MLA Commons | Rhondda Thomas | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/rr67/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Rhondda Thomas is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:11:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 30aa5358290a7b02be86277a61b8236b Margaret Savilonis started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for TC Memory Studies Forum Executive Committee in the forum TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-tc-memory-studies-forum-executive-committee-2/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:43:51 -0500 The TC Memory Studies Forum Executive Committee is seeking self-nominations for two five-year terms; one beginning immediately and running through January 2031, the other starting January 2027 and running through 2032. The committee organizes one guaranteed session at the annual convention and may also organize one non-guaranteed collaborative…[Read more]

]]> 0 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 97e4a3a4d4dcb209295fa630ae7cb1c8 Jacqueline Sheean started the topic CFP: MLA TC Memory Studies Forum Guaranteed Session in the forum TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-tc-memory-studies-forum-guaranteed-session/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:01:22 -0500 Please consider submitting an abstract for the TC Memory Studies Forum Guaranteed Session at the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33069.html

How do the theoretical frameworks of memory studies respond to and/or resist contemporary violence and genocides? Seeking papers that address new…[Read more]

]]> 0 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 0 86e4e75ec10857b0692754404a40a12d Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, we are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

Please see the original post for full details.

]]> 0 ebbb4a01a4573f5eba5fd63eee70d12f Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, w<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>e are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

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]]> 0 a479c956d938c1e569ff3897ea2cc58d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-5/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:55:30 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely.

]]> 0 2026f89c16ec13126857a2eb4b9009d5 Brian Croxall started the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:13:02 -0500 Overview
The DH Pedagogy and Training SIG will hold a Pedagogy Poster Slam at the 2026 DH Conference in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pedagogy Poster Slam will take place during the SIG’s reserved slot during one of the conference’s two workshop days, either Monday, 27 July 2026, or Tuesday, 28 July 2026.

Posters will either focus on a) a spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 227876ecd355d0675cbe7ebd2574d1d5 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - Openness in Language Education in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-openness-in-language-education/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:34:04 -0500 📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

I’m happy to share that The EUROCALL Review is launching a new thematic issue on:
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”.

This issue focuses on the role and impact of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in language education worldwi…[Read more]

]]> 0 58da3414739d0ec665d9eb3a651681a1 Shawna Ross started the topic CFP - A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-a-field-guide-to-lost-modernisms/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:03:35 -0400 A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Call for papers

The Internet is a significant yet leaky infrastructure by which modernism circulates. Members of the public often encounter modernist literature and culture online, while students and scholars depend on the World Wide Web for conducting and disseminating their research. Worryingly, Internet assets…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebacf549ff1f52a98624f3fa889d83a4 Rhone Fraser started the topic A Panel on Hurston's "Herod the Great" in the forum LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/a-panel-on-hurstons-herod-the-great/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:34:15 -0400 Greetings LLC Forum! I am looking for one presenter and one presider for a panel on Hurston’s latest novel “The Life of Herod the Great.”  I have until tomorrow to finalize the panel. -RF.

]]> 0 e62fa8a1ac6fc448e6c6ac0eb322991e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:21:45 -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 405dcc5c6cf6c0a64a3bddb0f6b74af3 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-mla-2026/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:49:57 -0500 <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
(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]

]]> 0 b64d254c9b0fd2e63c4c2b6d136fbc32 Betty Joseph started the topic INVITATION: Panel Topics for HISTORY & LITERATURE, MLA 2026 in the forum TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/invitation-panel-topics-for-history-literature-mla-2026/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:24:10 -0500 Dear Forum Members/Colleagues,

We will organize two panels at MLA 2026 (Toronto) and invite you to play a key role in shaping the event! As a valued member of this forum, we would love to hear your ideas for panel topics. This is an opportunity for you to contribute to the discussions and offer fresh perspectives.

To submit your topic, simply…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ea51b07e37e0f6ef015235a17f9ae15 Betty Joseph started the topic JOIN THE HISTORY & LITERATURE FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE! in the forum TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/join-the-history-literature-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:13:13 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee is seeking self-nominations for a five-year term starting 2025-2026. The committee organizes two panels at the annual convention and occasionally, an additional collaborative panel with another forum. Committee meetings take place during or after the annual convention (over Zoom). If you would like to be considered,…[Read more]

]]> 0 73215c5974629be9153feaf055551809 Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-3/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:55:17 -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 51dfa962c8509dc311cdee9b05cdc507 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:54:04 -0500 NOVEL 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]

]]> 0 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5ec3a5c25c83fd9ea0bc470829eafb1 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:16:00 -0400 Reading 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]

]]> 0 d96b0196cf95344577f6bbedf241c451 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901836/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:03:50 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 4e6d52f756a39eed94abd4345aeb13eb Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899998/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:01:21 -0400 SHMLM 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]

]]> 0 cf04cc70728539641e8e0dc0676f74c8 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-4/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:12:38 -0400 “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]

]]> 0 dd661837a32fb4a7f5fc1b51acddc57d Brian Croxall deposited Duffy Encoding Editorial Decisions in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1897134/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:01:42 -0400 This 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.

]]> 0 967829021ce7dd77659781171ad8e457 Inés Vañó García started the topic Newly extended CFP (through 07/21) – JITP Special Issue in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/newly-extended-cfp-through-07-21-jitp-special-issue/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:15:05 -0400 <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 Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson,…[Read more]

]]> 0 52b2c57fc247d4374dd1b30b24325837 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-5/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:45:07 -0400 Dear 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]

]]> 0 731791a81a5acbab3f54713b2f8c9b2a Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890471/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:04:41 -0400 María 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]

]]> 0 43cf5ac51bf84b581d47e8713f012a54 Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889660/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:06:26 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 90a5f9293d35e8d4d1f7ad732df87940 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889188/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:27:19 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 38bc258457e2b4465bf945c9309c98ef Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889184/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:17:18 -0400 Dracula 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]

]]> 0 e80df45677a8e632becee89307897f18 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887292/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:04:38 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 3084f9bfc7d56922dbc6d739624ad043 Inés Vañó García started the topic Join the Collective! -The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/join-the-collective-the-journal-of-interactive-technology-and-pedagogy-jitp/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:06:26 -0400 Call for ParticipationThe Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing both gr…[Read more]

]]> 0 cff92d6ba713d8efb9d3a4a7ee66941d Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Memory Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/memory-studies/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-5/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:42:34 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 23ff7efcb66b216876c715c503196250 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP: Submissions for JITP Special Issue -Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-submissions-for-jitp-special-issue-labor-political-economy-and-activism/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:23:52 -0400 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:

Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson, Indiana University

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy…[Read more]

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 – Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> 0 e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[Read more]

]]> 0 849550a9463cac91221997bfe4af8eb5 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:33 -0500 Hi all.

I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]

]]> 0 16399810ccaeacf9fba7485591e224c1 Alan Liu started the topic CFPs: MLA Committee on Information Technology's two panels at MLA 2025 in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfps-mla-committee-on-information-technologys-two-panels-at-mla-2025/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:46:40 -0500 For the MLA convention in New Orleans in 2025 (Jan. 9-12), the  MLA’s Committee on Information Technology (CIT) is organizing two guaranteed sessions to help generate ideas related to the convention’s Presidential Theme of “visibility.” Abstracts: 300 words or less, by the end of the day (all time zones): 15 March 2024. Please submit your ab…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8f9abbecda9389b01512660de0f0f16 Amanda Licastro started the topic MLA 2025 emerging technologies in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/mla-2025-emerging-technologies-2/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:38:28 -0500 Please share and apply to our CFP on emerging technologies for #MLA25. This guaranteed panel sponsored by the Libraries and Research Executive Forum will feature initiatives, collaborations, and partnerships that support emerging technologies in academic libraries. We hope to make visible the labor and infrastructure necessary to adapt to and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 41d441d8ccd5734b9d09c50076adb629 Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives in the discussion LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/un-bioed-radically-reimagining-black-womens-lives/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:13:35 -0500 Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b79052027fb0745f43a42bf3b8b1cf5 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870890/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:06:20 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 0311d6a54d3f3804f28681f6806f3a45 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion TC History and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept-2/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:27:14 -0500 Dear Colleagues,
We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies.
It is possible to download the article from the following link for fre…[Read more]

]]> 0 501218b58df0ba4e4215593dc398ca26 McKinley Melton started the topic SMU - Kahn Chair in the Humanities in the discussion LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/smu-kahn-chair-in-the-humanities/ Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:47:15 -0500 The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary study in English,…[Read more]

]]> 0 98a66eecda762d6f8ee9a3a3c9f266a5 Samantha Pergadia started the topic SMU Job in African American Literature and Urban Studies in the discussion LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/smu-job-in-african-american-literature-and-urban-studies/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:16:36 -0500 Dear colleagues,

I wanted to pass along this job ad for an assistant professor position in African American literature, joined to an urban studies research cluster.

Please do pass it along to anyone who pay be a good fit and encourage them to apply.

https://joblist.mla.org/job-<wbr />details/7961/assistant-<wbr…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e03b0ed5a8ad34a89b35be39d7d4337 Frank D. Rashid started the topic The Marygrove African American Literature Collection (MAAAC) in the discussion LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/forum/topic/the-marygrove-african-american-literature-collection-maaac/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:56:53 -0500 The Marygrove Conservancy announces the Marygrove African American Authors Collection (MAAAC), a digitized archive of video recordings, photographs, printed materials, and teaching resources generated by the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS).  The MAAAC was developed with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b4f88791c3b1597821a5818b27dc29c Katina Rogers replied to the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-on-gathering-exploring-collective-and-embodied-modes-of-schol-comm-jep/#post-1035562 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:10:57 -0400 And…. here’s a link to the full CFP! https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/106/

]]> 0 f3dad17a04848524740f05cd264dd94b Katina Rogers started the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-on-gathering-exploring-collective-and-embodied-modes-of-schol-comm-jep/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:49:48 -0400 Dear friends,

I’m pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.

Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 04a5de9a06773581c11b7f85a3eedc0f Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-46/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:14:06 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f51352f967f884885e3b283540e3cd83 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855436/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:24:11 -0400 “The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities.”

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