Knowledge Commons | Emily Tobey | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/etobey/activity/ Activity feed for Emily Tobey. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:33:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 882b2ec7934c39501ce8cd56e92aa436 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2023 NEH Grants, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2906 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:17:36 -0400 Congratulations to the sixteen MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in August 2023. Their projects include preparation for a publication of an […]

]]> 0412253692e00948af44870d88dd12cd Emily Tobey wrote a new post on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2887 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:19:08 -0400 New Report on the MLA <em>Job List</em>A report on the jobs advertised in the MLA Job List for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 academic years is now available on the MLA website. The decli […]

]]> 4944d53109aa6147c0e61ce38961ddb6 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Results of the 2023 Ratification Vote, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2884 Tue, 30 May 2023 18:10:39 -0400 Voting on the 2023 ratification ballot concluded at 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on 5 May. Members ratified the election of Ōe Kenzaburō, Oh Jung-hee, and Xiao Kaiyu to honorary fellowship in the association. Support for t […]

]]> 4da479fed84b312e9863647396e7e536 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2872 Mon, 15 May 2023 15:38:36 -0400 Congratulations to the eight MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2023. Many fellows’ projects directly respond to issues like the lasting effects o […]

]]> b23b793b84d88e8df9d80b03ef1a8586 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2869 Mon, 01 May 2023 15:01:40 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of William Carlos Williams, edited by Daniel Burke, Elin Käck, and Mark C. Long, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. […]

]]> daaacd4738cc75d51daca427bb979325 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Cervantes’s Theater and <em>Novelas ejemplares</em>, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2863 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:09:40 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching Cervantes’s Theater and Novelas ejemplares, edited by Carmen Hsu and Carmela Mattza, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. I […]

]]> 43a3ee621a6a385511872a9411f6a454 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2023 NEH Grants, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2813 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:09:38 -0500 Congratulations to the thirty-one MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in January 2023. Their projects include a digital recovery hub focused on […]

]]> 81a111526cffae4373ee64c7f8a17c4a Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Apply for an <em>MLA Bibliography</em> Fellowship by 15 March 2023, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2791 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:43:54 -0500 The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information f […]

]]> 3c5921415b83b337b36ca715c828e6a2 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Options for Teaching Volume on the American Essay, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2786 Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:39:47 -0500 The volume Teaching the American Essay, edited by Stephanie Redekop, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and how to propose an essay, please visit the MLA […]

]]> 8d6c078d8e2147b546145f5edf02dfbb Emily Tobey wrote a new post, <em>MLA Bibliography</em> Honors Fellows, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2776 Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:53:45 -0500 The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2022 Fellowship Award recipients:

Virginia M. Adán-Lifante, full teaching professor, world languages coordinator, and chair of the department of li […]

]]> be999c98a7a18587382b73d5d303399e Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2311 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:05:17 -0500 The Modern Language Association congratulates the three MLA members who were named 2022 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to literature and language […]

]]> 6fb7f2c1958286579d2ca0280fac3b4a Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2731 Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:39:01 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Colson Whitehead, edited by Stephanie Li, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught Colson […]

]]> b342c1fefe7e6bedc665b437758e6f68 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Malcolm Smith, Former Trustee of the MLA, 1923–2022, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2719 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:28:59 -0400 The MLA mourns the passing of Malcolm Smith, MLA trustee from 1988 to 2018 and an indispensable adviser to the organization’s staff for decades. Smith advised on the endowment and general financial matters and wa […]

]]> 892f6e0b9116b5cbd76bfc08b36cbc22 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2716 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 14:44:52 -0400 The volume Teaching Energy Humanities, edited by Debby Rosenthal and Jason Molesky, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and how to propose an essay, […]

]]> 4b3b3de1016bad28add609de33265ae0 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, 2022 <em>MLA Bibliography</em> Fellows, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2710 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:32:23 -0400 The Modern Language Association congratulates the 2022 MLA Bibliography fellows who will serve from 2022 to 2025. The MLA International Bibliography staff members work with approximately one hundred field […]

]]> a1db24b9eb2c7395c723137ac5797c60 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Sylvia Molloy, Former President of the MLA, 1938–2022, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2687 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:15:46 -0400 The MLA is deeply saddened by the passing of the Argentine writer, literary critic, translator, and teacher Sylvia Molloy, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1938 and died on 14 July 2022 in New York at the age […]

]]> 29f02e2ff4631126cffd2fdb7674e237 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Options for Teaching Volume on Afro-Brazilian Literature in a Diasporic Context, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2682 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 18:50:49 -0400 The volume Options for Teaching Afro-Brazilian Literature in a Diasporic Context, edited by Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey and Paulo Dutra, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn […]

]]> a943778db52fb14141a1c19582730b7a Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Awarded Mellon/ACLS Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2670 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:18:23 -0400 Congratulations to the five MLA members who have been awarded 2022 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support early-career scholars in the humanities and […]

]]> b42f61f980072534651df173652f6fd3 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2660 Mon, 16 May 2022 13:34:13 -0400 Congratulations to the eleven MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2022. Many of this year’s fellows’ projects directly respond to issues like cli […]

]]> 789949f10d5f3df55aa18cbdb63cd380 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2022 NEH Grants, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2637 Mon, 16 May 2022 13:32:23 -0400 Congratulations to the twenty-one MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in April 2022. Their projects include a curriculum integrating humanities and […]

]]> 25022f8a89586bd3a77b19840c69b6c7 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Named National Humanities Center Fellows, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2628 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:45:16 -0400 Among this year’s National Humanities Center Fellows are three members of the Modern Language Association. Each fellow will work on individual research and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, le […]

]]> e60ce82aabc104a555acf2e567fbd07d Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Awarded ACLS Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2622 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:39:10 -0400 Congratulations to the four MLA members who have been awarded 2022 American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowships, which support early-career scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad […]

]]> fd93fe23aba75f15995167716fa33e1c Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2022 NEH Grants, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2585 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:57:50 -0500 Congratulations to the thirty-five MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in January 2022. Their projects include a Fort Lewis College Native American […]

]]> 2ec78b958bfad97098a1d3806c9106f3 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Results of the 2021 MLA Elections, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2574 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:30:20 -0500 In balloting that closed on 10 December, MLA members elected Dana A. Williams (Howard University) ​as second vice president. Williams will become MLA president in January 2024. Susan Stanford Friedman, Leah S. M […]

]]> fd0a6bb49c68c9fa46c2cbb9df183780 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Awarded ACLS Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2544 Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:32:07 -0400 Congratulations to the ten MLA members who have been awarded 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowships, which support early-career scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad […]

]]> 0dcf5016cfe389368482006dd1fa62c2 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, 2021 MLA Bibliography Fellows, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2533 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:53:30 -0400 The Modern Language Association congratulates the 2021 MLA Bibliography fellows who will serve from 2021 to 2024. The MLA International Bibliography staff members work with approximately one hundred field […]

]]> 9eca8b2fe2a092b9ab5f588531a3d88a Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA President Barbara Fuchs to Receive Instituto Cervantes’s Ñ Award, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2529 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:12:52 -0400 Barbara Fuchs, president of the Modern Language Association, will be presented with the inaugural Instituto Cervantes’s Ñ Award by King Felipe VI of Spain on the occasion of the institute’s thirtieth anni […]

]]> 5092755dec55142c388843fc70eda547 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on the Works of Toni Morrison, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2526 Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:56:12 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison, edited by Piper Kendrix Williams, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught […]

]]> af8640673b496d4b48c8dc8b73ffec57 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on the Works of George Orwell, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2522 Mon, 17 May 2021 18:26:06 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell, edited by Patricia Rae, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught Orwell’s works a […]

]]> fa7fbd2736d55122b98e81ca3d0e5ab5 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Endorses Twenty-First-Century Federal Writers’ Project Act, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2512 Thu, 06 May 2021 16:55:00 -0400 The MLA has strongly endorsed the Twenty-First-Century Federal Writers’ Project Act, proposed by Congressman Ted Lieu and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez, which would establish a grant program in the D […]

]]> 61de0a0bceab4e2a82795b875486f43f Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Awarded ACLS Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2503 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:51:46 -0400 Congratulations to the five MLA members among those awarded 2021 American Council of Learned Societies fellowships, which support outstanding scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The […]

]]> 9c319e10766864fb3b365ed4645689c3 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2499 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:12:01 -0400 Congratulations to the seven MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2021. The projects recognized include Eavesdropping: The Poetry of Blind Listening; […]

]]> a7b42e9aa585fd663e3323198d2a48f7 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2493 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:50:47 -0400 The volume Teaching Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century United States Short Fiction, edited by Jeehyun Lim and John K. Young, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the […]

]]> 7c50d2ff49cee70ce70f404e5179ca07 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, 1 April Deadline for MLA Bibliography Fellowship Applications, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2488 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:55:11 -0500 The deadline to apply for a three-year field-bibliography fellowship from the MLA International Bibliography is approaching! MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and […]

]]> eba3d2fd1e783b107636cddd1ccbc4f0 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Executive Council Statements on COVID-19 and Higher Education, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2410 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:34:09 -0500 As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, higher education faces unprecedented challenges, with significant consequences for institutions, faculty members, and students. In its statements about the […]

]]> 66374a5cacc1c1ac218ed312f92b508f Emily Tobey wrote a new post, New Resource for Teaching Literary Research with the MLA Bibliography, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2401 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:50:16 -0400 The MLA has just released “Literary Topics,” the fifth subject-area module for use in conjunction with our free teaching resource Understanding the MLA International Bibliography: An Online Course. The other fou […]

]]> 6229b262c9573881766700b114ec3f69 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Results of 2020 Ratification Vote, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2385 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:51:42 -0400 Voting on the 2020 ratification ballot concluded at midnight (EDT) on 7 August. Members ratified the election of Kamau Brathwaite, Amit Chaudhuri, Richard Flanagan, Susan Howe, M. NourbeSe Philip, Lev Rubinstein, […]

]]> 738df902f6388aaf7f045646d16f6b59 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Louis Kampf, Former President of the MLA, 1929–2020, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2337 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:26:37 -0400 The Modern Language Association mourns the passing of former MLA president Louis Kampf, distinguished professor emeritus of comparative literature and gender and women’s studies at the Massachusetts Institute o […]

]]> 8757010b431c70cd8ec499ecfce847a3 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2333 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:30:48 -0400 Congratulations to the seven MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2020. The projects recognized include storytelling in a transmedia era, the history […]

]]> 3546de5da1103b7129beac4b7441ac7e Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to New MLA Volumes, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2295 Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:08:42 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Sean Heuston, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Lit­erature series. Instructors who have taught this work are e […]

]]> ecf673230f2ddb08809b65fc6203e108 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Latin American Film, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2282 Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:20:34 -0400 The volume Teaching Latin American Film, edited by Antonio Gómez and Ana López, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and how to propose an essay, p […]

]]> e1b27c4a7092883dade7cf01aebfb551 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, 1 April Deadline for MLA Bibliography Fellowship Applications, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2264 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:09:07 -0400 The deadline to apply for a three-year field bibliography fellowship from the MLA International Bibliography is approaching! MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and […]

]]> a99cabd8211f34f0b85171b92ef5c3ef Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on the Works of Margaret Atwood, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2272 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:44:12 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood, edited by Lauren Rule Maxwell, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught […]

]]> 2408a4f5a92457f1334acbeead8ae8b7 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on the Works of Ralph Ellison, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2270 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:38:14 -0400 The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison, edited by Tracy Floreani, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught Ellison’s w […]

]]> 0c75762148fe70161df7c5a1a44e02d6 Emily Tobey's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680352/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:20:32 -0400 0 92a72249ea963c16f5e9ebe19a69a23f Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Chinese Film, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2267 Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:58:40 -0500 The volume Teaching Chinese Film, edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, and Hongmei Yu, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and how to propose an essay, […]

]]> 6f829a6800d65c91e688cfa1aa5b917f Emily Tobey wrote a new post, MLA Executive Director Advocates for Fair and Equitable Treatment of Contingent Faculty Members, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2258 Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:20:22 -0500 On 30 January, Paula Krebs, the executive director of the MLA, testified at a Committee on Higher Education and Committee on Civil Service and Labor hearing on contingent labor issues at the City University of New […]

]]> 5ae4470d1a10f1d8593e2736e741af66 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Emotions in World Literature, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2255 Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:04:12 -0500 The volume Teaching Emotions in World Literature, edited by Andreea Marculescu and Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and […]

]]> dea1858259b5a5eaf5574d948033c266 Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Science Fiction in the Literature Classroom, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2251 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:36:20 -0500 The volume Teaching Science Fiction in the Literature Classroom, edited by Gerry Canavan, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and how to propose an essay, […]

]]> 598590ceccbe34d2a178e0bca504096e Emily Tobey wrote a new post, Apply for an MLA Bibliography Fellowship by 1 April, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=2248 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:49:05 -0500 The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information […]

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