In balloting that closed on 10 December, MLA members elected Dana A. Williams (Howard University) ​as second vice president. Williams will become MLA president in January 2024. Susan Stanford Friedman, Leah S. Marcus, and Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo were elected to the Executive Council. Full election results are available on the MLA website. Congratulations to all those elected to MLA offices! 

The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2021 Fellowship Award recipients:

• David E. García, professor of English, Carthage College
• Liorah Golomb, humanities librarian, University of Oklahoma
• S. C. Kaplan, lecturer of French, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Jessica Ryan, librarian, scholarly communications assistant, Smith College

The fellows, who have contributed to the bibliography from 2018 to 2021, will be awarded a certificate of accomplishment and a check for $500 during the 2022 MLA Awards Ceremony, which takes place at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, 8 January, at the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, (Marquis 5). We offer our sincere thanks and appreciation for their service to the MLA International Bibliography!

You are invited to submit essay proposals for two new volumes in development: Teaching Economics and American Literature, edited by Katharine A. Burnett and Amy K. King, in the Options for Teaching series, and the nonseries volume Interventions: Asian American Rhetorical Activity across Time and Space, edited by Amy J. Wan and Morris Young. Proposals for both volumes must be submitted to their respective editors by 1 November 2021.

Instructors are encouraged to share their teaching experience by completing surveys for the following volumes currently in development in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Deirdre d’Albertis and Deborah Denenholz Morse; Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama, edited by Emma Lipton and John Sebastian; and Approaches to Teaching Strange Tales from Liaozhai, edited by Rania Huntington. Information about proposing an essay is available at the end of each survey. Survey responses and essay proposals are due 1 November 2021.

Congratulations to the ten MLA members who have been awarded 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowships, which support early-career scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to come. Fellows take up year-long placements with members of ACLS’s Research University Consortium, where they can advance their research and professional development while contributing to the teaching, programming, and administrative work of their host university.

Fellowships

Maira Elizabeth Alvarez, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University

Tarrell Campbell, College of Liberal Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Maria A. Dikcis, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago

Isabel A. Duarte-Gray, Division of Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles

Francesca Gacho, Communication of Science and Technology Program, Vanderbilt University

Michele U. Kenfack, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University

Gaelle Le Calvez House, Division of Humanities, Yale University

Jordan Lovejoy, College of Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, University of Minnesota

Laura Muñoz, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California

Ena Selimovic, Division of Humanities, Yale University

The Modern Language Association congratulates the 2021 MLA Bibliography fellows who will serve from 2021 to 2024. The MLA International Bibliography staff members work with approximately one hundred field bibliographers, from all parts of the world, who cover subject areas, journals, and languages that cannot be indexed in the New York office. Each spring, five to ten fellowships are awarded to field bibliographers who, on completion of their fellowships, receive a stipend of $500 and a certificate during the awards ceremony at the MLA convention. For more information on bibliography fellowships, please visit the MLA website or contact Chriselle Tidrick at ctidrick@mla.org.

Congratulations to the following:

• Stacey Amo, senior lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Superior
• Luciana Cordo Russo, Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral researcher, University of Marburg
• Srigowri Kumar, adjunct instructor, Fordham University, Bronx
• Andrea Malone, librarian, University of Houston
• Bradley McIlwain, rare books cataloger, Lakehead University
• Brendan Nieubuurt, librarian for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Sílvia A. Oliveira, associate professor of Portuguese and director, Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies, Rhode Island College
• Haniyeh B. Pasandi, assistant professor of French and francophone civilizations, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Ana I. Simón Alegre, assistant professor, Adelphi University
• Paul Videsott, full professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison, edited by Piper Kendrix Williams, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught Morrison’s works are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences. Information about proposing an essay is available at the end of the survey.

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell, edited by Patricia Rae, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught Orwell’s works are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences. Information about proposing an essay is available at the end of the survey.