MLA Commons | Radical Caucus | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/radical-caucus/ Activity feed for the group, Radical Caucus. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:37:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8b76ff74019e1e361a02551e41ac693b Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/radical-caucus/forum/topic/discussion-group-on-what-contingency-means-to-you-2/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:26:44 -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 b3f5fcfdd7c3ec95bed5fd33f993ae8b Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663751/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:46:49 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 04af5fbfc26fc2b42b3ccf23fc176f3e Gloria Lee McMillan deposited A Clockwork Student in the group Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637586/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 03:48:43 -0400 This 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?”
How can a student escape from the confines of an industrial home town or neighboring town…[Read more]

]]> 0 aeca6f59f91f09240cfdef0a1135b804 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634169/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 04:12:58 -0500 Routledge 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
glomc@dakotacom.net

]]> 0 5d34dc4ee579f0723e1b682b790b9880 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The in the group Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608113/ Wed, 09 May 2018 03:48:54 -0400 This 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?
“The Rust Belt” is not a title anyone living there would have chosen and yet we use it. Why? Also why should we depend…[Read more]

]]> 0 d610cdc7da2104c96b61a8eaf207cc4c Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604908/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:58:00 -0400 A Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue

]]> 0 180a2e30b414663f8fa0351642627140 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594646/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:50:22 -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 af1345c018af19c5234fe1cdfd6f7592 Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic Emergency Resolution in the discussion Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/radical-caucus/forum/topic/emergency-resolution/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:09:26 -0500 Howdy 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]

]]> 0 f3a69159e571fea2aabd908729699e35 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Radical caucus sponsored motion in the forum Radical Caucus http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/radical-caucus/forum/topic/radical-caucus-sponsored-motion/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:11:03 -0500 Motion 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]

]]> 0 5f2cf2f4b065fab1f1b1591772793fab Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Critique of the MLA taskforce report on graduate study in the humanities in the forum Radical Caucus http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/radical-caucus/forum/topic/critique-of-the-mla-taskforce-report/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:06:17 -0500 The 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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]]> 0 58b5e1d45ca98b56da1bd82604a57de5 Margaret Hanzimanolis created the group Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/42302/ Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:50:40 -0400 0