The Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages welcomes submissions for its annual awards. We are particularly eager to assure that graduate students are aware of the Annette Kolodny travel award for students presenting papers at MLA.

The 2014 Annette Kolodny Award

The Annette Kolodny Award is presented annually to a graduate student member o…[Read more]

Dear all,

I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but style and method are closely connected, after all.

Could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not…[Read more]

(((Trans- & Trance)))

17th Annual Graduate Student Conference | Western University, Canada

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures | Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism

Keynotes by Dr. David S. Ferris (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Dr. Joel Faflak (Western University)

Trans- and trance are ways of life: from…[Read more]

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics.  This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly posts about culture and politics from i…[Read more]