MLA Commons | Site-Wide Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:12:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 881b146103b945d46e55db3a20bc3e02 Jeff Rohner-Tensee's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1949341/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:22:04 -0400 0 20508e059e78570bc06cbfdca7b0ade8 Colleen Baer wrote a new post, MLA Members Awarded 2026 ACLS Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=3231 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:28:58 -0400 Congratulations to the five MLA members who have been awarded 2026 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowships! ACLS fellowships support untenured early-career scholars in the humanities and […]

]]> ce3a98b45bac5ff60252da3c03aae480 Colleen Baer wrote a new post, MLA Members Receive 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=3229 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:27:31 -0400 Congratulations to the eight MLA members who were awarded 2026 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships! In a statement about this year’s fellowship recipients, Edward Hirsch, the president of the Guggenheim F […]

]]> 87be54993a100cc5a214aea36adef3de Colleen Baer wrote a new post, Member Spotlight: Amber Hodge, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=3226 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:18:45 -0400 This month, we’re spotlighting the work of Amber Hodge, an eight-year member of the MLA. Read about Amber’s time on the Committee on K–16 Alliances and why they recommend checking out the MLA Language Map:  […]

]]> 9ab232a093d18fc654c63bfe50517aa5 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic Disability and Care in Medieval and Early Modern France @ The Huntington Library in the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-and-early-modern/forum/topic/disability-and-care-in-medieval-and-early-modern-france-the-huntington-library-2/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:39:16 -0400 Upcoming conference at the Huntington Library: May 1-2, 2026 (flyer attached)

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*Graduate Students attend for free

]]> 0 3c17f9bef4b50ba3f2aaa7b0c661cc98 Cynthia Nazarian started the topic Disability and Care in Medieval and Early Modern France @ the Huntington Library in the forum LLC 16th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/16th-century-french/forum/topic/disability-and-care-in-medieval-and-early-modern-france-the-huntington-library/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:36:08 -0400 Upcoming conference at the Huntington Library: May 1-2, 2026 (flyer attached)

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*Graduate Students attend for free

]]> 0 ffc562d6a35fa7767b8c9f7f48cbe275 Marc Gandarillas, Ph.D.'s profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1949078/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:08:43 -0400 0 6fab25624185d9900925897231794368 Laura Francis started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations Invited for Delegate Assembly (Due April 24th) in the forum LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-invited-for-delegate-assembly-due-april-24th/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:56:42 -0400 <div class=”bp_group type-bp_group loop-item-0 user-id-1030431 bbp-parent-forum-331 bbp-parent-topic-938 bbp-reply-position-1 odd post-1040848 topic type-topic status-publish hentry”>
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]]> b186da780aa8035672da5912e447e6dd Herman Beavers wrote a new post, Accountability and the Possibilities Discerned through Leaps of Faith, on the site From the President https://president.mla.hcommons.org/?p=1523 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:47:30 -0400 Published in the Spring 2026 Newsletter.

In this, my first president’s column, I begin by turning to the work of the person most responsible for my foray into the academy and the creative arts. Michael S. H […]

]]> 0 ab6f957a8121e79eaae80d213c681312 Colleen Baer wrote a new post, MLA Members Named 2026–27 National Humanities Center Fellows, on the site News from the MLA https://news.mla.hcommons.org/?p=3217 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:16:17 -0400 The MLA would like to congratulate the three members who were named 2026–27 National Humanities Center fellows. Fellows will pursue independent research projects as residential scholars at the center, where t […]

]]> 218124b9c34244e8533a36c9805c6686 Eric Weiskott's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1948154/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:43:04 -0400 0 df1ead222627e4008d27f6ba6e14b7a5 Rocío Carranza Brito's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1948079/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:54:27 -0400 0 a8d2d0730b523c24ba7d0c937fd136b6 Rocío Carranza Brito changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1948073/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:51:44 -0400 0 cf677242758d5e821d55949089b7f97e Ellen Carillo's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947687/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:08:18 -0400 0 45515e9b6d3cef28afb2f0aae000b0c7 Jana Giles created the group Joseph Conrad Society of America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947451/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:25:15 -0400 0 38c4aa95ce4a0e929e709e188f7cb3c9 Jana Giles created the site Joseph Conrad Society of America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947450/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:24:22 -0400 0 b93ab069885839f948fa15a5ea2cc20c Molly Borowitz changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947444/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:24:21 -0400 0 8af24dab79de0b983296834998f75a18 Molly Borowitz's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947443/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:23:36 -0400 0 7554a592f90bd3257e49cb1e3d607baf Alex Alston created the group Panel: Treed: Plant Life, Enclosure and Becoming in Black Literary and Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947434/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:49:49 -0400 0 1d3ce99fd2c0c4afd3b5bd13d01379a8 Israel Reyes started the topic Boricua Pop(ulist) Art: Reassessing Puertorriqueñidad in the Bad Bunny Era in the forum LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/puerto-rican/forum/topic/boricua-populist-art-reassessing-puertorriquenidad-in-the-bad-bunny-era/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:29:17 -0400 During the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries, Puerto Rican artists helped lead the charge of what at the time was denominated the Latin Boom. Artists like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, and Jennifer Lopez became ubiquitous, which led some to sound the clarion call for further visibility and representation. However, while their careers…[Read more]

]]> 0 0488d4c0905d31057db52fc2105a7087 Nadia Bauer's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947407/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:48:22 -0400 0 735f5dc295d2fe19781a063a40d7ff67 Esen Kara created the site Mapping American Encounters in the Ottoman World https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947392/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:39:24 -0400 0 2555a905daaa0462c66f1ac1239c2b9c Subrata Chandra Mozumder created the site Special Session on "South-Asian Diasporic Poetics of Politics: Transnationalism, Feminism(s), and Resistance" at MLA 27 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947372/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:26:37 -0400 0 503a4ba666380a518666cc20e4641a78 Hongyang Ji created the group MLA 2027 Convention Revoicing Non-Humans through Ecological Translation https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947361/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:09:52 -0400 0 e6f9f3a9fc12e0f38d24eb7526be07ae Marlon Moore changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947342/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:22:54 -0400 0 5bb76908eacfa823cdfdcfc5d55ab786 Tehmina Pirzada's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947259/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:45:26 -0400 0 ae29b15624254dc94fb1447bc503fd8c Monica Vega Gonzalez created the doc Between "Residente" and "Benito": Naming and the Performance of Puertorriqueñidad in the Bad Bunny Era in the group LLC Puerto Rican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1947242/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:54:11 -0400 0 243dc67f3408c686df01358e00a1f606 Francisco Delgado replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/?view=all#post-1041054 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:43:37 -0400 Sure, no problem.

]]> 0 d40e147c807e712b6cf1c430060dfe7e Amee Schmidt replied to the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/#post-1041053 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:36 -0400 This is great, Francisco. Are you comfortable submitting it?

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641-844-5777<tel:+16418445777>
Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu<mailto:Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu>

]]> 0 79a08983560475b1d26311d8a8e7290a Amee Schmidt replied to the topic Draft of Program Copy for Decolonizing the MLA - Feedback Needed, Please in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-of-program-copy-for-decolonizing-the-mla-feedback-needed-please/#post-1041052 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:58:10 -0400 That’s a great suggestion! I will do that.

Also, I’ve been very, very ill, but I will get this submitted before tomorrow’s deadline.

AMEE SCHMIDT, M.A.
Associate Professor of English
Marshalltown Community College
3700 S. Center St. • Marshalltown, IA 50158
Office 403F • 641…[Read more]

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]]> 0 2d891d26651737784b1c913ea5ef296f Francisco Delgado started the topic DRAFT Program Copy - Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California in the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/indigenous-literatures-of-the-united-states-and-canada/forum/topic/draft-program-copy-languages-and-literatures-of-indigenous-california/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:28:21 -0400 Please see below for a program description for the panel, “Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California.” All feedback welcome!

A more detailed description of the panel and the presentations is available under “Files.”

This panel aims to promote the literatures, languages, and cultures of Indigenous peoples of present-day California, as…[Read more]

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