This month we launch a special collection of self-learning online tutorials exploring critical pedagogies in Modern Languages. Paul Spence, who co-edited the collection with Renata Brandao, explains how the collection came about and what it aims to achieve. The research was carried out as part of the Language Acts and Worldmaking project, funded by the … Continue reading
Introducing Digital Modern Languages: Critical Digital Pedagogies in Modern Languages – a Tutorial Collection
Modern Languages Open, a fully open access platform, is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Collection edited by Paul Spence (King's College London) and Renata Brandao (King's College London) in the new Digital Modern Languages section. ‘Critical Digital Pedagogies in Modern Languages - a Tutorial Collection’ is an edited collection of online tutorials … Continue reading
Gendered Ecologies – In Conversation with Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy
From Clemson University Press, Gendered Ecologies considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects as part of the environment, and features observations by women writers as recorded in nature diaries, poetry, bildungsroman, sensational fiction, philosophical fiction, and folklore. We spoke to editors Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy to … Continue reading
Modern Languages Open launches new Special Collection, The Global Crisis in Memory
Modern Languages Open, a fully Open Access platform, is pleased to announce the launch of its newest collection, The global crisis in memory: populism, decolonisation and how we remember in the twenty-first century. Guest edited by Eva Spišiaková, Charles Forsdick, and James Mark, the special collection looks at populism, decolonisation and how we remember in … Continue reading
The Coronavirus Pandemic, Science Fiction, and the Contingent Nature of Roads
In this blog post Jeremy Withers, author of Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles, considers the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our urban environments, in relation to science fiction’s frequent focus on futuristic and post-apocalyptic settings The coronavirus pandemic shattered our world. This first wave of this crisis led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, staggering … Continue reading
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