From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

Colleagues! Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL Language and Society Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity centered around language and society in the MLA, and get to meet and interact with other MLA members…[Read more]

Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Studies and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and i…[Read more]

The MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.

• Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
• Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
• No member…

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The MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.

• Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
• Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
• No member may…

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Dear Colleagues,The LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention). Members who would like to nominate themselves or other members for…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

Join our online session tomorrow, January 6 at 5:15pm!

Gabriela De Robles (University of Colorado Denver): The socio-affective dimensions of written corrective feedback for heritage language learners

Juyoung Song (Murray State University): Emotion in Mother’s Heritage Language Maintenance

Aída Martínez-Gómez (John Jay College of Criminal Ju…[Read more]

Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]