From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,The LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention). Members who would like to nominate themselves or other members for…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

Dear members of the LLC Global Portuguese Forum,

Happy 2024! I am writing on behalf of the current Executive Committee to ask the membership for nominations for a new Executive Committee member. The MLA is testing a new model based on appointment. The appointed person will begin their term in January 2025 and will serve for five convention years.…[Read more]

Dear all, happy new year! The MLA has asked all of the executive committees to solicit nominations from all members for their next executive committee member. If you would like to nominate someone to serve on the Occitan EC, or if you would like to nominate yourself, please reply here or write to me at eliza.zingesser@columbia.edu. Thanks!

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,

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]

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]