This week, we’re spotlighting Ricardo L. Ortiz, a 36-year member of the MLA. Read about how Ricardo’s involvement with the Delegate Assembly, the ADE Executive Committee, and more have had an impact on his work:
“The MLA’s remarkable professional effectiveness, cultural adaptability, and institutional resilience over these nearly four decades have all impressed me. The organization neither ‘looks’ or ‘acts’ like it did when I first registered as a member in 1988; many of those changes measure meaningful and necessary progress over many areas of professional and intellectual practice; others reflect its responsiveness to a series of structural and historical impacts over a very tumultuous period of time; all the while, the organization has held steady to its core commitments to humanistic inquiry, academic freedom, and (always increasingly) democratic and equitable access.”
Recommended resource: “Over almost four decades, the MLA has been a central resource for me professionally: connecting me to colleagues in my field(s), providing multiple opportunities to share my scholarly work, recognizing that work with one (shared) publication award and one honorable mention, and offering countless opportunities for professional service in support of my field(s), the profession, and the organization itself.”