MLA Commons | 2018 MLA Convention | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/ Activity feed for the group, 2018 MLA Convention. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8771cba4aca5223da953e49779f4abe3 Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-5/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:04:29 -0500 If you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.

]]> 0 c753b00d76835407ff6312f22a2aa79d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/diasporic-italy-journal-of-the-italian-american-studies-association-2/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:19:05 -0400 Please see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.

Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]

]]> 0 08a39491dacd4e22080c0aadee09d4cb Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/whats-the-future-have-in-store-for-the-italian-american-studies-association-2/ Tue, 19 May 2020 02:23:17 -0400 What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 713156b47092527ad6bf58e3a5f40fa3 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: LLC Italian American - MLA 2021 in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/cfp-llc-italian-american-mla-2021-2/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 04:37:03 -0500 Title: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

]]> 0 13b9e23193380cf137a05e3ea4c740e5 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Fulbright Lecturership in Italian American Studies in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/fulbright-lecturership-in-italian-american-studies-2/ Mon, 07 May 2018 03:30:49 -0400 Dear Colleagues,
Please see the attached opportunity for those who work in Italian American
Studies. This is a wonderful opportunity for scholars of any rank. For more
information, see the link below or write directly to Margherita Ganeri.

A new Fulbright Lectureship in Italian American Culture and Literature  has
been established at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 abbaa667334dfe94d83dc82cca4d65a9 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 51ST ANNUAL IASA CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/51st-annual-iasa-conference-at-university-of-illinois-chicago-2/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 02:40:45 -0400 51st Annual IASA Conference at University of Illinois, Chicago

— Call for Papers: Reminder —

“The Conflicts of Immigration Past and Present:

The Position[ing] of Italians and the Diaspora”

October 18-20, 2018

Submission Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2018

Upload/submit proposals to Submitta…[Read more]

]]> 0 96b16de04c9bf2f6d4b204fc0c0c0806 Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Afghanistan in Post-9/11 American Poetry: A Creative Response to Orientalism in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1600472/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:48:44 -0500 On the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
significant intellectual departure from the standpoint alle…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6d52d45ac821ad8cddc13839caa2cb8 Nathan H. Dize edited the doc An Explosion in the Archives: Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598215/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:54:10 -0500 0 c5a62bf333408dc587d255b62417d696 Nathan H. Dize created the doc An Explosion in the Archives: Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598208/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:47:09 -0500 0 2e121de8908a4a201c949cabb5721f43 Luiza Franco Moreira deposited Remembering Antonio Candido in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598162/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:12:25 -0500 In the 2018 MLA Convention, the Luso-Brazilian Forum organized a meeting to remember Professor Antonio Candido (1918-2017), on January 6, 7:15-8:30 PM. This posting collects most papers read at the meeting. Should you be interested in contributing your own remembrance, or reflections on Candido’s career, please send them to me on the Commons. I…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3ce63ab51a6bf2c0d81e56cdf06d881 Katina Rogers deposited Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597954/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:24:07 -0500 Establishing a meaningful digital identity is essential to managing one’s scholarly and professional reputation. This workshop addresses ways to cultivate an online identity and offers guidance on “going public” using tools and strategies for building a community around your work. Topics include social media, writing for different audiences, perso…[Read more]

]]> 0 32b0b9e6dc4f883c2f2803003c7697e8 Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597945/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 03:48:43 -0500 This presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]

]]> 0 fba9b7f4d20f08d48ace482f46a75a60 Elisa Beshero-Bondar deposited Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: The Pittsburgh Digital Frankenstein Project in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597776/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:24:57 -0500 Slides accompanying a panel representing the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Frankenstein project to build a digital scholarly variorum edition that updates, bridges, and intersects multiple divergent editions of Frankenstein, including the manuscript notebook drafts of 1816, the 1818, 1823, and 1831 print editions, as well as the handwritten notes in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2053c724cedbe3d78bd203f8374e386f Matthew K. Gold deposited Response to Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597601/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:19:39 -0500 The following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. This response argues that the call for critical infrastructure studies can ultimately help us mobilize a critically informed resistance to capital and set of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e21e0cd2dc3a0465c2e1577c6a1d3f43 Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595834/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:36:30 -0500 Feminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd568669650eff600a3b14b55dc692ad Allison Margaret Bigelow uploaded the file: Sensible Translations: Organizing Natural Knowledge Through Language in the Early Modern Iberian World to 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595572/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:03:12 -0500 As scholars of the early Americas revisit concepts like eye-witnessing and testimonial genres as sites of knowledge-making authority, incorporating insights from new work in the history of sensing in the early modern era (Tobin 2005, Maurette, forthcoming 2018), we would do well to consider how the practices of translation and the mechanics of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4c577764a656a758ae85e6c108482d8 Eric Weiskott deposited Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595552/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:57:06 -0500 As in other early language traditions, premodern English poetry was written out with very light punctuation. The sparsity of manuscript punctuation appears especially problematic in the period before 1200, when poetry in English lacked visual linebreaks. The difficulties of parsing this poetry are substantial. Modern editors of Old English verse…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c9d74f98724c08a66ee9713281f2acb Eric Weiskott deposited English Political Prophecy in the Welsh Marches, 1450-1650 in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595541/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:43:04 -0500 From the twelfth century to the seventeenth, political prophecy was prominent among English literary genres no less than in English political life. Derived from Welsh poetic tradition via Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin History of the Kings of Britain, prophecy reached all social classes. Prophetic texts influenced the decisions of kings, shaped p…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2772fa357c87ad07e794bbf14034514 Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595540/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:42:57 -0500 Document annotation is almost as old as writing. The designers of the World Wide Web envisioned a system that would allow people to publicly annotate any document. The advent of cloud computing has finally made this feasible: distributed annotation systems like Hypothes.is allow users to save annotations privately, or share them with the public.…[Read more]

]]> 0 40dc05321a535202b7787b44bc01c91f Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited "Mewn Dau Gae" Response: "In Two Fields: A Reconciliation" in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595532/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:37:32 -0500 I was the invited respondent for this panel of papers jointly-sponsored by the CLCS Celtic and Old English MLA Forums. These are the remarks which I prepared in response to the papers in order to help draw them together into a frame to generate discussion, and which were read for me in abstentia.

]]> 0 9ef8e5bae22e7fedbabd1b412744efc2 Rebecca Chung deposited The Lead-to-Pixels Project: Digitization and the Materiality of Book-History Training in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595531/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:36:29 -0500 Book history, letterpress conservation, pedagogy, humanities-STEM education

]]> 0 6cfb08eacb14aed4a58f3bb03a3078ba Nicky Agate deposited Making the Most of Humanities Commons in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595266/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 05:38:20 -0500 This workshop (session 362 at the 2018 convention) served as an introduction to the nonprofit scholarly network Humanities Commons and its open-access repository, CORE. Attendees learned how to gain more readers while increasing the impact of their work, make interdisciplinary connections, build class blogs and collaborative Web sites, find and…[Read more]

]]> 0 071ad2420d3522d16ed3715c478bd7ce David Healey deposited The Empty Chair: Anna Ella Carroll and the Hidden Business of Persuasive Writing in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595264/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 05:36:29 -0500 Anna Ella Carroll was one of the more remarkable, if relatively unknown, business and political writers during the Civil War era. She wrote government pamphlets that explained complex legal issues, lobbied for the railroad industry by writing business articles, and campaigned on behalf of governors and presidents. This paper explores Carroll’s i…[Read more]

]]> 0 2997f860d1702097150d2dc2033ef3ed Andie Silva replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/#post-1016087 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:26:21 -0500 FYI: Some of these will take a cab or train ride to get to

For a quick but delicious and affordable dinner: Room Service (Thai)
Vegetarian/Vegan (again, Asian): hangawirestaurant.com 
Israeli cuisine in Soho: http://12chairscafe.com/soho/menu.html
Italian (East Village): http://www.damarcella.com/
Quick dumpling, soup, and n…[Read more]

]]> 0 89be3ceacec01ea28bfdad4340a7e78b Vimala C. Pasupathi replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/#post-1016077 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:15:55 -0500 If you want to get away from the conference and eat the best/cheapest South Indian food, go to Temple Canteen. Take the 7 train to Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, or Citifield & catch a cab/Lyft from there. The ride won’t cost much & you’ll save $ on the food. Seriously cheap & you can get a feast. Open daily 8:30 to 9:30.

]]> 0 98042360442bbfc8421de3265f8cd695 Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/#post-1016076 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:54:21 -0500 Thank you so much! — Best, NST

]]> 0 e3cb55537c9c30e88bc9b83a1322b182 Vimala C. Pasupathi replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/#post-1016074 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:28:59 -0500 This place: a https://www.friedmansrestaurant.com/

“…The original store opened in 2009 in the Chelsea Market. One of the pioneers Vanessa had been diagnosed with celiac disease and had to eat gluten-free. So when the first location opened she was vocal about making it a gluten-free safe haven for her and her celiac peers. She was adamant that t…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa08f68dd2106f55f4ecfe6fc4aee0f6 Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/#post-1016065 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:48:06 -0500 Thanks to everyone who has recommended places to eat — on behalf of me and others with dietary restrictions, could someone be so kind as to recommend places with good gluten-free options?

(And by that I mean at least two or three entrées that meet gluten-free restrictions; ideally in places with separate preparing spaces but even if shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a51ac576e7ce0d0d1e6b30c0b924f46 Vimala C. Pasupathi replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/#post-1016060 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:32:25 -0500 I hesitate to tell people all of this because I’d like for my favorite spaces to be free of crowds.

If you want cheap and delicious food, you should go to Queens, particularly Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, & Flushing. Golden Mall in Flushing if you’re cool on walking down some steps into a basement mall & ordering super cheap and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a16a80b6f101a6527baa4e7b15ff80d1 Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Dont' Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/dont-miss-the-rcws-literacy-studies-sessions-at-mla-2018-2/ Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:21:59 -0500

RCWS Literacy Studies Sponsored Sessions:
 
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies
Presentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska,…

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]]> 0 00be95dbb511a1515feaf99e8a01fa08 Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM's Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/please-join-us-for-gaams-sessions-at-mla-2018-2/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 01:41:05 -0500 Dear Colleague,

Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.

44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]

]]> 0 c2e0baa3896e19e179e7dfa4ce31a82b Stacey Courtney edited the post MLA Exhibit Hall - Penn Press Spotlight in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://convention.mla.hcommons.org/uncategorized/mla-exhibit-hall-penn-press-spotlight Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:35:45 -0500 Check out the newest publications from one of the oldest university presses in the United States, University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press), in booth 121 in the exhibit hall (Rhinelander Gallery, second floor) at the 2018 MLA convention. What makes them so special? Read on.
Support for Humanities Academics
Penn Press is an integral part of t…[Read more]

]]> 477d30359954b9f93bf4318a84d26165 Nicky Agate started the topic Have 45 minutes at the convention? Help us improve CORE! in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/have-45-minutes-at-the-convention-help-us-improve-core/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 15:04:30 -0500 Thursday, Jan 4 at 2:30pm in the Sheraton

We will be hosting a focus group to find out more about MLA member use of CORE, our open-access repository for sharing scholarship and increasing the impact of your work. If you are free on Thursday, January 4 at 2:30pm, please consider taking part in this group and helping us improve the CORE platform. I…[Read more]

]]> 0 84276a0e1ec472dc28e5119691ab24b8 Heekyoung Cho posted an update in the group 2018 MLA Convention: You are cordially invited to Korean Forum Reception at the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592598/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:25:47 -0500 You are cordially invited to Korean Forum Reception at the MLA Convention!

**********
Korean Forum Reception
Sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, Columbia University

Date: Saturday, 6 January

Time: 8:45-10:00 p.m.

Place: Murray Hill East, Hilton, New York, NY

]]> 0 d3e28f6a859b03404102151fc1b55999 Stacey Courtney wrote a new post Welcome Universitas Press at MLA 2018 in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://convention.mla.hcommons.org/resources-tips/welcome-universitas-press-at-mla-2018 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:36:18 -0500 Stop by booth 321 in the MLA exhibit hall (Americas I, third floor) and say hello to Universitas Press, one of our newest exhibitors and probably the youngest press in the exhibit hall. Why should you get to know […]

]]> bec0a9cef347ef855874af7cb6ad6fd4 Nicky Agate posted an update in the group 2018 MLA Convention: If you'd like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591345/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:30:39 -0500 If you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)

]]> 0 4cb15f074d9d7a6be4baf8791c4ef881 Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group 2018 MLA Convention: What is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591073/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:22:59 -0500 What is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.

]]> 0 91069a9d4741f32174dceccd88bb5a19 Stacey Courtney wrote a new post Celebrating University Presses at MLA 2018 in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://convention.mla.hcommons.org/mla18/celebrating-university-presses-at-mla-2018 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:13:37 -0500 In the exhibit hall at the MLA convention, attendees have access to a wide range of publishers, from small independent journals to large international booksellers. In honor of University Press Week (6–11 N […]

]]> 2a05e3b998b733b1d913ad93291332a5 Nicky Agate replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/#post-1015591 Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:23:14 -0400 As an NYC local, I’d like to recommend the following around the convention area (if you’re looking for recommendations beyond a mile radius of the convention, particularly in Brooklyn, send me a message here @terrainsvagues):

BAR: Valhalla NYC, for a really good selection of craft beers. It’s a 10-minute walk west from the Sheraton along 53rd…[Read more]

]]> 0 67baef6817c7ba59b7a257a20e07bd50 Stacey Courtney edited the post Explore NYC! Join a Cultural Excursion in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://convention.mla.hcommons.org/resources-tips/explore-nyc-join-a-cultural-excursion Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:11:05 -0400 New York City is home to a wide range of world-renowned libraries, museums, and cultural institutions, reflective of this city’s rich history and diverse population. The seven excursions created for the 2018 MLA c […]

]]> 35dee38bcee9f1ad4f857059474f95ad Anna Chang edited the post Don't Miss These Preconvention Workshops! in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://convention.mla.hcommons.org/resources-tips/dont-miss-these-preconvention-workshops Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:14:58 -0400 There’s time still to register for preconvention workshops at this year’s MLA convention in New York City! Many of these workshops focus on career development for members at all stages of their careers and provide opportunities for collaboration and hands-on learning.

Advocating for Your Department
Thursday, 4 January, 8:30–11:30 a.m., Gibso…[Read more]

]]> cf782040f08ff1e4326c84915ec519bf Karin Bagnall edited the post Welcome to the 2017 Convention! in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://convention.mla.hcommons.org/mla17/welcome-to-the-2017-convention Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:02:48 -0400  

Welcome! Philadelphia has hosted the MLA convention several times in this millennium and will do so again this January. For those of you who’ve attended those conventions—and certainly for many of us on staff—Philadelphia has become a home away from home. This year all sessions will take place at the Philadelphia Marriott and the Penns…[Read more]

]]> 76b0f1c4064aa2d0b86c5dc74c6b4a4d Karin Bagnall edited the post Welcome to the 2018 MLA Annual Convention in the group 2018 MLA Convention https://convention.mla.hcommons.org/uncategorized/welcome-to-the-2018-mla-annual-convention Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:37:05 -0400 Welcome to NYC

 

Welcome to NYC! The city is home not only to MLA HQ and most of my colleagues but to over a thousand MLA members. Native New Yorkers and new arrivals from every state and most countries in the world can be found here (all 8.5 million of us). As Whitman said, I am large, I contain multitudes.

You want modern languages? Head to Queens…[Read more]

]]> 4b2d009408021162fb2acc6196c39400 Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-4/ Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:35:11 -0400 If you’re a New York City local, please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.

]]> 0 292d64bdd021ef8a49645aabda8cf10b Karin Bagnall created the group 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580788/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:16:40 -0400 0