HASTAC Commons | Chelsea Stieber | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/cbstieber/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Chelsea Stieber is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:23:54 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 489a162a816d58c7ea25774145c951e8 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889180/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:39 +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 71e06ab33ff4fcaae20d2d377bac2c52 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889175/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:07 +0000 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 db67182db3d449fe3e244819a468c97e Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/cfp-surrealism-dans-tous-ses-etats-2/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:12:52 +0000 2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]

]]> 0 fed01636f5095d46b4b80dddeae77656 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy-2/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:55 +0000 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 237402b24f7b44f6d61c986cb4182d32 Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828214/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 03:51:32 +0000 The Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
Bridge was born. The American Translators Association is a member of this initiative.

]]> 0 7c6f0ae10a299cf57c19c7949b50a5df Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826176/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:48:45 +0000 This talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0b1dd1b400f14fe0a9d84383df37b07 Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788300/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:48:44 +0000 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 0 5e3c30f1ca19d938e994188a86a1734f Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768475/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:48:43 +0000 What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

]]> 0 99079ca54cfb24eda76325cf6f72d8aa Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/thank-you-for-terrific-attendance/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:14:19 +0000 Thank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.

]]> 0 9575fe2266194edee1ea88417e9c0137 Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, "Life Writing and Cognition" (Sunday) in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/session-645-life-writing-and-cognition-sunday/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:39:06 +0000 Please join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

]]> 0 87f09402ac3739dbdf38907e3416dbb8 Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group 2022 MLA Convention: Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1765465/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:25:31 +0000 Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655

]]> 0 aba786f0b97a5c960baea7da15972227 Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/ms-screen-arts-and-culture-virtual-panels-and-postponement/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:49:05 +0000 As the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.

 

The following sessions will now be held virtually:

Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm

Presider: Rielle Navitski

A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]

]]> 0 600f64e8c4215443fc6c77b1e6f3025c Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/sharing-convention-materials-on-the-commons/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:48:25 +0000 Hello, all,

If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c431340eb8eb495e2dc97da2484740a Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-studies-online-panels/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:25:48 +0000 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.

Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]

]]> 0 f71284ab31304800cf5cf3cb1dd08a36 Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-adaptation-forum-sessions/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 19:49:12 +0000 The MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum.  We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]

]]> 0 a644daa0c097824b9d50d9350ac670b0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-re-us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:20:22 +0000 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec85671a89913be02c2c55fbcf613285 MLA Commons created the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756376/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:59:47 +0000 0 a76b083f1bc2fbbbe29a15a8b56de4b0 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727898/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:23:53 +0000 FREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more]

]]> 0 0587461179aea37fb0221212a6126934 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ's Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680241/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 16:26:05 +0000 In the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]

]]> 0 28a817a23d197d821614e43b4e852da7 Cynthia Chase replied to the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-llc-pre-14th-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/#post-1023068 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:39:51 +0000 No, thank you.

Cynthia Chase

From: Xiaowen Xu [mailto:noreply@hcommons.org]
Sent: mardi 14 janvier 2020 17:08
To: Cynthia Chase
Subject: [MLA Commons] Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum… (2019 MLA Convention)

]]> 0 d1bde95e76b00832f06e29d8c084b84b Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-llc-pre-14th-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:06:42 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.

We would need four forum members who are…

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]]> 0 bbe7db68978aa8bd89e5900f3d2a3ec5 Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Job posting: Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/job-posting-assistant-professor-of-religion-and-medical-humanities-2/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:27:04 +0000 The Department of Religion and the Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University seeks an Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities.

Job Description

The Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities will teach and conduct research at the intersections of religion/culture and medicine/healthcare, such as…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac236b73f67545a6a231d1cf7109149c Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "In a Language That Was Not His Own": On Ahlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668649/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:35:13 +0000 Abstract
This paper argues that Ah!lam Mustaghanami’s novel Dhakirat al-jasad (Memories of the Flesh)
enacts a break with Algeria’s Francophone literary past, multiply staging its affiliation with the
Arabic language. !e novel positions itself as part of an Algerian linguistic drama that, once
translated into French as Mémoires de la chai…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8a85a6a0114945cf7cbcbdd9eedaed8 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) (complete) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668647/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:34:17 +0000 In 1950, the United States Central Intelligence Agency created the Congress for Cultural Free- dom, with its main offices in Paris, lhe CCF was designed as a cultural front in the Cold War in response to the Soviet Cominform, and founded and funded a worldwide network of literary journals (as well as conferences, concerts, art exhibits and other…[Read more]

]]> 0 dba269f771560056ccd5b73286c255c0 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/3rd-iasa-international-symposium-in-italy-call-for-papers-2/ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:16:45 +0000 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers

May 28-31, 2020

Fondazione Campus

Via del Seminario Prima, 790

Lucca, Italy

http://www.fondazionecampus.it 

Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit…[Read more]

]]> 0 7983df42c1daa16a5b57080cbf4a36c3 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Novel and the Arabic Press from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892 in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666035/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:25:26 +0000 Late 19th-century Beirut and Cairo were capitals of Arabic literary production and press
activity. A period, oft deemed a nahḍah, that witnessed the advent of the novel form or
riwāyah in Arabic, this was also the moment of intensified French and British imperial
involvement in the region, and the concomitant industrialization of Beirut’s silk…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cf4250d3012d73503db071f3332cf59 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Cartography and Clandestinité in Leïla Sebbar’s Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664065/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:32:51 +0000 Abstract.
In this paper, I read Leı ¨la Sebbar’s staging in her novel She´razzed: 17 ans,brune, frise´ e, les yeux verts of the resistance by children of North African and other immigrants in the early 1980s to the French state’s cartographic modes and documentsof control. The paper will consider the many uses to which the map was put by theFren…[Read more]

]]> 0 efce931297459a4d68c7e0f6ea308eeb Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "In a Language That Was Not His Own": On Ahlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664064/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:31:57 +0000 Abstract
This paper argues that Ahlām Mustaghānamī’s novel Dhākirat al-jasad (Memories of the Flesh) enacts a break with Algeria’s Francophone literary past, multiply staging its affiliation with the Arabic language. e novel positions itself as part of an Algerian linguistic drama that, once translated into French as Mémoires de la chair , is p…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ab3bd68a65ae8b9e477707e60923af7 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "Narrating the Nahda: The Syrian Protestant College, al-Muqtataf, and the Rise of Jurji Zaydan," AUB: 150 Years in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664063/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:31:06 +0000 Published in Cairo in 1892, the first issue of Jurji Zaydan’s Arabic journal al-Hilal contained a history of the Arabic press, including a list of the journals published in Beirut in the 1870s and 1880s, when Zaydan was a young waiter and finally a Syrian Protestant College medical student and leader of the 1882 protest. Listed too are the Arabi…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d0cd27474d88cb98bf3a0627bd313e2 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "The Story of Zahra and Its Critics: Feminism and Agency at War," Arabic Literature for the Classroom in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664062/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:30:13 +0000 ABSTRACT Theorizations of the female subject in Arabic literary criticism have long charted debates within Western feminism. This chapter invites a reading of Hanan al-Shaykh’s novel The Story of Zahra that would attend rather to the quiet narrative aporia surrounding a reticent Zahra, the challenge her will to be “look[ed] at [as] a woman in…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa4e98aa846494051ca99fad924142eb Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "'A Fabrication in Fabrication': Ya'qub Sarruf's *Fatat Misr* and the Fiction of Finance in Colonial Egypt" in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664061/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:29:20 +0000 ABSTRACT Serialized over the course of 1905 in the Arabic journal al-Muqtaṭaf, Ya‘qūb Ṣarrūf’s novel Fatāt Mişr [The Girl of Egypt] was avidly read by contemporary subscribers and then soon forgotten by Arabic’s reading public. Ṣarrūf came to despise Fatāt Mişr and all of his novels, finding that the market for the genre in Arabic fell far sh…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cec331097bba40667ab00cfbfef34b6 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Narrative and the Reading Public in 1870s Beirut in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664060/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:28:28 +0000 ABSTRACT This paper reads narrative published in the journals of 1870s Beirut in the context of an emerging bourgeois readership and argues that the significance of this archive to modern Arabic fiction has been neglected by critics. Taking the intensification of the silk trade with France following the civil war of 1860 as a point of historical…[Read more]

]]> 0 064e25abe5b888272c90efbe410c9469 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia," Routledge Handbook to the Global Sixties in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664059/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:27:34 +0000 ABSTRACT Cultural cold war played out in Arabic from the late 1950s into the early 1970s in the
conference halls, hotel lobbies, cafes, bars, magazine offices, publishing houses, kiosks,
and streets of Beirut and Cairo. Berlin, Paris, Tashkent, Khartoum, London, Baghdad1,
and Tunis all have their place in this built landscape of cultural cold…[Read more]

]]> 0 057a140cb9d47dd9cdb455f54d107958 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664053/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:26:18 +0000 Abstract
In 1950, the United States Central Intelligence Agency created the Congress for Cultural Freedom,
with its main offices in Paris. The CCF was designed as a cultural front in the Cold War in
response to the Soviet Cominform, and founded and fiinded a worldwide network of literary
journals (as well as conferences, concerts, art exhibits…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b626766f8d8dca2cee3cfb9e267a0e2 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962–67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664052/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:25:21 +0000 ABSTRACT

Extensively quoting from the archives of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, a Cold War organization founded as a CIA front in 1950, this chapter provides a history for their Arabic literary activities, including the journals Aṣwāt, Adab, and their best known work in the region: Ḥiwār (1962–67), edited by Palesti…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0fa2e9741f115f2dc95b1a9c3fb45f7 Renata Kobetts Miller deposited Practical Advice and Institutional Supports for the Parenting Professoriate in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638011/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:27:25 +0000 Slides from Renata Kobetts Miller’s (City College of New York) presentation as part of the panel on “The Problems and Possibilities of Parenting in the Academy.”

]]> 0 d00fe6bc95076bc0034daede72d7c849 Carrie Johnston deposited Language and Labor in the Digital Humanities in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635315/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:25:24 +0000 This presentation addresses the opportunities and challenges of transacting digital humanities collaborative projects from the perspective of a Digital Humanities Research Designer in an academic library. While collaboration is often celebrated as a central to the success of digital humanities projects, I argue that often the language of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cdc2f98c6a5b98059e66acabdf22496 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon's Swamp in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631442/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:26:33 +0000 Full collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.

]]> 0 b343cbb160073f7bfe46631a8116c85b Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628768/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:57:01 +0000 Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0782a7bd280413049a253cf8f5888aa Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628765/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:48:43 +0000 Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more]

]]> 0 af9a9ebebfdd28a794e629e95cd98c55 Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628603/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:44:14 +0000 Digital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd0f0a992e134cc4c6fe43e0c299bb73 Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628600/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:38:33 +0000 Digital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5c04fee2ba23ad91e1c9f25b5ea6427 Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628596/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:32:24 +0000 One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fbca72fa435cd864154464071b506d6 Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628592/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:25:22 +0000 One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0b9b29410c08433fa8b91a3bd49912f Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628451/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:25:21 +0000 This talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]

]]> 0 f52e0e1d284898b7ea6eb6f2f61c6d74 Helen Davies deposited Recovery and Loss: (Multispectral) Imaging and Image Rights in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628281/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:54:36 +0000 Single author works do not properly represent the multifaceted collaboration that goes into a digital humanities project. At the Lazarus Project, a multispectral imaging initiative based out of the University of Rochester, we are experimenting with new modes of collaborative publishing. Furthermore, as a multispectral imaging project, we recover…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2e0a5bee72299e3f716ea8023a5828b Harriett Green deposited "Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities" panel response in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628278/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:52:54 +0000 The response paper given by Harriett Green, panel presider, for Session #613, “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” .

]]> 0 26ca61a457db2b0125242d629194f662 Grant Glass deposited Digital Humanities is No Object in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628210/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:27:56 +0000 About my Spring 2018 Writing Class: Writing in the Digital Humanities
Prepared for MLA 2019, Session 89: What do we teach when we teach DH?

]]> 0 c366c5cda0d05f0a4fd925f91129aa21 Vanessa Ceia deposited Mapping the Movida: Re-Imagining Counterculture in Late 20th-Century Spain in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628206/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:25:21 +0000 Vanessa Ceia’s talk features her project, “Mapping the Movida,” which visualizes the Movida, a sociological phenomenon and cultural renaissance that emerged in Madrid during the first decade of Spanish democracy (1976-1986). Ceia demonstrates how combining the use of digital tools and deep mapping techniques with traditional archival resea…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6271ddc036e8a3ef69f28aba629c370 Ellen McClure started the topic Panel 526: The Turn to Religion in Seventeenth-Century French Studies in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/panel-526-the-turn-to-religion-in-seventeenth-century-french-studies/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:46:23 +0000 Here are the files that our roundtable discussants (Dalia Judovitz, Flynn Cratty, Hall Bjornstad, Joy Palacios, Richard Hoffman Reinhardt) based their interventions on. (Unable to upload Dalia’s powerpoint here, but it can be requested).

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