MLA convention-goers should be aware that open-carry laws go into effect in Texas after January 1, with campus carry set to follow on August 1. Concerned faculty and students at UT Austin have created this informative website, Gun Free UT. It links to a petition you may consider signing. Many academic departments at UT have already issued…[Read more]

Presenting at this year’s MLA convention in Austin? You can use MLA Commons to promote your session, maximizing the potential for a good turnout—and a productive meeting. Members who deposit their papers with the Commons Open Repository Exchange (CORE) before the convention can share the deposit with members of relevant MLA forums, many of who…[Read more]

I’m a PhD student at UT Austin, and I know how tricky and costly it can be to travel to conferences. I’d like to help figure out a way to connect unfunded graduate students with locals who have an extra couch or a spare bed. Anyone interested?

If you’re an Austin local, please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful. (We’re starting with eater.com’s “38 Essential Austin Restaurants” and the…[Read more]

Convention registrants can use this forum thread to identify other participants who may wish to share accommodations. The MLA assumes no responsibility or liability for these arrangements, since a decision to share hotel accommodations is one made by the participant, not the MLA.

Please note that in order to make reservations at MLA rates at t…[Read more]

CARIBBEAN GLOBAL MOVEMENTS: PEOPLE, IDEAS, CULTURE, ARTS and ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

Hotel Karibe, Pétionville, Haïti, June 5-11, 2016

The Caribbean has always been the site of global interactions and transactions. Movements from one place to the other across diverse geographic locations and spaces (from island to island, the circum-Caribbean a…[Read more]

I recently discovered that Yale French Studies is devoting an entire issue to the brilliance of Marie Vieux-Chauvet. I’m currently writing my MA thesis on Amour, Colere et Folie. If anyone is interested in reading it/making comments/suggesting sources, I would greatly appreciate it.

NeMLA 2016 — Comment dit-on “queer” en français? Queer Theory in French
contact email: adexter@tulane.edu
47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, a…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu

Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa

The use and interest…[Read more]

Hi All,

In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, or received a promotion, please let me know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrains…[Read more]