A group dedicated to making visible working class issues, academic freedom, contingency, and wider urgencies, in the context of the study of language and literature
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited A Clockwork Student in the group
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis is another tale of life in the famed Rust Belt and how denizens of the “Belt” fare when they attempt to enter the world beyond its boundaries to the university. this is more autobiographical than most so should probably be called “creative non-fiction?”
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoRoutledge is doing a series of literature companions. I have been requested to build a proposal for a Literature and Social Class companion text. You are most welcome to pass on this CFP to colleagues. Please see details in attached file. Questions?
Many thanks,
Gloria McMillan, Editor
Email for ideas, communications, and drafts
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The in the group
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis rhetorical analysis of the phrase “The Rust Belt” asks the question Is The Rust Belt real or mythical? Does Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Subaltern’ caste now inhabit the (so-called) Rust Belt? Why can’t Rust Belt writers be heard?
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe 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]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic Emergency Resolution in the discussion
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoHowdy Folks: I am concerned about many aspects of a Trump presidency, including civil liberties, critical thinking, and support for education. I wonder if anyone has considered drafting an emergency resolution for the MLA convention in regards to affirming tolerance and academic freedom in the face of what has already proven to be a reductive,…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Radical caucus sponsored motion in the forum
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMotion 2015-1
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
Supporting materials: Click here to see the information provided by the proposers.Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF) constitute over 50% of the faculty in the US, and presumably a similar percentage of…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Critique of the MLA taskforce report on graduate study in the humanities in the forum
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe following letter, based upon a close analysis of the MLA Taskforce Report on Graduate Study (2013) in the Humanities, written by Margaret Hanzimanolis, Dick Ohmann and others, and based upon discussion on the radical caucus list serve.
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