Profession 2011
Profession 2011
Overview
This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating digital scholarship. Introduced by Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen, the section includes essays by Steve Anderson, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jerome McGann, Tara McPherson, Bethany Nowviskie, and Geoffrey Rockwell. The issue's other essays are by Reed Way Dasenbrock, Gillian Gane, Laurie Grobman, Joyce Kinkead, David Porter, and Richard Yarborough. The issue concludes with two sets of MLA guidelines--on professional employment practices for non-tenure-track faculty members and on evaluating translations as scholarship--and a listing of reports, surveys, statements, and other resources recently added to the MLA Web site.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781603291293 |
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| Publisher: | Modern Language Association |
| Publication date: | 01/08/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
The author is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of Women's Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a past president of the Modern Language Association.
The author is professor of comparative literature at Stanford University.
The author is professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The author is professor of American Indian studies, English, and history and director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
Leo Spitzer is Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College.
The author has been Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Scripps College and professor of English at Ohio State University, Columbus.
The author is professor of English and director of the Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa.
The author is professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University, Columbus.
Laura Mandell is director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University, College Station.
Steve Anderson is assistant professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
The author is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta.
The author is John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
The author is vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa.
Joyce Kinkead is professor of English and associate vice president for research at Utah State University.
The author retains an affiliation with the University of Zululand as a research fellow and teaches occasional courses at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She retired from Hamilton College in 2006.
Table of Contents
From the Editor
Presidential Forum Lives and Archives
Narrating Lives
Sidonie Smith
Embedded Lives: The House of Fiction, the House of History
David Palumbo-Liu
Cosmopolitan or Creole Lives? Globalized Oceans and Insular Identities
Françoise Lionnet
Vandalizing Life Writing at the University of Illinois: Heap of Birds's Signs of Indigenous Life
Robert Warrior
Vulnerable Lives: Secrets, Noise, Dust
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
A Feminist Friendship Archive
Nancy K. Miller
"What Was I?": Literary Witness and the Testimonial Archive
Leigh Gilmore
Embridry
Gillian L. Whitlock
Asking Permission to Write: Human Subject Research
Craig Howes
Comics Form and Narrating Lives
Hillary Chute
Automedial Ghosts
Brian Rotman
Evaluating Digital Scholarship
Introduction
Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen
Engaging Digital Scholarship: Thoughts on Evaluating Multimedia Scholarship
Steve Anderson and Tara McPherson
On the Evaluation of Digital Media as Scholarship
Geoffrey Rockwell
Where Credit Is Due: Preconditions for the Evaluation of Collaborative Digital Scholarship
Bethany Nowviskie
On Creating a Usable Future
Jerome McGann
Peer Review, Judgment, and Reading
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Undergraduate Education: Cash Cow or Core Competency?
Reed Way Dasenbrock
Academic Leadership, Community, and Values in a Time of Crisis
Richard Yarborough
Expanding Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in English Studies
Joyce Kinkead and Laurie Grobman
Justice, Freedom, and Basic Reading in the New South Africa
Gillian Gane
The Crisis of Comparison and the World Literature Debates
David Porter
Professional Employment Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members: Recommendations and Evaluative Questions
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Evaluating Translations as Scholarship: Guidelines for Peer Review
Modern Language Association of America
Resources at the MLA Web Site