The deadline to submit your work for the inaugural Matei Calinescu Prize for studies on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and thought and the Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work is 1 April. The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for these prizes as well as twenty-three… Read more »
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Nominations Invited for the Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities
The MLA welcomes nominations for the Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities. Created in recognition of Phyllis Franklin’s service to the humanities as executive director of the MLA, the award honors a person who has fostered public support for the humanities through speaking, writing, policy making, or other activities. The award is… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume
The volumes Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Persuasion, edited by Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire, and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy, edited by Stacey Peebles and Benjamin West, are now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching series. Instructors who have taught these works are encouraged to contribute to the volumes… Read more »
Nominations for Prize Committees
Would you like to help choose the winners of the MLA’s publications prizes? 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 29 February by sending a message to awards@mla.org…. Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century
The volume Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Elizabeth C. Martínez, 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 editors by 15 May… Read more »
Competing for 2016 Publication Prizes
The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s 2016 publication awards. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize and the MLA Prize for a First Book, which have a 1 March deadline, seven annual and sixteen biennial MLA prizes honor outstanding work in languages, literatures, interdisciplinary… Read more »
Participate in the open peer review of Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities
At this year’s MLA convention in Austin, the editors of Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, demonstrated the project’s innovative platform to an enthusiastic crowd. Now, they invite you to continue the conversation by participating in the open peer-review process of… Read more »
Call for Papers for Joint ADE and ADFL Bulletins
We invite papers for a special joint issue of the ADE and ADFL bulletins on literary studies and globalization. We are especially interested in papers that address institutional structures separating faculties and departments of English from those of foreign languages and literatures, as well as reflections on and models for how these departments might collaborate…. Read more »
Delegate Assembly Update
At its meeting on 9 January in Austin, the MLA Delegate Assembly conducted elections for the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee, the Executive Council, the Nominating Committee, and the Elections Committee. The assembly approved a motion to dedicate one slot on the MLA Executive Council to a part-time faculty member. The assembly also took up several… Read more »
Make Your Executive Committee Suggestions Now
This year’s elections may be over, but there is still time for members to make suggestions for the executive committee elections to be held in 2016. Serving on an executive committee is an excellent way for members to become more involved in association activities, to create exciting programming for the annual convention, and to work… Read more »