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Marisa Parham deposited The New Rigor Report in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe growing accessibility of digital technology has been met with an increased willingness on the part of scholars to integrate new digital methods into their interpretive and presentational practices. At the same time, the academic assessment structures that support scholarly work have not always been able to keep pace, thus making the pursuit of…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited The New Rigor Report in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe growing accessibility of digital technology has been met with an increased willingness on the part of scholars to integrate new digital methods into their interpretive and presentational practices. At the same time, the academic assessment structures that support scholarly work have not always been able to keep pace, thus making the pursuit of…[Read more]
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The growing accessibility of digital technology has been met with an increased willingness on the part of scholars to integrate new digital methods into their interpretive and presentational practices. At the same time, the academic assessment structures that support scholarly work have not always been able to keep pace, thus making the pursuit of…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Ninety-Nine Problems: Assessment, Inclusion, and Other Old-New Problems on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
Developing less burdensome and more equitable ways to support scholarly difference is a preeminent challenge when thinking about the future of assessment and promotion in higher education. At stake in this is the very capacity of institutions to do the work of scholarly inclusion, to recognize the range of approaches well captured in the digital…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
The problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
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Marisa Parham's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
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Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
This essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited 17, or, Tough, Dark, Vulnerable, Moody: James Baldwin on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
In its encounter with James Baldwin across form— “Letter to my nephew,” “Sonny’s Blues,” and archival footage of Baldwin being interviewed by the psychologist Kenneth Clark— this article offers an exploration of how Baldwin’s figuration of children and his own acts of care illuminate the political possibilities of both filiation and aff…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
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Marisa Parham's profile was updated on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
