The volume Teaching Science Writing, edited by Lisa Ottum, is now in development in the MLA Options for Teaching series. To learn more about the volume and how to propose an essay, please visit the MLA website. […]

The deadline to apply for a three-year field-bibliography fellowship from the MLA International Bibliography is approaching! MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and i […]

The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information […]

The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2021 Fellowship Award recipients:

David E. García, professor of English, Carthage College
Liorah Golomb, humanities librarian, University of Oklahoma
S. C. […]

You are invited to submit essay proposals for two new volumes in development: Teaching Economics and American Literature, edited by Katharine A. Burnett and Amy K. King, in the Options for Teaching series, and […]

Congratulations to the twelve MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in August 2021. Their projects include a free online resource for teaching Spanish […]

Published in the Summer 2021 Newsletter
These are heady days for higher education. Various initiatives under consideration by Congress would establish federal-state partnerships to address some of the most […]

The Modern Language Association congratulates the five MLA members who were named 2021 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to the humanities.

Ian Baucom, […]

You are invited to submit essay proposals for a new nonseries volume tentatively titled Getting to the Finish Line: New Directions for the Dissertation Process. Edited by Gretchen Busl, Kristina Reardon, and […]

The volume Approaches to Teaching Sherlock Holmes Stories, edited by Tom Ue, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught works that feature Sherlock […]

The MLA is deeply saddened by the passing of J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. Born […]

Congratulations to the twenty MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in December 2020. Their projects include a study of how digital methods in the […]

The MLA International Bibliography is accepting applications for three-year field-bibliography fellowships. MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information […]

Congratulations to Stacey Lee Donohue, who will receive the Association of Departments of English’s Francis Andrew March Award, and to Pauline R. Yu, who will receive the Association of Departments of Foreign L […]

The MLA mourns the passing of Theodore Ziolkowski, former president of the MLA and Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Ziolkowski was a renowned Germanist and […]

A second edition of the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, by Ellen C. Carillo, is now in development. Instructors who have taught digital literacy are encouraged to contribute to the volume’s development by c […]

The MLA International Bibliography congratulates the 2020 Fellowship Award recipients:

Brian Flota, humanities librarian, James Madison University
Carmela Mattza, associate professor of Spanish, Louisiana […]

The MLA mourns the passing of former MLA president Florence Howe. A pioneering scholar of feminism, Howe began her career in the 1950s and carved out a space for the discipline of women’s studies at a time when a […]

Congratulations to the fifteen MLA members who are among the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in July. Their projects include a group biography of five female members of the […]

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis Borges, edited by José Eduardo González, is now in development in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Instructors who have taught B […]