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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members: Rania…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Reclaiming Ground for the Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoProjects that bridge the humanities and sciences often attract attention from journalists, but evoke dismay from humanists who feel that their subjects of expertise have been misinterpreted. For the humanities to reclaim a place of pride in public conversation, humanists themselves need to embrace interdisciplinarity and take the lead in this…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
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Jason Boyd deposited Writing Programs and Procedural Creativity: The Possibility of a Literary Platform Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis paper argues for the need for a Literary Platform Studies in order to develop a full understanding of electronic literary work. Understanding the authoring platforms used to create interactive digital stories enable a more nuanced and sophisticated appreciation of the procedural creativity of these works. The paper examines Twine…[Read more]
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Jason Boyd deposited The Fortune Theatre Records: A Prototype Digital Edition in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoA report on the creation of a prototype digital edition of a REED collection. Includes “Guidelines for REED at-codes Application and TEI P5 Markup” (Appendix C).
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Hélène Bilis started the topic TC Digital Humanities Executive Forum Elections in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHello Fellow TC Digital Humanists,
I’m happy to be nominated for the executive committee for the TC DH Executive Forum and I would be honored to serve. My platform, if I were to articulate one briefly, is to continue to make DH studies in North America more multilingual (specifically, showcasing projects and initiatives beyond English and…[Read more]
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Kathleen M. Lubey started the topic LLC Restoration and Early 18th C Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHello colleagues! I’m happy to be nominated to the executive commitee for the LLC Early Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century forum, and I hope you’ll consider a vote in my direction. I’ve posted a short bio and CV on my Humanities Commons page –have a glance if you’d like to know more about me and my work. Thanks, and here’s wishing you all…[Read more]
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Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]
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Patricia Sieber started the topic LLC Ming and Qing Forum Executive Committee Election Candidate Statement (2020) in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPATRICIA SIEBER
CANDIDATE STATEMENT FOR THE LLC MING AND QING CHINESE (G202) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION
I am an associate professor of Chinese literature and the inaugural director of the Translation and Interpreting Program at The Ohio State University. My research interests encompass traditional Chinese theater and song…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m writing to express my interest in representing TC Digital Humanities as its Delegate Assembly representative for the term starting in 2021. I am a co-founder and former Chair of the Global Arab and Arab American CSLS forum, where I was instrumental in building coalitions with other fora in sponsoring Delegate Assembly resolutions.
Although I…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold started the topic Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi All,
I wanted to share the opportunity below. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15)
Best,
Matt
Co-PI, Manifold—
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021
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The Manifold Team invites you to apply for a…[Read more] -
Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship: UVA, 2021 application cycle in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHappy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies,…[Read more]
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Marlene Manoff deposited The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information by Paul Dourish in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA book review of The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017) by John Dourish
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP – Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (12/2/2020) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming General Issue with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic edited by Nicole Zeftel (SUNY Buffalo), Alexis Larsson (CUNY Graduate Center) and Teresa Ober (University of Notre Dame).
JITP’s mission is to pr…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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