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HEP Teaching as a Profession

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  • Profile picture of Mary Ann Tobin

    Mary Ann Tobin started the topic Announcing Candidacy – HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago

    Dear Colleagues,

    I’m honored to have been nominated to serve on the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee, and I write to introduce myself and my qualifications beyond the information that you’ll find in my MLA Commons Profile or at my personal web site. In brief, as a member of the executive committee, I’d like to expand my e…[Read more]

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    Brian Croxall deposited Who Teaches When We Teach DH? A Survey in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago

    As the digital humanities have rapidly gained prominence and attention over the last decade, learning has shifted from individual experiences at training environments such as THATCamps and Institutes to more formal institutional instruction. This means that the number of people teaching digital humanities (DH) has had to increase. Who are these…[Read more]

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    Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    This section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]

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    Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    DTC 356 explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political roles of information and data. Beginning with library classification systems and Wikipedia, the course then turns to the role of metadata in organizing collections and our lives before ending with a consideration of text-mining and topic modeling. The conclusion considers these techniques in…[Read more]

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    William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 months, 4 weeks ago

    2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism 

    Conference: Modern Language Association Convention

    Location: Seattle, Washington

    Dates: 09–12 January 2020

    Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession

    Contact emails…[Read more]

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    William Christopher Brown started the topic 2020 MLA CFP: “Advocating for Foreign Language Departments” (Due: 28 March 2019) in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 months, 4 weeks ago

    2020 MLA CFP: Advocating for Foreign Language Departments

    Conference: Modern Language Association Convention

    Location: Seattle, Washington

    Dates: 09–12 January 2020

    Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession

    Contact email…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Stefan M. Vogel

    Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    Dear HEP Teaching as a Profession 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 instructors in…[Read more]

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    Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    This course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
    It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

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    Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionTeaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

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    Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    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]

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    Nicky Agate started the topic Call for Papers: Teaching and Resistance in the Age of Trumpism in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionTeaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    The 2016 election of Donald Trump has brought with it a wave of dangerous, reactionary developments, including an emboldened white supremacy; brazen sexism; a belligerent foreign policy posture; an ever-more punitive stance on “law and order”; racist, xenophobic immigration and border policies; denial of scientifically-proven climate change; an…[Read more]

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    Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS: Exploring the Potential for Altmetrics as Value-Based Indicators in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    This presentation introduces the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences [HSS]) initiative (http://humetricshss.org/), which aims to develop and support values-based research indicators in HSS disciplines.

    Because researchers’ practices are closely linked with the evaluation metrics by which they are judged, H…[Read more]

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    Matthew Levay deposited 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award commendation in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    The Teaching Literature Book Award is an international, juried prize, awarded biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English at Idaho State University. This commendation discusses both the winning volume and an honorable mention.

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    Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award honorable mention for 2017 in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionTeaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives, edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside) and Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University), as an honorable mention for the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was pub…[Read more]

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    Matthew Levay started the topic Announcing the Teaching Literature Book Award winner for 2017 in the discussion Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionTeaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce Service Learning and Literary Studies in English, edited by Laurie Grobman (Penn State University, Berks) and Roberta Rosenberg (Christopher Newport University) as the winner of the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award. The book was published by the Modern La…[Read more]

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    Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    Course Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.

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    Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    Is the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]

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    Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Introduction to Fiction syllabus (online course) in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago

    Syllabus for an online, 12 week, general education literature course for non-majors.

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    Carol DeGrasse deposited Rhetorical Analysis Peer-Review Handout in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago

    This handout serves as a guide for student peer-reviewers to provide useful feedback to the writer. The open-ended questions walk the reviewer through the rhetorical analysis essay and provide a structure for evaluating the thesis, organization, rhetorical strategies, and use of pathos, ethos, logos, and kairos in the paper. The Rhetorical…[Read more]

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    H. Mark Reynolds deposited Checking the Rear View Mirror: The Preparation of Two-Year College Faculty in the group Group logo of HEP Teaching as a ProfessionHEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago

    A detailed description of an innovative, but short-lived, graduate training program for two-year college faculty that began in 1975 at Carnegie Mellon University may offer possibilities for new programs that can benefit both two-year colleges and universities.

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