MLA Commons | HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/ Activity feed for the group, HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c4c43b60f345186a9d99f144ab505952 Janine M. Utell started the topic Webinar of Interest: Commonsense Strategies for Publishing While Teaching in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/webinar-of-interest-commonsense-strategies-for-publishing-while-teaching/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:42:15 -0500 Check out this upcoming free webinar!
Commonsense Strategies for Publishing while Teaching
24 March 2026 | 4:00–5:00 p.m. ET

This webinar, on writing and publishing, is designed for faculty members at access-oriented institutions, especially community colleges. Speakers will share strategies for identifying writing opportunities, bringing tog…[Read more]

]]> 0 e33eaa34a4b23138a6533d58ad5c0c2c Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP: Faces: Resemblances and Otherness in Global Literature in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-faces-resemblances-and-otherness-in-global-literature/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:10:55 -0500 An object of curiosity and desire, the face has also been subject to symbolic and real violence. This panel seeks papers discussing the presentation of the face and facelessness in Global literature.

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Send 200-word abstracts and presenter bio to Umar Shehzad, University of Edinburgh…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd6b052d42829edf69a3ca6560be055e Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP: Precarity and Protest: What Can I Actually Do? in the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-precarity-and-protest-what-can-i-actually-do-2/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:04:18 -0500 Seeking 200-word abstracts and presenter bios for practical strategies in teaching, activism, and research for a roundtable discussion on making marginalized voices heard, especially within the confines of contingency, institutional policy, and current political climate

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Send abstracts and bios to:…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7a9241345c314ca4ac5710c9611cc59 Elizabeth Weixel started the topic CFP MLA 2025: Madness and Magic in Global Lit in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-madness-and-magic-in-global-lit/ Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:05:02 -0400 From the HEP Forum for Part-Time and Continent Faculty Issues:

Call for Papers: Manifestations of Madness and Magic in Global Literature

Commonalities of Kesey and Quiroga, Carroll and Cortázar, Plath and Poe? Panelists discuss connections between discernible delusion and imaginative illusion found in world literature. Send a 200-word abstract…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9cead3db0e72273e3b38cbf1eb7d429 Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/discussion-group-on-what-contingency-means-to-you-6/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:27:30 -0500 Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

]]> 0 be7abe84ef0e3b6a9de4db24c8dd506a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-11/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:44:58 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 76d01e474a2c43b28c0f99bab71ee362 James R. Britton started the topic Three CFPs--MLA 2024 in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/three-cfps-mla-2024/ Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:40:18 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.

  • The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to assure f…

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]]> 0 33cc77a3b7ce712cc445a5ea08f9d869 Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 Deadline for HEP CFPs--Come join us! in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/march-25-deadline-for-hep-cfps-come-join-us/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:54:49 -0400 Extended CFP deadlines: March 25! We want YOU to be a part of one of our sessions at MLA 2022 in D.C. Please submit an abstract or share these with your colleagues. Much appreciation for your interest and assistance.
 
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
Studying world languages and literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 39bbdbbe9699b5c174cb165ddfa63a26 Anne Donlon started the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/invitation-to-join-a-new-commons-group-on-teaching-remotely/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:52:10 -0500 Hello, all,

I’m writing to invite you to join a new group on MLA Commons: Teaching Remotely. The group was created to provide a space for MLA members to build collective resources, share their experiences with one another, and ask questions about teaching remotely.

I thought that members of this Commons group may be interested in—and would h…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e35df5d948d9511f16235bbbe158b71 Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic CFPs for MLA 2022 from HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues Forum in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2022-from-hep-part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues-forum/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:10:35 -0500 Dear colleagues,

We are excited to share our three CFPs from the HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues Forum for MLA 2022. Please read the details below and submit an abstract and short bio by March 15. We are looking forward to a terrific convention in D.C. and would love for YOU to be a panelist in one of our sessions. Please share these…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9ff245a788bd2604fa69ea8108cb942 Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic Connecting with Colleagues in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/connecting-with-colleagues/ Sun, 25 Oct 2020 18:23:16 -0400 Hello, everyone! I am honored to have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues and I wanted to briefly introduce myself before MLA voting opens this week. As a Spanish instructor and contingent employee, I have been a “freeway flier” and “roads scholar” traveling among institutes of higher learnin…[Read more]

]]> 0 d874e10a1e5772fc49e75a67ead2b6e7 Feisal G. Mohamed posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: Colleagues: Please consider signing the petition '1% for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713662/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:27:53 -0400 Colleagues: Please consider signing the petition ‘1% for Adjuncts,’ which would have the MLA annually set aside 1% of its assets to support adjunct unionization.
And, just as importantly, please share the petition widely: on email lists, via social media, and the like.
Full petition here: https://forms.gle/qgjBJi4KMjh2Tj2Q6

With best wishes,
Feisal

]]> 0 22951a6a5f44fcf6b6591975ea182e32 David Laurence deposited Tenure in 2017: A Per Institution View in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1667105/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:48:45 -0400 As advocacy to increase tenure-track academic career opportunities for PhD recipients and reverse institutions’ abuse of an immiserated class of adjunct instructors has long deplored, the portion of the faculty with tenure or on the tenure track has declined to under a third of the academic workforce, while the segment with part-time appointments…[Read more]

]]> 0 45d7789547214418ed4bc5aaf6ff5a97 Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/study-participation-request-7/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:59:22 -0400 Dear 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]

]]> 0 9852af369e23972c5a339047eb92d208 Maria Shine Stewart started the topic An Inside HIgher Ed Essay -- Just Sharing ... Written in July 2016 in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/an-inside-higher-ed-essay-just-sharing-written-in-july-2016/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 05:59:58 -0500 https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/07/21/how-improve-teaching-conditions-adjunct-faculty-members-essay    Nothing fancy here, but a dean at one of my schools contacted me after it ran.

]]> 0 53240e8071ed9d999eb3062ab796fad4 Michelle A. Massé started the topic Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages: 2018 Awards Nominations in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/womens-caucus-for-the-modern-languages-2018-awards-nominations/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:22:59 -0500 The Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages (WCML) is now accepting submissions for its annual awards. The Caucus is gender-inclusive and welcomes feminist scholarship from all authors. Please note that there are no membership dues for graduate students and for those whose income is below $20,000 a year. For further information about these a…[Read more]

]]> 0 292aba8b1dca14837c30eeffff0a2ae1 William Christopher Brown started the topic Book Reviews in the discussion HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/book-reviews-2/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 05:13:00 -0400 The scholarly journal Academic Labor: Research and Artistry has published its latest issue, and it includes a submission from me that reviews two recent books on contingent academic labor: “Reviews of Daniel Davis’s Contingent Academic Labor and Lisa del Rosso’s Confessions of an Accidental…[Read more]

]]> 0 09efbec295c733ff984df859070827d1 Maria Shine Stewart started the topic From Candidate Maria Shine Stewart in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/from-candidate-maria-shine-stewart/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:01:35 -0400 I first observed the starkly different working conditions of full-time and part-time faculty as an English department secretary many years ago. Fast forward 35 years: Too little has changed at too few institutions for larger and larger numbers of adjunct, non-tenure-track, term, or contingent faculty. I teach at up to four northeast Ohio colleges…[Read more]

]]> 0 5afc46ffb28157ad4cfb14c759b7c288 Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597947/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 03:51:58 -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 33e5db5275f0f3006df12708f06c5cca Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594627/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:36:29 -0500 The idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 282d425e70b0625fbfd0e704db0718aa Mary Gallucci posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: A sobering look at adjunct faculty: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1583256/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:24:59 -0400 A sobering look at adjunct faculty: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty?CMP=share_btn_fb

]]> 0 592f1ddf5d3925dd0f1b6a9eedae4eef David Laurence uploaded the file: Department of Labor Guidance on "Contract" and "Reasonable Assurance" to HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557011/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:42:46 -0500 This 22 December 2016 U. S. Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance to states about the interpretation of “contract” and “reasonable assurance of future employment” in determining eligibility for unemployment insurance of adjunct faculty members in higher education. The guidance in this UIPL supersedes…[Read more]

]]> 0 abe2269d2ad6b99ced136a0f5ef3b606 Kathi Inman Berens replied to the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/award-winner-kevin-birmingham-speaks-about-adjuncts-and-exploitiation/#post-12247 Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:31:24 -0400 Fantastic speech.

]]> 0 3608c6dad2208de16b0c2dbf15ff5fe2 Maria Maisto started the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/award-winner-kevin-birmingham-speaks-about-adjuncts-and-exploitiation/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:37:55 -0400 Full speech at  http://www.kevinbirmingham.net/research/

I accept the Truman Capote Award in this spirit of justice. I would be remiss, therefore, if I did not address another injustice tarnishing the literary critical profession. I am, so far as I can tell, the first adjunct faculty member to receive this award. To be sure, I have one of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 317d888af95a12c7067a145ef36ff1a0 Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552775/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:17:24 -0400 This infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f0b7eca378aadffaa7284224c44788f Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552768/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:21:59 -0400 This presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.

]]> 0 c2aee750cc40d64b5d33e2db2a8a9fbf Lenora Hanson started the topic Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/low-wage-work-the-boundary-condition-of-university-labor/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 04:07:18 -0400 This year the MLA Executive Council is sponsoring the roundtable session “Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor” on Saturday, January 7th from 8:30-9:45 in 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center. Please share information about this session widely:

Participants include: Laura Goldblatt, Global Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 40aef8c327cf9cdad732703b16a253c6 Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544950/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:11:48 -0500 This panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]

]]> 0 311cadeced6023772960435f3444bc5e Kenneth Pinion started the topic [MLA 2017 CFP] Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Pedagogy in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/mla-2017-cfp-looking-for-a-light-in-the-dark-on-mental-health-in-pedagogy-2/ Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:57:03 -0500 “Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Humanistic Pedagogy”

This session seeks papers that offer effective strategies for confronting mental health issues amongst educators. Potential topics may include (but not necessarily exclude): the rise in depression amongst graduate students and faculty; the prevalence of mental health iss…[Read more]

]]> 0 e699e5c80200e0442df4bb179230cb9a Mary-Beth Brophy started the topic Call for Roundtable Participants: MLA 2017 Convention in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/call-for-roundtable-participants-mla-2017-convention/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:48:22 -0500 The Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession is planning a roundtable for the 2017 MLA convention in Philadelphia tentatively entitled: “Could this get me fired? Employment rights and risks for just-in-time faculty.”

We’re particularly interested in ensuring that our least job-secure colleagues are  represented on the roundtable, so I’d l…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cf208897dc2c37cd29da654a5e1953f Tiffany Kraft deposited Je Suis Contingency: MLA 16 s. 526 in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539388/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:09:34 -0500 A reflection on MLA 16 from the adjunct perspective.

]]> 0 c6863f951c320db4573437c82bbb3e5f Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539050/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:13:47 -0500 This presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.

]]> 0 cfa6af83bb7e78877ed92bab0ad4c382 Heidi Tiedemann Darroch started the topic Invitation to coffee and chat at MLA 2016 in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/invitation-to-coffee-and-chat-at-mla-2016/ Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:15:03 -0500 The Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession will be hosting a coffee hour on Saturday, January 9 between our two panel sessions. We invite you to join us from 11:30-1:30 in 502-503 of the JW Marriott to share ideas and initiatives. Additional information is available here: https://contingent.mla.hcommons.org/.

Many thanks to all for your…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5fe3ea96d59c0a0b133e918a1342510 Nicky Agate started the topic An invitation to a literary trivia quiz in Austin in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/an-invitation-to-a-literary-trivia-quiz-in-austin-2/ Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:12:36 -0500 I’d like to invite any members of this forum attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It’s free, promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but should be fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

Space is limited, so please reserve y…[Read more]

]]> 0 12db1cc592e803daa69d72eb5ad8aa9f Megan Massino started the topic Invitation: Open Meeting on Postdocs and the Profession in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/invitation-open-meeting-on-postdocs-and-the-profession/ Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:56:15 -0500 At MLA2016:

Join for coffee and a discussion of postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, both best practices for positions and programs and pressing questions about the role of the postdoc position in humanities research initiatives, the casualization of the academic workforce, and the larger profession.

Members of this group may be inter…[Read more]

]]> 0 28404d043ca31b0eb90381576c8fdfb4 Carrie Johnston deposited MLA 2016: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/535654/ Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:26:01 -0500 “The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” is an MLA 2016 special session in which panelists consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students and contingent and full-time faculty members into an already overcrowded job market. Instead of providing advice about getting a job, participants evaluate that advice and gen…[Read more]

]]> 0 33849f70ab3624e5cd8b76ea859df2d5 James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/534651/ Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:41:41 -0500 The “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]

]]> 0 a950526993a0c8516f8796cb782fe031 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-for-travel-grants/ Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:06:52 -0500 Part-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.

Here’s the link:
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/MLA-Financial-Assistance/Non-Tenure-Track-Faculty-Members-and-Unemployed-Members-Traveling-to-the-Convention

]]> 0 3f2a893df87582064deaa13f03fb8d35 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New documentary release yesterday! in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/new-documentary-release-yesterday/ Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:01:43 -0400 Freeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsMUuEpxO0

]]> 0 b639a34b216b6b1e90d4ebcf9abae1ed Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/mla-subconference-call-for-papers/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:38:50 -0400 As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.

Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]

]]> 0 63f9f5d6d0edee84a2267e5e061e72d4 Janice Ho started the topic CFP: In/Security with cluster on "Labour, Precarity, and the University" in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/cfp-insecurity-with-cluster-on-labour-precarity-and-the-university/ Tue, 14 Jul 2015 06:16:57 -0400 CFP: In/Security

Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)

 This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individual…[Read more]

]]> 0 731dd28c032cf7c0b9f9ac762919d283 Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/142052/ Sun, 24 May 2015 21:01:05 -0400 Literatura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]

]]> 0 533aad671e145441fc00df59cd9a6c9a Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/134850/ Wed, 20 May 2015 20:54:23 -0400 Course Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a6b7cb2c7201933d7c801074b1495fe Nicky Agate started the topic New MLA resource site for humanities careers in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/new-mla-resource-site-for-humanities-careers/ Tue, 05 May 2015 17:30:18 -0400 I invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.

connect.mla.hcommons.org

]]> 0 58438bdda257d859c6b66dc38977ac1a Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New Initiative for articulating support for contingent faculty in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/new-initiative-for-articulating-support-for-contingent-faculty/ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 06:18:33 -0500 I hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution.  Here’s the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7356e1da1e1744885ed1bf69a3cb5d9 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic #Precariat conversation at Shanker Institute in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/precariat-conversation-at-shanker-institute/#post-6444 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:01:42 -0500 Thanks for doing this, Nicky! I was tweeting away on another channel until Fabian Banga oriented me…

]]> 0 aa1de223614a39fa9b3e17fb017e2f74 Nicky Agate started the topic #Precariat conversation at Shanker Institute in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/precariat-conversation-at-shanker-institute/ Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:42:16 -0500 Hi all,

I posted a storify of tweets posted around Rosemary Feal’s #precariat conversation with Andrew Ross, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Jennie Shanker at the Shanker Institute on January 15. (Margaret Hanzimanolis features!) You can view the storify on this group’s blog.

Cheers,

Nicky

]]> 0 0e9b553d8498755d7c20ea55afdc4c8c Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MOTION for more PTF in governance PASSED in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/motion-for-more-ptf-in-governance-passed/ Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:25:16 -0500 We were successful in moving that a PTF be a required member of the Executive Council!  The motion, put forward by the radical caucus, also asked for more governance opportunities for PTF throughout the organization.  The dominance of tenured faculty in the MLA is beginning to topple. Please get in touch with me at hanzimanolis@gmail.com if you w…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2999ef978e206bb338d97f0b4235c01 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Nominees sought for the PT and other Contingent Faculty committee in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/nominees-sought-for-the-pt-and-other-contingent-faculty-committee/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:41:06 -0500 Please write to Maria Maisto, the incoming chair, if you would like to serve on this committee. It is a potentially important committee in an environment of rapidly increasing hospitality toward contingent and adjunct participation in the business of the MLA!

maria.maisto@newfacultymajority.info

]]> 0 4e3c541fae8561421ee9e61d2df0ab2a Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA MOTION 2015-1 on Part-time faculty in governance in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/mla-motion-2015-1-on-part-time-faculty-in-governance/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:52:59 -0500 This motion was submitted by the radical caucus of the MLA, and will be discussed at the open hearing on Friday and the Delegate assembly on Saturday. Please come to both venues, if you can, to support the motion and speak in its behalf!

Motion 2015-1

Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus…[Read more]

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