Knowledge Commons | Mary McAleer Balkun | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/balkunma/activity/ Activity feed for Mary McAleer Balkun. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:06:08 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4e23ed2932a38be4ab6cbb38b54e2e51 Mary McAleer Balkun replied to the topic How to Express Your Support in the discussion Prospective Forum: Gothic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-gothic-studies/forum/topic/how-to-express-your-support/#post-1020842 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 21:19:49 -0400 I support this petition.

]]> fd0191df259a4aec6db1a0c5ff9338d5 Mary McAleer Balkun posted an update in the group TC Digital Humanities: CFP: Transformative Projects in the Digital […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592984/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 06:08:39 -0500 CFP: Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities

While the debates in and around the digital humanities continue--what they are, why they are, what they contribute to humanities scholarship--those working in the field know the truly transformative work being done both nationally and internationally. This proposed collection of essays,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d00c343d4525dca34b2b0430b7b1e21e Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP: Society of Early Americanists 2017, Tulsa OK in the discussion Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/cfp-society-of-early-americanists-2017-tulsa-ok/ Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:15:10 -0400 Roundtable: (Early) American Disgust

Expressed both publicly and privately, disgust is often a response to the new and the different, whether referring to people, food, behaviors, or ideologies, and this was no less true in the early Americas than it is today. Because disgust is historically and culturally constructed, early texts…[Read more]

]]> 4215224cc88f8cde0f231dd1130c9573 Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP - MA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere (Corrected) in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sociological-approaches-to-literature/forum/topic/cfp-ma-2016-literature-and-the-public-sphere-corrected/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:42:24 -0500  

“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”

The focus of this session (sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that eng…[Read more]

]]> 022aeb1d1c5cef5a23594f5cdc8916fe Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP - MLA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion Sociological Approaches to Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sociological-approaches-to-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-literature-and-the-public-sphere-3/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:18:05 -0500 “Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”

The focus of this session (sponsored by the Forum on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages pub…[Read more]

]]> 0bebe0c918d9d5447271efa5666fd0a3 Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP - MLA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-literature-and-the-public-sphere-2/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:34:40 -0500 “Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”

The focus of this session is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages public events/ideas/issues, as well as exploring the ways lit…[Read more]

]]> e6f09bf59e86fcaf68c2979cbd86ae3c Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 - Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion The Teaching of Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-literature-and-the-public-sphere/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:18:29 -0500 “Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”

The focus of this session is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages public events/ideas/issues, as well as exploring the ways lit…[Read more]

]]> 87e1725881764cd3561e61003831d018 Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP for MLA 2015: Close Reading, Slow Reading, and Teaching Literature in the forum The Teaching of Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-literature/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2015-close-reading-slow-reading-and-teaching-literature/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:55:07 -0500 This session is sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature:

Whether instructors opt to have students engage in “close reading” or “slow reading,” there is an increasing interest in encouraging them to spend more time lingering over texts--reading carefully, attentively, and thoughtfully. In large part a response to a cultural…[Read more]

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