Anne Gere, the 2018–19 president of the MLA, has chosen Textual Transactions as the presidential theme for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago. Textual transactions are the mutually constitutive engagements of human beings, texts, and their contexts. Transactions are more than mere interactions, in which separate entities act on one another without being changed at… Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Honoring MLA Bibliography Fellows
The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2017 Fellowship Award recipients: Joshua E. Finnell, head of research and instruction, associate professor, Colgate University Marla Harris, independent scholar Michael F. Winter, humanities librarian, University of California, Davis The fellows, who have contributed to the bibliography from 2014 to 2017, will be awarded a certificate of accomplishment and a check… Read more »
Help Shape Literary Studies in the Digital Age Anthology
A new draft essay has been selected for open review in Literary Studies in the Digital Age, the MLA’s first born-digital, publicly available anthology. The anthology’s editors invite you to comment on Jojo Karlin’s “Our Digital Literary Legacy: Producing and Preserving Digital Dissertations in English.” They may then ask the author to review the piece in… Read more »
Suggesting Members for Committee Appointments
In February 2018 the Executive Council will make appointments to sixteen standing committees of the association. These committees and the outgoing committee members will be listed on the committee suggestion page through 7 February, the deadline for making a suggestion. To suggest yourself or another member of the association for a committee, respond to the three… Read more »