SAH Commons | Leon Jackson | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/drleonj/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Leon Jackson is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:10:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 780b3571c73a1093c1f9074911408333 Leigh A. Neithardt replied to the topic Seeking Nominations: Exec. Committee for TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-2027-2032-executive-committee-for-tm-bibliography-an/#post-1040803 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:31:22 -0500 Thanks, Professor Whitley!

If you want to nominate yourself for forum executive committee service, please fill out this form. It will go directly to the committee.

Be sure to take a look at our new FAQ about forum executive committees, too.

Thank you!

 

 

]]> 0 433654a684d941fa0b9913e8234db460 Edward Whitley started the topic Seeking Nominations: Exec. Committee for TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-2027-2032-executive-committee-for-tm-bibliography-an/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:37 -0500 The MLA forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for a new member to join the Executive Committee for a term of service from January 2027 to January 2032.  If you would like to suggest yourself or another forum member for nomination, please send the following information by email…[Read more]

]]> 0 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 1346221240764e69d7024fdb1d1e0446 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-13/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:14:07 -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]

]]> 0 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a417fe13be51018bb741d1ebccb5e27 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902284/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:04:14 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[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 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 – Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> 0 e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[Read more]

]]> 0 c816dd087431ac57291f9ad2eaca455d Gabrielle Dean started the topic Text Under Pressure: Society for Textual Scholarship 2024 Conference in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/text-under-pressure-society-for-textual-scholarship-2024-conference/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:07:52 -0500 The Society for Textual Scholarship is accepting proposals for our 2024 conference hosted by the University of Tulsa, June 6-8, on the theme Text Under Pressure. The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 18.

Texts manifest many varieties of creative, social, and political pressure in their expressive content and form. But text is also often a…[Read more]

]]> 0 1118127cd51730c53dba74bb67587ecd Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876629/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:05:39 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 aff05a15c3db8f2a7bd4dd0e4ec68433 Joseph M. Ortiz started the topic Suggestions Requested for LCC 16th-Century English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/suggestions-requested-for-lcc-16th-century-english-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:46:27 -0500 Dear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum: The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of MLA members who may wish to serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally. Please send questions or suggestions to…[Read more]

]]> 0 55d5e17dc073e6e35670b8f205cce018 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-42/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:11:25 -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]

]]> 0 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 448bacb001875587a24c871481f14bdf Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited "TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT" in the group LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857153/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:07:34 -0400 An Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 1303c0fe22af3c669c7e10c4eaba03bd Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847387/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:07:53 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd08663d6959cf5867ce013ceaabbb38 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847382/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:47:11 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b2482a67ae61d869f98f3e79174773c Laura Helton started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/mla-2024-cfp-bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:44:21 -0500 The Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing invites proposals for two sessions:

Intention

Authorial intention has long been rejected as a viable constraint upon literary interpretation, but to what extent is it still operative in textual scholarship? Seeking 250-word abstracts on textual theory, collaboration, coercion, publishing, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d1925213aca1ef8cd2fe6cc766f4186 Penelope Geng started the topic CFP MLA LLC 16c English: "Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context" in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-llc-16c-english-disability-aesthetics-in-a-premodern-global-context/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:49:59 -0500 The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.

Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alo…[Read more]

]]> 0 c06cd15ffc798263c9c1cdc6158e973e Sujata Iyengar deposited 'It was the best butter': Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829049/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:31:07 -0500 Series of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 567c7881638bd488174723306ef107d1 Laura Helton started the topic MLA panels sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/mla-panels-sponsored-by-the-bibliography-and-scholarly-editing-forum/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:19:39 -0500 For those attending MLA in San Francisco in January, please join us for two sessions sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum:

Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing

Friday, January 6, 10:15-11:30, Moscone West 3006

Marissa Nicosia, Presiding

Panelists: Filipa Calado, Daniela D’Eugenio, Kara Flynn, Juniper…[Read more]

]]> 0 24493262bb203bb0a5b7174cae8b3458 Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/nominations-for-bibliography-and-scholarly-editing-forum-exec-committee/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:05:48 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2024. The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6093b5e031e8f90dcabe14c7bb090e5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827262/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:25:57 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa1e1132e56d744d3ff918b31cb1dc5 John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826933/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:00:41 -0500 As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

]]> 0 a187ea0be5bdf58c884a8fbf03108d70 Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/society-for-textual-scholarship-2023-conference-design-and-text-7/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:36:21 -0500 The Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa82ad44e7078cba699bd31b4c85fcf2 Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/book-history-print-cultures-lexicography/forum/topic/society-for-textual-scholarship-2023-conference-design-and-text/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:22:45 -0500 The Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ca62f63788cbd1e0f2978bac9ae3583 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-23/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:54:46 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f2287b0af5d9892c2ad99a437fe6412 Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817820/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:25:37 -0400 This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]

]]> 0 13217d268963f23d170a985b2c0ccc69 Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1793912/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:24:52 -0400 What follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]

]]> 0 9927d36760ed59509afa02a335b7e4c8 Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1793910/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:23:45 -0400 What follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e14009c2e8919a6dbb8cc40f614351f6 Michael Hancher deposited Virtual Displacement of Victorian Periodicals in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1792488/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 02:26:01 -0400 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals should work to protect multiple runs of actual Victorian periodicals, which are potentially at risk in “collective collections” organized by academic libraries.

]]> 0 19fc9183e8e44ec4aa8472ef4d81ecec Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777278/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:24:31 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

]]> 0 62de57082c30fda5b915bb5925a18f15 Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771069/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:39:23 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 a31d527e4e1bf37b5959cd2859792d6e Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771068/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:38:02 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba0ca78a86c4d28f9dca23263b8480aa Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771067/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:36:51 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f59ac5be7358ea7598268ec70daf062 Emily Friedman deposited "Let people tell their stories their own way": Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768611/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:32:01 -0500 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f38e53a966be49e4447b24d3ace89b2 Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768605/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:27:43 -0500 The reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a68d356b8c7c21530943ba6f184010e7 Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768603/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:26:13 -0500 The reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fc101202c94f5eefaba31191bd90117 Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Executive Committee in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/nominations-for-bibliography-scholarly-editing-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:03:58 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2023.

The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc4bdc487c780c65a98a308d3c4644d4 Jessica Winston started the topic Suggestions Requested: LLC 16th-Century English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 16th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-english/forum/topic/suggestions-requested-llc-16th-century-english-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:25:22 -0500 Dear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum:

The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of names of people serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally Please send questions or suggestions to committee…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b7578a111b204c877fd73bf26ed7117 Christopher Warren deposited Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with Computational Bibliography? New Angles on Printing Thomas Hobbes’ “Ornaments” Edition in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761568/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:31:16 -0500 This article attributes one of the three “first” editions of Leviathan to the London printer John Richardson (fl. 1673–1703), revising Noel Malcolm’s attribution to a different printer in the recent Clarendon Edition of Leviathan. We lay out the mystery of Leviathan’s so-called “Ornaments” edition and use evidence from damaged type pieces to say…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3ae95f4344d2bfdc1c5e66f754d5bca Christopher Warren deposited Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with Computational Bibliography? New Angles on Printing Thomas Hobbes’ “Ornaments” Edition in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761567/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:30:03 -0500 This article attributes one of the three “first” editions of Leviathan to the London printer John Richardson (fl. 1673–1703), revising Noel Malcolm’s attribution to a different printer in the recent Clarendon Edition of Leviathan. We lay out the mystery of Leviathan’s so-called “Ornaments” edition and use evidence from damaged type pieces to say…[Read more]

]]> 0 65f05a90ac4067894260e70de190653c Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Early American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/early-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-13/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:24:29 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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