Would you like to help choose the winner of an MLA publication prize? The Committee on Honors and Awards makes appointments to the prize selection committees every spring. Members who would like to suggest themselves or other members for appointment to particular prize committees may do so by 28 February by sending a message to awards@mla.org…. 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, Reframing Nineteenth-Century American Rhetorics, edited by Patricia Bizzell and Lisa Zimmerelli. The essays in this volume will reflect recent scholarship on the rhetorics of nineteenth-century America that has challenged and reconceptualized previous assumptions and analyses, extending rhetorical analysis into new venues… Read more »
MLA Members Receive 2017 NEH Awards
Congratulations to the twenty-two MLA members among the winners of National Endowment for the Humanities awards announced in December 2017. The projects recognized include a study of collaborative authorship in early African American and Native American literature, the revitalization of a database on eighteenth-century theater and popular culture in London, an oral history program for… Read more »
Honoring MLA Bibliography Fellows
The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2017 Fellowship Award recipients: Joshua E. Finnell, head of research and instruction, associate professor, Colgate University Marla Harris, independent scholar Michael F. Winter, humanities librarian, University of California, Davis The fellows, who have contributed to the bibliography from 2014 to 2017, will be awarded a certificate of accomplishment and a check… Read more »
Suggesting Members for Committee Appointments
In February 2018 the Executive Council will make appointments to sixteen standing committees of the association. These committees and the outgoing committee members will be listed on the committee suggestion page through 7 February, the deadline for making a suggestion. To suggest yourself or another member of the association for a committee, respond to the three… Read more »
Help Feed Students Affected by Hurricane Maria
If you want to help students in Puerto Rico who have been affected by the recent hurricane, Ricia Chansky, an MLA member, encourages you to send food donations to Come Colegial, a group feeding over 1,100 students at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. Come Colegial welcomes donations of all nonperishable food items, including rice,… Read more »
Travel Grants for the 2018 MLA Convention
The MLA offers $400 grants to help cover expenses for travel to the MLA convention, which will be held in New York from 4 to 7 January 2018. Non-tenure-track and unemployed members, as well as members living abroad who were members during the previous year may apply for financial assistance. Graduate students who join the MLA… 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 2018 MLA Annual Convention in New York, 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… Read more »
Nominations for the 2018 Forum Executive Committee Elections
When the executive committees of the MLA’s forums meet during the January 2018 convention in New York, they will take up the matter of nominations for the executive committee elections that will be held in fall 2018. Though the executive committees are responsible for making nominations, each committee is required to nominate at least one… Read more »
Membership Suggestions for 2018 Forum Delegate Elections
Representatives of the MLA’s forums in the Delegate Assembly are now elected by the members who have primary affiliations with the forums that have open seats to fill. Fifty-three forums will hold delegate elections in the fall of 2018; the executive committees of these forums will take up the matter of nominations when they meet… Read more »