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MLA Commons recently hosted the Teaching Remotely CORE Deposit Party within the Teaching Remotely group. The goals of the week-long event were to spark conversation and to encourage members to share materials related to teaching during the pandemic in the group’s CORE collection. This post will feature a few of…
This summer, MLA Commons is hosting a CORE deposit party during which members can share teaching materials and reflections on teaching during the pandemic. From Monday, 26 July to Friday, 30 July, members are encouraged to upload their work to the CORE repository and participate in discussions in the Teaching…
With the hosting of Humanities Commons moving to MSU, we return to this site as a place to highlight and celebrate the things MLA members are doing on the Commons. For the past few years, those activities have been highlighted elsewhere, like on the HC team blog Platypus. Stay tuned…
Tips on promoting your MLA convention paper or session (hint: make the full text available in advance) to ensure you can make the most of your time in Austin.
MLA members share news of new jobs, promotions, publications, honors, and awards. Read about what your fellow members have been up to, then send in your own news for the next issue.
The Executive Council approved the following statement in March 2015. In its 2009 Statement on Academic Freedom, the Modern Language Association recognized that “despite a long history of the defense of academic freedom, each generation of scholars faces new challenges to its protection.” The recent murders and disappearances of students…
From the Paris Review’s conversation with Elena Ferrante, the first in-person interview the writer has granted. At fifteen I began to write stories about brave girls who were in serious trouble. But the idea remained — indeed, it grew stronger — that the greatest narrators were men and that one…
And as long as critics and publishers frame African literature as always on the cusp, it will continue to be an emerging literature whose emergence is infinitely deferred. Aaron Bady, writing in the Chronicle.
To many observers, the job market for PhDs in English (and other humanities fields) may seem to be in crisis, but as has recently been pointed out by Anthony T. Grafton and Jim Grossman (2011), it is not, at least as the term crisis is usually defined. This job market…
Faced with some of life’s most painful moments poetry can reassure us that we are not alone – others have suffered too. But a great poem also allows us to make sense of feelings that might otherwise be a searing amorphous mass somewhere deep inside us. Great poetry makes us…