This month’s member spotlight features Darin Jensen, a ten year member of the MLA who currently serves on the Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Languages and Literatures. Learn more about Darin’s experience with the MLA: “I have been surprised and delighted at how the MLA has pivoted to be more inclusive of… Read more »
Posts Categorized: MLA in the News
MLA Members Elected to the American Antiquarian Society
Congratulations to the six MLA members who were elected as members of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in October 2025! According to the AAS, members “are elected by their colleagues in recognition of their eminent works of scholarship, artistic endeavors, or public engagement in pre-twentieth-century American history and culture.”
Ramón Saldívar Receives Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
Ramón Saldívar, professor of English and comparative literature and the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, will receive the eleventh MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. The Executive Council selected Saldívar for the award on the recommendation of the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Review Committee. Saldívar is renowned as a scholar of… Read more »
MLA Members Awarded August 2025 NEH Grants
Congratulations to the six MLA members who were awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants in August 2025! Their projects include a volume on Walt Whitman’s journalistic writing; a virtual institute on the history of literary education; a research center focused on AI, the humanities, and the health sector; and more. Deborah GussmanProject Title: Letters… Read more »
MLA Members Awarded 2025 ACLS Fellowships
Congratulations to the six MLA members who have been awarded 2025 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.
MLA Announces 2025–26 Cohort of Pathways Step Grant Recipients
The MLA today announced it is awarding the association’s Pathways Step Grants to twenty-one faculty teams in MLA-related disciplines. Each step grant provides up to $10,000 to support faculty members with the development of new structures, programs, and resources that bolster the recruitment, retention, and career readiness of undergraduate students, especially students of color, first-generation… Read more »
MLA Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Congratulations to the three MLA members who were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025! This honor is a recognition of their remarkable contributions to language and literature studies.
MLA Members Named National Humanities Center Fellows
The MLA would like to congratulate the four members who were named 2025–26 National Humanities Center fellows. Fellows will pursue independent research projects as residential scholars at the center, where they will have the opportunity to further develop their ideas through seminars, lectures, and conferences. Patrick McKelvey, University of PittsburghField of Study: Theater, Dance, and… Read more »
MLA Members Receive 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships
Congratulations to the six MLA members who were awarded 2025 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships! This year marks the 100th class of Guggenheim fellows. In a statement about this year’s fellowship recipients, Edward Hirsch, the president of the Guggenheim Foundation, said, “We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today… Read more »
MLA Members Awarded January 2025 NEH Grants
Congratulations to the seventeen MLA members who were awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants in January 2025! Their projects include new humanities courses that engage critically with AI, educational resources about Quechua and Zapotec languages and cultures, a collection of oral histories from residents of Jersey City, a book analyzing how Jack Kerouac’s bilingualism… Read more »