MLN Journal

MLN Comparative Literature issue cover. Soldier with rifle holding a toddler and two children at his side

New issue (up on @projectmuse.bsky.social soon)! This issue includes an archival find: the typescript of a lecture Auerbach gave (in exile, in 1941) on literature and war (who gets to write about war? who feels they have agency?) + an essay on close reading + more @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Screenshot/description of MLA Panel 440 Academic Journals in an Age of Insecurity

If you're in Toronto at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social convention, come discuss journal publishing with us
@hopkinspress.bsky.social

Description of MLA panel 440: Academic Journals in an Age of Insecurity

Join us at the MLA for a roundtable discussion on journal publishing. Led by MLN managing editor
@victoriajane.bsky.social with Laurence Roth, editor of Modern Language Studies and Hank Scotch, managing editor of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
@modernlanguage.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Among the topics we'll be discussing at the MLA this Saturday

Also: the shrinking pool of peer reviewers

MLA panel 440 Academic Journals in an Age of Insecurity. See MLA program for full detail

Come find us at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Toronto next week!

Hopkins Press Podcast 4.13: MLN on Literature, War, and Exile: A Rediscovered Typescript by Erich Auerbach

www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/h... for @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Who gets to write about war?
Christian Rivoletti discusses a lecture Erich Auerbach delivered in 1940 during his exile in Turkey.
Plus Leo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social highlight other parts of this issue (available very soon) and discuss what they are looking for at @mlnjournal.bsky.social

Cover of MLN 140.4. A pie chart three-quarters blue and one quarter red

table of contents for MLN vol. 140, no. 5 which you can view here

Just arrived! From Christy Wampole's essay on the Zeitgeist (including a discussion of the origin of the term) to editor Derek Schilling's reflection on experimental poetics-- this issue explores a quarter century of literature in French. OA! @hopkinspress.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

Happy to see @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social getting great press-- nice essay by Johanna here. Our Comparative Literature issue (now in proofs-- coming soon) has a terrific essay on the subject by Yael Segalovitz. Stay tuned!
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

A reminder that we are open for submissions for our French issue-- deadline January 30. Articles in French or English.
Email MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions.
Please share with interested colleagues!

The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 1)

The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 2)

The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 3)

The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 4)

📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”

📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026
📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026

Please share widely!
❓Reach out if you have any questions!

Reflections on a quarter century of writing in French. Check out this beautiful special issue edited by Derek Schilling. It's open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social

After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social

We're excited that the MLA's archives have found such a perfect home! Thanks to @jhu.edu for ensuring these historic materials about the profession will be preserved and made available to researchers.

"Publishers are encouraged to submit outstanding translations from German into English published in the US or Canada in the previous year (2025)." www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...

Historic MLA Archive Returns to Its Roots at Hopkins - The Sheridan Libraries & University Museums Blog The Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries has acquired the records of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the leading professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literatur...

Exciting news! Hopkins has acquired the records of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social
The history of MLN intersects with the founding of the Modern Language Association @jhu.edu
blogs.library.jhu.edu/2025/10/hist...

Thank you for your contribution to this fantastic issue, @petripajari.bsky.social

Thanks so much for your contribution to this volume, @bryan.is

MLN's German Issue 2025 (MLN, Volume 140, Number 3, April 2025) has been published, containing my review of Chiara Caradonna and Vivian Liska, editors: Zäsuren: Paul Celans Spätwerk. | Caesurae: Paul Celan’s Later Work (Wallstein, 2024).

Direct link to my review, OA:

muse.jhu.edu/article/972237

Highly recommended, featuring an article by yours truly on Johann Peter Hebel: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Table of contents MLN 140.3 German issue https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Cover of MLN 140.3 German issue

Now up on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Guest edited by Daniel Carranza and Bryan Norton, this issue addresses how considerations of the planetary have been informed by—and themselves inform—German literature and philosophy between the 18th and 19th centuries.

Congrats, @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social!
Stay tuned for a review essay on close reading (that includes a discussion of this book) in our upcoming comparative literature issue.

From the archives-- pages from the first issue (1886) of MLN which invited advertisers at $10/page while the journal built a subscription list. The pages of early issues were a hodgepodge of advertisements (mostly for books and language classes), philological notes, and lists of new books.

Then it's time to submit again! The deadline for our German issue, however, just passed (Sept. 1).

1886 issue, no. 1. Available on JSTOR

The introduction to our first issue-- published in 1886

Available Open Access as part of @mlnjournal.bsky.social's latest issue. My article "Shaping the Nation through Its North-African Other: The Castilianization of Spain and the Hispano-Moroccan War"

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...