Final adoption of the constitutional amendments and the resolution approved by the Delegate Assembly at its January 2018 meeting depends on the vote of the membership. The online ratification ballot will be available at the MLA Web site only until the end of the month. All members in good standing as of 17 April who were… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Member Resources and Links
Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on Teaching Homer’s Odyssey
The volume Approaches to Teaching Homer’s Odyssey, edited by Lillian E. Doherty, 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 available at the end… Read more »
MLA Members Named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Modern Language Association congratulates the five MLA members who were named 2018 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to literary criticism and literature. Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago Bill Brown, University of Chicago Simon E. Gikandi, Princeton University Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California Diana… Read more »
MLA Members Receive 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
The Modern Language Association congratulates the nine MLA members who were awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants in April 2018. Their various projects include an interdisciplinary undergraduate course on war led by student veterans and a study on the literary cultural connections between the Philippines and Latin America. Dialogues on the Experience of War… Read more »
MLA Receives Grant to Support Archiving Activities
The MLA has received grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources to support an ongoing project, The Hidden History of Modern Language: Revitalizing the Archives of the Modern Language Association. The MLA will engage in a five-month project processing and cataloging the General Chronological Series, dramatically improving the… Read more »
We Want Your Recipes!
Have a delicious recipe with a literary tie-in? We’re seeking literary-themed recipes for the MLA’s first cookbook. Proceeds from the cookbook, which will be sold at the 2019 convention in Chicago, will support the MLA’s advocacy and professional development programs. To submit your recipe, e-mail achang@mla.org by 15 May. We welcome recipes for appetizers, main and side… Read more »
MLA Members Receive 2018 Guggenheim Award
Congratulations to the six MLA members among the winners of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships announced in April 2018. The projects recognized include a study of structural ontology, early-nineteenth-century female literary celebrities, the social upheaval and transformation in early-twentieth-century emergent black ghettos, medieval text technologies, and English translations of two Argentine novels. Fellowships Esther Allen,… Read more »
Apply for an MLA Bibliography Fellowship by 1 April
The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit citations and indexing information for inclusion in the bibliography. Open to scholars of any level of seniority who are MLA members, the 2018 fellowships will run from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2021. The MLA provides materials and… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on Teaching the Works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, edited by Pedro Meira Monteiro and Hélio de Seixas Guimarães, 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… Read more »
Competing for 2018 Publication Prizes
The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s 2018 publication awards. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize and the MLA Prize for a First Book, which have a 1 March deadline, eleven annual and fourteen biennial MLA prizes honor outstanding work in languages, literatures, interdisciplinary… Read more »