SAH Commons | Rebecca Shapiro | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/rebeccashapiro/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Rebecca Shapiro is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:40:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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 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 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 db67182db3d449fe3e244819a468c97e Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/cfp-surrealism-dans-tous-ses-etats-2/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:12:52 -0500 2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]

]]> 0 fed01636f5095d46b4b80dddeae77656 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy-2/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:55 -0500 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[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 237402b24f7b44f6d61c986cb4182d32 Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828214/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 03:51:32 -0500 The Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
Bridge was born. The American Translators Association is a member of this initiative.

]]> 0 7c6f0ae10a299cf57c19c7949b50a5df Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826176/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:48:45 -0500 This talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[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 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 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 d0b1dd1b400f14fe0a9d84383df37b07 Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788300/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:48:44 -0400 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 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 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 5e3c30f1ca19d938e994188a86a1734f Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768475/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:48:43 -0500 What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

]]> 0 99079ca54cfb24eda76325cf6f72d8aa Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/thank-you-for-terrific-attendance/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:14:19 -0500 Thank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.

]]> 0 9575fe2266194edee1ea88417e9c0137 Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, "Life Writing and Cognition" (Sunday) in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/session-645-life-writing-and-cognition-sunday/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:39:06 -0500 Please join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

]]> 0 87f09402ac3739dbdf38907e3416dbb8 Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group 2022 MLA Convention: Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1765465/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:25:31 -0500 Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655

]]> 0 aba786f0b97a5c960baea7da15972227 Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/ms-screen-arts-and-culture-virtual-panels-and-postponement/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:49:05 -0500 As the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.

 

The following sessions will now be held virtually:

Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm

Presider: Rielle Navitski

A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]

]]> 0 600f64e8c4215443fc6c77b1e6f3025c Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/sharing-convention-materials-on-the-commons/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:48:25 -0500 Hello, all,

If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c431340eb8eb495e2dc97da2484740a Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-studies-online-panels/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:25:48 -0500 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.

Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]

]]> 0 f71284ab31304800cf5cf3cb1dd08a36 Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-adaptation-forum-sessions/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 19:49:12 -0500 The MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum.  We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]

]]> 0 a644daa0c097824b9d50d9350ac670b0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-re-us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:20:22 -0500 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[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 ec85671a89913be02c2c55fbcf613285 MLA Commons created the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756376/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:59:47 -0400 0 ea493cdf7e543694402831785921d2a5 Charlie Gleek deposited Southernness on Display in Recent Little Magazines in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1751957/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:26:03 -0400 A consideration of how paratextual information present on two, recently-published little magazines — The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review — might work to mediate their readers’ literary expectations and interpretations. Published simultaneously at: https://southernfringes.substack.com

]]> 0 2950ba864277551523912c11fa8522b0 Sujata Iyengar deposited Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, and Some Futures for the Humanities (with maybe a little Shakespeare thrown in) in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1743384/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 03:50:54 -0400 I briefly survey the function of books, written artifacts, literary criticism and connoisseurship/curation in apocalyptic literature from Mary Shelley to Malka Older (with a nod to the Book of Revelation) and in contemporary Young Adult fiction and “cli-fi” — science fiction and fantasy centered around climate change, such as Kim Stanley…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b0bba6f3c700a193571e3396962e1f9 James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742221/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:53:06 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f572e95f7b8ab3dd38a68fe23b3418d8 Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732634/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:01:16 -0400 Abstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.

]]> 0 a6d2ca2c4ac217c580e6906d042d6233 James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732047/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:33:31 -0400 This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbb33e4dfc787ad4d4f38b16766cd84d Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723736/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:29:15 -0500 The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]

]]> 0 49c4bad52a6de7cabb6205c64b3b9071 Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021: Forum Panels in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/book-history-print-cultures-lexicography/forum/topic/mla-2021-forum-panels/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 04:09:01 -0500 Please consider attending one or both of the panels sponsored by our forum at MLA 2021 in the next few days:

“Revisiting William Morris and the Arts and Crafts: Reception and Influence,” our co-sponsored panel, is scheduled for Thursday, January 7th from 5:15pm – 6:30pm (EDT).

“From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of Collections” is…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdaaffeea840e2361b4afc3eafef8359 Whitney Trettien deposited Cultures of the Book (ENGL 034, taught remotely Fall 2020) in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1719517/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:23:38 -0500 The book: it’s a soothingly familiar technology, one we all know how to operate. Open the front covers to reveal the text; turn the page to continue reading. Yet even the most seemingly ordinary aspects of the book, like titles and page numbers, had to be invented. In this course, we will work to defamiliarize the book, investigating how the f…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a326f111178ebddde7132acf9fd54d0 Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1714420/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:35:25 -0400 Prior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]

]]> 0 df1a63590d361ae01a9991ae461ee9a3 Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica's Clandestine Printers in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1706767/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 02:30:55 -0400 Milton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f65862fc19dc9f99a212fd6a5c4655d Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685486/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:54:18 -0400 From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5159c467959cbee68224c2da03cd8de Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685169/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:32:59 -0400 This book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu…[Read more]

]]> 0 5114e1b7836a7de1005af74c5a925199 Sarah Werner deposited Working towards a Feminist Printing History in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680389/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 03:48:44 -0400 What would a feminist history of printing look like if it’s not focused on recovering the history of women printing? Delivered as the 2018 APHA Lieberman Lecture and forthcoming from the APHA journal, Printing History.

]]> 0 25927d31bbe9cd7cc4f693e0d8cd0be1 Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021 Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography forum cfps in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/book-history-print-cultures-lexicography/forum/topic/mla-2021-book-history-print-cultures-lexicography-forum-cfps/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:38:04 -0400 Are you using innovative strategies to teach book history, print cultures and lexicography? Does your research explore the nature of collections? Please consider submitting an abstract for one of our forum’s two panels for MLA 2021. We have just extended the deadline to March 16.

Guaranteed session: From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of…[Read more]

]]> 0 a53129bbd7a36e652028b92d65ac4d64 Amanda L. French deposited Alcott's "Rigmarole": The Composition and Publication History of Little Women in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675950/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:25:22 -0500 _Little Women_ is a work composed piecemeal and narrated in more than one generic mode. Alcott’s complete financial dependence on what she could earn from her writing, her ambivalence toward conventional narratives for women, and, most importantly, her alternating submission to and rebellion against the demands (real and imagined) of her readers…[Read more]

]]> 0 62298fef093689e6d7d240417c0ffc9d Madeline Gangnes replied to the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/book-history-print-cultures-lexicography/forum/topic/mla-2020-bibliopedagogy/#post-1023035 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:54:51 -0500 If it’s of interest to anyone, I livetweeted this excellent panel: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215367439988350976

]]> 0 801a59e08db84f0aad67cb5cbf486bc2 Madeline Gangnes started the topic MLA 2020 Panel #265 "Databases and Print Culture Studies" Livetweet Thread in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/book-history-print-cultures-lexicography/forum/topic/mla-2020-panel-265-databases-and-print-culture-studies-livetweet-thread/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:52:49 -0500 I was asked by the moderator of this morning’s MLA session #265 “Databases and Print Culture Studies” panel, so here is the link: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215697238107750404. (Official panel info found here: https://www.sharpweb.org/main/mla-2020-sharp-session-databases-and-print-culture-studies/) I hope it will be of some use to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e58d8667d541f2f4936f9bfbfd49c712 Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/book-history-print-cultures-lexicography/forum/topic/mla-2020-bibliopedagogy/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:36:49 -0500 Please consider attending our forum’s session on “Bibliopedagogy” at MLA in Seattle on Thursday, 9 January in WSCC – 401. Our panel features three presentations:

“Student-Scribe: A Hands-On Approach to Codicology and Book History” — Sarah J. Sprouse and Sarah Banschbach Valles

“Rewriting the Canon: Cultivating Student Creativity in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3028e5ad092fa22f304ebcb62e671418 Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669818/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:34:10 -0500 The New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]

]]> 0 0dbe3c556029e6decc83594b75288306 Michael Hancher deposited Table of contents, in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669476/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 03:51:39 -0500 Table of contents.

]]> 0 167d9d7b7a4f8a5790f18439394941b5 Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668640/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:25:23 -0400 Three faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]

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