The MLA would like to congratulate the five MLA members who were named 2024–25 National Humanities Center fellows. Fellows will pursue independent research projects as residential scholars at the Center, where they will have the opportunity to further develop their ideas through seminars, lectures, and conferences.
- Mark Cruse, Arizona State University, Tempe
Field of Study: Medieval Studies
Project Title: From Alexander the Great to Tamerlane: World Dominion in the Medieval French Imagination - Isabel C. Gómez, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Field of Study: Languages and Literature
Project Title: Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual Repair - Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
Field of Study: Languages and Literature
Project Title: Enslaved Childhoods: Survival and Storytelling in the Atlantic World - Sarah M. Quesada, Duke University
Field of Study: Languages and Literature
Project Title: The Untold South-South: Greater Mexico, African Decolonization, and Latin-African Solidarity (1956–2008) - David J. Vázquez, American University
Field of Study: Latinx Studies
Project Title: Days of Futures Past: Latinx Science Fiction and Speculative Futurity