MLA Commons | TM The Teaching of Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/ Activity feed for the group, TM The Teaching of Literature. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:38:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6ad17d03574041682cf2793f5dfa08c6 Shannon Kelley replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/?view=all#post-1040696 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:56:02 -0500 Hi, Lamees, we have two positions: a 2-year replacement who would be Secretary and then Chair, and a 3-year position. This person would observe for a year and then rotate into the Secretary and Chair positions. We organize two guaranteed panels each year at MLA. Attendance at the conference is required to share the work of supporting our speakers.…[Read more]

]]> 0 84647b979af966f891706a04e75bf9cd Moumin Quazi replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040694 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:02:55 -0500 I’d be more than happy to serve, Shannon. My paper (presented Thursday in a virtual session, #63) was a pedagogically-based essay. I’m a 28-year member of the MLA. My email is quazi@tarleton.edu. My cv is attached.

Cheers,
Moumin

]]> 0 bcebea8ea62870f4c9fbc10a9d58ce3f Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040693 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:43 -0500 I’d be honored and delighted to join the committee; I’ve emailed you, too, Shannon, with my CV. I’d be glad to provide anything else to support candidacy.

]]> 0 144e4c8c3fb181d1a29a5971eeee5140 Lamees Fadl replied to the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/#post-1040692 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:46:16 -0500 Hi Shannon,Would you please share more information? The term, the duties…etc
Thank you, Lamees 

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]]> 0 8c26b802a3e503a3f685ee274416b788 Shannon Kelley started the topic Teaching of Literature Forum -- New and Replacement Committee Members Needed in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-forum-new-and-replacement-committee-members-needed/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:31:23 -0500 The Teaching of Literature Forum needs one replacement committee member and one new committee member. This is an excellent opportunity for junior or senior faculty to serve at a national level. Please email me with any questions: skelley@fairfield.edu.  — Shannon Kelley, Chair, The Teaching of Literature Forum

]]> 1 82a9b03f6b6fddb6f20ca6965a96954c Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-2/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:22:29 -0400 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7da316a141a2bc02639058e70f13a92 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:16:01 -0500 Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge of sustained scholarly interest in the area. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, and diaries from…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2ace73a282b47a8f7b294c419a5ec9d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/session-413-navigating-the-academy-a-mentoring-session-3/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:53:54 -0500 MLA 2025 Convention

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

 

NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (600 S. Peters St.; across the street from the Hilton R…[Read more]

]]> 0 2212726350acfdb2c4712ed25529e973 Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-5/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:13:39 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 0 af0678808ee2fbfe71923b3d302bb11d Jessica Winston started the topic 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner Announced in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/2023-teaching-literature-book-award-winner-announced/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:59:15 -0400 The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy has announced “The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study” as the winner of the 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award. The Teaching Literature Book Award (TLBA) is a national prize that recognizes the best book on teaching literature at the college level.

The award is pres…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b43cb89760f62ba23760f959e515142 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859974/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:13:32 -0400 This is a revised 2023 version of a 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.

]]> 0 32e7effd12d4aac51762338bcf2d6ab8 Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847128/ Thu, 25 May 2023 02:29:42 -0400 In this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]

]]> 0 505eb0002b213b66ca7cc8f0677642ff Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award (Nominations Due 3.15.2023) in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/nominations-invited-teaching-literature-book-award-nominations-due-3-15-2023/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:38:18 -0500 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]

]]> 0 70340a3f87f376082ddbf1ac2b6a1a80 Jessica DeSpain started the topic TM Teaching of Literature Forum Delegate in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/tm-teaching-of-literature-forum-delegate/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:52:38 -0500 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.

]]> 0 ac2cc55be8f6ec031a96ec4d361d1575 Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1820097/ Sat, 05 Nov 2022 02:24:50 -0400 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]

]]> 0 8e612c452c632364c0f315678e56a24f Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760313/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:31:30 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f3a399f30f91af6443a9d281baac43c7 Jessica Winston started the topic 2021 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/2021-teaching-literature-book-award-winner/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:25:07 -0400 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]

]]> 0 18d45d8cd8fe03167588ea31f582a623 Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747483/ Sat, 24 Jul 2021 02:32:59 -0400 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)

]]> 0 150c02fd8682fd7cf84720fa1f664a77 Farrah Lehman Den deposited Engaging Students: Using the MLA International Bibliography to Teach the Research Process in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747147/ Thu, 22 Jul 2021 03:54:01 -0400 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]

]]> 0 1cbb0fe88f8a4a513379ec0a69ddef33 Farrah Lehman Den deposited Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography, Charleston Library Conference, Nov. 2020 in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747144/ Thu, 22 Jul 2021 03:48:53 -0400 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]

]]> 0 1bf64ba2f5219543cb79d0308a284039 aecklund started the topic New recorded presentation from the Charleston Library Conference, November 2020 in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/new-recorded-presentation-from-the-charleston-library-conference-november-2020-3/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:24:29 -0400 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

 

]]> 0 9d385d23a805a972e23d1fcbdc1e7261 Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/invitation-to-join-a-new-commons-group-on-teaching-remotely-8/#post-1026687 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:32:14 -0500 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/.

]]> 0 9b4d9efbc8c5887515ca07916f34f394 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 TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727977/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:36:51 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c73075ae9fef4e159a9c30a0d6f56b4d 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 TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727973/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:28:05 -0500 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]

]]> 0 4b897509472659407e5e7ab6653c0760 Jessica Winston started the topic Nominations Invited: Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/nominations-invited-teaching-literature-book-award/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:53:06 -0500 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]

]]> 0 1639a05f5a0e87d8e2756eff16e4677b Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725448/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:11:52 -0500 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]

]]> 0 09f28a179b68193c84bef2ebf3b35a38 Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725445/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:58:23 -0500 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]

]]> 0 34446171e2c125428491eebad66fc768 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 TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1706566/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 03:52:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ec64438ae4a3f0f124c973f84440b6aa Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705598/ Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:59:55 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2ce1aa5e8eb7914bcd53ee691475fecf Matthew K. Gold deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1696625/ Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:19:28 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bdca1b0b1c193d4b4b3f27bd7084701e 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 TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679403/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:25:22 -0500 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]

]]> 0 5f6a55626af420cdbfad842fad9bfff4 Jessica DeSpain started the topic Teaching of Literature Executive Forum Nominee in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/teaching-of-literature-executive-forum-nominee/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:58:54 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f24df356b31683e753742b26c3a7a33d Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668642/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:27:07 -0400 Three faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3230d36f63713f32f2f931f7178b8a3 Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Winner and Honorable Mention 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/announcing-winner-and-honorable-mention-2019-teaching-literature-book-award/ Sat, 14 Sep 2019 12:30:56 -0400 The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy announces “Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other,” edited by Miriamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton) and Tison Pugh (University of Central Florida) as the winner of the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award. “Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 42ca8c39731c081b54ae7bd5afffb763 Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661620/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:29:07 -0400 This undergraduate seminar on author Margaret Atwood fulfills the Major Author course at Stevenson University. Students will read A Trio of Tall Tales and The Year of the Flood, as well as both read and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. The course assignments include live-tweeting, creating a webtext, and an intertextual analysis essay.

]]> 0 2566290a3a91f9390281e5a522452e8b Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659980/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:32:27 -0400 Because it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]

]]> 0 caa683505e93d86fde3f8fb1519aa13e Corine Tachtiris deposited Transcultural Manipulations: Translation Workshop syllabus HACU 241 in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659360/ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:28:27 -0400 This multilingual undergraduate translation workshop was co-taught in the Spring of 2014 with Prof. Norman Holland in the division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. During the course, students were introduced to translation theory and explored key concepts through intralingual translation exercises before embarking on…[Read more]

]]> 0 fffce2ee4995019fe541d26695597e3c Jenna Kober deposited ‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit 
Featuring 
The Awakening in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657879/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 03:48:47 -0400 The Individual and the Cultural Environment Conceptual Unit
Overarching Enduring Understanding: The relationship between the individual and society 
Overarching Essential Question: How does society influence the individual?
Unit Objectives: 
 -My students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the motifs and symbols in the unit’s core te…[Read more]

]]> 0 250cd3b591eb43c240b013de9f40eff1 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657661/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:44:32 -0400 This class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]

]]> 0 568a68460bba724937f0713ed1c0c672 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar Syllabus: Literature of the American Civil Wars in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657654/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:28:16 -0400 The plural, wars, of this course’s title signals two competing traditions in Civil War memory and periodization:

* the Civil War as a distinct and defining event, from 1861 to 1865, that splits American history (and most English departments’ surveys of American literature) into two distinct halves; and

* the Civil War as an ongoing fea…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b77767f1d5c38495a73aa8aa06073ba Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638093/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:31:09 -0400 English 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7cf25c352b320bdb86a2986f3ad0f42 Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628769/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:57:33 -0500 Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]

]]> 0 86625ea215959a00f8404e94dffa1b64 Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628767/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:49:45 -0500 Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8c5eca464fb2810a5a5b70403ce6f29 Marisa Verna deposited Lire, une histoire simple in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625268/ Sat, 08 Dec 2018 04:02:15 -0500 This book constitutes the result of a pedagogical experimentation, that I conducted for the Master in Linguistic and Literary Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, during the academic year 2017-2018. The critical essays that are here collected have been written by some students of my class, and show clearly enough that…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4e3ce344cc457fd4df12f6c68607223 Marisa Verna deposited Pour une pédagogie créative de la littérature. Enseigner la littérature au musée, « La Nuova Secondaria », 3 Novembre 2018, pp. 87-89. in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625266/ Sat, 08 Dec 2018 03:49:24 -0500 This article describes a pedagogical project that took place between 2015 and 2016, and involved my students of the French Literature class, third year of Bachelor of Arts (foreign languages). The intersection and interrelation between figurative art and poetry were at the centre of the theoretical insight, whereas the necessity of adapting our…[Read more]

]]> 0 41abfee6085fe8bc969a5c15fc05af84 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-52/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:41:10 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6b775b67ac401f2c8b6638481cd11011 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The Stars our Destination in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1605037/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:00:32 -0400 The Stars our Destination is a story of overcoming anxieties and biases from war, as well as other growing up issues in a steel mill town. Over time, the three main characters gradually converge. Two women have nightmares involving the past and the old Prof. Daniel Blei lives off and on in a flood of troubling recollections. The conclusion will…[Read more]

]]> 0 78cd46457eb646f2bba5239665cd9584 Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604166/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 04:08:46 -0400 Course syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.

]]> 0 5024138a3203aa84c24ae66d0e8aab7a Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595849/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:51:58 -0500 Feminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]

]]> 0 194de2d07aecedc0209b3aaa9a52c36e David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594098/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 05:44:26 -0500 Syllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)

Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]

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