Hey all!

Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”

• Friday, 5 January 2024
• 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
• Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)

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Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

Call for Presenters: “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship”

All faculty members in humanities disciplines are invited to submit proposals to present at a session entitled “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship,” at this year’s American Library Association Conferenc…[Read more]

We’ve just published a new paper emerging from the NISOPlus 2023 conference: https://publishingandthepubliclyengagedhumanities.hcommons-staging.org/2023/11/20/harnessing-the-transformational-power-of-pids/

Head over to our wordpress site to read more about the paper and learn how you can harness the power of PIDs.

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]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Please join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023!  Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.

Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions

Job alert! We’re hiring a Web Designer at University of Michigan to produce websites and digital content for our faculty and researchers. This position works closely with faculty, researchers and staff in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences to plan, design, and coordinate new websites and digital media. These Digital Scholarship…[Read more]

As part of an exciting collaboration between the Publishing and Publicly Engaged Humanities working group and the Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, we’re inviting anyone who would like to contribute to the project to complete this short survey (10 minutes) w…[Read more]