CLPC Sessions at the 2020 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle
339. Keywords for the Future, 3:30 PM–5:15 PM Jan 10, WSCC – 6A 527. Critical Pedagogies: Precarity, Contingency, and Professional Practice, 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Jan…
339. Keywords for the Future, 3:30 PM–5:15 PM Jan 10, WSCC – 6A 527. Critical Pedagogies: Precarity, Contingency, and Professional Practice, 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Jan…
345: (Ab)Original Forms: Great Lakes Indigenous Writing. Date: Friday, Jan 4, 2019, Time: 3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Location: Sheraton Grand – Goldcoast. 388: Critical Pedagogies…
Roundtable at the 2018 MLA Convention, New York, NY The CLPC’s roundtable on Cultural Appropriation and the various ways it can be conceptualized…
Earlier this year, Presidential Teaching Fellow Dr. Jesse Alemán delivered a keynote address at the Center for Teaching and Learning’s “Success in the Classroom Conference” focusing…
Essential to our lives in a democracy is the right to free expression. PEN American Center is hosting a gathering and rally on the steps of the New York Public Library, 12 January 2017, on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be brief readings from chosen texts, and all are invited to gather in defense of this essential freedom. It is an important public gathering to which all are welcome!
Saturday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 304, Philadelphia Marriott Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the…
Thursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Franklin 10, Philadelphia Marriott Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the…
“Teaching Chicana/o Literature in Community College: Social, Ethnic, and Linguistic Hybridity in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God” explores the importance of teaching ethnic literature at community colleges, and considers the social importance of Ana Castillo’s So Far From God (1993) to Southwest learners. In a time when minority education programs are being threatened by budget cuts, and are rapidly being displaced/replaced by more fiscally “lucrative” certificates and departments, Castillo’s novel demonstrates the contemporary relevance and cultural currency of traditional folklore to small communities.
This session of the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada, in cooperation with the GL/Q Caucus…