The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Study 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…[Read more]

Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

As you may know, every year our forum has two guaranteed panel sessions for the MLA convention. The Executive Committee of the forum would like to consider ideas from as broad a range of our membership as possible. Please share your ideas for these sessions for the 2025 convention in New Orleans. At this stage it can be a general idea, without a…[Read more]

The Ming-Qing forum Executive Committee welcomes member suggestions, including self-nominations, for a new members of the Committee with a term beginning in 2024. Committee members must be MLA members, not a member of another forum’s Excutive Committee unless that position ends in 2024, and have not been an executive committee member of our forum…[Read more]

Please join us for the Chinese and East Asian Literature reception at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, co- sponsored by the forums on Ming and Qing Chinese literature, pre-1400 Chinese literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and East Asian Literature.

Time: Friday, January 5, 7:15-8:30 PM

Location: Marriott Grand A

Thanks to the…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,
We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies.
It is possible to download the article from the following link for fre…[Read more]

Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

Thanks to the generous support of the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu  Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Ming-Qing Forum of the Modern Languages Association is pleased to announce the Geiss-Hsu Travel Grant to support participation in the 2024 MLA annual convention by scholars of the Ming and adjacent periods. Convention participants (…[Read more]

The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy has announced “The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study” as the winner of the 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award. The Teaching Literature Book Award (TLBA) is a national prize that recognizes the best book on teaching literature at the college level.

The award is pres…[Read more]

Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Premodern Korean Studies. The position is…[Read more]