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MLA NEWS DIGEST • 13 OCTOBER 2021
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MLA 2022 Program Now Online
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Browse the online program for the 2022 MLA convention, which will take place in Washington, DC, and online from 6 to 9 January, to find sessions on the topics you care about. Get session details, see who’s exhibiting, plan your convention schedule—and check back regularly for updates!
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PUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHT
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita
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Explore ways to teach the works of the genre-defying Japanese American author Karen Tei Yamashita.
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LEARN MORE
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Join to get 30% off MLA titles.
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Apply for a Grant to Attend MLA 2022
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MLA members who are graduate students, non-tenure-track faculty members, unemployed, or living outside the United States and Canada are eligible for partial travel reimbursement grants of $400 to attend the MLA Annual Convention. Apply by 1 December.
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Select Your Forum Affiliations to Vote
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Make certain you’re able to vote in upcoming elections related to your fields of interest by choosing up to five primary forum affiliations. View your current forums and make your selections by 15 October. Learn more about forums and forum governance.
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Contribute to an MLA Volume in Development
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Submit an essay proposal by 1 November for one of the MLA books currently in development. Topics include Asian American rhetorical activity, economics and American literature, Strange Tales from Liaozhai, and more.
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MLA Executive Council Actions
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Read about the recent MLA Executive Council actions on efforts to restrict education about racism in American history, on higher education provisions in the budget reconciliation bill, and on threats to academic conferences.
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RESOURCE OF THE MONTH
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MLA members can request a free copy of the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook. Published in spring 2021, the ninth edition includes several new and updated chapters and hundreds of examples of works-cited-list entries by publication format.
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Submissions: Inaugural issue on literary multilingualism, due 31 Oct.
Submissions: Special issue on Indigenous young adult novels, due 1 Nov.
Essays: Volume titled Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy,
due 5 Nov.
Submissions: Journal issue on childhood and women’s studies, due 11 Nov.
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Papers: Conference on the works of Derrida and their relevance today, due 15 Nov.
Papers: Virtual symposium on diaspora, displacement, and dispossession, due 30 Nov.
Submissions: Special issue on computational literary studies, due 15 Dec.
Papers: Conference on the past, present, and future of American democracy, due 15 Dec.
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