Monthly Archives: March 2024

Marjorie Perloff, Former President of the MLA, 1931–2024

Posted by Anna Chang & filed under Feature, MLA in the News.

The MLA is deeply saddened by the passing of the literary critic, poetry scholar, and teacher Marjorie Perloff, who died on 24 March 2024 in her home in Pacific Palisades, California. Born in 1931 into a Jewish family in Vienna, Perloff and her family fled Vienna in 1938 and settled in the United States. Perloff… Read more »