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The Modern Language Association congratulates the six MLA members who were named 2019 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to literary criticism and literature. Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University Harry J. Elam, Jr., Stanford University Jacques Neefs, Johns Hopkins University, MD Mary Louise… Read more »

Congratulations to the eleven MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2019. The projects recognized include a deep history of cybernetics, an exploration of United States history through the prism of the high school canon, the temporalities of ice in an epoch of climate change, and Japanese culture… Read more »

The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s publication awards. There are eleven prizes with a 1 May deadline, and one prize has a 1 June deadline. Information on all the annual and biennial MLA prizes, their deadlines, and the submission process is available online. You may also request detailed information on… Read more »

The volume Approaches to Teaching Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, edited by Kimberly C. Reed, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Lit­erature series. Instructors who have taught these works are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences…. Read more »

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Epic of Gilgamesh, edited by David Damrosch and Sophus Helle, 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 essay is… Read more »

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Sonnet, edited by Joshua Reid, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught the sonnet are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences. Information about proposing an essay is available at the end of… Read more »

You are invited to submit essay proposals for two new Options for Teaching volumes in development: Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, edited by Gloria E. Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez, and Teaching Comic Texts, edited by Bev Hogue.

The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s publication awards. The James Russell Lowell Prize and the MLA Prize for a First Book have a 1 March deadline, and there are three prizes with a 1 April deadline. Information on all the annual and biennial MLA prizes, their deadlines,… Read more »

The volume Approaches to Teaching Dickinson’s Poetry, second edition, edited by Martha Nell Smith, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught these works are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences. Information about proposing an essay is available at… Read more »