Teaching as a Profession is one of only three forums classified as “HEP,” or Higher Education and the Profession. The focus of our forum is on the intersection of criticality and classroom practice as it informs pedagogy across fields and approaches. We invite diverse voices to engage in these conversations, both during our convention panels and here on the Commons. The work that this forum does to examine, address, and engage with the issues that educators face today is essential to both the MLA and the scholarly community at large.
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Jen McConnel started the topic Call for papers: please share widely! in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 months agoGuaranteed session at MLA 2022:Where Do We Go From Here? Anti-Racism and the Future of the Profession
This panel explores the ways educators are engaging with anti-racist practices in their language and literature classrooms as we re-envision the future of our profession. We are seeking practical pedagogical experiences and reflections,…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original message. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThis is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Connecting with the community in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoHello everyone! I have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on Teaching as a Profession, and I wanted to introduce myself before the voting window opens next week. I’m a long-time teacher-researcher, and recently I began my position as an assistant professor of English education at Longwood University in Virginia.
My work centers around s…[Read more]
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Kate Pond started the topic seeking participants for my thesis project in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year agoI’m attempting to collect a number of micro-stories in order to deconstruct them by their morphological functions and rebuild one story from the crowd-sourced content. I am hopeful for a diverse representation, but looking for more voices. I would really appreciate if you have 30 minutes or so, that you help contribute to my…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoFrom Leland G. Spencer:
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoFinal progress report about the California Open Educational Resources Council’s work with 3 representatives from each of the California State University, University of California, and California Community Colleges, to investigate the efficacy of implementing adoption of OER textbooks and to create a repository of OER textbooks for use in all 3 systems.
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Katherine D. Harris deposited White Paper: OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoBased on its survey responses, the California Open Educational Resources Council identified several impediments to adopting OER textbooks and concluded that rigorous peer review was ultimately the first step towards advocating for adoption of OER textbooks. The Council quickly identified 50 highly-enrolled courses with expensive textbooks across…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Tobin started the topic Announcing Candidacy – HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoDear 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
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoAs 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
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis 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
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDTC 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
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago2020 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
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago2020 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]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear 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
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis 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. -
Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe 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
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis 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
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe 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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