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Shawn Casey started the topic Extension: Centering Student Expertise MLA 2021 CFP – Deadline March 18 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAt least one member of the forum has asked for an extension of our CFP. It seems the least we can do, given the circumstances. MLA has not extended the deadline to submit panels, however, so we still need proposals this week, by end of day Wednesday the 18th if possible. Please email with any concerns: scasey5@cscc.edu.
This week I return to…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic MLA 2021: Centering Student Expertise proposals due 15 March 2020 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago“How do collaborative teaching and learning, alternative assessments, corequisites, and other classroom strategies reject the deficit model and center student experience? A panel on practical approaches for dismantling hierarchies in English.”
250-word proposals may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited Conflictos de autoridad narrativa en la _Relación del reyno del Nippon_ de Bernardino de Ávila in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoPlease refer to the article. The abstract is misplaced.
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Elaine Auyoung started the topic CFP: "Being Present to the Arts" (MLA 2021) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on “Being Present to the Arts” at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto. We invite papers that examine the experience (psychological, physical, social, affective) of attending to, being absorbed by, or participating in the creation of music, dance, poetry, painting,…[Read more]
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic CFP (MLA 2021) Centering Student Expertise in the Classroom and Curriculum in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 6 years ago“How do collaborative teaching and learning, alternative assessments, corequisites, and other classroom strategies reject the deficit model and center student experience? A panel on practical approaches for dismantling hierarchies in English.”
250-word proposals or questions may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.
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Kelly Aliano started the topic Looking for Participants for a Roundtable for MLA Conference 2021 in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 6 years agoI am looking for participants for a roundtable for the 2021 MLA Conference. The description for the session is pasted below. Please reach out to me directly (kel.irene.aliano@gmail.com) with any questions or to submit a proposal.
Putting Writing and Performance in Conversation
This panel welcomes abstracts (max. 300 words) that explore the…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is for a special session proposal, not a guaranteed panel.
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century
What methodologies and/or texts best help us make sense of our current bodily relationship to health, illness, and medicine? Papers utilizing posthumanism, new materialism, feminist science studies, or other philosophical tools are welcome. All literary genres and time p…[Read more] -
Caroline Winter deposited The Future is Meta: Five Revolutionary Ideas for Cataloguing and Metadata in Libraries and Archives in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoA job talk given as part of an interview for a faculty librarian position
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for (Self)Nominations for the 2020 Election in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe CLCS Forum European Region welcomes nominations and self-nominations for the upcoming election to replace departing Executive Committee member Corinne Scheiner by 25 January.
The main duties are to design topics for our guaranteed sessions, to identify candidates for election, and to think of ways to promote European Studies. MLA attendance…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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