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Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear all,</span>
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I wanted to share with everyone a high-impact teaching opportunity that has added a lot to my own classroom – the </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Wikipedia assignment</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>. </span>
I have had great success and enjoyment fr…[Read more]
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Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoCall for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT
Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.We invite subm…[Read more]
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Robert Nguyen started the topic MLA 2026 CFPs, TC Adaptation Studies forum in the forum
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoGood morning,
Good morning,
As I thought they may be of interest to folks working in Screen Arts and Culture, I am posting here info on the panels that the TC Adaptation Studies forum will be sponsoring for the 2026 MLA convention. Also included is further detail on the panel we are co-sponsoring with the GS Comics and Graphic Narratives…[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
TC Memory Studies 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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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum
MS Sound on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoDear MS Sound Forum,
I write on behalf of the MS Sound Forum Executive Committee members to share the MLA2026 CFP “Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing.” Please consider applying & help spread the word :- )
Sincerely,
Setsukop.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]
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Tanya Shilina-Conte started the topic New Book: Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine in the forum
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 months agoBlack Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine by Tanya Shilina-Conte is now available from Oxford University Press<u>: </u><u>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-screens-white-frames-9780197511336?cc=us&lang=en&#</u>
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Bonnie Russell started the topic Job: Knowledge Commons is looking for a Python/React developer in the forum
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoKnowledge Commons is looking for a developer to work with us to build out new functionality on our KCWorks repository. More information at the link: https://careers.msu.edu/jobs/python-react-web-developer-information-technologist-i-east-lansing-michigan-united-states
Please feel free to pass it on to your networks.
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Rachel Haywood started the topic CfP for MLA 2026: Speculative Fiction forum (guaranteed session) in the forum
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 7 months, 4 weeks agoMLA Call for Papers #29768
Session Title: Genealogies and Futurities of AI in Speculative Fiction
Submit proposals to: Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University (rhaywood@iastate.edu)
Description & Requirements:
Inviting proposals examining AI’s historical and futuristic representations in speculative fiction. How have speculative nar…[Read more]
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Nathaniel Isaacson started the topic Self-Nominations: MLA Modern and Contemporary Forum in the forum
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoThe MLA Forum for Modern and Contemporary Chinese invites self-nominations for executive committee candidates. Executive committee members serve a five-year term, beginning at the MLA Annual Convention in 2026, and must be prepared to retain MLA membership and regularly attend the MLA Convention during this period. The Forum will vote on nominees…[Read more]
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John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum
MS Sound on MLA Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoPlease join the MS Sound forum for a wide-ranging roundtable on “Sound and Literature Now.” Our roundtable will take place on Friday morning, January 10th, at 8:30 AM in Salon 16 of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (first floor):
Description:
Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary…[Read more]
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Bonnie Russell started the topic Job: DH@MSU is hiring a Digital Humanities Research Coordinator in the forum
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThe College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University seeks a Digital Humanities Research Coordinator 1) to oversee and promote Digital Humanities (DH)-based research within CAL and 2) to connect the College with other units on campus that engage in/support DH, digital history, and digital scholarship. This is a full-time 12-month…[Read more]
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andré carrington started the topic [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025] in the forum
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago[CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025]
deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
contact email: eatonconference@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view
We warmly invite established and…[Read more]
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andré carrington posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago[CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025]
deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
contact email: eatonconference@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view
We warmly invite established and…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]
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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
MS Screen Arts and Culture 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
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics,” Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoWhom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoHow do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China,” in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoFocusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]
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