The mission of the TC Age Studies forum is to benefit the association by serving as a valuable resource for researchers and educators in the field of age studies. To achieve this goal, researchers explore the implications of age differences across the lifespan and the intersections of age with other categories of identity in literature, media, and culture, particularly focusing on considerations of aging and old age. Educators incorporate age studies concepts into pedagogies of literature, language, and writing. We encourage scholars to explore the impact of their own and others’ age-based stereotypes, the benefits and frustration of aging, and the potential inherent in aging and old age beyond the boundaries of essentialist, reductive valuations. The TC Age Studies forum supports examinations of cultural assumptions and research about age and age-based discriminations, including responses and resistance.
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Lauren M. Bowen started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies on aging in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 months agoCall for Papers: Special Issue of Literacy in Composition Studies
Composing a Further Life
Guest Editors: Lauren Marshall Bowen and Suzanne Rumsey
The world is aging. According to the National Institute on Aging, rising life expectancies and reduced fertility mean that the percentage of older adults is steadily increasing worldwide. Longer…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP for non-guaranteed collaborative session MLA 2018 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 6 months, 4 weeks agoOrganization: Age Studies and The Teaching of Literature collaboration
Title of session: Approaches to Teaching Age in Literature
Submission requirements: 300-word abstract, brief CV
Deadline for submissions: 10 March 2017
Description: How and why do/should faculty incorporate age and/or aging into literature courses? How does the current academic…[Read more] -
Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 months agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Everyone welcome tonight for socializing after our session in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week agoWe will be gathering at City Tap House, 2 Logan Square, after the last Age Studies session at the Convention Center. This is a casual spot with drinks and a varied menu. We’ll be there around 7, assuming that we head there after the session ends at 6:30. If you’d like to get to know scholars working in Age Studies, you’re very welcome, wh…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Join us for the Age Studies events at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 8 months agoMLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies
Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions
Thursday 5 January
Session 9
“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”
12 noon-1:15 p.m.
102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Session 96
“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medical Human…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Invited for First Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoIn the fall of 2017, TC Age Studies will hold its first-ever Delegate Assembly election. The nomination process that applies to executive committee elections will also apply to the election of forum delegates, so membership suggestions are needed–see Valerie Lipscomb’s post. So when the forum’s executive committee meets during the January 2017 c…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Suggest nominees for the Age Studies Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoWhen the Age Studies Forum Executive Committee meets in January, we will consider possible nominees for the fall 2017 exec. committee election. We nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership, unless there are too few suggestions. We encourage all of you to submit possible nominees, and self-nominations are en…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak started the topic Age Studies board election in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 months, 4 weeks agoAs a nominee for this forum’s executive committee, I would like to introduce myself and my research.
As we know, Age Studies is one of the most interesting, developing fields at the moment. For the MLA panels, I would be interested in choosing topics that showcase the interdisciplinary nature of the field. I would also like to solicit s…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Adolescence in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoCFP for Special Session to be proposed for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Re-constituting, re-imagining, or re-negotiating adolescence in culture, memory, age studies, or literature. Abstracts by 7 March 2016; Nancy C. Backes (backesnc@gmail.com)
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Age Studies CFP for MLA 2017, non-guaranteed session in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoCFP for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia, for a non-guaranteed session proposed by the MLA Age Studies Forum:
The Boundaries of Literary Age Studies
What are/should be the parameters of age studies in literature? How should literary age studies intersect and interact with other age-focused disciplines? What are the unique contributions of literary age…[Read more]
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Suzanne England deposited Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoAlfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Col…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoNicky – thank you so very, very much!
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoI’ve crossposted this in the news section of the Commons Newswire.
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Erin Lamb started the topic Requesting help from those who teach undergrads in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoHello,
I am writing to request your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies. I am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only b…[Read more] -
Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.
What difference does age make in…[Read more]
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic Age Studies CFPs for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAn exciting range of panels seeking papers for MLA 2016:
The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7484
Ageism and Activism: EngAging the Public http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8111
Reading Over Time http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8109
Time, Youth, and Age in Renaissance Literature http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7886
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Reading Over Time (deadline 3/15/15) in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time,” George Eliot writes in Adam Bede, “or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.” For a proposed MLA special session, we seek papers on reencountering texts at different moments in the life course. Given debates about the perception of “late style” in the work of artists and…[Read more]
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