The MLA brochures for the special initiatives are now available.
Narrating Lives
The first special initiative is Narrating Lives.
One of the panels in this special initiative is panel 269, Teaching Lives: Our Work as Teacher-Scholars in Settings That Focus on Undergraduate Teaching. This panel is scheduled to take place from 12:00 noon till 1:15 p.m. on Friday, January 7, in Atrium II of the J. W. Marriott.
This is a roundtable presented by the Community College Humanities Association and organized by Dr. George Scheper, a faculty associate of Johns Hopkins University and the Coordinator of Humanities at the Community College of Baltimore County in Essex, Maryland.
The other participants are:
Geoffrey Bateman, Univ. of Denver;
Suanna H. Davis, Houston Baptist Univ/Houston Community College.;
Audrey A. Fisch, New Jersey City Univ.;
Rajender Kaur, William Paterson Univ.;
April Miller, Univ. of Northern Colorado;
Jeanne Scheper, Univ. of California, Irvine
Respondent: David A. Berry, Essex County Coll., NJ
The Academy in Hard Times
The second MLA special initiative is The Academy in Hard Times. Two colleaguess and I have a panel in this section of the MLA, In Our Own Image: Remaking Academia in a Changing Economic Climate.
Position statements are available for this panel:
Dr. Debbie J. Williams of Abilene Christian University has a short post on her paper, Reinventing the Academic Self: When the Professional and the Personal Collide, available.
Dr. Susan G. Cotton of Lone Star College has a short post on her paper, Unexpected Benefits: Re-visioning an Academic Through Campus Involvement, available.
And Dr. Suanna H. Davis, previously of Houston Baptist University and now of Houston Community College: Central, has a short post on her paper, Avoiding Academic Rigor Mortis: From Teaching Zombie to Animated Scholar, available.
This panel, number 133, will be presenting on Thursday, January 6, at 5:15 in 406A of the LA Convention Center.
The Narrating Lives picture is a jing from the MLA brochure and the photograph is from monkeyfister.blogspot.com.