Find valuable resources for incorporating antiracist pedagogy into your fall courses. This community-sourced guide includes teaching practices and materials, reading lists, and other resources for implementing inclusive and nonoppressive curricula. See what your colleagues are doing to counteract racism in the classroom, and submit your own resource onHumanities Commons.
Publication Spotlight
Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman
Discover strategies for teaching Amiri Baraka’s play, a text that continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. Learn more.
Read the MLA's Statement on Systemic Racism
Read the MLA Executive Council's statement calling on educational institutions to "teach the literatures born of struggle against racist violence" and to "actively undo" structures that hinder the full participation of students and scholars of color.
Attend a Free MLA Webinar on Narrative Medicine
Register for "Medicine, Narrative, Pandemic, and Power," a discussion on 16 July, 2 p.m. EDT, about how narrative and the humanities can help us understand the pandemic and its differential effects on communities of color.
Apply for an MLA Humanities Innovation Grant
The MLA awards $3,000 grants every year to support the development of courses and other educational programs that build enrollments and revitalize student interest in the humanities. Learn more and apply!
Contribute to a PMLA Special Topic on Translation
PMLA seeks essays that examine the art, practice, and discipline of translation in this era of increasing globalization, destabilized national boundaries, and mass migrations.
Best Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members
How do your department's practices for contingent faculty members measure up? Use recommendations and evaluative questions from the MLA's Committee on Contingent Labor to advocate for change.
Calls
Call for Applications: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, due 30 June
CfP: National Undergraduate Body Image Conference, due 30 June
CfP: Poetry and Poetics standing session, due 15 July
Call for Essays: The impact of stress on cancer patients, due 31 July
Call for Essays: New volume on building bridges and crossing borders, due 15 Aug.
Call for Submissions: Special issue of Edith Wharton Review, due 31 Aug.
Call for Submissions: Stress, Distress, and Drop-out
special issue, due 1 Sept.
Call for Submissions: Special issue on gender, genre, and pop music, due 25 Sept.
CfP: Conference panel on conceptualizing the body, due 30 Sept.
