Dear Editors and Marketing Managers,

We invite you to submit works and to call attention to the Modern Language Association’s upcoming publication prize competitions. In January 2021, eighteen publication prizes will be presented at the MLA Annual Convention in Toronto. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize for an outstanding scholarly work by a member of the association, the MLA Prize for a First Book, and the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, prizes will be awarded for the following subject areas and genres:

• studies of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture
• comparative literary studies
• French or francophone linguistic or literary studies
• literary translations into English
• studies of black American literature or culture
• studies of Italian languages, literatures, and culture
• studies of twentieth- or twenty-first-century literature and thought
• the teaching of English
• collaborative, bibliographical, archival, and digital scholarship
• studies of Germanic language, linguistics, and literature
• studies of Native American literatures, cultures, and languages
• manuscripts in Italian literary studies
• scholarly work in the field of Yiddish

Detailed information on the prize competitions can be found on the MLA Web site, where you can also learn about our new prize for edited collections and about the new eligibility requirements for the James Russell Lowell Prize and the MLA Prize for a First Book.

Some prize competitions require MLA membership; authors who are not currently MLA members may become eligible to compete for these prizes by joining the association before the competition’s deadline.

For more information, please contact Annie Reiser (646 576-5141; awards@mla.org).

Cordially,

Paula M. Krebs

MLA Executive Director