Congratulations to the five MLA members who have been awarded 2026 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowships! ACLS fellowships support untenured early-career scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they complete a major scholarly project.
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MLA Members Receive 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships
Congratulations to the eight MLA members who were awarded 2026 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships! In a statement about this year’s fellowship recipients, Edward Hirsch, the president of the Guggenheim Foundation, said, “Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship.” Marlene Daut, Yale… Read more »
Member Spotlight: Amber Hodge
This month, we’re spotlighting the work of Amber Hodge, an eight-year member of the MLA. Read about Amber’s time on the Committee on K–16 Alliances and why they recommend checking out the MLA Language Map: “I didn’t know about the Committee on K–16 Alliances until my second year of teaching at an independent school, and… Read more »
Adam Potkay Named PMLA Editor
The MLA Executive Council has appointed Adam Potkay, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary, to serve as the next editor of PMLA. His term begins in July 2026 and runs for three years. His scholarly focus is wide-ranging, covering literature and philosophy, Enlightenment and Romanticism, poetry and… Read more »
MLA Members Named 2026–27 National Humanities Center Fellows
The MLA would like to congratulate the three members who were named 2026–27 National Humanities Center fellows. Fellows will pursue independent research projects as residential scholars at the center, where they will have an opportunity to further develop their ideas through seminars, lectures, and conferences. Olabode Ibironke, Rutgers University, New BrunswickField of study: African studiesProject… Read more »
Member Spotlight: Meghan McInnis-Domínguez
This month’s member spotlight features Meghan McInnis-Domínguez, a twelve-year member of the MLA who is part of the MLA Task Force on World Languages and AI and a speaker at our upcoming webinar, AI in the Spanish Higher Ed Classroom. Learn more about Meghan’s time on the task force and why the Innovation Room is… Read more »
MLA Executive Director Paula M. Krebs to Step Down in 2027
Paula M. Krebs, the executive director of the Modern Language Association since summer 2017, has informed the Executive Council that she plans to step down in 2027 after ten years with the organization. The Executive Council will begin the search for Krebs’s successor in the coming weeks with the help of an experienced search firm… Read more »
MLA and SMU English’s Project Poëtica to Launch New Poetry Translation Series
The MLA is pleased to announce that it has received generous funding from Southern Methodist University’s Project Poëtica, an initiative of SMU English, to publish the MLA–Project Poëtica Global Translation Series, a five-volume series of poetry translations from a diverse range of less commonly taught world languages. With Project Poëtica’s goal of expanding poetry’s reach… Read more »
MLA Announces 2025 Edward Guiliano Fellows
The MLA has awarded the association’s Edward Guiliano Global Fellowships to sixteen PhD students and candidates in MLA-related disciplines. The fellowships provide up to $2,000 to support travel and research related to the completion of a dissertation, generation of a publishable peer-edited journal essay, or production of other publishable outcomes. The awards also support experiential-learning… Read more »
2025 ADE and ALD Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Association of Departments of English and Association of Language Departments service awards, Teresa Mangum and Sheri Spaine Long. The awards will be presented during the MLA Awards Ceremony, which will take place on 9 January at the MLA Annual Convention in Toronto. Teresa Mangum’s service to the profession has… Read more »