Thanks to all who attended our panels this past week. Please also join me in thanking Joshua Thoms, our outgoing LSL Applied Linguistics forum president, who did much of the work organizing and coordinating those talks.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Executive Committee, I am writing to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for a…[Read more]

The MLA has just announced a new process for appointments to the executive committee which now allows us to “solicit suggestions directly from the forums’ members in the forums’ MLA Commons groups.”

The executive committee appoints one new member to the executive committee every year. We welcome recommendations of colleagues as well as sel…[Read more]

The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

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Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel

In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet

Presider: Alberto Varón

Recent events have demonstrated the…[Read more]

The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

• Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
• In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
• Presider: Alberto Varón
• Recent events have demonstrated the…

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Dear Colleagues:  My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:  My name is Mahmoud Azaz. I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the Applied Linguistics Executive Committee (LSL) at the Modern Language Association (MLA). I am an associate professor of Arabic and Second Language Acquisition & Pedagogy at the University of Arizona. I am also a Distinguished Fellow at the University…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]

I’m excited to announce that a beta version of Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook is now available online: https://open.online.uga.edu/latinxmedia/

Edited by Leslie Marsh and myself (Rielle Navitski) with the support of the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, the freely available textbook addresses a range of media forms (film, te…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]

Position No. 00005756.  The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]

Theatre and Social Action Call for Papers for the Methuen Drama Handbooks series Theaters have closed everywhere. Theaters are reopening. And at the same time, the global pandemic and recent social movements have urgently been measured, mediated, and aided by the arts and theater makers to reshape the way we must now represent, facilitate, and p…[Read more]

This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.

Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8

Thanks,

Elena Machado Sáez

Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum