Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Application deadline: April 1, 2021

The MLA International Bibliography  would like to expand the coverage of Korean-language scholarly publications, and we believe our fellowship program for field bibliographers might be of interest to members of this forum and other faculty and graduate students in their departments.

We are now accepting appl…[Read more]

The MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also…[Read more]

Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in terms of aggressor and victim (China/Japan, Korea/Japan, etc.),…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

You are invited!

Social Gathering and Networking Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Asian American, LLC East Asian, LLC Korean, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, and LLC Japanese to 1900

<span class=”aBn” tabindex=”0″ data-term=”goog_1889722906″><span class=”aQJ”>Saturday, 7 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m.</span></span>, 4…[Read more]

CFP – Korean Literature Association (KLA) Conference

Global Korean Literature at the Crossroads:
Celebration of Continuity and Transformation

Duke University – November 13-14, 2015

Korean literary studies in North America, once a discipline held together by the dedication of a few scholars, is a burgeoning field today. The last few years saw…[Read more]

Teach Korean literature? Please answer the few questions on this MLA survey (and find out how to submit a proposal for our new Korean Texts & Translations initiative): https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons.org/in-development/survey-call-for-proposals-korean-texts-and-translations

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the Korean Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Forum is now an official part of the Modern Languages Association (MLA).  Korean LLC Forum is the only East Asian LLC Forum within the MLA thus far, and we thank everyone’s support that made this possible (especially if you went to the MLA Commons on…[Read more]