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]

Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[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]

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]

We are looking for nominations for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee (self-nominations encouraged). The term runs for five years, from January 2025 through January 2030.

If you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.

Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

Position No. 00052460. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of…[Read more]

The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary study in English,…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I wanted to pass along this job ad for an assistant professor position in African American literature, joined to an urban studies research cluster.

Please do pass it along to anyone who pay be a good fit and encourage them to apply.

https://joblist.mla.org/job-<wbr />details/7961/assistant-<wbr…[Read more]

The Marygrove Conservancy announces the Marygrove African American Authors Collection (MAAAC), a digitized archive of video recordings, photographs, printed materials, and teaching resources generated by the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS).  The MAAAC was developed with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for…[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]