Posts Categorized: Feature

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.

Congratulations to the six MLA members who were awarded 2024 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships! In a statement about this year’s fellows, Edward Hirsch, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, described the fellowship as “a life-changing recognition” that enables awardees to pursue groundbreaking independent projects.  Bruno Bosteels, Columbia UniversityField of Study: Literary Criticism Marta… Read more »

The MLA is deeply saddened by the passing of the writer, teacher, reviewer, and critic Helen Vendler, who died on 23 April 2024 at her home in Laguna Niguel, California. Considered by many to be a titan of modern poetry criticism, Vendler’s analysis and reviews influenced the views of generations of readers, publishers, and scholars…. Read more »

Congratulations to the four MLA members who have been awarded 2024 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowships. ACLS fellowships support untenured early-career scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they complete a major scholarly project.

The Modern Language Association congratulates the seven MLA members who were named 2024 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to literature and language studies.

The MLA is joining more than 200 of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders to participate in a US Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI. Established by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on 8 February 2024, the US AI… Read more »

The MLA today announced it is awarding the association’s inaugural Pathways Step Grants to nineteen faculty teams in MLA-related disciplines. Each step grant provides up to $10,000 to support faculty members with the development of new structures, programs, and resources that bolster the recruitment, retention, and career readiness of undergraduate students, especially students of color,… Read more »

The MLA is deeply saddened by the passing of the literary critic, poetry scholar, and teacher Marjorie Perloff, who died on 24 March 2024 in her home in Pacific Palisades, California. Born in 1931 into a Jewish family in Vienna, Perloff and her family fled Vienna in 1938 and settled in the United States. Perloff… Read more »