The editors of Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, invite you to participate in the open peer-review process of the anthology’s second set of curated keywords by 18 January 2016. Each entry in the collection focuses on a keyword in the practice of digital pedagogy (ranging from “race” to… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Member Resources and Links
Suggesting Members for Committee Appointments
When the Executive Council meets in February 2016, it will make appointments to seventeen standing committees of the association. Through 8 February, these committees and the outgoing committee members will be listed on the committee suggestion page. To suggest yourself or another member of the association, respond to the three prompts on the suggestion page… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Jewish American Literature
The volume Teaching Jewish American Literature, edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein, 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 February 2016.
Speak Up for the Humanities on Capitol Hill
MLA members are invited to participate in the National Humanities Alliance’s Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day on 14–15 March 2016 in Washington, DC. Participants will have the opportunity to connect with other humanities advocates from around the country and to communicate the value of the humanities to members of Congress and to key congressional… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase
The volume Approaches to Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase, edited by Andrew Schonebaum, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. 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… Read more »
7 November 2016 Deadline for PMLA Special Topic
Interested members still have nearly a year to prepare submissions for Cultures of Reading, a special topic in a future issue of PMLA. The PMLA Editorial Board invites essays that explore reading as a plural activity and that consider readers and the social institutions of literacy in any period or cultural tradition. Potential contributors are encouraged to think about… Read more »
Help Lead an MLA Forum
Have you ever wondered how you could become more involved in association activities? Would you like to expand your field’s boundaries by creating exciting programming for the annual convention? How about furthering the development of MLA Commons as a tool for scholarly and professional collaboration? Service on a forum executive committee allows members to pursue… Read more »
MLA Participates in Campus Equity Week
As part of Campus Equity Week (26–30 October), the MLA, led by members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession (CCLIP), called on department chairs and deans to improve job security for non-tenure-track faculty members on their campuses. The CCLIP wrote to 5,700 administrators to make the case for multiyear contracts for all… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching James Fenimore Cooper
The volume Approaches to Teaching Cooper’s Leather-Stocking Tales and Other Works, edited by Stephen Carl Arch and Keat Murray, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught these works are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences. Information about proposing… Read more »
Submissions Invited for Literary Studies in the Digital Age
The editors of Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology (published by the MLA in 2013) invite your participation in expanding this collection and charting new directions in the field of digital literary studies. Please visit the call for papers to read instructions on submitting an essay, to comment on the present volume, and to make… Read more »