Modern Language Association

We are excited to announce COLA recently joined  MLA Strategic Partnership Network at an institutional level!!

We are excited to inform you that the College of Liberal Arts has recently joined the MLA Strategic Partnership Network at an institutional level. We encourage you to direct your faculty and students to the numerous opportunities now available to them through this membership. Please take full advantage of these benefits!

A few highlights are included below, but please check out the full list here:

• FREE MLA memberships for all graduate students and part-time faculty, 20% discount for full-time faculty
• Extensive professional development and mentoring resources
• Faculty eligibility to compete for Humanities Innovation Grants
• Department membership in the MLA’s professional development program and Academic Program Services (MAPS)
• Convention discounts for attendees and exhibitors
• 50% convention discount for graduate students and part-time faculty!!

About the Network

MLA Strategic Partnership Network membership extends the resources of the Modern Language Association, the largest professional association in the humanities, to all your departments and programs whose faculty members work in language, literature, linguistics, culture, area studies, fi lm and performance studies, writing studies, digital humanities, and more. This structure gives access to the professional development, research, and advocacy resources of the MLA for anyone at your institution who works in the humanities.

Benefits for Faculty Members:

Faculty members in other dues categories should enter their institution on the join-renew form to get 20% off their next renewal or when they join the MLA. Those interested in purchasing a life membership should contact membership@mla.org and mention their institution to get 20% off a paid life membership, allowing them to pay no further dues to the MLA.

• Full Membership:
  • Membership in the MLA Academic Program Services (MAPS) for all language, literature, and culture departments and programs.
• MLA Membership:
  • Membership for all graduate students and part-time faculty members.
• Professional Development:
  • Year-round resources including webinars, career planning resources, and mentoring structures for faculty members.
• Discounts:
  • 20% discount on individual MLA memberships for faculty members and staff, including multiyear and life memberships.
  • 20% discount on registration for additional participants in the summer seminars and Leadership Institute.
  • 50% discount on convention registration for graduate students and part-time faculty members when bought in bulk.
  • 30% discount on MLA booth rental in the Exhibit Hall at the annual convention for departments or programs promoting innovative programs.
  • 35% off higher education titles published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Registrations:
  • Two full registrations each for the summer seminars and Leadership Institute run by the Association of Departments of English (ADE) and the Association of Language Departments (ALD).
  • Free convention registration for undergraduate students.
• Newsletters and Updates:
  • Quarterly newsletter with updates on innovative programs in enrollment, retention, and career-readiness for students, as well as insights into best practices in faculty hiring and career development.
• Grants and Job Postings:
  • Eligibility for faculty members to compete for $3,000 Humanities Innovation Grants.
  • Two free job postings per year in the MLA Job List.
• Networking and Consultancy:
  • Access for department chairs to a network of peers through ADE and ALD discussion lists.
  • Department and program access to consultancy and evaluation services.
• Online Resources:
  • Online access to the ADE Bulletin and ADFL Bulletin archives from 1965 to the present for all department faculty members and students.
  • Immediate access to MLA statements, reports, and surveys.
  • Access to the searchable MAPS member database.
  • Access to a directory of PhD-granting departments.
  • Access to recordings of recent MLA professional development webinars.
• Acknowledgement:
  • Acknowledgement on the MLA website.

Benefits for Graduate Students:

As a member of the Strategic Partnership Network, UT Austin graduate students in language, literature, and cultural studies departments are invited to take advantage of

FREE MLA MEMBERSHIPS, including the following resources and professionalization opportunities:

• Reduced registration fees for the annual convention

• Eligibility for Travel Grants to the annual convention, plus other Prizes and Awards

• Access to members-only MLA Professional Development Webinars and Sit and Write Sessions

• Eligibility for Edward Guiliano Global Fellowships for international research and scholarly activities
   
• Discounts on books from Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, books published by the MLA, and other special offers
   
• A complimentary MLA Handbook, access to the PMLA current issues and archive, professionalization and advocacy resources like MLA Pathways, and more!

Tell Me More:

The Modern Language Association of America is the largest professional association in the humanities, providing opportunities for members to share their scholarship and teaching experiences with colleagues as well as to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host a major annual convention as well as institutes, virtual convenings, and regular regional meetings. Its more than 20,000 members—working in the related fields of literature, languages, and cultural studies—sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For more than a century, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.

Check back periodically as we add more benefits, resources and opportunites!  

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