Promote Your Convention Session
byTips 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.
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Member Spotlight: Suzy Cater
byWe talk to Suzy Cater, a doctoral candidate in French literature at New York University who is on the academic job market this year, about why she chose to create a professional Web site on MLA Commons.
Michigan College English Association Conference: Conflicts and Resolutions
byMCEA Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015 Theme: Conflicts and Resolutions Featured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512 We live in a society that has conflict among different social, ethnic, and economic…
Group Spotlight: Committee on the Literatures of People of Color
byWe talk to Koritha Mitchell, about how the Committee on the Literatures of People of Color has been using the Commons to share information and disseminate resources, from advice about mentoring to reflections on the impassioned #Ferguson2MLA action at the 2015 convention.
Member Spotlight: Andrea Kaston Tange
byAndrea Kaston Tange is a scholar of Victorian literature and culture whose research interests include travel and empire, nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish life and migrations, gendered identities, and domesticity.
Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition
byBeyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition Hosted by Maren Wood (Lilli Research Group) and Jennifer Polk (From PhD to Life) May 2 and 9, 2015 Attend one day: US $25 Attend two days: US $39 Register at: beyondprof.com/registration Career Day (May 2, 2015) 11:00 A.M….
MLA Survey about the Use of Trigger Warnings
byThe MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWP) seeks feedback from MLA members on the use of trigger warnings—written warnings that alert students that material assigned in a course might be upsetting or offensive—at their institutions. Please take a brief survey, which is intended to gather information…
The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market #mla16
byPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX. We are especially interested in proposals from graduate students preparing for the job market, or currently on the job market. This roundtable will consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students, contingent…