Among this year’s National Humanities Center Fellows are three members of the Modern Language Association. Each fellow will work on individual research and benefit from the center’s seminars, lectures, and resources. The MLA commends them for their contribution to humanistic scholarship. Hurford Family Fellowship Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas, Austin Field of study: English language… Read more »
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Contribute to a New MLA Volume
You are invited to submit essay proposals for a new nonseries volume in development, Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition, edited by Christiane Donahue and Bruce Horner. Proposals must be submitted to the editors by 31 December 2018. You are also invited to submit essay proposals for a new volume in development in the Options for… Read more »
National Humanities Alliance Webinar: How to Build Relationships with Members of Congress
On 15 November at 3:30 p.m. EST, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) is hosting a Between Two Bookshelves Webinar on how to build strong relationships with members of the new Congress. Among the panelists will be Leigh Whittaker, legislative assistant to Representative David Price (D-NC), and Kristen Adams, associate director of federal relations at Cornell… Read more »
MLA Members Awarded ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships
The Modern Language Association congratulates the four MLA members who were awarded American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowships in 2018. Their various projects include a coauthored book on Transylvania’s geopolitics and a Web site and art exhibition on how power and privilege influence data science and visualization. Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St…. Read more »
Herbert Lindenberger, Former President of the MLA, 1929–2018
The MLA is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Herbert Lindenberger, who served as president of the MLA in 1997. An accomplished teacher and scholar, Lindenberger published on a variety of topics, including historical drama, opera, critical theory, aesthetics, and the Holocaust. Before founding Stanford University’s comparative literature program in 1969, he taught at… Read more »
Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Earlier this year, the Executive Council forwarded a proposal for constitutional amendments to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution. The amendments clarify the scope and force of resolutions and motions and make changes to the association’s resolutions process. The next step in the amendment process is for the Delegate Assembly to consider the proposed… Read more »
Travel Grants for the 2019 MLA Convention
The MLA offers $400 grants to help cover expenses for travel to the MLA convention, which will be held in Chicago from 3 to 6 January 2019. Non-tenure-track members, unemployed members, and members living abroad who were members during the previous year may apply for financial assistance. Graduate students who join the MLA by 30 November… Read more »
Free Dossier Account Available through the JIL and Interfolio
Job seekers can now create a free Interfolio Dossier account and apply for positions directly from advertisements in the MLA Job Information List (JIL). You can send application materials, including writing samples and letters of recommendation, through your Dossier account, at no cost to advertisers who use the Interfolio Faculty Search management platform. MLA members can activate their free Dossier account by… Read more »
Deadline for Submitting Delegate Assembly Proposals
Motions and regular resolutions that the Delegate Assembly will consider at its next meeting, which will take place during the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, must be submitted by 1 October of this year. The assembly’s Web page provides information about placing an item on the agenda for the meeting as well as links to… Read more »
Contribute to a New MLA Volume
You are invited to submit essay proposals for a new nonseries volume in development, Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons, edited by Sheila Smith McKoy and Patrick Elliot Alexander. The essays in this volume seek to examine the teaching practices that animate literary learning communities in contemporary prisons in the United States. The editors invite… Read more »