If you’re from Chicago, if you’ve visited before, or if you discover good food options during your time at the convention, share them here!

The Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession did an accessibility survey of restaurants.

I have not spent a ton of time in Chicago, but I did gather some recommendations from friends when I was here…[Read more]

040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:

Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Sheraton Grand – Huron

Session Information:

Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in…[Read more]

Heading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]

Dear Members,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Thursday Jan 3rd

54. And What does Colonial Mean? 

1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand

Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky

Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]

233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory  10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019  Sheraton Grand – Superior B

Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]

Natural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more]

Will you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.

Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]

The Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year.  This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]

Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

In a society where urban life recreates otherness, dissolves geographical and social borders, creates transnational spaces and crafts new identities, how do Latinos and Hispanic immigrants of various Latin American regions living in cities in the US (re)build the local and global from inter- and cross-cultural perspectives: language, history,…[Read more]