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the latest American Historical Association's newsletter Perspectives on History includes an article by Olivia M. Hagedorn about her experience during the Modern Language Association's Career Development Boot Camp and the way it changed her thinking about her goals for her career. You can read it at the lin below:
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
A guest post by Kathleen O’Brien-Nicholson, Associate Director and Marketing & Sales Director, Fordham University Press
Dear colleagues,
I'm writing to share two CfPs for next year's MLA convention, "Vernacular Science" and "Yiddish, Yinglish, English: Rendering the Multilingual Immigrant Text in a Dominant Language". Abstracts are due by March 19, please be in touch with questions. These two panels have been proposed by the LLC Yiddish forum's executive committee, which I am chairing this year. We would love to hear from other MLA members interested to participate in the Yiddish forum in future years.
I am the Coordinator of Contributing Scholars Programs at the Modern Language Association, and I am writing regarding two opportunities for your members to contribute to the MLA International Bibliography and share important scholarship in your field. The MLA is currently seeking new field bibliographers, and we are also accepting applications for three-year MLA Bibliography fellowships.
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
MLA Executive Forum on Medieval French
Claire Antone Payton, University of Virginia
In this episode, we return to the topic of peer review, this time discussing the peer review process for editing and publishing scholarly editions. Robert interviews Mark Kamrath, a Professor of English at the University of Central Florida.
Friends:
The Modern Language Association has issued a letter announcing that it plans to transfer exclusive rights to sell access to its MLA bibliography to EBSCO. EBSCO will sell the bibliography to libraries as part of the content packages it normally offers. Gale Cengage, which has also offered the bibliography, has expressed disappointment over this development. The MLA says that maintaining the bibliography on several different "platforms" was eating up too much valuable staff time.
Below is a link to the MLA letter concerning its decision.
