Friends: I have been recently appointed to the Global South MLA Forum executive committee and the CFP below is backed by the forum.
**** World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons ****
Please consider submitting your abstract and/or kindly repost! Thank you!
If you would like to review Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @culturalcritique.bsky.social, please see 👇!
CFP for MLN's inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue press.jhu.edu/journals/mln
Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Don't miss our lively conversation with Christian Rivoletti and @mlnjournal.bsky.social editors Leonardo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social from the Hopkins Press Podcast about the Auerbach dossier!
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As a bonus, our Comp Lit issue includes a discussion of @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's work on close reading (in a review essay by Yael Segalovitz). muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303
Great week for Auerbach! Read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's essay in New Literary History and also MLN's latest Comparative Literature issue, which includes a dossier on Auerbach (from researcher Christian Rivoletti) All from @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Not to be missed!
photo of Erich Auerbach
At the center of our new comp lit issue is a dossier featuring a rediscovered text written by Auerbach during his exile in Turkey: the same period in which his masterpiece Mimesis took shape. The typescript appears alongside new critical perspectives on his work and legacy. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128
Segalovitz’s How Close Reading Made Us (pub @sunypress.bsky.social) extends this argument by tracing the global circulation of close reading as a technique of the self. Her review essay is open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Cover of How Close Reading Made Us by Yael Segalovitz
In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader.
muse.jhu.edu/journal/128
Cover of Barroco and other writings. Severo Sarduy lounging in a chair
Also in our new comp lit issue: Iván Hofman, Emily Apter, Bruno Bosteels, and Alex Verdolini discuss Severo Sarduy’s Barroco and Other Writings (pub by @stanfordpress.bsky.social, translated by Verdolini). Hofman writes, "after a century, Barroco retains the capacity to decenter and unsettle."
Barnwell argues that these works challenge and complicate the very idea of documentation, including how information is recorded, represented, and trusted.
Open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Instagram image of a giant octopus with a line of people on one side and the shoreline on the other. Comments on the side about it being a fictional story. The image is AI generated
Among other treasures in our new comparative literature issue: an article by Jeppe Barnwell that examines a genre he calls "fictional documentarism"-- texts that imitate or creatively engage with documentary forms while still openly presenting themselves as invented..
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I am very happy to share that the new comparative issue of @mlnjournal.bsky.social has just been published (open access), with articles not only on the translations of Zimmermann‘s „Einsamkeit“ (by me), but also on Erich Auerbach and on current close reading research!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303
many timely essays including one on the renaissance of close reading, another on literary texts that use fake documents to blur the lines between truth and fiction, etc.
MLN Comparative Literature issue. A soldier holding a baby in one arm. He has a rifle on the other soldier and two children next to him. MLN vol. 140, no. 5
New issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303! open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social
This issue includes an archival find: a typescript of a lecture Erich Auerbach gave in 1941, during his exile in Turkey. The subject is literature and war (who gets to write about war? Who feels they have agency? etc.) +..
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!
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
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
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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
