A new report on the jobs advertised on the MLA Job List in the 2022–23 academic year is now available. Following a significant decline in the number of jobs advertised in 2020–21 and a strong recovery in 2021–22 to prepandemic levels, jobs held relatively steady in 2022–23. After several years of pandemic-related turbulence and upheaval,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: New on the Website
Results of 2020 Ratification Vote
Voting on the 2020 ratification ballot concluded at midnight (EDT) on 7 August. Members ratified the election of Kamau Brathwaite, Amit Chaudhuri, Richard Flanagan, Susan Howe, M. NourbeSe Philip, Lev Rubinstein, and Luis Valdez to honorary fellowship in the association. Support for the candidates ranged from 84% to 90% of the members who voted in… Read more »
MLA Task Force on Ethical Conduct in Graduate Education Releases New Report
In a newly published report, the MLA Task Force on Ethical Conduct in Graduate Education calls on administrators, departments, and faculty members to embrace “student-centered graduate education informed by an ethics of care.” The report, which emerged out of a 2018 survey of MLA members conducted by the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee and subsequent discussions… Read more »