📚 Save the Date! The 2026 MLA Annual Conference is going virtual October 8-9, 2026! Theme: "Supporting Each Other, Sustaining the Work." Keynote: Kaetrena Kendrick. More details coming soon! #MLA2026 #Libraries

When Do We Need to Know What Is AI and What Is Student Writing? How Can We Know? During this workshop, attendees learn about approaches to distinguishing student writing from AI and discouraging AI use that interferes with learning. Speakers address fairness and bias, instructor l...

Watch the recording of our #MLA2026 session "When Do We Need to Know What Is AI and What Is Student Writing? How Can We Know?" through March 1 (registration required).
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OpenAthens Compass earned its 8th consecutive Modern Library Award - and we couldn't be prouder!

Eight years. Eight platinum awards. One incredible community.

OpenAthens Compass earned its 8th consecutive Modern Library Award - and we couldn't be prouder!

This recognition comes from the librarians who use Compass every day to deliver secure, seamless access to their users.

#MLA2026

#MLA2026 was a blast! Thanks again to all those who made it happen @modernlanguage.bsky.social. If you're looking for a sign to send your work out for publication, here it is! SEL welcomes the opportunity to consider your work sel.rice.edu/submission-g...

#AcademicSky #SEL1500to1900 #callforpapers

Someone should use the architecture of Toronto's PATH, Union Station, convention center, hotel lobbies, Scotia Bank Arena, etc., for the labyrinthine dungeon of a Dark Souls-like game. Finally got from here to there (inside) at the very end of #MLA2026.

MLA, looking after the people #MLA2026 #MLA26 @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Response: Student-Centered AI & DH Practices Roundtable | Ryan C. Cordell Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences

Perhaps harder to interpret if you didn’t hear @kiberens.bsky.social, @briancroxall.bsky.social, & @matthewkollmer.com's papers just before, but here are my brief remarks as a respondent in today’s "Student-Centered AI & DH Practices" roundtable at #mla2026

Conference panelists below a title slide ‘Impairment Theory: Disability, Phenomenology, and Knowledge Production’

Conference speaker in a wheelchair below slide reading ‘What does impairment mean to me?’

Panelist speaking at podium next to slide with image of herself and painted words reading ‘You’ve Changed’

So fortunate to get a guest pass to #MLA2026 @modernlanguage.bsky.social for a panel on #Disability #ImpairmentTheory and #Phenomenology Five excellent presentations by Cassandra Falke, John Shepherd, Gabriel Proulx, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Kai Qinq Tan; organised by @juntinghuang.bsky.social

What if the best ideas about poems are built with students?

TEACHING POETRY NOW brings together 31 bold, practical essays offering innovative, inclusive approaches to teaching poetry in today’s college classrooms.

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#TeachingPoetry #PoetryPedagogy #HigherEd

A wonderful roster of winners at this year's #MLA2026!
Thanks to all who submitted and celebrated--see you next year!

Book spotted in the wild #MLA2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social to purchase: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...
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#MLA2026 Explore how Mexican cinema shaped racial politics on screen.

tinyurl.com/s5s59rfs examines Whiteness as Indigeneity in Golden Age film (1930s–50s), revealing how cinema negotiated mestizaje, gender, beauty, and desire—often reinforcing racial hierarchies that persist today.

#ReadUP

Feeling inspired by #MLA26 #MLA2026? Want to propose an MLA volume on pedagogy, or a new translation? Post-convention meetings with MLA acquisitions editors are available at the Calendly link below. (And of course, you can e-mail us any time of the year.)

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#MLA2026 ends today but our conference discount lasts through February 23! Save 40% on all books and journal issues when you use code MLA26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, CAP. #Literature #LiteraryStudies buff.ly/fi06u5w

#MLA2026 How did close reading shape modern literature & us?

tinyurl.com/ydrzmmmr traces the transnational journey of New Criticism from the U.S. to Brazil & Israel, revealing how a seemingly formalist method became a powerful technique of subject-formation with global impact.

#ReadUP

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purple background, book cover top left titled reasons and feelings, book cover top right titled getting it published, book cover bottom center titled the barthes fantastic

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#MLA2026 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 35% off & free U.S. shipping using code EX58194: bit.ly/UCPMLA

A slide from my MLA presentation about the manga artist and illustrator Kyō Machiko. The slide features the title of the paper, "The Green Dreams of Kyō Machiko’s Manga,” overlaid onto a screen still from the 2025 animated adaptation of Kyō’s graphic novel Cocoon.

I'm looking forward to giving a paper at the #MLA2026 conference about historical memory, ecocriticism, and the work of the superstar manga artist Kyō Machiko. I'm in Session 658, "The Future of Graphic Narrative in Japan," at 1:45pm this afternoon (Jan 11). Hope to see you there!

New in paperback in April, O explores how poets and musicians reimagine the famous apostrophic “O” not just as a lyric cry, but as a graphic, symbolic, and material form of address.

#MLA2026 #LookItUP tinyurl.com/mrkmbu88

#LyricPoetry #Poetics #Apostrophe #LiteraryCriticism

In Canada at #MLA2026 and just royally freaked myself out looking up the weather back home in upstate NY (it's gonna be -17 this week!) until I realized that the temperatures were displaying in celsius.

Recirculating this shameless plug in the context of #MLA29 #MLA2026 since I presented on some bits and pieces from the cutting room floor. Look for it in March/April!

Lookong forward to presenting on internal migration in Biografía de un #cimarron tomorrow at #mla2026 on this panel organized by @tessrenker.bsky.social.

CONTINENTAL THEORY BUFFALO revisits the legacy of May ’68 for our current cultural emergency. The inaugural Humanities to the Rescue volume shows how theory, literature & criticism still matter—now more than ever.

#MLA2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/mr3raxvf

#May68 #CriticalTheory #PublicHumanities

NIAGARAS OF INK reimagines four centuries of writing on Niagara Falls—contested lands, industry, freedom, and wonder. An anthology + untold literary anecdotes that invite readers to see Niagara anew.

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#LiteraryStudies #PlaceAndLiterature #NiagaraFalls

Happening now at #mla2026, another session of the Global Hispanophone forum with LLC Catalan Studies.

🏆Russell Lowell Prize winner! Congratulations to Adela Pinch, honored at the Modern Language Association meeting in Toronto for "The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living"(FUP).

👋 Stop by Booth 217 at #MLA2026! 📚Order online —🔗 linktr.ee/fordham_press

From Super 8 & VHS to VR and AI, EXPANDING CINEMAS maps experimental cinemas across Latin America & Spain, linking alternative film formats to transnational exchange, diaspora, and the global avant-garde.

#MLA2026 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/4h2y6snv

#ExperimentalCinema #FilmStudies #LatinAmericanCinema

MLA Elevator bring all the delegates the yard / and they’re like its better than #AHA26 / damn right it’s better than #APA26🎶 #MLA26 #MLA2026

the cover of my newish book *the novel and the blank*

i can't make it to toronto for #mla2026 but my book got there. go say hi to THE NOVEL AND THE BLANK at the johns hopkins up exhibit table. #mla26 #bookhistory #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica

BROKEN RECORD brings together nearly fifty academics from across disciplines, career stages, and global contexts to expose the pervasive realities of bullying, harassment, mobbing, and assault in academic life—and the profound limits of institutional redress.

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