, at 10:15am, in the Illinois Room at the Marriott. At 11am, however, we invite any interested members to join us! For more information, contact Stacey Donohue, sdonohue@cocc.edu.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoThis is an important call for 800 word responses to a congressman’s inquiry about working conditions of part time faculty. Please make time this week or next to write your story.http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/eforum
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I wanted to post an announcement about a CFP for the second annual Transition & Transactions Conference at my junior college, BMCC-CUNY. (http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/english/page.jsp?pid=1024&n=Transitions%20and%20Transactions%20II%20-%20Call%20for%20Papers)
Thanks,
David Bahr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Jessica Winston started the topic Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State U. in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoIdaho State University (ISU) has a distinctive program Ph.D. program that might interest members of this group or their students.
The Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English integrates research in literature with practical and theoretical training in the teaching of composition and literature. The aim of the program is to prepare graduates…[Read more]
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