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New Issue of PMLA

Anna Chang — Wed, 29 May 2013 16:18:01 +0000

The March 2013 issue of PMLA, just mailed to MLA members, features five regular essays, on the Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, the pursuit of sovereignty in Norman Mailer’s The Fight, modernism and melodrama, Palestine in debates on postcolonial Maghrebi culture, and the European tradition of the invitation poem. The issue also includes a guest column by Julie Ellison on the new public humanities; a debate in Theories and Methodologies on Kenneth W. Warren’s study What Was African American Literature?; Alan Liu’s essay on the meaning of the digital humanities, for The Changing Profession; and four surprising discoveries in the series Criticism in Translation and Little-Known Documents.

Summer Newsletter Now Live

Anna Chang — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:03:53 +0000

The Summer issue of the MLA Newsletter features candidates for the 2013 MLA elections, Marianne Hirsch’s column about what it means to be the Modern Language Association of America, and Rosemary G. Feal’s column on the association’s strategic planning.

Literary Studies in the Digital Age

Anna Chang — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:47:16 +0000

Four new essays join Literary Studies in the Digital Age, the first born-digital open-access anthology to appear on MLA Commons. Edited by Kenneth M. Price and Ray Siemens, the collection aims to familiarize readers with tools and techniques used in digital literary studies. Readers are invited to activate their MLA Commons accounts (a benefit of membership in the association) in order to comment on essays, submit essays and ideas for future iterations of the volume, and upload drafts of their own work to the DLS Anthology group. The volume is free and accessible to all at http://dlsanthology.commons.mla.org.

Spring Newsletter Highlights

Anna Chang — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:20:10 +0000

The Spring 2013 Newsletter is now available online. The issue includes 2012 election results, an article on the launch of MLA Commons, Rosemary G. Feal’s editor’s column on her return to Guatemala, and Marianne Hirsch’s president’s column on rethinking the MLA’s division and discussion group structure. Visit the From the Executive Director blog for an expanded version of Feal’s column that includes photographs.

Winter 2012 Newsletter Now Online

Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:06:52 +0000

The Winter 2012 MLA Newsletter is now available online. Read the issue for a report on the 2011–12 Job Information List, Michael Bérubé’s president’s column on how members can get more involved with the association, and Rosemary G. Feal’s editor’s column on “doing the humanities.”