Rosemary G. Feal, the executive director of the Modern Language Association since summer 2002, has informed the Executive Council that she plans to step down when her third five-year term concludes in summer 2017. The Executive Council will appoint a search committee for Feal’s successor at its February 2016 meeting and aims to have a… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Nominations Invited for the Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities
The MLA welcomes nominations for the Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities. Created in recognition of Phyllis Franklin’s service to the humanities as executive director of the MLA, the award honors a person who has fostered public support for the humanities through speaking, writing, policy making, or other activities. The award is… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume
The volumes Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Persuasion, edited by Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire, and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy, edited by Stacey Peebles and Benjamin West, are now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching series. Instructors who have taught these works are encouraged to contribute to the volumes… Read more »
Nominations for Prize Committees
Would you like to help choose the winners of the MLA’s publications prizes? The Committee on Honors and Awards makes appointments to the prize selection committees every spring. Members who would like to suggest themselves or other members for appointment to particular prize committees may do so by 29 February by sending a message to awards@mla.org…. Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century
The volume Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Elizabeth C. Martínez, 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 15 May… Read more »