The seventh Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities will be presented to Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, cofounders of Cave Canem, at the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle. MLA President Simon Gikandi will present the award during the MLA Awards Ceremony on 11 January 2020 in recognition of Cave Canem, a national… Read more »
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Contribute to a New MLA Volume on English Departments outside the Anglosphere
You are invited to submit essay proposals for a new nonseries volume in development, The Global English Department, edited by Ashley Squires and Myles Chilton. This volume will explore the structure and role of English departments outside the Anglosphere and will address issues such as identity, disciplinarity, curricula, and pedagogy. Proposals must be submitted to… Read more »
Contribute to New MLA Volumes
You are invited to submit essay proposals for a new nonseries volume in development on “lost and found” texts in composition and rhetoric, to be edited by Deborah H. Holdstein. Essays will identify valuable works of scholarship that have been ignored, elided, or forgotten and will discuss the value of making these texts present and… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet
The volume Approaches to Teaching Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, edited by Paulo de Medeiros and Jerónimo Pizarro, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught this work are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences. Information about proposing an… Read more »
Major Changes in the MLA’s Resolution Process
The recent ratification of constitutional amendments affecting the association’s resolution process has brought the following major changes, which are intended to increase the effectiveness of resolutions as tools for public advocacy and to provide additional opportunities for member input: the submission deadline is now 1 September, one hundred supporting signatures from current members are required… Read more »
Important News about the MLA Job List
Changes are coming to MLA Job Information List (soon to be the MLA Job List) this summer. We’re working to make a new, streamlined site that will make it easier for job seekers to find jobs and for employers to post jobs. The new site will also feature a wider range of jobs, to reflect… Read more »
New Report Documents Trends in Language Study
The MLA has just released its full report on language course enrollments in colleges and universities in the United States. Based on a comprehensive census of 2,547 institutions, Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Summer 2016 and Fall 2016: Final Report documents changes in enrollments in the fifteen most-studied… Read more »
Results of 2019 Ratification Vote
Voting on the 2019 ratification ballot concluded at midnight (EDT) on 15 May. Members ratified the election of César Aira; Tahar ben Jelloun; Samuel R. Delany, Jr.; Gish Jen; Elias Khoury; Claudia Rankine; and J. K. Rowling to honorary fellowship in the association. Support for the candidates ranged from 84% to 97% of the members… Read more »
MLA Members Receive 2019 NEH Grants
Congratulations to the eleven MLA members who are among the winners of National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in March 2019. Their projects include preservation efforts for Chuquisaca Quechua, an indigenous and endangered language; a project to restructure the Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive; development of an interdisciplinary course on the Middle East and North… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Games and Games Studies
The volume Teaching Games and Games Studies in the Literature Classroom, edited by Tison Pugh and Lynn Ramey, 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 Web site. Abstracts and CVs are due to the editors by… Read more »