MLA members are invited to suggest candidates to serve as editor of PMLA. The term of the current editor, Simon Gikandi, ends in June 2016. The Executive Council subcommittee leading the search is seeking candidates who possess A wide range of intellectual interests, including a commitment to a variety of scholarly approaches and an understanding… Read more »
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Virginia Reverses Course on Public Disclosure Requirements for Department Chairs
In December the MLA sent a letter to Terry McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia, to express concern about an executive order requiring certain faculty members at state universities to make public detailed statements of their economic interests. The MLA Executive Council affirmed the importance of public disclosure for “employees with independent budgetary and policy-making authority”… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Volume on Teaching Unamuno
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, edited by Luis Alvarez-Castro, 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 an essay is available… Read more »
Nominations for Prize Committees
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 15 April by sending a message to awards@mla.org. The following information should be included: name of the committee, name of… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Approaches to Teaching Volume
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Federico García Lorca, edited by José I. Badenes and Cecelia J. Cavanaugh, 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… Read more »
Participate in an MLA Survey about the Use of Trigger Warnings
The MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWP) seeks feedback from MLA members on the use of trigger warnings—written warnings that alert students that material assigned in a course might be upsetting or offensive—at their institutions. Please take a brief survey, which is intended to gather information on broad trends in the… Read more »
Propose an Essay on Teaching the Harlem Renaissance
The volume Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Venetria K. Patton, 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 editor by 1 August 2015.
The Chainbearer; or, The Littlepage Manuscripts Awarded CSE Seal
On 11 March 2015, the Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) awarded the CSE seal to The Chainbearer; or, The Littlepage Manuscripts, by James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Lance Schachterle and James P. Elliott. The volume will be published by AMS Press. The CSE serves as a clearinghouse for information about scholarly editing and editorial projects,… Read more »
Competitions Still Open for 2015 Publication Prizes
The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s publication awards. In addition to the MLA Prize for a First Book and the Lois Roth Award for a translation of a literary work, which have a 1 April deadline, there are seven annual and fifteen biennial MLA prizes… Read more »
PMLA Special Topic: Cultures of Reading
Literary studies has a long-standing commitment to ideals of close and critical reading. As the scope of our discipline has broadened, however, so has our conception of what reading entails. A new readiness to explore the physical, temporal, and spatial modalities of reading has led scholars to scrutinize the material conditions of this activity at… Read more »