Some forum members may have received a survey last week, as I did, inquiring about how we use the Humanities Commons and what we would like it to be. I realized that 1) I don’t use the Humanities and MLA Commons all that much and 2) I would very much like for them to be spaces that spark connections and collaborations.

To that end, I thought I’d…[Read more]

MLA 2024, Philadelphia

Special Session: Language and the City: An Ecolinguistic View of Philadelphia Spanish

We take our language for granted: its existence, its social, its cultural and its aesthetic values. Yet, no language is immortal as change is inexorable. In biodiversity, we fight to protect endangered species, mourn the extinction of…[Read more]

Hello to you all. On behalf of this forum’s Executive Committee, we invite you to consider submitting a proposal for our sponsored session at MLA 2024. Details follow.
Addressing Underrepresentation of Marginalized Populations in Institutional Archives – A Roundtable
Proposals for 7 minute presentations on community-based archival practices…[Read more]

2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to share a CFP for an upcoming MLA panel sponsored by the Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Global English. This forum has a guaranteed panel for the next MLA Convention, which will be January 4–7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15 and we will respond before April 1. <…[Read more]

An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

It’s that time of year, when MLA forums collect nominations (including self-nominations) for future Executive Committee members. If you would be interested in being on the LSL Global English forum’s Executive Committee from January 2024-January 2029, or if you know someone who could be a good fit, please email me with any…[Read more]

Greetings to the membership of LSL Linguistics and Literature!

Each year our Executive Committee says farewell to its longest-serving member and welcomes a new one. Following the annual MLA Convention, we appoint a new EC member, submitting a short list of names to the MLA by 28 January. The five-year term of service starts in January of 2024,…[Read more]

The Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2024 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics, especially those involving real-world interfaces such as fieldwork, digital data, interdisciplinary projects or courses, and…[Read more]