MLA International Bibliography

This MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force working paper discusses the risks and benefits of generative AI in writing/lit/language and makes recommendations to develop ethical policies and support development of critical AI literacy. The MLA invites you to comment. aiandwriting.hcommons.org/wo…

WoW #44 — Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Provides a systematic comparison of structural features of 76 creoles/pidgins in syntax, semantics, morphology, lexicon and phonology, alongside the 3-volume Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages. apics-online.info/

WoW #43 — Manuscrits Médiévaux: France-Angleterre 700-1200 Explore over 800 manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Allows users to search manuscripts in English, French and Italian and view manuscripts side-by-side. manuscrits-france-angleterre…

WoW #42 — MIT Global Shakespeares The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive provides online access to performances of Shakespeare from around the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. globalshakespeares.mit.edu/

WoW #41 — Legacy Libraries Legacy Libraries are the libraries of historical people created by LibraryThing members from a variety of sources. There are >150 Legacy Libraries, including Samuel Johnson, Marilyn Monroe, Carl Sandburg and Marie Antoinette. librarything.com/legacylibra…

WoW #40 — British Cartoon Archive An archive dedicated to the history of 200 years of British cartooning. The BCA holds artwork for over 200k editorial and sociopolitical cartoons, with collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines. kent.ac.uk/library-it/specia…

WoW #39 — Reel to Real From the songs of children's games in playgrounds across Europe to Bayaka women's songs that enter people's dreams in the Central African Republic, this site by the the Pitt Rivers Museum offers 1000s of hours of archival sounds. web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/

Learn more about teaching inside United States prisons in this new post from the MLA Committee on Community Colleges. ccc.mla.hcommons.org/2023/01…

WoW #38 — The Archaeology of Reading Uses digital technologies to enable the exploration of Renaissance scholars' historical reading practices of , using a corpus of 36 searchable versions of early printed books filled with of 1000s of handwritten notes. archaeologyofreading.org/

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Now accepting applications for our 3-year field bibliography fellowships! Field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit indexing information for citations. Open to all MLA members. Fellows receive a $500 stipend. Applications due 3/15/2023. news.mla.hcommons.org/2022/1…

Congratulations to Jennifer Newman and Julie Van Peteghem of Hunter College, City University of New York, recipients of the MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize for their course on Dante's Inferno! mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA…

Congratulations to our 2022 Fellowship Award recipients! -Virginia M. Adán-Lifante, UC Merced -Allison Bernard, Columbia & Wesleyan -Aedín Clements, Notre Dame -Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Duke -Britt McGowan, UWF news.mla.hcommons.org/2022/1…

WoW #37 — Algonquian Linguistic Atlas A multimedia linguistic atlas of Algonquian languages. Its goal is to create contacts between curriculum developers, language specialists and lexicographers of Algonquian languages, with a focus on online resources. atlas-ling.ca/

WoW #36 — The Periodical Poetry Index The Periodical Poetry Index is a free searchable online database of citations to English-language poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals, including texts by nineteenth-century British and American poets. periodicalpoetry.org/index.h…