Posts Categorized: Member Resources and Links

The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information for citations in the bibliography. Open to all MLA members, including graduate students, the 2020 fellowships will run from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2023. Field bibliographers perform a valuable… Read more »

The volume Teaching Modern Irish Poetry in English, edited by Guinn Batten and Anna Teekell, 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 April 2020.

Among this year’s National Humanities Center Fellows are seven members of the Modern Language Association. Each fellow will work on individual research and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences at the center. The MLA commends them for their contribution to humanistic scholarship. Donnelley Family Fellowship John Levi Barnard, University of Illinois,… Read more »

The MLA is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement for Cambridge University Press to publish the association’s flagship journal, PMLA. Cambridge University Press, a part of the University of Cambridge, is the oldest publishing house in the world.  The publisher of 350 research journals, the press works to further the university’s mission… Read more »

The volume Teaching Indigenous Studies in and of Latin America, edited by Tracy Devine Guzmán, 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 15 March 2020.

The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2019 Fellowship Award recipients: Melissa E. Johnson, assistant director of reference and education services, Augusta University Sheila A. Monnet, consultant, retired The fellows, who have contributed to the bibliography from 2016 to 2019, will be awarded a certificate of accomplishment and a check for $500 during the 2020 MLA… Read more »

The volume Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Macbeth, edited by David J. Baker and Elizabeth Dixon, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. 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… Read more »

Congratulations to the winners of the eighteen 2019 MLA publication prize competitions. The publication prizes will be awarded in a ceremony on 11 January at the 2020 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle. The ceremony, which will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Sheraton Grand Seattle, is open to the public.

The volume Approaches to Teaching Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give, edited by Brigitte Fielder and Edith Campbell, 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… Read more »

The MLA is excited to announce that the Center of Digital Humanities Research at Texas A&M University (TAMU) will be the new home of the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (NVS) series. Texas A&M will make the NVS editions openly available to scholars on a richly resourced, fully networked digital platform and will become the… Read more »