Knowledge Commons | Rachael King | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/rachaelsking/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Rachael King is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1bdead3d7f08d62a859401afc3a2cc4b Pamela Phillips started the topic Deadline Extended -- CFP for 2 18thC panels at MLA 2027 in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-for-2-18thc-panels-at-mla-2027-2/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:26:56 -0400 Please consider submitting a proposal for either of the following 2027 MLA panels in eighteenth-century comparative studies (CLCS 18th-Century).

Panel: Places and Traces: Eighteenth-Century Networks and Neighborhoods

Inspired by Los Angeles as a city of neighborhoods and networks of missions that characterize California, this panel seeks…[Read more]

]]> 581408ae5e56b12aeda538a7a4bb81eb Pamela Phillips started the topic Deadline Extended -- CFP for 2 18thC panels at MLA 2027 in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-for-2-18thc-panels-at-mla-2027/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:23:23 -0400 Please consider submitting a proposal for either of the following 2027 MLA panels in eighteenth-century comparative studies (CLCS 18th-Century).

]]> 8e646852be0f66072e7b5d29cb27fc9b Danielle Spratt replied to the topic CFP CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2027 in Los Angeles in the forum CLCS 18th-Century via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/cfp-clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2027-in-los-angeles/#post-1040912 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:56:59 -0500 [heart] Spratt, Danielle L reacted to your message:

]]> 86feba6d25250275526ea429e17206c7 Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2027 in Los Angeles in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/cfp-clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2027-in-los-angeles/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:47:23 -0500 Dear Forum Members:

The MLA Eighteenth-Century Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Forum [CLCS 18th-Century] is accepting proposals to the following guaranteed sessions at the MLA 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles.

For both sessions, please send a 200-word abstract and brief CV to pamela.phillips1@upr.edu by March 20, 2026.

Please…[Read more]

]]> 86e4e75ec10857b0692754404a40a12d Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, we are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

Please see the original post for full details.

]]> ebbb4a01a4573f5eba5fd63eee70d12f Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, w<span style="font-weight: 400;">e are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

Please see the original post for full details.

]]> 5c69ca935d743e146818b000a53969b9 SARAH ELLENZWEIG started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee (Starting 2026-2027)! in the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/restoration-and-early-18th-century-english/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-starting-2026-2027/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:30:55 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning 2026-2027. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize two roundtables/panels for the following year’s meeting. If you’d like to be considered, please email Danielle Bobker (danielle.bobker@concordia.ca) wit…[Read more]

]]> 944ed7d9abd7282e209ae80230667e1b Philip Trotter uploaded the file: MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing” to CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1939950/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:35:51 -0500 Abstract and details for MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

]]> 0 a479c956d938c1e569ff3897ea2cc58d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-5/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:55:30 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely.

]]> 2026f89c16ec13126857a2eb4b9009d5 Brian Croxall started the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:13:02 -0500 Overview
The DH Pedagogy and Training SIG will hold a Pedagogy Poster Slam at the 2026 DH Conference in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pedagogy Poster Slam will take place during the SIG’s reserved slot during one of the conference’s two workshop days, either Monday, 27 July 2026, or Tuesday, 28 July 2026.

Posters will either focus on a) a spe…[Read more]

]]> 227876ecd355d0675cbe7ebd2574d1d5 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - Openness in Language Education in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-openness-in-language-education/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:34:04 -0500 📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

I’m happy to share that The EUROCALL Review is launching a new thematic issue on:
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”.

This issue focuses on the role and impact of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in language education worldwi…[Read more]

]]> 58da3414739d0ec665d9eb3a651681a1 Shawna Ross started the topic CFP - A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-a-field-guide-to-lost-modernisms/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:03:35 -0400 A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Call for papers

The Internet is a significant yet leaky infrastructure by which modernism circulates. Members of the public often encounter modernist literature and culture online, while students and scholars depend on the World Wide Web for conducting and disseminating their research. Worryingly, Internet assets…[Read more]

]]> 405dcc5c6cf6c0a64a3bddb0f6b74af3 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-mla-2026/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:49:57 -0500 <div class="bbp-reply-content">
(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases,…[Read more]

]]> ae75f7ca50e6ca77f05bc94367adca5e Pamela Phillips started the topic CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2026 in Toronto CFP in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2026-in-toronto-cfp-2/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:11:46 -0500  

 

The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies–18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed sessions:

Comparative Liberties

The concept of liberty in the eighteenth century underwent significant development, particularly through the Enlightenment, which challenged existing ideas about g…[Read more]

]]> ca03b353698d574917dfb7ce4794a508 SARAH ELLENZWEIG started the topic Join the Forum Executive Committee! in the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/restoration-and-early-18th-century-english/forum/topic/join-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:20:49 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning 2025-2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize two roundtables/panels for the following year's meeting. If you'd like to be considered, please email Sarah Ellenzweig (sellenz@rice.edu) with your…[Read more]

]]> 15a228f9a5710edec19d8ffa0a709ba2 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:43:17 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 73215c5974629be9153feaf055551809 Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-3/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:55:17 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 51dfa962c8509dc311cdee9b05cdc507 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:54:04 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> f5ec3a5c25c83fd9ea0bc470829eafb1 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:16:00 -0400 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> d96b0196cf95344577f6bbedf241c451 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901836/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:03:50 -0400 This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more]

]]> 0 998163ae8aa4c83b79591056d8de2342 Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899999/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:04:35 -0400 SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e6d52f756a39eed94abd4345aeb13eb Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899998/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:01:21 -0400 SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf04cc70728539641e8e0dc0676f74c8 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-4/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:12:38 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https…[Read more]

]]> dd661837a32fb4a7f5fc1b51acddc57d Brian Croxall deposited Duffy Encoding Editorial Decisions in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1897134/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:01:42 -0400 This document provides guidelines for encoding the first five books of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy into TEI-XML. It was collaboratively authored by my students and I during the Winter 2018 and Winter 2019 semesters at Brigham Young University.

]]> 0 967829021ce7dd77659781171ad8e457 Inés Vañó García started the topic Newly extended CFP (through 07/21) – JITP Special Issue in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/newly-extended-cfp-through-07-21-jitp-special-issue/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:15:05 -0400 <div class="entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-constrained">
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:
Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson,…[Read more]

]]> 731791a81a5acbab3f54713b2f8c9b2a Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890471/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:04:41 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 43cf5ac51bf84b581d47e8713f012a54 Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889660/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:06:26 -0400 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 90a5f9293d35e8d4d1f7ad732df87940 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889188/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:27:19 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 38bc258457e2b4465bf945c9309c98ef Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889184/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:17:18 -0400 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 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 -0400 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 -0400 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 e80df45677a8e632becee89307897f18 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887292/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:04:38 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 3084f9bfc7d56922dbc6d739624ad043 Inés Vañó García started the topic Join the Collective! -The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/join-the-collective-the-journal-of-interactive-technology-and-pedagogy-jitp/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:06:26 -0400 Call for ParticipationThe Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing both gr…[Read more]

]]> 23ff7efcb66b216876c715c503196250 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP: Submissions for JITP Special Issue -Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-submissions-for-jitp-special-issue-labor-political-economy-and-activism/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:23:52 -0400 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:

Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson, Indiana University

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy…[Read more]

]]> 16399810ccaeacf9fba7485591e224c1 Alan Liu started the topic CFPs: MLA Committee on Information Technology's two panels at MLA 2025 in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfps-mla-committee-on-information-technologys-two-panels-at-mla-2025/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:46:40 -0500 For the MLA convention in New Orleans in 2025 (Jan. 9-12), the  MLA’s Committee on Information Technology (CIT) is organizing two guaranteed sessions to help generate ideas related to the convention's Presidential Theme of "visibility." Abstracts: 300 words or less, by the end of the day (all time zones): 15 March 2024. Please submit your ab…[Read more]

]]> b8f9abbecda9389b01512660de0f0f16 Amanda Licastro started the topic MLA 2025 emerging technologies in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/mla-2025-emerging-technologies-2/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:38:28 -0500 Please share and apply to our CFP on emerging technologies for #MLA25. This guaranteed panel sponsored by the Libraries and Research Executive Forum will feature initiatives, collaborations, and partnerships that support emerging technologies in academic libraries. We hope to make visible the labor and infrastructure necessary to adapt to and e…[Read more]

]]> 9dc606866d465d22fd8e29d643e5ba25 Eugenia Zuroski started the topic MLA 2025/CLCS 18th CFP — New Methods in 18th-C Comp Lit in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/mla-2025-clcs-18th-cfp-new-methods-in-18th-c-comp-lit/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:18:08 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading

It has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical r…[Read more]

]]> 5b79052027fb0745f43a42bf3b8b1cf5 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870890/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:06:20 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 16ac8849aeb73c4fee9459202db1bbf6 Sarah Benharrech started the topic MLA 18th century French Forum dinner on Saturday January 6th at 8:00pm in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/mla-18th-century-french-forum-dinner-on-saturday-january-6th-at-800pm/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:25:09 -0500 Dear MLA members and 18th century enthusiasts,

You are invited to attend the 18c French Forum dinner on Saturday, January 6th at 8:00pm. 

The dinner will take place at Caribou Café (1126 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107), which is a short walk from the PA Convention Center and the Downtown Marriott.  The chef, Olivier Desaintmar…[Read more]

]]> 5259f29a118de90da155e3c09a3130df Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866780/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:00:20 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 f063fc97b6e134474d0f05e0dc99722b Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866464/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:00:14 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b4f88791c3b1597821a5818b27dc29c Katina Rogers replied to the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-on-gathering-exploring-collective-and-embodied-modes-of-schol-comm-jep/#post-1035562 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:10:57 -0400 And.... here's a link to the full CFP! https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/106/

]]> f3dad17a04848524740f05cd264dd94b Katina Rogers started the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-on-gathering-exploring-collective-and-embodied-modes-of-schol-comm-jep/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:49:48 -0400 Dear friends,

I'm pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.

Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]

]]> 04a5de9a06773581c11b7f85a3eedc0f Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-46/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:14:06 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> ade2c3b0d4a8a202eabc696c42d54ffb Sarah Benharrech started the topic Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/assistant-professor-of-french-at-the-university-of-tennessee-at-knoxville/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:19:46 -0400 The Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee flagship campus in Knoxville is seeking applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in early modern French studies, with a focus on the 18th century, to begin August 1, 2024. To broaden our programs, innovative and…[Read more]

]]> 20c11c8ce1daac57869ce0a800a0a985 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855437/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:24:42 -0400 "The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities."

]]> 0 ce4586753cb362736337888d3e358b70 Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855398/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:16:06 -0400 A book's a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on "Counting (in) Early Modern Drama," I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

]]> 0 416ad088540f97a93c91e978686167ee Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854432/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:13:23 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section "until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types." 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4's printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

]]> 0 2df5bea9f223407d45af89e22dd80ed8 Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847127/ Thu, 25 May 2023 02:26:06 -0400 In this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1170c22e176ba79fd508e563301bc65 Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841605/ Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:29:25 -0400 This presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]

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