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TM The Teaching of Literature

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  • Profile picture of Jessica Winston

    Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 2 days ago

    Dear Colleagues,

    The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]

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    Jessica DeSpain started the topic TM Teaching of Literature Forum Delegate in the discussion Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago

    As the convention approaches, the Teaching of Literature Forum is seeking a new delegate. If you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for someone who would be a good fit, please share them here. If you have questions, you can share them here or email me at jdespai@siue.edu.

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    Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Latinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]

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    Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago

    To encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
    raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more]

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    Jessica Winston started the topic 2021 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner in the discussion Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce that Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler is the winner of the 2021 Teaching Literature Book Award.

    The Teaching Literature Book Award is an international prize for the best book on teaching literature at the college level. The award is…[Read more]

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    Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    A literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)

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    Farrah Lehman Den deposited Engaging Students: Using the MLA International Bibliography to Teach the Research Process in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    Get tips on using the MLA International Bibliography to teach scholarly concepts and analytical skills.

    For more than a hundred years the Modern Language Association, creator of the MLA International Bibliography, has worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature. As part of that mission, the MLA has developed an online…[Read more]

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    Farrah Lehman Den deposited Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography, Charleston Library Conference, Nov. 2020 in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    The MLA International Bibliography is an essential tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature, but did you know that the MLAIB can be brought into the classroom and used as an effective teaching tool as well? Learn how the most powerful research tool in the humanities is being used in the virtual classroom to engage…[Read more]

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    aecklund started the topic New recorded presentation from the Charleston Library Conference, November 2020 in the discussion Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    MLA staff member and University of Scranton instructor Dan Connor shares his recent experience teaching with the MLA International Bibliography in this recorded presentation from the November 2020 Charleston Library Conference.

    View the recording on Vimeo here: Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography

     

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    Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Apologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.

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    David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version) in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    This Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of David A. Wacks

    David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (English version) in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    This unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.

    T…[Read more]

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    Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Dear Colleagues,

    Attached please find a call for nominations for the fourth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2019 and 2020 are due March 15, 2021. For more information about the nomination…[Read more]

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    Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

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    Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael

    Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    In his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[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 Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Previous 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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    Matthew K. Gold deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    In this introduction to the digital humanities (DH), we will approach the field via a Caribbean Studies lens, exploring how an understanding of the digital based in the growing area of digital Caribbean studies might shape the larger field of DH.

    The course aims to provide a landscape view of DH, paying attention to how its various approaches…[Read more]

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    Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books in the group Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    This article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]

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    Jessica DeSpain started the topic Teaching of Literature Executive Forum Nominee in the discussion Group logo of TM The Teaching of LiteratureTM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    I have been nominated to serve on the Teaching of Literature Executive Forum, and I wanted to share a few details about my experiences and my goals with forum members. I am a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where I’ve worked since 2008. I specialize in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, book history, and the d…[Read more]

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