Website of the Week (WoW) #194: Glottolog

Website of the Week (WoW) #194: Glottolog

An initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Glottolog links researchers to resources on the world’s languages, language families and dialects.

http://glottolog.org/


Glottolog 2.4 –
glottolog.org
Information about the different languages, dialects, and families of the world (‘languoids’) is available in the Languages and Families sections. The References section contains bibliographical information. You can query the bibliographical database by filtering the table view or using a complex que…

Website of the Week (WoW) #194: Glottolog

An initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Glottolog links researchers to resources on the world’s languages, language families and dialects.

http://glottolog.org/

193. Website of the Week (WoW) #193: The African Women in the Cinema Project

193. Website of the Week (WoW) #193: The African Women in the Cinema Project

Site includes a Primer for African Women Cinema Studies, timeline, related links, and “voices” of African women in cinema from diverse sources.

http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Introduction.html


Introduction
www.africanwomenincinema.org
The African Women in the Cinema Project emerged out of my research on African women in visual culture, my desire to find a paradigm for reading images of and by African women, and my own work in videography and as a performance artist. I undertook this project on a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship…

Site includes a Primer for African Women Cinema Studies, timeline, related links, and “voices” of African women in cinema from diverse sources.

http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Introduction.html

Congratulations to our 2015 MLA International Bibliography Fellows!

Congratulations to our 2015 MLA International Bibliography Fellows!

MLA International Bibliography fellowships recognize the efforts of scholars who volunteer their time and expertise to index materials as field bibliographers for the Bibliography.

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2015 awards:

Ria Banerjee, assistant professor, Guttman Community College
Linde M. Brocato, assistant professor, University of Memphis
Kerstin Carson, graduate student, San Jose State University
Johanna Denzin, associate professor, Columbia College (MO)
Nicholas Giguère, PhD candidate, Université de Sherbrooke
Melissa E. Johnson, librarian, Georgia Regents University
Jason T. McEntee, professor, department head, South Dakota State University
Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn, PhD candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Tea Rokolj, Arts librarian, University of Ottawa
Bruce T. Sajdak, North American editor, ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature)

Fellowships are awarded each spring and run for three years. The MLA provides materials and training. Fellows attending training sessions at the annual MLA Convention have their conference registration fees waived. On completion of the fellowship, Fellows receive a stipend of $500 and a certificate during the awards ceremony at the MLA Convention. For more information, please go to http://www.mla.org/mla_bibliography_fel

MLA International Bibliography fellowships recognize the efforts of scholars who volunteer their time and expertise to index materials as field bibliographers for the Bibliography.

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2015 awards:

Ria Banerjee, assistant professor, Guttman Community College
Linde M. Brocato, assistant professor, University of Memphis
Kerstin Carson, graduate student, San Jose State University
Johanna Denzin, associate professor, Columbia College (MO)
Nicholas Giguère, PhD candidate, Université de Sherbrooke
Melissa E. Johnson, librarian, Georgia Regents University
Jason T. McEntee, professor, department head, South Dakota State University
Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn, PhD candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Tea Rokolj, Arts librarian, University of Ottawa
Bruce T. Sajdak, North American editor, ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature)

Fellowships are awarded each spring and run for three years. The MLA provides materials and training. Fellows attending training sessions at the annual MLA Convention have their conference registration fees waived. On completion of the fellowship, Fellows receive a stipend of $500 and a certificate during the awards ceremony at the MLA Convention. For more information, please go to http://www.mla.org/mla_bibliography_fel

Website of the Week (WoW) #192: Searchable Sea Literature

Website of the Week (WoW) #192: Searchable Sea Literature

Site contains peer-reviewed biographies as well as related audio and video on American authors of “works in which oceans, large rivers, or expansive lakes are critical to the story.”

It also contains a link to a “Searchable Sea Literature Google Books Library,” under construction.

http://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/


Searchable Sea Literature
sites.williams.edu
Welcome to Searchable Sea Literature, which is devoted to works by American authors, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. ‘Literature of the sea’ or ‘maritime literature’ is here loosely defined as works in which oceans, large rivers, or expansive lakes are critical to the story. This l…

Site contains peer-reviewed biographies as well as related audio and video on American authors of “works in which oceans, large rivers, or expansive lakes are critical to the story.”

It also contains a link to a “Searchable Sea Literature Google Books Library,” under construction.

http://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/

Website of the Week (WoW) #191: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

Website of the Week (WoW) #191: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

Website includes bibliographies of writings by and about Emerson and links to digital texts.

http://emerson.tamu.edu/digital-texts


Digital Texts | The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
emerson.tamu.edu
Various interpretive sites are available: Eugene Irey’s concordance to the 1903-1904 Centenary Edition of Emerson’s Works is available at the Concord Free Public Library page. The concordance to The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson is found on our legacy site: here. The textual notes to The Lat…

Website includes bibliographies of writings by and about Emerson and links to digital texts.

http://emerson.tamu.edu/digital-texts


Digital Texts | The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
emerson.tamu.edu
Various interpretive sites are available: Eugene Irey’s concordance to the 1903-1904 Centenary Edition of Emerson’s Works is available at the Concord Free Public Library page. The concordance to The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson is found on our legacy site: here. The textual notes to The Lat…

Website of the Week (WoW) #190: Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring Indigenous Landscapes

Website of the Week (WoW) #190: Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring Indigenous Landscapes of National and International Significance

Australian digital history project adopts “innovative models for multi-vocal Indigenous and landscape-focused histories” in order to “render some of the deeper layers of Australia’s history more accessible to the public.”

http://www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au/


Home – Deepening Histories of Place Project – ANU
www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au
The Deepening Histories of Place ARC Linkage Project, Julia Torpey and Karen Maber officially launched ‘At the Heart of It … Place stories across Darug and Gundungurra Lands: A Downloadable History’ on Saturday 9 November.

Website of the Week (WoW) #190: Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring Indigenous Landscapes of National and International Significance

Australian digital history project adopts “innovative models for multi-vocal Indigenous and landscape-focused histories” in order to “render some of the deeper layers of Australia’s history more accessible to the public.”

http://www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au/


Home – Deepening Histories of Place Project – ANU
www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au
The Deepening Histories of Place ARC Linkage Project, Julia Torpey and Karen Maber officially launched ‘At the Heart of It … Place stories across Darug and Gundungurra Lands: A Downloadable History’ on Saturday 9 November.

Website of the Week (WoW) #189: CormacMcCarthy.com

Website of the Week (WoW) #189: CormacMcCarthy.com

The official Web site of the Cormac McCarthy Society includes a biography, synopses, a link to the Cormac McCarthy Journal, links to bibliographies in several languages, several forums, and other resources.

http://www.cormacmccarthy.com/


CormacMcCarthy.com | The Official Web Site of the Cormac McCarthy Society
www.cormacmccarthy.com
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Cormac McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. To celebrate this milestone, The Cormac McCarthy Society and the Department of English at The University of Memphis will co-sponsor a conference devoted to McCarthy’s work.

The official Web site of the Cormac McCarthy Society includes a biography, synopses, a link to the Cormac McCarthy Journal, links to bibliographies in several languages, several forums, and other resources.

http://www.cormacmccarthy.com/

Website of the Week (WoW) #188: BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History

Website of the Week (WoW) #188: BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History

Short articles, written and reviewed by scholars, covering a variety of topics related to Britain and its colonies during the 19th century.

http://www.branchcollective.org/


BRANCH
www.branchcollective.org
This site, which is intertwined with Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, provides users with a free, expansive, searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925. Unlike dry chronologies that simply list dates with minimal information about the many…

Short articles, written and reviewed by scholars, covering a variety of topics related to Britain and its colonies during the 19th century.

http://www.branchcollective.org/

Video Tutorial: Limiting Searches by Publication Date in MLA Int’l Bibliography from Cengage

Video Tutorial: How to Limit Searches by Publication Date in the Gale-hosted version of the MLA International Bibliography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyms0GYvl3A&feature=youtu.be

Demonstrates how to limit searches by publication date in the Cengage/Gale-hosted version of the MLA International Bibliography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyms0GYvl3A&feature=youtu.be

Website of the Week (WoW) #187: Wives, Widows and Wimples

Website of the Week (WoW) #187: Wives, Widows and Wimples: Women in the University of Nottingham’s Medieval Collections.

Using materials drawn from the University’s medieval collection, the site explores various aspects of women’s lives in medieval times, providing images, transcripts, translations, and contextual information.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/learning/medievalwomen/introduction.aspx

Website of the Week (WoW) #187: Wives, Widows and Wimples: Women in the University of Nottingham’s Medieval Collections.

Using materials drawn from the University’s medieval collection, the site explores various aspects of women’s lives in medieval times, providing images, transcripts, translations, and contextual information.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/learning/medievalwomen/introduction.aspx