Recently, information was released concerning a vulnerability in OpenSSL, software that secures traffic between computers on the Web. As soon as we heard about this vulnerability, known as “Heartbleed,” we took action to assess and patch MLA systems. The servers that power mla.org, ade.org, and adfl.org use an older version of OpenSSL that is not… Read more »
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Upcoming MLA Prize Competitions
The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s publication awards. There are eleven awards with a 1 May deadline, including the MLA Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project and the MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. Information on all of the MLA… Read more »
Two Volumes in Development on MLA Commons
The MLA’s office of scholarly communication is exploring a new mode of book development using the MLA Commons platform and is excited to announce two new volumes in progress: Teaching Modern British and American Satire, edited by Evan Davis and Nicholas D. Nace, is in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. Visit the group Teaching Modern British and American… Read more »
Grant Awarded for the Development of Humanities CORE
The MLA and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship are pleased to announce that they have been awarded a $60,000 start-up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin development of Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange, or Humanities CORE. Humanities CORE will connect a library-quality repository for sharing, discovering,… Read more »
Encourage Your Representatives to Support the Humanities
The National Humanities Alliance asks MLA members to encourage their representatives in Congress to sign letters to preserve funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). By signing House and Senate “Dear Colleague” letters, your representatives can demonstrate their support for the NEH to congressional appropriations committees. The deadline for representatives to sign the… Read more »
Propose an Essay on Teaching Representations of the French Revolution
The volume Teaching Representations of the French Revolution, edited by Julia Douthwaite, Catriona Seth, and Antoinette Sol, 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… Read more »
PMLA Special Topic: Literature in the World
MLA members are invited to submit essays on literature in a diverse and multilingual world for a special issue of PMLA. The issue will seek to provide a critical reflection on the diversity of both dominant and less-taught languages and of their spheres of use, to engage with the vernacular and the indigenous as critical… Read more »
Contribute to an MLA Approaches to Teaching Volume
The volumes Approaches to Teaching the Works of David Foster Wallace, edited by Stephen J. Burn and Mary K. Holland; Approaches to Teaching Emerson’s Essays and Other Works, edited by Mark C. Long and Sean Ross Meehan; and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger, are… Read more »
The Digital Ælfric Awarded CSE Seal
On 3 March 2014, the Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) awarded the CSE seal to The Digital Ælfric, edited by Aaron Kleist. The volume will be published by Scholarly Digital Editions, Boydell and Brewer. The CSE serves as a clearinghouse for information about scholarly editing and editorial projects, offers advice and consultation to editors on… Read more »
MLA Partnership with Digital Humanities Summer Institute
The MLA is pleased to announce that it will cosponsor the 2014 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), which will be held 2–6 June at the University of Victoria. DHSI will offer twenty-eight courses and will include a five-day training workshop, morning colloquiums, lunchtime “unconferences,” birds-of-a-feather sessions, and keynote lectures by Aimée Morrison (Univ. of Waterloo), Alex Gil (Columbia Univ.),… Read more »