The Modern Language Association congratulates the five MLA members who were named 2018 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to literary criticism and literature. Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago Bill Brown, University of Chicago Simon E. Gikandi, Princeton University Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California Diana… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2018
MLA Members Receive 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
The Modern Language Association congratulates the nine MLA members who were awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants in April 2018. Their various projects include an interdisciplinary undergraduate course on war led by student veterans and a study on the literary cultural connections between the Philippines and Latin America. Dialogues on the Experience of War… Read more »
MLA Receives Grant to Support Archiving Activities
The MLA has received grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources to support an ongoing project, The Hidden History of Modern Language: Revitalizing the Archives of the Modern Language Association. The MLA will engage in a five-month project processing and cataloging the General Chronological Series, dramatically improving the… Read more »
We Want Your Recipes!
Have a delicious recipe with a literary tie-in? We’re seeking literary-themed recipes for the MLA’s first cookbook. Proceeds from the cookbook, which will be sold at the 2019 convention in Chicago, will support the MLA’s advocacy and professional development programs. To submit your recipe, e-mail achang@mla.org by 15 May. We welcome recipes for appetizers, main and side… Read more »
MLA Members Receive 2018 Guggenheim Award
Congratulations to the six MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2018. The projects recognized include a study of structural ontology, early-nineteenth-century female literary celebrities, the social upheaval and transformation in early-twentieth-century emergent black ghettos, medieval text technologies, and English translations of two Argentine novels. Fellowships Esther Allen,… Read more »