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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic Achy Obejas at the MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoGoing to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons.org/ for bios.
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Rosemary G. Feal posted an update on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons.org/ for bios.
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Rosemary G. Feal's profile was updated on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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Rosemary G. Feal's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, “¡Miel, éste es el Trópico!”: Survival American, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
Originally published in the Summer 2017 MLA Newsletter
As I stood near the Hotel Inglaterra on the Parque Central in Havana in early March, I was consciously occupying Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s vantage p […]
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Advocacy in 2017: What We Can Do Together, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
Originally published in the Spring 2017 MLA Newsletter
I write these words ten days after the forty-fifth president of the United States was inaugurated. The landscape for MLA advocacy has already registered the […] -
Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Your MLA, 2020 and Beyond, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
Originally published in the Winter 2016 MLA Newsletter
The Executive Council has put a great deal of thought into the future of the association as we approach a transition to a new executive director. As many […]
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Your Professional Development: To Be Continued (at the Convention), on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 7 years ago
Originally published in the Fall 2016 MLA Newsletter
As most of you already know, more and more departments are shifting their in-person first-round interviews for academic positions to videoconferencing […]
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic NLRB rules that grad students can unionize in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Learning from the Pros in the Connected Academics Proseminar, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
Originally published in the Summer 2016 MLA Newsletter
The more of these amazing people I meet, the more I’m convinced that graduate students with a strong alt-ac plan are exactly the sorts of colleagues you w […]
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, It’s Time to Strengthen Your Programs, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
Originally published in the Spring 2016 MLA Newsletter
Just over five years ago, the world of higher education was shaken by the news of the planned elimination of programs in several languages and in theater […]
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Dear Leslie, this link explains how it works.
https://adfl.mla.org/Resources/Consultancy-Service
If you have more questions, please send me an email. Thanks!
Rosemary
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Where Have You Gone, Paul Simon? A Nation Turns to Languages Once More, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Originally published in the Winter 2015 MLA Newsletter
This past summer, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) announced the formation of the Commission on Language Learning, “a national effort to e […]
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Dual credit is indeed a help and a problem. Used well, it can lead to advanced study at the college level once students arrive.
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Fast-Forward Forty Years: Launching the New Convention, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months ago
Originally published in the Fall 2015 MLA Newsletter
“Keep Austin Weird,” countless bumper stickers on cars in the city admonish. As I’m sure some MLA members know, “weird” derives from Old English “wyrd,” […]
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, Scholarly Associations Defend Tenure and Academic Freedom in Wisconsin, on the site Executive Council on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
The Modern Language Association has joined other associations in the American Council of Learned Societies in issuing the following statement about tenure and academic freedom at the University of […]
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Rosemary G. Feal wrote a new post, An Introduction to Connected Academics from MLA Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal, on the site Connected Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
The MLA is thrilled to be working with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and our academic partners on Connected Academics. This ambitious, multiyear project has a dual vision: to promote the rich variety of careers […]
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Rosemary Feal wrote a new post, #Ferguson2MLA: Had to Be There, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Originally published in the Summer 2015 MLA Newsletter
If you were at the MLA convention in Vancouver on 9 January, you participated in one of the most transformative uses of energy and space imaginable. I’ve […] -
Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease see this link:
http://www.mla.org/policies_for_divisio
Divisions
Definition. The MLA divisions encompass the primary scholarly and professional concerns of the association, with each division representing a major area of membership interest. The divisions are not autonomous organizations but are an integral part of the MLA; they have no…[Read more] -
Rosemary Feal replied to the topic Ethnic Studies Division Endorses the Boycott Resolution in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe members of these divisions have not voted to endorse a resolution, nor is it their purview to do so. Executive committee members of divisions have no authority to speak for the division’s members, and only the MLA Executive Council may speak on behalf of the association in any way. I will be contacting the executive committees of the divisions…[Read more]
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Rosemary G. Feal posted an update on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Have you read Profession on the Commons recently? http://profession.mla.hcommons.org
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Rosemary Feal wrote a new post, Back on Track: Connecting with Former Graduate Students, on the site From the Executive Director on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Originally published in the Spring 2015 MLA NewsletterThis column was written in collaboration with David Laurence, Director of Research and ADE. Discussion continues on MLA Commons in The Trend: The Blog of […]
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