Profession 2011
By Rosemary G. Feal, Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Françoise Lionnet, Robert Warrior, Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, Nancy K. Miller, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Hillary Chute, Gillian L. Whitlock, Brian Rotman, Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, Stephen Olsen, Steve Anderson, Tara McPherson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Bethany Nowviskie, Jerome McGann, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Reed Way Dasenbrock, Richard Yarborough, Joyce Kinkead, Laurie Grobman, Gillian Gane & David Porter
- Release Date: 2014-01-08
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Description
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.
