The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s publication awards. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize, which has a 1 March deadline, there are seven annual and sixteen biennial MLA prizes that honor outstanding work in languages, literatures, and interdisciplinary studies and in specific genres… Read more »
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Propose an Essay on Teaching the History of the English Language
The volume Teaching the History of the English Language, edited by Colette Moore and Chris C. Palmer, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and how to propose an essay, please visit the MLA Web site. Abstracts and CVs are due to the editors by… Read more »
Submit a Call for Papers for the 2016 Convention
Are you planning a session for the 2016 MLA Annual Convention? You can now submit calls for papers for the Austin convention (7–10 January 2016). In anticipation of the new forum structure, due to be implemented for the 2016 convention, divisions and discussion groups appear in the calls for papers as “forums.” (A complete list… Read more »
MLA Membership Survey Winners
Thanks to all who participated in the MLA’s recent membership survey. The MLA congratulates the following MLA members who took the survey and were randomly chosen as winners of $100 gift cards: Vincent Casaregola, Stephen Cohen, Giuseppe Faustini, Esther Leysorek Goodman, Ursula K. Heise, Melissa Lingle-Martin, Jaime Armin Mejia, Nichole E. Miller, Leslie Zarker Morgan,… Read more »
Precariat Panel Features MLA Executive Director
Rosemary G. Feal, the executive director of the MLA, joined Barbara Ehrenreich, Andrew Ross, and Jennie Shanker in Washington, DC, on 14 January on the panel The Emergence of the “Precariat”: What Does the Loss of Stable, Well-Compensated Employment Mean for Education? Sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute and the American Federation of Teachers, the… Read more »
A Thank-You to 2015 Convention Attendees
Thanks to all of you who attended the Vancouver convention and made it such a success. We encourage you to continue the conversation by posting and discussing presentation materials on MLA Commons (either in our convention-presentations thread or on a session-specific Commons site), by annotating the Program with links to those materials, and by taking the session surveys available… Read more »
Learn More about Using MLA Commons
Ever wondered how you might be able to use MLA Commons, the association’s social networking and collaboration platform? At this year’s convention, MLA members will showcase how they have used the Commons for everything from presession publicity to postconvention conversation, activism to peer review. Join us on Saturday, 10 January, at MLA PubCentral (Vancouver Convention Centre, Prefunction level 1,… Read more »
Join the MLA Executive Director in Discussion of the “Precariat”
Rosemary G. Feal, the executive director of the MLA, will join Barbara Ehrenreich, Andrew Ross, and Jennie Shanker in Washington, DC, on 14 January on the panel The Emergence of the “Precariat”: What Does the Loss of Stable, Well-Compensated Employment Mean for Education? The panel, sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute and the American Federation… Read more »
Transition to New Forum Structure
At the 2015 convention, the Delegate Assembly will consider proposed constitutional amendments to change references to “divisions and discussion groups” to “forums” in the MLA constitution to accommodate the new forum structure. If the assembly approves the amendments, the membership will then be asked to vote on them in the spring. While these changes are… Read more »
Provide Feedback on Sessions in Vancouver
If you’re attending the convention, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to answer a three-question survey about the sessions you go to. To complete the survey, view any session page in the online Program and click the Session Survey button. Surveys will be available beginning on Thursday, 8 January. Your feedback will help us… Read more »