Knowledge Commons | Scott Challener | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/schallen/activity/ Activity feed for Scott Challener. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:55:53 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c29832b353551cc7f2540ddab0aa3ad3 Scott Challener's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1845782/ Wed, 10 May 2023 13:31:15 -0400 0 9799f60d1ab381e4eca305d07599975f Scott Challener's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750353/ Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:17:20 -0400 0 4714f702f4606c1ba8599585288cd575 Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725450/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:16:57 -0500 A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

]]> 0 cba728cd346e327607f3d74b2ca566b4 Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725449/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:16:32 -0500 A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

]]> 0 1639a05f5a0e87d8e2756eff16e4677b Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725448/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:11:52 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c84467ac4c59f30c61b01fafe458db1 Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725447/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:06:37 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 96a3b99a423f6c6dfcf30859c4e3c4ed Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725446/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:03:07 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 09f28a179b68193c84bef2ebf3b35a38 Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725445/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:58:23 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d10070921069dc5bd0d7046fa12e9e6 Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725444/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:53:13 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d4ad2e2aef244b861fe350003bd020f Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725443/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:48:43 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 167f5a6ca91780b4d0f65c948fa21c70 Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725379/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:19:11 -0500 A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

]]> 0 05295bdc3e4ef547d43782f8afa33896 Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725366/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:05:45 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 b157dd4187d4336c0eec00b2306f4cd7 Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725365/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:58:08 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 520ccff93a48a184ae65e9e1c074883e Scott Challener's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715594/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:20:00 -0500 0 393f0bcee84678d69d1516149fe399ae Scott Challener's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708698/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 02:11:35 -0400 0 18ded55b692a04bf0ea3378424d542c0 Scott Challener's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1689199/ Sat, 30 May 2020 17:53:19 -0400 0 1924c9ce4ef45c3c31a1c642e396b8c9 Scott Challener deposited American Literature's Hemispheric Address: 1823-1923 (Fall 2019) in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674896/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:48:44 -0500 This course is a study of American literature’s address to and engagement with the hemisphere in the long nineteenth century. As such, it is first and foremost an inquiry into the concepts—“America,” “literature,” “address,” “hemisphere,” race and period—that animate our study. Our first task, then, is to turn these concepts into problems. What c…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce3a2c6734be51d960eece2536fb09cd Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674804/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:58:36 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb91fd5a265c1a94af9a4966708a7b31 Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674802/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:55:40 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c1950d3838b161082043490782ca8a3 Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674800/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:49:25 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]

]]> 0 17bb188b7087ced96373a65d042380f5 Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674799/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:48:44 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]

]]> 0 97fe8320cb773a7b1399b04a47f46b77 Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674617/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:57:36 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1b020753ac46911f10695b19cd6e9d4 Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674616/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:53:48 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e17de1dc977c807c2f177bf48d681c5 Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674614/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:48:44 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c5879f490041122a71838efcc6ef1fb Scott Challener deposited American Literature's Hemispheric Address: 1823-1923 (Fall 2019) https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674579/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:54:02 -0500 This course is a study of American literature’s address to and engagement with the hemisphere in the long nineteenth century. As such, it is first and foremost an inquiry into the concepts—“America,” “literature,” “address,” “hemisphere,” race and period—that animate our study. Our first task, then, is to turn these concepts into problems. What c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a44e551d81a6c968aa0bfe2cbc3db1b8 Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674578/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:48:19 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e45f944aa85672f16cba815d59f2120 Scott Challener deposited The New Border https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674545/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:00:55 -0500 This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]

]]> 0 dceea1ee9db71a39dbce7ff28485d5b0 Scott Challener's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641804/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:59:03 -0400 0 43a5038bab30229ff4ca34aea62c6652 Scott Challener's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617857/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:37:08 -0400 0 c6d8c4908811f8633a04e22707bb5cf6 Scott Challener deposited Reckoning with Remembrance: the Contemporary Ballad and the Black Tradition in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557151/ Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:19:26 -0500 Contribution to "Boundary Conditions of the Ballad" panel. Scott Challener, Rutgers U, presiding.

]]> 0 93766ca7c02a45cfba89c46856144b9d Scott Challener deposited Reckoning with Remembrance: the Contemporary Ballad and the Black Tradition https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557087/ Thu, 12 Jan 2017 02:52:13 -0500 Contribution to "Boundary Conditions of the Ballad" panel. Scott Challener, Rutgers U, presiding.

]]> 0 b8c1a1928391a673a6526e119cd1ac7f Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546384/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:53:17 -0400 This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]

]]> 0 df535aef92693f296fc19919007489fe Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group LLC African American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546383/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:53:15 -0400 This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb901118e84e971cfde38d52e881dc0f Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546382/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:53:01 -0400 This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]

]]> 0 cefb88d70a203cb70285f78bce6693d1 Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546381/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:52:50 -0400 This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]

]]> 0 237d8c9456eebf71b21d0238bd7e97ad Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546380/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:52:35 -0400 This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]

]]> 0 237d8c9456eebf71b21d0238bd7e97ad Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546379/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:52:35 -0400 This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]

]]> 0 72b070d283d0f9945b70fb86b7c1d683 Scott Challener commented on the doc Special Session Proposal for 2017 MLA Convention: "Boundary Conditions of the Ballad" https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546368/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:56:54 -0400 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker (of course!).

]]> df08b5a4ce34a1dee7512a2bdac073f3 Scott Challener commented on the doc Special Session Proposal for 2017 MLA Convention: "Boundary Conditions of the Ballad" https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546364/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:40:20 -0400 I invite any reader of this proposal to add to the list of modern and contemporary ballads I've begun below, and to suggest a critical bibliography as well.

A very partial, very incomplete sample of balladry in the twentieth century ranges from modernists like Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings, to San Francisco Renaissance poets Jack Spicer, Robert…[Read more]

]]> c7d485ee3fc6e0417bb50499a0dbf9c1 Scott Challener created the doc gvaryahu_shneihem_shavim.pdf https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546363/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:26:04 -0400 6072d0a2c3569a04b06f13743a2dd7e8 Scott Challener's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531188/ Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:29:59 -0400 0 cc0bb03fbe77d75cb00ec57cdff600ed Scott Challener's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531110/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:39:25 -0400 0 e22a83308c24e60ac646aa613056a0d4 Scott Challener became a registered member https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531090/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:38:34 -0400 0