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Elizabeth Hutton started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies CFP for MLA 2024: Literacies of self-care in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThe RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Annette Vee started the topic Call for Papers: Women and Language (sharing by request from the journal) in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
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 empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All…[Read more]
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Peggy D. Otto started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Call for Proposals MLA Convention 2020 – Please share in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoLiteracy Transactions: People, Practices, and Texts The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals on how literacies are exchanged between people and contexts. How do people, their literacy practices, and texts change as a result of this transaction? Submit 250-350 word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: 28 March 2019 Peggy D. Otto,…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic MLA 2019 RCWS Literacy Studies Session January 5 at 10:15am in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoPlease join us for the RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored panel at MLA 2019, Saturday, January 5, 10:15-11:30 am, Michigan 1AB (Hyatt Regency). Our featured presenations are:
- Textbooks Matter: Privileged Portraits of Schooling in Indian Textbooks, Usree Bhattacharya (U of Georgia) [#7605]
- The Case of Dan, Longitudinally: Transaction as…
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2019 – Please share! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWe are pleased to share the CFP for our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored sessions. Please share with colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal for either session.
RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored session:
The MLA RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals for MLA 2019 presentations on literacies and literacy practices,…[Read more] -
Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Don't Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the forums: RCWS Literacy Studies, 2018 MLA Convention.
RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy StudiesPresentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska, Anchorage) [#4701]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Welcome to Mya Poe! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe RCWS Literacy Studies Forum is very pleased to welcome Mya Poe as our newly elected forum executive committee member!
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Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee Membership and Terms in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExecutive Committee Officers
Alanna Frost MLA 2018 Secretary/MLA 2019 Chair (term Jan 2015- Jan 2020)
Peggy Otto MLA 2019 Secretary/MLA 2020 Chair (term Jan 2016-Jan 2021)
Annette Vee MLA 2020 Secretary/MLA 2021 Chair (term Jan 2017-Jan 2022)
Mya Poe 2021 MLA Secretary / MLA 2022 Chair (term Jan 2018-Jan 2023)
Brice Nordquist, MLA 2022…[Read more] -
Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Business Meeting and Call for Nominations in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHello everyone,
We look forward to seeing many of you in Philadelphia this week. The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Annual Business Meeting will be held at 6:30pm Saturday, January 7, following session 651. Sponsoring, Stewarding, and Brokering Literacies (5:15-6:30pm, room 404 Philadelphia Marriott). We do not yet have a location for the meeting,…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoI hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:
491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual Foodways W…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic First Forum Delegate Election–Call for Suggestions in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for RCWS Literacy Studies will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, i…[Read more]
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Brooke A. Carlson deposited Twitagogy: Writing, Information Literacy, Written Communication, and 21st-Century Pedagogy in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTechnology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]
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Brenda Glascott started the topic Please Consider Voting For Me for Literacy Studies Forum EC in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoI have spent the last seven years co-building and co-editing a journal–Literacy in Composition Studies–so that scholars interested in Literacy Studies would have a platform for sharing their work. I am motivated by a desire to broaden the conversation about Literacy Studies and to sponsor interchanges with related fields. I would be thrilled to…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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Suzanne Malley started the topic MLA 2017 Literacy Studies Forum CFP in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThe frame of literacy studies, a subject of complex research across many disciplines, has long offered Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) both a focus of research and a methodological foundation. As such, RCWS scholars have contributed, and continue to contribute, significantly to broadening the field of inquiry related to…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[Read more]
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RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis was a talk given at the Literacy Studies Forum session at MLA 2016. I argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation, including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a…[Read more]
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This is great, Laura! Might you consider uploading this to CORE so others can find and read it too? mla.hcommons.org/core
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Yes, I was meaning to do that! Got caught up in other work this morning!
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