STEM Ed+ Commons | Susan Schreibman | Group Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/schreib100/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Susan Schreibman is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:39:46 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 209e48696653b95d79fdc6f3795ee3cc Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aural-reorientations-or-sound-studies-as-listening-otherwise/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:39 +0000 Dear Sound Studies Communities,

The MS Sound Forum executive committee has just published the CFP for our guaranteed session at MLA 2027. We look forward to receiving many of your proposals! :- )

Sincerely,
Setsuko

]]> 780b3571c73a1093c1f9074911408333 Leigh A. Neithardt replied to the topic Seeking Nominations: Exec. Committee for TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-2027-2032-executive-committee-for-tm-bibliography-an/#post-1040803 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:31:22 +0000 Thanks, Professor Whitley!

If you want to nominate yourself for forum executive committee service, please fill out this form. It will go directly to the committee.

Be sure to take a look at our new FAQ about forum executive committees, too.

Thank you!

 

 

]]> 433654a684d941fa0b9913e8234db460 Edward Whitley started the topic Seeking Nominations: Exec. Committee for TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-2027-2032-executive-committee-for-tm-bibliography-an/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:37 +0000 The MLA forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for a new member to join the Executive Committee for a term of service from January 2027 to January 2032.  If you would like to suggest yourself or another forum member for nomination, please send the following information by email…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 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>

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]]> 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 +0000 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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]]> 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 +0000 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 - 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 Please consider applying and share widely.

]]> bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 +0000 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> 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 +0000 📣 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> 619d74ca55798701cebc4e1a0e9e084d Jennifer Stoever started the topic Recommendation for real-world assignment with Wiki Education! (not spam!) in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/recommendation-for-real-world-assignment-with-wiki-education-not-spam/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:32 +0000 <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]

]]> ee658bc86a722c27351a576af5880a22 Jennifer Stoever started the topic CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025 in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-14-july-2025/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:15:47 +0000 Call 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]

]]> 739ba1e37c55cbf87f05956564f8b9ab Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters - Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/call-for-chapters/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:04:07 +0000 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

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…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 <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]

]]> ad3a4f55f7fe48a0b41921495368c2b4 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic MLA 2026 CFP – Clapping Back in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-clapping-back-2/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:34:05 +0000 Dear 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,
Setsuko

p.s. We will soon launch a Discord channel for the Sound Studies scholars, in hopes of…[Read more]

]]> 0565a01f746dc2e6020adf5e71d8b024 John Melillo started the topic MS Sound Rountable at MLA 2025: Sound and Literature Now in the forum MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/ms-sound-rountable-at-mla-2025-sound-and-literature-now/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:20:39 +0000 Please 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> c793b5b6e251dee1bff2d9cc68b93048 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:57:02 +0000 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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 c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 +0000 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature -- “Australia And...”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 +0000 This 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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 3484aff6e48f2f7f69993134073227bd Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899996/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:00:05 +0000 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 +0000 “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]

]]> 663c563867ffa0eedf8c7aa748df7953 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:55:38 +0000 Society of Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

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://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 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 +0000 <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]

]]> aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 +0000 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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 92550cbe78b973ea643203eee9e18695 Sandra Pinasco started the topic New Article: Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs Auster and Giralt Torrente in the discussion GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/life-writing/forum/topic/new-article-ambiguous-loss-in-grief-memoirs-auster-and-giralt-torrente/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:52:18 +0000 Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share my new article titled “Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Torrente Patriographies” published in the a/b Autobiography Studies Journal. You can find the abstract and the link to the article below:

Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Tor…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> 5f36217dcaa6136d36924bb8c7825f3b Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/26428-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-and-aati-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:07:58 +0000 #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI Nonguaranteed Session

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

]]> 4e8f08b9eb09ab00a8e0a5eb284bc2e1 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/25997-guaranteed-allied-organization-session-for-iasa-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:04:41 +0000 #25997: Allied Organization Session for IASA Guaranteed

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]

]]> c816dd087431ac57291f9ad2eaca455d Gabrielle Dean started the topic Text Under Pressure: Society for Textual Scholarship 2024 Conference in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/text-under-pressure-society-for-textual-scholarship-2024-conference/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:07:52 +0000 The Society for Textual Scholarship is accepting proposals for our 2024 conference hosted by the University of Tulsa, June 6-8, on the theme Text Under Pressure. The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 18.

Texts manifest many varieties of creative, social, and political pressure in their expressive content and form. But text is also often a…[Read more]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> 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 +0000 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]

]]> e990d2a3986e2d8739558b55bb5bb68f Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877011/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:03:58 +0000 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 +0000 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f64e2f3d5fb28c7f060ad649bb9488c5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870995/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:07:52 +0000 Se recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[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 +0000 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 29a83e6cb3e5c3cf9fa36545405c85b3 andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/open-general-business-meeting-for-the-forumms-sound-at-mla2024/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:11:42 +0000 Good day everyone! If you're attending the annual convention and you'd like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you're already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott - Grand D (Level 5). We'll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]

]]> d14409d50ee921ee3795570127b849a5 Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus's motion in the discussion MS Sound https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/forum/topic/the-executive-committee-endorses-the-radical-caucuss-motion/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:11 +0000 Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus's emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as "The Sound Forum Executive Committee." There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

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