Congratulations to the five MLA members among those awarded 2021 American Council of Learned Societies fellowships, which support outstanding scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The projects recognized include a book about free verse as a racialized construction that created barriers for Black and Indigenous poets and critics and another about renowned authors who… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2021
MLA Members Receive 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships
Congratulations to the seven MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2021. The projects recognized include Eavesdropping: The Poetry of Blind Listening; migrant testimony, aesthetics, and resistance in the current European refugee crisis; and Islamic jurisprudence and culture in the crypto-Muslim communities of early modern Spain and Portugal…. Read more »
Propose an MLA Volume
The MLA book program is always eager to hear your ideas for books you would like to propose. We are especially interested in three areas at the moment: our series of MLA Guides, which are companions to the MLA Handbook. These short single-authored volumes are intended to support students in developing skills they need in… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume
The volume Teaching Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century United States Short Fiction, edited by Jeehyun Lim and John K. Young, 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 website. Please send abstracts and CVs to the editors by 15… Read more »