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MLA NEWS DIGEST • 13 APRIL 2022
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MAPS Summer Leadership Events
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Whether you are a new, experienced, or aspiring leader, the ADE and ADE-ADFL summer seminars provide valuable tools for strengthening your program. Can't make it to either of the seminars? Join us online from 27 to 30 June for the MAPS Virtual Leadership Institute, Empowering New Leaders: A Tool Kit for the Changing Humanities. Register now!
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PUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHT
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Shakespeare Sale!
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The MLA is celebrating the bard's birthday with a 40% discount on all Shakespeare-related titles—including our New Variorum Editions—during the entire month of April.
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USE CODE M40
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Join to get 30% off all titles.
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Apply for the MLA 2023 Innovation Room
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The application deadline to present at the MLA 2023 Language and Literature Program Innovation Room has been extended. Share innovative curricular thinking and promising new programs, courses, and resources. Learn more and apply by 1 May 2022.
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MLA Condemns Bomb Threats at HBCUs
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The MLA joins the AHA in condemning the numerous recent bomb threats at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, acts that aim to instill fear in students and in faculty and staff members and that threaten the physical safety and emotional well-being of all Black Americans.
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Apply for a Professional Development Grant
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The MLA is offering $1,000 grants to part-time faculty members to help pay for expenses associated with professional development. Apply by 16 May 2022.
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Help Shape an MLA Volume in Development
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Contribute to a new MLA volume in development titled Teaching Science Writing. Submit abstracts by 15 June 2022. Learn more.
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RESOURCE OF THE MONTH
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The ADE and ADFL bulletins are invaluable resources for leaders of academic programs in languages and literatures. Curated selections of recent articles on topics vital to the profession are available on the MAPS site.
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Papers: Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society virtual conference, due 30 April
Essays: Volume on notable transformations in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, due 1 May
Submissions: Special issue of Taj Mahal Review,
due 25 May
Papers: Midwest Jewish Studies Association conference, due 30 May
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Essays: Volume on queerness and aging in the Spanish-speaking world, due 1 June
Submissions: Special issue on mediations of service work and racial capital, due 8 June
Papers: Conference on early modern metaphor, due 15 June
Submissions: Special issue on world mythology and ecocriticism, due 30 June
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