Rocking MLA Like It's 2004
The MLA conference starts today in Seattle, and I’ll be there all weekend manning the booth that Open Letter is sharing with Archipelago and Counterpath. If you happen to be attending, stop on by. I’ll have copies of a bunch of our books AND the brand-new uber-cool Spring/Summer 2012 catalog, which you have to see ...
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Recent Prizes and Awards [Snowed In Odds & Ends]
Not only did I survive the MLA, but I was also able to make it all the way back to Rochester without delay. (Couple U of R professors who were scheduled to go through Atlanta, and ended up stranded in L.A. for a few extra days. Hopefully they beat this latest chapter in Snowpocalypse 2011.) Anyway, MLA was a pretty ...
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of the MLA
This year’s MLA convention starts tomorrow, and for once, Open Letter will be exhibiting. (We’re sharing a booth with Counterpath. Number 237 in case you’re going to be there.) MLA isn’t necessarily the most uplifting of conventions, although as with anything else that’s social, I love the ...
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MLA
For the uninitiated, this article from an old issue of The Believer is a great description of MLA. Especially this bit about publishing and tenure: The upshot: university presses, once institutions of gentlemanly loss in the service of niche scholarship, have been forced to reorient themselves toward the bottom line. ...
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Translation and the Academy
Catherine Porter, the new president of MLA, just announced that the theme for next year’s “Presidential Forum” at the MLA convention is “The Tasks of Translation in the Twenty-First Century.” To recognize the importance of translation in the modern world, it suffices to reflect on the number ...
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Special Sale on MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Members of MLA might be interested in knowing that for the rest of June all books in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series are 25% off. Interesting series of books and a pretty good discount . . . ...
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MLA On Air
Thanks to Maud Newton for bringing attention to the MLA’s radio show. The show has been around since 1997, so I’m personally pretty late to the game. Unfortunately, the listing of programs ends in 2006, but still, there are some interesting sounding shows to download, such as the one on Beckett and the one on ...
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