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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 on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoCall for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoUntil 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]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum
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(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases,…[Read more] -
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week agoMLA 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]
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Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThe 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]
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Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThe 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]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 months, 1 week agoNOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)
Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!
Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for “Reading Cultures,” a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months agoReading Cultures
A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).
Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)
It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months agoThis chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more] -
Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more] -
Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoSHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoSHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year ago“NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!
Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Duffy Encoding Editorial Decisions in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year agoThis document provides guidelines for encoding the first five books of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy into TEI-XML. It was collaboratively authored by my students and I during the Winter 2018 and Winter 2019 semesters at Brigham Young University.
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Inés Vañó García started the topic Newly extended CFP (through 07/21) – JITP Special Issue in the forum
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago<div class=”entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-constrained”>
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:
Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital MediationIssue Editors:
Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University
Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University
Anna Alexis Larsson,…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls’ Studies in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoDear All,
I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]
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Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoMaría Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.
Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThe Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]
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Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]
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Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoDracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]
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