The Modern Language Association has announced the winners of its annual awards for outstanding scholarship in English and modern languages. The 16 awards are to be presented on December 28 in New York ...

The Modern Language Association of America (referred to as the Modern Language Association or MLA) is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and ...

Of course, it is not entirely fair to compare the 2026 meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA) to the fifth Solvay Conference. The latter featured 29 world-historical geniuses, 17 of whom ...

Members of the Modern Language Association did not pass a resolution critical of Israel for denying academics entry to the West Bank. The numbers of those who voted in favor of the measure fell short ...

Six members of the Yale faculty — Katerina Clark, Jill Jarvis, Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Shane Vogel, Erica Edwards, and Juno Jill Richards — have been honored by the Modern Language Association (MLA) ...

For their books, Assoc. Prof. Noémie Ndiaye and Asst. Prof. Maria Anna Mariani respectively will receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and for Italian Studies ...

Amid debate featuring anti-Israel slurs, the full Modern Language Association membership voted on a resolution singling out Israel for denying academics entry to the West Bank. At least 10 percent of ...

Enrollment by college students in foreign language courses dropped a record 16.6% between fall 2016 and fall 2021, according to the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) most recent census, released ...