I am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 60th anniversary of the completion o…[Read more]

When Diane Ravitch spoke to the MLA  two years ago, she predicted that the push for Common Core standards would soon be extended to state colleges and universities. That moment has come.

The Florida State Board of Education now is offering grants to support collaboration between state colleges and K-12 systems. I have a copy of my college’s gr…[Read more]

Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

As well, we have a Facebook page by the same name, that now has 655 members and we’d like it to reach 1000:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/

Please consider joining these sites to bu…[Read more]

Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

As well, it would be great if you want to join the Facebook page by the same name:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/

These are spaces to build support for a resolution on Acade…[Read more]

Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

As well, it would be great if you’d like to  join the Facebook page set up for this group, that has the same name:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/

After more than 3 hours of commit…[Read more]

I am looking for people who have been teaching anti-ageism, or the subject of age, in the writing classroom. Especially interested in writing assignments that counter ageism, that use ageism along with other diversity issues (racism, sexism, ableism, classism).

CFP (Call for Papers): I’m seeking papers in order to propose a panel for the upcoming 2016 MLA in Austin, TX.  The subject is “Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition to Online/Distance Students.”  I am particularly interested in (but not limited to) papers that explore the primacy of written language as instruction compared to oral, t…[Read more]

Call for Papers Special Issue of American Jewish History dedicated to Material Culture

American Jewish History is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on material culture, guest-edited by Laura Leibman (Reed College).  The journal offers articles on every aspect of the American Jewish experience and is the most widely recognized…[Read more]

Call for Submissions: In geveb, a Journal of Yiddish Studies
We are proud to announce In geveb, a new online journal of Yiddish Studies. In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the presentation of digitized archival documents, the exchange of…[Read more]

There will be a #BlackLivesMatter solidarity action at MLA on FRI at 1:30PM. Please assemble at 1:30 in Ballroom D, on the first floor (not ground floor) of the convention center.

We plan to have speakers and an open mic there, and then march outside.

Participants without MLA badges can access Ballroom D through the south entrance. We will have…[Read more]

Come one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called] at this year’s MLA, starting this week:

275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)

Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish C…[Read more]

Come one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called]:

275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)
Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish Cultural Studies and the Discussion Group on J…[Read more]

Any brave souls want to put their names up–or put someone else’s name up–for election to the Jewish Cultural Studies executive board? The term is five years, starting at the close of this year’s MLA: thus, the lucky winner will serve starting with MLA 2016 and running through MLA 2020, serving as Secretary for MLA 2019 and Grand Dragon for MLA 2…[Read more]

Motion 2015-1:
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages

Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF) constitute over 50% of the faculty in the US, and presumably a similar percentage of language and literature faculty;

Whereas PTF are presumably and anecdotally…[Read more]

131. Violence on the Borders: Memory, Gender, Geography
Thursday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 122, VCC West

Program arranged by the Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: Penelope M. Kelsey, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens

1. “New Jurisdictions of Violence and Survivance in the Native B…[Read more]

We are happy to share the good news that the MLA has approved the formation of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!

There will be an organizational meeting of the new CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum at the upcoming MLA convention. The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 8:45 to 10:00…[Read more]