This month’s member spotlight features Brittney M. Edmonds, who has been an MLA member since 2019. Learn about Brittney’s experience with the MLA and how MLA resources have supported her work:
“I’ve benefited from many aspects of MLA as an organization, particularly its teaching-focused publications. One of my most recent experiences was writing an essay for [the forthcoming] Approaches to Teaching the Works of Colson Whitehead, edited by Stephanie Li. It was meaningful to contribute to a pedagogical resource for an author I’ve long admired and regularly teach. Because I’ve so often relied on the Approaches series in my own classrooms, contributing to it felt like a way of paying that resource both back and forward.”
Recommended resource: “The MLA annual meeting consistently creates space for real conversation, whether in panels, informal gatherings, or chance encounters. I keep coming back every year because it’s a place to exchange ideas, think collectively about our work, and learn from colleagues across institutions and subfields.
I always encourage members to take advantage of the MLA Bibliography. It may seem basic, but it’s consistently my first stop when I begin a new research project. Everything I’ve ever written has started there.”
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