If you’re planning a session for the 2016 MLA Annual Convention in Austin, to be held 7–10 January, please visit the MLA Web site to access forms for submitting program copy and for proposing sessions. The deadline for all forms is 1 April. Special-session proposals and nonguaranteed-session proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee at… Read more »
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Competitions Still Open for 2015 Publication Prizes
The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s publication awards. In addition to the MLA Prize for a First Book and the Lois Roth Award for a translation of a literary work, which have a 1 April deadline, there are seven annual and fifteen biennial MLA prizes… Read more »
PMLA Special Topic: Cultures of Reading
Literary studies has a long-standing commitment to ideals of close and critical reading. As the scope of our discipline has broadened, however, so has our conception of what reading entails. A new readiness to explore the physical, temporal, and spatial modalities of reading has led scholars to scrutinize the material conditions of this activity at… Read more »
A Welcome from Incoming President Roland Greene
In a new post on the From the President blog, Roland Greene, 2015–16 MLA president, discusses where the MLA is today and where it’s going. If you’re new to the association or want to catch up on some of its recent initiatives, we encourage you to visit the blog to learn more about the MLA’s work and resources…. Read more »
Allies Pledge to Act in Support of Adjuncts
Tenure-line faculty pledge to take action to improve adjunct working conditions on MLA’s Action for Allies site.
Quotes tweeted by MLA Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal.
Propose an Essay on Teaching Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s Writing
The volume Teaching Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s Writing, edited by Amy Dooling, 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 editor by 30 May 2015.
MLA Launches Action for Allies Campaign
The MLA Executive Council and the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession have launched a new site, MLA Action for Allies, where you can show your support for adjunct faculty members and find resources for starting discussions in your department about the use of contingent faculty. We call on all faculty members and administrators to participate in… Read more »
Spring Newsletter Available Online
The Spring issue of the MLA Newsletter is now available online. Included in this issue are articles on the results of the 2014 elections and the winners of MLA prizes, a president’s column on the MLA as a scholarly association and an advocacy association, and an editor’s column about tracking the career paths of recent… Read more »
New Office of Information Systems
The MLA is pleased to announce the creation of the office of information systems. This new office is composed of the former information technology and production departments and will work to strengthen electronic projects now under way and to help develop projects that the association envisions for the future. Joining the MLA to lead the… Read more »
New Report on Language Enrollments Now Available
The results of a comprehensive MLA survey of language course enrollments in United States colleges and universities are now available on the MLA Web site. According to Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2013, while aggregate enrollments in languages other than English have decreased since the MLA’s… Read more »