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]

Modern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025

CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[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]

The MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.

• Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
• Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
• No member…

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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]

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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Dear Colleagues,

We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC Dutch. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements are:

1.…

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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.

You are cordially invited to the  first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction

Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
S…[Read more]

Dear forum members,

If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[Read more]

Call for Presenters: “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship”

All faculty members in humanities disciplines are invited to submit proposals to present at a session entitled “Marked for Death? Challenges to the Humanities and Humanities Librarianship,” at this year’s American Library Association Conferenc…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]