The results of the MLA’s latest census of language course enrollments in colleges and universities in the United States are now available in a preliminary report on the MLA Web site. According to Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Summer 2016 and Fall 2016: Preliminary Report, aggregated fall… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2018
Apply for an MLA Bibliography Fellowship by 1 April
The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit citations and indexing information for inclusion in the bibliography. Open to scholars of any level of seniority who are MLA members, the 2018 fellowships will run from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2021. The MLA provides materials and… Read more »
MLA Bibliography Expands Its Online Course Offerings
In January 2018, the MLA International Bibliography launches four new subject area modules to accompany its online course Understanding the MLA International Bibliography. Each module will focus on searching the bibliography for scholarly publications in one of four disciplines: folklore, linguistics, film (including television, video, and other broadcast media), and rhetoric and composition. Students who… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on Teaching the Works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, edited by Pedro Meira Monteiro and Hélio de Seixas Guimarães, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught these works are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their… Read more »
Competing for 2018 Publication Prizes
The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s 2018 publication awards. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize and the MLA Prize for a First Book, which have a 1 March deadline, eleven annual and fourteen biennial MLA prizes honor outstanding work in languages, literatures, interdisciplinary… Read more »