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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP–MLA Session 2018: Literary Studies and the Public Humanities in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 6 years agoRoundtable on Literary Study and the Public Humanities: “What should ‘Next Generation’ Humanities Education look like? What should it do?”
In the past several years, the NEH and other educational institutions across the United States have called for new ways of imagining graduate degrees in literature and the humanities. Although there is…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoChristopher Newport University
College of Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers
Global Status of Women and Girls:
“Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”
March 24-26, 2017
to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoChristopher Newport University
College of Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers
Global Status of Women and Girls:
“Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”
March 24-26, 2017
to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Deadline February 15th: MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Papers from the MLA Roundtable on Service Learning and Literary Studies in the discussion
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 7 years agoMLA 2016 Roundtable: “An Interactive Conversation about Service Learning in Literary Studies”
(1) “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential”
Ivy Schweitzer, Dartmouth College
I want to talk today about the F word in academia.. It used to be “feminism,” but now, I think, it is FAILURE. The overparenti…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Papers from the MLA Roundtable on Service Learning and Literary Studies in the discussion
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 7 years agoMLA 2016 Roundtable: “An Interactive Conversation about Service Learning in Literary Studies
“Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential”
Ivy Schweitzer, Dartmouth College
I want to talk today about the F word in academia.. It used to be “feminism,” but now, I think, it is FAILURE. The overparenting of the millen…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: MLA 2017 Session on "The 'Uses' of Literature" in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoMLA Executive Forum Session on The Teaching of Literature:
“The ‘Uses’ of Literature”
The focus of this session will be to explore the “uses” of literature and literary study from a wide variety of points of view. In her book The Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), Rita Felski argues that “reflecting on why literature matters . . . allows us…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Join a dinner discussion group at MLA in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoI’d like to find a small group interested in going to dinner on Friday or Saturday nights. If interested, please write back to Roberta Rosenberg at rrosenb@cnu.edu
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Roberta Rosenberg replied to the topic Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCFP for MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature proposed volume, including but not limited to: comparative and interdisciplinary teaching approaches; new approaches to canonical and new texts; transnational, multilingual approaches to Yiddish and other non-English languages; study of Jewish American texts and culture that create…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Gender and Teaching Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic MLA Interview posted online in the discussion
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoJames Hatch, Senior Acquisitions Editor at the Modern Language Association just posted an interview about our new book, Service Learning and Literary Studies in English.
Here is a link: https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons.org/recently-published/an-interview-with-the-editors-of-service-learning-and-literary-studies-in-english
Roberta Rosenberg and L…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Service Learning and Literary Studies in English (MLA, 2015) in the discussion
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoMLA has published Service Learning and Literary Studies in English. For more information about the book and its edited collection of essays and resources, go to:
http://www.mla.org/store/CID30/PID481
Service Learning and Literary Studies in English
Editor(s): Laurie Grobman, Roberta Rosenberg
Pages: x & 284 pp.
Published: 2015
ISBN: 9…[Read more] -
Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: “Service Learning Teaching and Research: A Public Face for the Humanities” in the discussion
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe following is a call for papers on the 2016 Presidential Theme–“Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future”
In its call for greater visibility for the humanities in public life, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences published The Heart of the Matter: the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013. The AAAS report encourages…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg replied to the topic CFP American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoHi Lisa, I think you need to change the dates in the last paragraph since they must be from a past CFP. Looks like some wonderful topics, however.
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Vote in the new MLA Election of Officers in the forum
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
If you are a member of MLA, you have probably received an email request to vote in the current MLA election. I’ve been nominated in Group # 5) Division Executive Committee Election under the category marked “Teaching.” I’d really appreciate your vote in this election. I’m interested in expanding MLA’s interest in civic engageme…[Read more] -
Roberta Rosenberg posted an update in the group
Service Learning in Literature, Language and Composition on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPlease join us on Friday at the “Fiction as Pegagogy” session at NEMLA (4:45-6:15) in the Crowne Hotel, Ballroom B for a discussion of service learning and the study of literature.
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