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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***JANUARY 3 UPDATE***

We attempted to send the original message (below) via email to all forum members, but the MLA said that wasn’t possible. We only received two replies (both voted “yes”) to the survey we included in that original message and thus ended up taking a different approach (in line with what at least one other forum is doing): we…[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]

Kwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]

Colegas, colleagues this is our short description for our MLA Forum panel for 2024, and it follows our interest in describing contemporary shifts in states and “nation” formations in the Caribbean. Please send us your abstracts! STILL ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS–just send them our way before March 31

EVOLUTIONS IN CARIBBEAN STATE FORMATION-Caribbean…[Read more]

The LLC Mexican Forum of the MLA is seeking nominations and self-nominations from colleagues interested in serving in our forum’s executive committee. Please send your nomination, or nominate a colleague! Send nominations by January 25, 2023 to sergiodm@uchicago.eduMLA forums—formerly divisions and discussion groups—encompass the scholarly and p…[Read more]

Call for applications to edit the Latin American Literary Review

Applications are invited for the position of editor(s)-in-chief of the Latin American Literary Review (LALR), a well-established literary journal with a fifty-year history of excellence in publishing original scholarship, key translations, and important creative work. LALR publishes…[Read more]

The LLC Mexican group calls for nominations (or self-nominations) to its Executive Committee. You may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the name of an individual to be considered for appointment in the space reserved for that on the ballot of the annual MLA election or at the MLA website or by sending a letter to the MLA…[Read more]

Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

Black Studies and English (three positions)The Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College invite applications for multiple full-time appointments in the field of Black literature and culture, to begin on July 1, 2022. We define this field broadly to include work in any genre or medium produced by people from Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]

Thomas Ward, Spanish Professor at Loyola University Maryland has published a critical edition of Roque Moreno, a historical novel Teresa González de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, published in 1905. The novel portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two…[Read more]

This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.

Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8

Thanks,

Elena Machado Sáez

Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum

You are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!

548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]

Dear MLA members,

Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!

“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)

• Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
• Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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