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Acknowledgments (xi) Introduction: Teaching Modern Irish Poetry Today (1) Part I: Who?

What Is a Just-in-Time Session? Most sessions at the MLA convention have to be completed and submitted by 1 April. This works well for many topics, but sometimes an organizer wishes to create a session based on something that has happened after the 1 April deadline. In order to accommodate sessions on late-breaking and timely topics that could not have been proposed by the 1 April deadline, there is the just-in-time session category.

The MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy, supported by the Mellon Foundation, offer targeted training to graduate students and early career instructors to help ensure that students’ early encounters with the humanities provide a transformative experience that imparts knowledge and skills that are transferrable across all disciplines.

Virtual. All meeting times are in Eastern Daylight Time. 22–25 June 2026 (Preinstitute workshops held 15–16 June) The MAPS Leadership Institute is made possible by our sponsor, the MLA International Bibliography on EBSCOhost.

Introduction: Mr. Lem’s Planet (1) Note on the Translation (15) Selections from Mortal Engines How Erg the Self-inducting Slew a Paleface (23) Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon (37) The Tale of King Gnuff (45) Selections from The Star Diaries The Seventh Voyage (59) The Eleventh Voyage (80) The Fourteenth Voyage (120) Selections from The Cyberiad How the World Was Saved (149) The First Sally (A), or Trurl’s Electronic Bard (155) The Third Sally, or The Dragons of Probability (169) The...

Introduction (1) Part I: The Mexican Revolution across Pedagogical Geographies and Fields The Mexican Revolution in the American Literature Survey (15) Teaching Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo to Non-Literature Majors (34) The Mexican Revolution in a General Education Course (48) The Mexican Revolution in an Indian Setting (58) Part II: The Mexican Revolution and Its Wake The Role of Women during and after the Mexican Revolution (71) Pancho Villa Died in a Car: The Mexican Revolution, Petrofied...

Acknowledgments (ix) Introduction (1) Part I: History and Foundations Arthurian Origins: History and Archaeology (11) Geoffrey of Monmouth in an Arthurian Literature Class (22) Arthurian Cosmopoiesis: Wolfram’s Parzival (31) The Scandinavian Arthurian Tradition (41) The Middle Dutch Arthurian Tradition in an Anglophone Context (50) The Italian Arthurian Tradition (59) The Jewish Arthurian Tradition (68) The Diptych and Penitential Form and The Awntyrs off Arthur (77) Why We Teach the...

The MLA, in collaboration with other professional associations and nonprofit partners, is organizing a series of language-specific webinars on AI in the higher education classroom, with a focus on the teaching of language, literature, and culture. This page lists upcoming webinars in the series as well as past events.

This professional development opportunity is designed for faculty members and program leaders in the humanities who seek support for pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic initiatives in undergraduate career readiness. Participants will learn how to integrate student learning outcomes and career preparation in undergraduate humanities study. Participants will create an action plan and have an opportunity to earn a digital badge through our partnership with Credly.

Sessions at the MLA convention are organized by individual MLA members as well as by MLA forums, allied organizations, and MLA committees. Refer to Planning a Convention Session and Proposing a Special Session for guidance on creating and submitting convention sessions. See below for session submission links.