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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession
Contact emails…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: “Advocating for Foreign Language Departments” (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago2020 MLA CFP: Advocating for Foreign Language Departments
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession
Contact email…[Read more]
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Peggy D. Otto started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Call for Proposals MLA Convention 2020 – Please share in the discussion
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLiteracy Transactions: People, Practices, and Texts The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals on how literacies are exchanged between people and contexts. How do people, their literacy practices, and texts change as a result of this transaction? Submit 250-350 word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 April 2019 Peggy D.…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear HEP Teaching as a Profession members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear RCWS Writing Pedagogies members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIn this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Repurposing Chaucer” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat are/should be Chaucerian scholarship’s ethical commitments? What is/could be its relation to Chaucerian adaptations in various media? Gender, sexuality, race, and class; politics of Chaucer scholarship and amateur or creative Chauceriana. 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations by March 15 to Catherine Sanok (sanok@umich.edu) and C…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Periodizing Race” (LLC Chaucer & Shakespeare Forums) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat can/should be the role of the premodern in the transhistorical history of race? Chaucer/Shakespeare’s entanglements in the history of racialization; the history of race before race. Please submit 250-word abstracts of roundtable-length papers by March 1 to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern U (susie-phillips@northwestern.edu) and M…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Chaucer's Walls” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu) and…[Read more]
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Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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