SAH Commons | Whitney Trettien | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/wtrettien/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Whitney Trettien is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 642f420f2adee2033c131c1c8a450562 Rachael Mulvihill edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Rachael Mulvihill in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/03/27/hastac-scholar-spotlight-rachael-mulvihill/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:02:48 -0400 Rachael V. Mulvihill is a PhD Candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines utopian and dystopian representations of capitalism across […]

]]> c63c9eda1be0fcde14629bace7a04c55 Grace Dignazio edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Grace Dignazio in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/03/06/hastac-scholar-spotlight-grace-dignazio/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:38:00 -0500 Grace Dignazio is an interdisciplinary scholar and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The New School in New York City. Her digital humanities research focuses on hybrid poetics, electronic literature, and […]

]]> 0e5561b59b281793a85e18d8136623f5 Elisa Castro edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Elisa Castro in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/28/hastac-scholar-spotlight-elisa-castro/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:55:46 -0500 Elisa is a post-graduate fellow with the Transborder Digital Humanities Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where her research focuses on migration, archival studies, and transborder digital […]

]]> 95d8e9de66817bc686ac5685c72f20d0 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-2/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:49:34 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e5e5fa8894556fd0fa017b195ce65d6 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum Teaching and Learning https://hastac.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:48:09 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cc50d7ca56ca8135d1bc69d0c8a755f Ame Min-Venditti edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Ame Min-Venditti in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/08/hastac-scholar-spotlight-ame-min-venditti/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:55:38 -0500 Ame Min-Venditti (they/them/elle) is a scholar motivated by water stories, sharing and learning from ancestral wisdom to create just and peaceful futures. Ame is a participatory action researcher engaging in […]

]]> 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 6e62d447801dc538b9b9ac4f4eae8397 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic Invitation for self-nominations to the Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/invitation-for-self-nominations-to-the-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:34:16 -0500 The Forum Executive Committee of CLCS Renaissance / Early modern invites self-nominations for TWO positions on the committee: one replacement position for a 3-year term, and one new member for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per…[Read more]

]]> 0 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.

]]> 0 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.

]]> 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.

]]> 0 12c9e260caac24bfe267dde16acaf09c Zhihui Zou edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Zhihui Zou in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2025/12/04/hastac-scholar-spotlight-zhihui-zou/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:34:02 -0500 Zhihui Zou

HASTAC Scholar

History and Computer Science Student at Duke University

Zhihui Zou is a History and Computer Science student at Duke University. His historical research focuses on the oil […]

]]> 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]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 40cab8c6b22e73db78dc89fa2daa21b9 Marianne Goldin edited the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 – Uppsala/Stockholm – Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933594/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:11:28 -0500 0 1f567e51740c81952a8f1fa042544a09 Marianne Goldin created the doc Comics and Machines Conference 2026 - Uppsala/Stockholm - Call for Submissions (Abstracts: 1 Dec, 2025) https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1933593/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:10:15 -0500 0 ea4812be429fe3cb6ca501e8c73285c9 Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:46:31 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 721593b1601eb008592ed7b92d2605ef Sarah Wall-Randell started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-ecocriticism-in-an-age-of-emergency/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:24:39 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>CFP for MLA 2026: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature hav…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 5512468dfe66b60c9745c1b9e771aca9 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic CFP MLA 2026: Early Modern Women’s Violence in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2026-early-modern-womens-violence/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:56:59 -0500 <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they…[Read more]

]]> 0 878be761cb9ed1473efb89de08891f30 Carmen Nocentelli posted an update in the group LLC 17th-Century English: The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912942/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:10:46 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 94eb6279aec1e3a9c638d2b8a1339ddd Carmen Nocentelli started the topic MLA2026 - GOING GLOBAL: QUESTIONS, CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla2026-going-global-questions-challenges-opportunities/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:37:17 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities.” We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are…[Read more]

]]> 0 995e7775c026c9279a403d0a6edb24b7 Kyle Pivetti started the topic Self-Nominations for Renaissance and Early Modern Forum Executive Committee in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/self-nominations-for-renaissance-and-early-modern-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:54:49 -0500 We invite self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the CLCS Renaissance/Early Modern forum. We appoint one new member annually for a five-year term. Our primary responsibility is to organize panels and roundtables for the MLA convention; we have two guaranteed panels per year.

Eligibility:

1. Only current MLA members are…[Read more]

]]> 0 25b2886fd0994dafaf4392af840f9184 Tatiana Bertolucci edited the blog post HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Nazua Idris in the group Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2025/01/10/hastac-scholar-spotlight-nazua-idris/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:40:09 -0500 Nazua Idris

HASTAC Scholar (2023-25)

Doctoral Candidate in Literary Studies, Department of English, Washington State University

Nazua’s (She/her) research focuses on the intersections of the ni […]

]]> fe06ac3e48ac4b994a09abb0edd2827e Jane Hwang Degenhardt started the topic Call for self-nominations for appointment to the 17th-Century English LLC in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-the-17th-century-english-llc/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:00:04 -0500 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 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 d1ca42eebf710bee42180ac2c9232285 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901834/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:00:10 -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 3b64664b4c520f5dac09f7d56c458694 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900892/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:16:06 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d7b2fd99fe4ae4f4b5300d18a5b628a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900887/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:19 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e282cc7c10e0f32f596bd7b427c96d0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900882/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:00:09 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3710f36cc43db4e8b25731ea2d647fc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900080/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:00:08 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[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]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 0 42f441651281ba769a6c511e2046ee77 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891693/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:00:07 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 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 f7ce58764ff13856e54eef1716e2de09 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886893/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:49:22 -0400 0 e960db8a16e66fe5f700982f6ac2cb95 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886048/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:15 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfd0f85013b89ea8f855f265b41df342 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886043/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:05:15 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

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