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MLA NEWS DIGEST • 16 FEBRUARY 2023
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Compete for MLA Publication Prizes
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Authors, editors, and publishers are invited to submit entries for MLA awards for outstanding work in languages, literatures, interdisciplinary studies, biography, and translation. The deadline for two prizes—the James Russell Lowell Prize and the MLA Prize for a First Book—is 1 March.
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PUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHT
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Beyond Fitting In
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This volume addresses how first-generation students interact with and affect writing and literacy instruction.
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LEARN MORE
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Join to get 30% off MLA titles.
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MLA Webinars on the Public Humanities
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MLA members are invited to attend two webinars
(9 and 21 March) on developing and sustaining projects in the public humanities and on changing how such projects are valued. Learn more and view previous MLA public humanities webinars.
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MLA Summer Internships
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The MLA is hiring paid interns to assist with communications and outreach, meetings and events, and the MLA Bibliography for summer 2023. Tell your students to apply by 24 March!
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Apply for MLA Bibliography Fellowships
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The MLA seeks scholars in relevant fields who are interested in training as field bibliography fellows. Fellows will receive a stipend and a completion certificate. Apply by 15 March.
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RESOURCE OF THE MONTH
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There's still time to view presentations you may have missed at MLA 2023. Session recordings are available to convention registrants until mid-March. Click on the "virtual" icon on the meeting calendar to find sessions.
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Essays: Collection on drag performance and queer community, due 1 Mar.
Submissions: Oxford Handbook of African American Women’s Writing, due 1 Mar.
Essays: Special issue of the European Journal of American Studies, due 6 Mar.
Papers: Conference session on rethinking animal comparison, due 15 Mar.
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Papers: Conference on translation, interpreting, and the platform economy, due 15 Mar.
Essays: Volume of Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, due 24 Mar.
Essays: Special issue of Cuadernos del Archivo, due 31 Mar.
Submissions: Volume on Irish literature since modernism, due 31 Mar.
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