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 ...

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 ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Delegates to the Modern Language Association’s annual convention upheld a resolution accusing Israel of keeping Palestinian academics from entering the West Bank, but rejected another expressing ...

In the 2010s, a handful of U.S.-based scholarly associations endorsed boycotting Israeli academic institutions. But not the Modern Language Association, the largest scholarly organization for the ...

The Modern Language Association’s refusal to allow a boycott, divest, and sanctions resolution to be debated by its members has caused a stir within the group — and demonstrated the chilling influence ...