2013 Membership Enrollment Now Open
Members can log in to renew their association membership for 2013. Nonmembers can join the association for 2013, and former members can reinstate their membership. Find out more about member benefits and what your dues support.
MLA members and nonmembers may now register and make hotel and travel arrangements for the 2013 MLA Annual Convention in Boston. Join us in January at this lively gathering, where scholars from around the world present their research, visit the book exhibit, and mingle with colleagues.
To learn more about the presidential theme, click here. To search or browse session listings, visit the online Program.
Academic Workforce Data Center
The Academic Workforce Data Center, an online resource that presents Department of Education (DOE) data about the composition of the academic workforce, is now live. We encourage you to look up statistics on part-time, full-time, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track instructors at your institution and to take a survey about your own experiences there. Data from this project will be collected in the coming months and, together with the DOE data, will provide a fuller and more up-to-date portrait of conditions of academic employment on the nation’s campuses than what is currently available.
Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2009 is a comprehensive report detailing enrollments in over two hundred languages taught in US colleges and universities. The survey report shows that language course enrollments have continued to grow over the past decade and are diversifying to include an increasingly broad range of languages.
Enrollments from the twenty-two surveys conducted between 1958 and 2009 are available in a new searchable database.
The MLA Language Map can now display fall 2009 language enrollments at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The Language Map and its Data Center provide information, from US Census 2000 and the 2005 American Community Survey, about more than 47,000,000 people in the United States who speak languages other than English at home.
The Coalition on the Academic Workforce
The MLA is a founding member of the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW), a group of higher education associations, disciplinary associations, and faculty organizations committed to addressing issues associated with deteriorating faculty working conditions and their effect on college and university students in the United States. CAW has just released the results of its 2010 survey about the work patterns, remuneration, and employment conditions of contingent faculty members.
The contents of the September issue of PMLA now appear exclusively online. Regularly updated, the online directory gives members more accurate information to help plan convention sessions, apply for fellowships and grants, and take advantage of other MLA resources. A printed list of 2012 members is available for purchase on the dues form or when you renew online.
A collection of resources designed to help all members of the academic community advocate for the right working conditions for faculty members and the ideal learning environment for students. The kit includes two MLA reports published in December 2008: "Education in the Balance: A Report on the Academic Workforce in English" and "Demography of the Faculty: A Statistical Portrait of English and Foreign Languages."
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