I have just started a group on teaching Chinese language and linguistics. If anyone is interested, please join the group and we’ll discuss aspects of our experiences as teachers and students of Chinese. I look forward to hearing from many of you!

Dear Members of the Teaching as a Profession group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]

I hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution.  Here’s the…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association

(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.

Satire and the Editorial Cartoon

Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]

Hi all,

I posted a storify of tweets posted around Rosemary Feal’s #precariat conversation with Andrew Ross, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Jennie Shanker at the Shanker Institute on January 15. (Margaret Hanzimanolis features!) You can view the storify on this group’s blog.

Cheers,

Nicky

We are compiling an evolving list of Commons discussion groups and blogs related to sessions at MLA15. Join in the conversation and upload your own presentation to a group or post it on a blog. If you then let us know about it in this thread, we’ll add it to the list.

We were successful in moving that a PTF be a required member of the Executive Council!  The motion, put forward by the radical caucus, also asked for more governance opportunities for PTF throughout the organization.  The dominance of tenured faculty in the MLA is beginning to topple. Please get in touch with me at hanzimanolis@gmail.com if you w…[Read more]

Hi!

The grad students of the Germanic Studies Department at the University of British Columbia thought it would be great to offer a casual tour through downtown Vancouver. This is directed at other grad students and supposed to be a networking event. We figured we offer this tour early in the convention, Jan. 8, 2-5pm, so that we get to know each…[Read more]

Mentoring isn’t just for students. Great advice from Joycelyn Moody. Let’s keep the conversation going at #MLA15! Blog post here: http://bit.ly/1wPU6y9

The MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession has organized three sessions at the 2015 MLA Convention in Vancouver and will participate in a fourth session organized by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages.  Session #1, the preconvention workshop on women’s public engagement, is open only to those who have preregistered t…[Read more]

#Ferguson2MLA

Statement

Since August 2014, we have witnessed the most sustained, widespread grassroots activism against anti-Black racism and police brutality in the U.S. since the 1960s and 1970s. Through teach-ins, community gatherings, marches, and die-ins, and by taking actions to halt “business as usual” — blocking highways, bridges, and…[Read more]

Please write to Maria Maisto, the incoming chair, if you would like to serve on this committee. It is a potentially important committee in an environment of rapidly increasing hospitality toward contingent and adjunct participation in the business of the MLA!

maria.maisto@newfacultymajority.info