In a newly published report, the MLA Task Force on Ethical Conduct in Graduate Education offers concrete recommendations for helping faculty members and administrators support graduate students. The report calls for collaborative or networked advising, clear rules for faculty responsiveness, and professionalization opportunities and career guidance that reflect employment realities.
Publication Spotlight
How Students Write: A Linguistic Analysis
This title analyzes sentence-level features in student writing to help you understand how students make their arguments. Learn more.
Free Webinar on COVID-19 and Higher Education
Attend a virtual MLA Public Conversation: "Is Higher Education Learning from the Pandemic?" Join Christopher Newfield, Cathy N. Davidson, and Alondra Nelson on 27 May (2:00 p.m. EDT) for a discussion led by Paula Krebs. Learn more and register.
Participate in the 2021 International Symposium
Propose a paper or session for the next MLA International Symposium, in Glasgow, Scotland (17–19 June 2021), on the theme Being Hospitable: Welcoming the Other across Languages. Find out more and submit your proposal!
MLA Raises $100,000 for Emergency Grants
To support contingent faculty members hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the MLA, through the generosity of individual donors and sponsors, has raised more than $100,000, which will enable us to give grants to all 203 of the member applicants.
Open Access for March 2020 PMLA
Unable to access your print copy of PMLA? During this crisis, the MLA has made the March issue, which includes a special section on aurality and literacy,available for free online.
Help Shape an MLA Volume in Development
Propose an essay that shares your experience teaching about the intersection of food and literature in an upcoming MLA volume.
Events
5–8 Nov.: 2020 National Humanities Conference, Indianapolis
20 Nov.: The Body at Work: Gender, Labour, Migration symposium, Paris
1–2 Dec.: Symposium on the mechanics of dispossession during the Nazi period, New York
Calls
CfP: Modernism and Postmodernism Studies Conference, due 31 May
CfP: Gender, language, and education conference, due 31 May
Call for Proposals: Second Language Digital Literacies symposium, due 7 June
