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Welcome! Philadelphia has hosted the MLA convention several times in this millennium and will do so again this January. For those of you who’ve attended those conventions—and certainly for many of us on staff—Philadelphia has become a home away from home. This year all sessions will take place at the Philadelphia Marriott, the Pennsylvania Conve…[Read more]

Dear friends,

I’m pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.

Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]

For the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (Jan. 4-7), the MLA’s Committee on Information Technology is organizing two sessions to help generate ideas related to: (1) revising MLA’s “Guidelines” for evaluating digital scholarship; and (2) possibly formulating future professional guidelines for using artificial intelligence. [Abstracts: 300 words…[Read more]

Call for applications to edit the Latin American Literary Review

Applications are invited for the position of editor(s)-in-chief of the Latin American Literary Review (LALR), a well-established literary journal with a fifty-year history of excellence in publishing original scholarship, key translations, and important creative work. LALR publishes…[Read more]