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Anna Chang wrote a new post, Member Spotlight: Joseph Ortiz, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:53:38 +0000

For our December member spotlight, we’re highlighting the work of Joseph Ortiz, who has been a member of the MLA for twenty-four years. Learn about Joseph’s time on the MLA Publications Committee and the res […]

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Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:10:47 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Marjorie Perloff, Former President of the MLA, 1931–2024, on the site News from the MLA

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:58:44 +0000

The MLA is deeply saddened by the passing of the literary critic, poetry scholar, and teacher Marjorie Perloff, who died on 24 March 2024 in her home in Pacific Palisades, California. Born in 1931 into a […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, 2025 Presidential Theme: Visibility, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:32:16 +0000

Dana A. Williams, the 2024–25 president of the MLA, has chosen Visibility as the presidential theme for the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans.

In the essay “Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Wri […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, MLA Announces Inaugural Group of Edward Guiliano Fellows, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:17:30 +0000

The MLA today announced it is awarding the association’s inaugural Edward Guiliano Global Fellowships to thirteen PhD students and candidates in MLA-related disciplines. The fellowships provide up to $2,000 to s […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, 2023 ADE and ALD Award Winners Announced, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:04:28 +0000

Congratulations to Patricia Okker, who will receive the Association of Departments of English Francis Andrew March Award, and to Paul Sandrock, who will receive the Association of Language Departments Award for […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Response to Florida Violations of Shared Governance and Academic Freedom, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:58:16 +0000

The MLA’s professional standards on academic freedom and shared governance, including the MLA Statement on Academic Freedom (2014), Tool Kit on Academic Freedom, and Tool Kit on Shared Governance, are clear. The […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, MLA Publishes New Guidelines on Evaluating Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:07:32 +0000

The MLA has just released new guidelines to help departments, institutions, and faculty members in languages and literatures value and assess public humanities work. Created by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Valuing […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Resources for Humanities Professionals in Response to the Invasion of Ukraine, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:07:31 +0000

The MLA has collected resources shared by its members and by members of the ADE and ADFL communities in response to the invasion of Ukraine. We encourage you to help us develop this list of events, teaching […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Jason Rhody to Lead New Office of Academic Program Services and Professional Development, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:54:40 +0000

The MLA is pleased to announce that Jason Rhody, program director at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), will join the MLA staff as director of the office of academic program services and professional […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, 2023 Presidential Theme: Working Conditions, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:42:42 +0000

Christopher Newfield, the 2022–23 president of the MLA, has chosen Working Conditions as the presidential theme for the 2023 MLA Annual Convention in San Francisco.
The diverse teaching and research of MLA me […]

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Fri, 28 May 2021 14:53:56 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Results of 2021 Ratification Vote, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 12 May 2021 13:59:04 +0000

Voting on the 2021 ratification ballot concluded at 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on 30 April. Members ratified the election of Bei Dao and Reina María Rodríguez to honorary fellowship in the association. Support for the c […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Propose an MLA Volume, on the site News from the MLA

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:42:57 +0000

The MLA book program is always eager to hear your ideas for books you would like to propose. We are especially interested in three areas at the moment:

our series of MLA Guides, which are companions to the […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Brent Hayes Edwards Named PMLA Editor, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:13:35 +0000

At its October meeting, the MLA Executive Council appointed Brent Hayes Edwards, Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, to serve as the next editor of PMLA. His term […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, 2022 Presidential Theme: Multilingual US, on the site News from the MLA

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:32:35 +0000

Barbara Fuchs, the 2021–22 president of the MLA, has chosen Multilingual US as the presidential theme for the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC.

The MLA can play a crucial role in imagining and su […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós, on the site News from the MLA

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:39:13 +0000

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós, edited by Liana Ewald, David George, and Wan Tang, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors w […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Remembering Doug Steward, Director of the Association of Departments of English, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:03:08 +0000

Doug Steward, associate director of programs and director of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), died suddenly on 5 November, at the age of fifty. Doug had been central to the ADE since 2003, and he […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, The Future of Humanities PhDs, on the site From the President

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:49:36 +0000

Originally published in the Fall 2020 Newsletter.

It has been a challenging time at the MLA as we face the transformation of work under COVID-19 and fresh threats to the future of the humanities. The report by […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Growing Humanities Commons, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:41:01 +0000

Launched in 2016 as an expansion of MLA Commons, the Humanities Commons platform now serves more than 20,000 users who can share their work, create sites, and connect with scholars around the world. To support the […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Help Shape PMLA, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 01:15:31 +0000

Special features are clusters of essays on a topic of wide interest that appear under the rubrics Theories and Methodologies, which addresses a timely issue or recent work of scholarship, and The Changing […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, MLA Donors Contribute $100,000 in Support of Emergency Grants, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 13 May 2020 13:06:16 +0000

In March, the MLA created an emergency grant program to offer support to contingent faculty members hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants will help part-time faculty members who are without health or other […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Update on the 2021 Convention, on the site News from the MLA

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:40:23 +0000

Although the 2021 convention will be shaped by the current crisis and may look different from what we anticipated, we are looking forward to the opportunity to bring MLA members together again in January and are […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, MLA Launches Matching Challenge to Fund COVID-19 Emergency Grants, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:00:13 +0000

To fund emergency grants for part-time faculty members who’ve been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the MLA has launched its first ever matching gift challenge. The MLA Executive Council, former MLA p […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, COVID-19 Updates, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:24:44 +0000

MLA staff members are working remotely to make sure MLA resources are available to you, and we’ve created a new site that has information to help you move your course online. Please check this page regularly for t […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, 2021 Presidential Theme: Persistence, on the site News from the MLA

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:13:13 +0000

Judith Butler, the 2020–21 president of the MLA, has chosen Persistence as the presidential theme for the 2021 MLA Annual Convention in Toronto.

The humanities is now compelled to fight for its own survival an […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, The MLA Will Partner with Cambridge University Press to Publish PMLA, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:59:48 +0000

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 C […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, We Want Your Recipes!, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:51:08 +0000

Have a delicious recipe with a literary tie-in? We’re seeking literary-themed recipes for the MLA’s first cookbook. Proceeds from the cookbook, which will be sold at the 2019 convention in Chicago, will support […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Executive Council Statement on the Principle of Open Debate, on the site Executive Council

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:28:05 +0000

In the context of recent debates among MLA members about deeply held political convictions, the Executive Council of the MLA—the elected body charged with fiduciary and administrative responsibility for the a […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, New MLA Report Documents Trends in Language Study, on the site News from the MLA

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:20:40 +0000

The results of the MLA’s latest census of language course enrollments in colleges and universities in the United States are now available in a preliminary report on the MLA Web site. According to Enrollments in L […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, What’s Behind the Shortage of Black Teachers?, on the site Action Network

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:45:19 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Apply for an MLA Bibliography Fellowship by 1 April, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:34:04 +0000

The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit citations and indexing information for i […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, MLA Bibliography Expands Its Online Course Offerings, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:06:41 +0000

In January 2018, the MLA International Bibliography launches four new subject area modules to accompany its online course Understanding the MLA International Bibliography. Each module will focus on searching the […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Contribute to an MLA Approaches Volume on Teaching the Works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:00:35 +0000

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, edited by Pedro Meira Monteiro and Hélio de Seixas Guimarães, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World L […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Competing for 2018 Publication Prizes, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:05:52 +0000

The MLA Committee on Honors and Awards invites authors and editors to compete for the association’s 2018 publication awards. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize and the MLA Prize for a First Book, w […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, It Takes Humans to Build Robots, on the site Action Network

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:26:53 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Which States Are Investing in Higher Education?, on the site Action Network

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:28:16 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, 2019 Presidential Theme: Textual Transactions, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:47:20 +0000

Anne Gere, the 2018–19 president of the MLA, has chosen Textual Transactions as the presidential theme for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago.

Textual transactions are the mutually constitutive en […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Honoring MLA Bibliography Fellows, on the site News from the MLA

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:06:25 +0000

The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2017 Fellowship Award recipients:

Joshua E. Finnell, head of research and instruction, associate professor, Colgate University
Marla Harris, ind […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Help Shape Literary Studies in the Digital Age Anthology, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:55:34 +0000

A new draft essay has been selected for open review in Literary Studies in the Digital Age, the MLA’s first born-digital, publicly available anthology. The anthology’s editors invite you to comment on Jojo Karl […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Writer-Scholar Detained in Cameroon, on the site Action Network

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:50:41 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Suggesting Members for Committee Appointments, on the site News from the MLA

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:13:03 +0000

In February 2018 the Executive Council will make appointments to sixteen standing committees of the association. These committees and the outgoing committee members will be listed on the committee suggestion […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, House Bill Endangers Student Loan Forgiveness Programs, Benefits For-Profit Colleges, on the site Action Network

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:21:34 +0000

House Republicans this December introduced a bill to reauthorize the 1965 Higher Education Act. The draft has many universities and education advocates concerned. Sponsored by Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Net Neutrality Repeal Puts Research and Intellectual Freedom at Risk, on the site Action Network

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:40:55 +0000

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and former Verizon attorney Ajit Pai announced on Tuesday that the agency would vote to repeal net neutrality protections at its 14 December meeting. The […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Help Feed Students Affected by Hurricane Maria, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:14:19 +0000

If you want to help students in Puerto Rico who have been affected by the recent hurricane, Ricia Chansky, an MLA member, encourages you to send food donations to Come Colegial, a group feeding over 1,100 students […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Why the Repeal of Net Neutrality Matters, on the site Action Network

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:14:42 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Pell Grants under Attack from New House Bill, on the site Action Network

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:21:34 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Concrete Support for Job Seekers, on the site Action Network

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:39:43 +0000

Anna Chang wrote a new post, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Receives Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, on the site News from the MLA

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:21:16 +0000

The MLA is pleased to announce that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, will […]

Anna Chang wrote a new post, House Tax Bill Threatens Graduate Students, on the site Action Network

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:05:20 +0000

It is widely understood but often unspoken that pursuing a graduate degree is risky business. PhD students in particular face years of financial insecurity for the eventual payoff of a full-time research or […]