-
Alison Booth's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
-
Alison Booth deposited Approaches to Topo-biographies of Indigenous Women: Race, Spatial Narratives, and the Examples of Pocahontas and E. Pauline Johnson on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Based on Collective Biographies of Women data, and part of a project on biography and space, this work in progress shares emerging studies of short narratives about Indigenous women in North America, particularly Pocahontas and E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Methods include maps, timelines, and a stand-aside XML schema outlining sample texts…[Read more]
-
Alison Booth deposited Cyborgs Thirty Years On in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoSteering committee’s opening roundtable for conference on the present and future of digital humanities at UVA: the career path of a feminist who embraced “A Cyborg Manifesto,” learned to love bibliography, libraries, and technology, and urges cross-pollination: “thrilling tedium of growing things together,” getting our hands dirty in humanist…[Read more]
-
Alison Booth deposited Cyborgs Thirty Years On in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoSteering committee’s opening roundtable for conference on the present and future of digital humanities at UVA: the career path of a feminist who embraced “A Cyborg Manifesto,” learned to love bibliography, libraries, and technology, and urges cross-pollination: “thrilling tedium of growing things together,” getting our hands dirty in humanist…[Read more]
-
Steering committee’s opening roundtable for conference on the present and future of digital humanities at UVA: the career path of a feminist who embraced “A Cyborg Manifesto,” learned to love bibliography, libraries, and technology, and urges cross-pollination: “thrilling tedium of growing things together,” getting our hands dirty in humanist…[Read more]
-
Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
-
Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
-
Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
-
Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
-
For an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
-
Alison Booth replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoI endorse this petition. Alison Booth
-
Alison Booth commented on the post, An Introduction to the New Forum Structure, on the site Executive Council on MLA Commons 9 years ago
I commend the people who have put the time into a reconsideration of an old structure. It will be good, provocative and interesting, to make members actively create forums, and so forth. The new ones seem […]
-
-
-
Alison Booth posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago
A few minutes into using the Commons, I think it works nicely and could be a great facility for lots of members. I didn’t realize how many things it addresses. At one point, though, I wasn’t positive whether I already belonged to the groups in light of my choices when I renewed membership. Which just leads to the non-urgent question: will…[Read more]
