Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Papers
(The median citation count of Pmla-Publications of the Modern Language Association of America is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forum Executive Committees7
MLA volume 136 issue 5 Cover and Front matter4
MLA volume 138 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Forum Sessions3
Countee Cullen's Harlem Decadence2
Monolingualism, Dispossession, and the Biopolitics of Language2
Other Afterlives2
Tattoos: Writing in Dots2
Inṣāf: Authorial Justice2
Intimate Editing: The Textual Poetics of Susan Howe's Collage Poems2
Aesthetic Bearings – ADDENDUM1
Subject Index to All Sessions1
MLA-Sponsored Sessions1
Springtime for Ulysses1
A Feast for the Eyes: Mariama Bâ's Pan-African Vision1
Tracing Lines in the Trauma of Displacement: Slavery in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and Afterlives1
Inside the History of the World: Syntheses of Literary Form between Prose Poetry and China1
Ephemeral Improvement: Interactive Print and the Material Texts of Early Abolitionism1
Paradoxes of Appropriation: The Chinese Reception of The Political Unconscious in the Age of Global Capitalism1
MLA-Sponsored Sessions1
Las runas y Beowulf / Runes and Beowulf1
Working Group Sessions1
Variations on Verrition: (Re)turning to the Enigmatic Final Word of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal1
The Name of Metacommentary: Fredric Jameson1
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Aimancipation1
Growing with It1
Revisiting the History of Anonymous Peer Review (from Both Sides, Now)1
Friday, 7 January (sessions 178-389)1
Punctuating Place, Time, and Pan-Africanism in Bâ's “Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos . . .”1
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Translating from Translations, As One Does1
“Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos” and the Temporality of Black Expression1
On a Universal Tendency to Debase Retranslations; or, The Instrumentalism of a Translation Fixation1
Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China1
Possible Persons: Dickensian Character, Violent Play1
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
In Memoriam1
The Translation Politics of Han Kang's The Vegetarian; or, The Task of the Reader of the Work in (English) Translation0
Tarjamah: Negative Translation0
“These Pages Remain Open for the Future to Write”: Mariama Bâ's Forgotten Writings in L'Ouest Africain0
From Daneshvar to Damahi: New Formulations of the Persianate0
General Convention Information and Services0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Mariama Bâ, Younousse Seye, and the Ambivalence of Canonization0
Uncanny Slavdom0
The Khatibi Effect: The Fragment as Horizon of Writing0
In Memoriam0
Translation in the Flesh0
In Memoriam0
Translating for TV: Ionesco's “Hard-Boiled Egg” for American Audiences0
In Memoriam0
Tanga, Tunic, Cleaver: On Things in Translation0
Feminist Translation and Translation Studies: In Flux toward the Transnational0
Native American Literature, 901 AD? A New Reading of the Battiste Good Wintercount0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Untimely Models0
Seminars0
Archive of the Poet and Writer0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 139 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Queer Narrative Theory and the Relationality of Form0
Translation and Interpreting and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
New Light on Lucy Terry Prince0
MLA volume 138 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
A Shudder in the World: Reading The Political Unconscious from the Periphery0
Mediated Ancestrality: Mariama Bâ, Instagram, and the Poetics of Fragmentation0
Anthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation0
Map, Matryoshkas, Ouroboros: Three Types of Borgesian Framing in Trust0
Gurnah's Fiction at the “End of Religion”0
Festac . . . Memories of an Oil Boom0
Pathways to Persotopias0
An Alternative Ending to Minty Alley0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Ceremonies Lost and Found: Global South Critical Philosophy against Cognitive Exceptionalism0
Adab: Literary Form and Social Praxis – CORRIGENDUM0
Bracketing the Possible: Mariama Bâ's FESTAC Memories0
Synchronous Coexistence and Temporal Overlay0
Thomas Munro and the Politics of Translation0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Thursday, 6 January (sessions 1-177)0
Illegible Histories, Invisible Movements: Indigenous Refusal in Blake Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears0
The Persianate as Comparative Literature: A Concept in Search of a Method0
Pound's Four Pages: “Literary Camouflage” and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda0
Loss without Remedy: Moby-Dick and the Laws of Compensation0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
The Land of Gods: The Myth of Shambhala as a Dream of American Exceptionalism0
Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature0
Minor Orientalism: Spain in James Joyce's Ulysses0
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
“Words Are Things”: Translation, Materiality, and Mario Ortiz's Cuadernos de lengua y literatura0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Fraught Intimacies: Persian and Hindu Publics in Colonial India0
Exhibitors0
Forum Executive Committees0
Afro-Asian Internationalism: Leftist Solidarities during the Cold War0
In the Spirit of the Wanderers0
About the MLA Convention0
J. G. Farrell's Lost Polio Novel0
Persianate Words and Worlds: Introduction to “The Persianate”0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Rude Railing Rhymers: Reading Close Rhyme in Skeltonic Verse and Hip-Hop0
Translation, Equity, and Solidarity0
Four Theses on the Real and Imaginary British Empire, 1697–18290
“Latin” and “Vernacular”: Early European Language Politics0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Birth of Art0
Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship and Telling Excellent Stories0
Criticism as a Practice of the Commons0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
The Concept of the New Literature0
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity0
Resentment: Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Anger without Privilege0
Aesthetic Bearings0
Rereading Elizabeth I as Europa0
Translating for Language Justice, across the Disciplines0
The Monolingual Image: Reading Historical Change in the Animated Scripts of Mesoamerica0
“The True and Only Bones of Columbus”: Relics, Archives, and Reversed Scenarios of Discovery0
The Jargon of Liberal Democracy0
The Aestheticization of Persia from Kant to Hegel0
A Laboratory Fancy0
Afrisc Meowle: Exploring Race in the Old EnglishExodus0
(M)Other Tongue; or, Exophony0
The Global New Woman and the Invention of Modern Feminism0
Sound, Interrogation, Torture: John le Carré and the Audible State0
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Public Humanities: Ayni as Community Engagement0
Aesthetic Education without Guarantees: An Introduction0
State Humanities Councils and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
Form as Enabler0
Toward Afrofluency0
Forum Sessions0
Lawino in the Library: Anthropology, Modernity, and the Profession of African Literature0
Khatibi, Now0
MLA volume 136 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Forum Sessions0
Ḥaqīqah: Truth, Reality, and Accuracy0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Xenitia, the Nation, and Intralingual Translation0
In Memoriam0
Festac . . . Memories of Lagos0
The Ida Partenza Collection0
The Weather in Stein0
The Captain's Story0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
To Save the Profession: Unionize!0
The Animal That Remembers: History, Hauntology, and Animality in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Ian McGuire's The North Water0
Rethinking Exceptionalism in an Age of Plague: An Introduction0
Jameson on Aesthetic Education0
Unfairing the Fair: Sexuality and the Affective Epistemology of Race in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
What Was to Be Done? And How? “On Interpretation” in The Political Unconscious0
Reading Late Modern Wartime in the Anthropocene: Elizabeth Bowen'sThe Little Girls0
Errant Translation; or, Lin Shu's Don Quixote and the Paybacks of Back-Translating0
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
“Un Nouvel Internationalisme Littéraire”? Dreams and Delusions of “World Literature” in Khatibi, Djaout, and Adimi0
Homo Alphabeticus, Glottographic Exceptionalism, and the Ethnocentric Definition of Writing0
From a Visit with Joseph Conrad0
Program Participants0
From Plinth to Stage: Protest Theater as Historiographic Activism in The Fall0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Clipping in and out of the Trenches0
AI and the University as a Service0
Teaching the Art of Judgment0
Mónica de la Torre, Self-Translated0
The Ontology of Becoming0
Prosodic Unrest in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
In Memoriam0
The Metaeconomics of Hernan Diaz's Trust0
In/Subordination: Pseudo/Translation and the Cultural Cold War in Juan Gelman's The Poems of Sidney West0
The Jargon Amplifier0
Ta‘ajjub: A Rationalist Aesthetic0
“No More Translations”: Uncounting Languages in Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
Translation, Postcoloniality, Literary Multilingualism0
Program Participants0
Headless Horror: Writing Decapitation in the French Caribbean Plantationocene0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Trust, Crisis, and Narrative0
Working Group Sessions0
Exceptionalism and Anticolonial Writing: The Afro-Asian Movement and Its Forerunners0
Ambiguous Lever0
Passing as White Collar: The Black Typewriter and the Bureaucratization of the Racial Imaginary0
Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation0
In Memoriam0
The Thing about Trust0
Forum Sessions0
An Invitation to the Archives0
Babo's “Mute”-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
After the West: Conrad and Nabokov in Long-Wave Literary History0
Fidelity, Betrayal, and Desire: Translating La princesse de Clèves0
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Palms behind the Smog: Strange Energies in Mawsim al-hijra ilā al-shimāl (Season of Migration to the North)0
The Aristocracy of Qing Xinjiang as Patrons of Islamic Letters0
On Always Historicizing: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology Today0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics0
Persianate Unfamiliarity: A Qaṣīda by Shawkat Bukhārī to Imam al-Rizā0
Ṭarab: Sonic Affect0
Forum Executive Committees0
Saturday, 7 January (sessions 401–636)0
Liberation's Love Language: The Politics and Poetics of Queer Translation after Stonewall0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Thursday, 5 January (sessions 1–162)0
Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious— Forty Years On0
MLA volume 138 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Too Sad, Too Diverse, Too Poetic0
Euryclea's Greeting: Literary and Linguistic Palimpsests in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Oeuvre0
Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”0
Special Events0
Waiting for Godotand the Racial Theater of the Absurd0
Lessons from American Sign Language–English Interpreting0
Racism in Brazil: When Inclusion Combines with Exclusion0
Becoming Sensitive: Literary Study and Learning to Notice0
Imagining the Bob and Wheel0
“Is God Still French?”: Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation ofl'Exception Française0
Afropolitanism and Social Class0
The Return to Philology0
Becoming Undisciplined: On Pathways to Environmental and Racial Justice in Early Modern Studies0
Reading The Political Unconscious at the End of 2020; or, Interpretation in an Era of Capitalized Mediation0
Program0
Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero0
Reality Benders0
“Dreaming of Some Vanished Relationship”: James Baldwin on Aesthetics and the Sacred0
English as an Additional Language0
Literary Translation as Cultural Affiliation: The Case of Victorian Poetry and Classical Verse Composition0
The Protestant Connection in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs and French Literary Modernism0
Financial Metafiction0
Languages of Refuge: In Defiance of Monolingualism0
Large Language Games, Therapeutic or Otherwise0
Sexual Violence and Racial Capitalism: James Baldwin's Prisons, 1969–740
The “Dark Night” of Juan de la Cruz0
Sunday, 8 January (sessions 638–764)0
Rethinking Asian American Exceptionalism0
Postcolonial Tattoos as Mnemonic Inscriptions0
Working Groups Sessions0
In Memoriam0
From Elegy to Climate Bildungsroman: Jenni Fagan's The Sunlight Pilgrims0
MLA volume 139 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
MLA volume 136 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Forum Executive Committees0
Sunday, 9 January (sessions 602-712)0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
The Way toward the Other: Khatibi, Bowles, Mrabet0
Program0
Larsson, Remade: A Computational Perspective on the Millennium Trilogy in English0
Thriving on Change: Translation in Brazil0
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