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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forum Executive Committees13
MLA volume 136 issue 5 Cover and Front matter6
Forum Sessions3
Monolingualism, Dispossession, and the Biopolitics of Language3
MLA volume 138 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Intimate Editing: The Textual Poetics of Susan Howe's Collage Poems2
Inṣāf: Authorial Justice2
Other Afterlives2
Tattoos: Writing in Dots2
A Feast for the Eyes: Mariama Bâ's Pan-African Vision2
Countee Cullen's Harlem Decadence2
“Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos” and the Temporality of Black Expression2
Inside the History of the World: Syntheses of Literary Form between Prose Poetry and China1
Growing with It1
The Name of Metacommentary: Fredric Jameson1
MLA-Sponsored Sessions1
Working Group Sessions1
Translating from Translations, As One Does1
In Memoriam1
Mariama Bâ's Souvenirs of Lagos: An Introduction1
Translating Gaia: Translation and the More-Than-Human1
Introduction to “An Arabic Theoretical Lexicon”1
Alongside Sexuality1
Friday, 7 January (sessions 178-389)1
Possible Persons: Dickensian Character, Violent Play1
On a Universal Tendency to Debase Retranslations; or, The Instrumentalism of a Translation Fixation1
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Punctuating Place, Time, and Pan-Africanism in Bâ's “Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos . . .”1
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Springtime for Ulysses1
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Teaching Literary Value1
Unsettled Legacies1
I Shall Not Speak Your Language1
MLA volume 140 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Paradoxes of Appropriation: The Chinese Reception of The Political Unconscious in the Age of Global Capitalism1
Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China1
Ephemeral Improvement: Interactive Print and the Material Texts of Early Abolitionism1
Tracing Lines in the Trauma of Displacement: Slavery in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and Afterlives1
Anne Sexton Listening to Anne Sexton – CORRIGENDUM1
Subject Index to All Sessions1
Variations on Verrition: (Re)turning to the Enigmatic Final Word of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal1
On Ordinary Violence: Las Casas, Politically Red1
Las runas y Beowulf / Runes and Beowulf1
Aesthetic Bearings – ADDENDUM1
Revisiting the History of Anonymous Peer Review (from Both Sides, Now)1
Put Some Red on It: Maoist Brooding and Communist Laughter1
Lessons from American Sign Language–English Interpreting1
MLA-Sponsored Sessions1
Aimancipation1
Liberation's Love Language: The Politics and Poetics of Queer Translation after Stonewall0
Rethinking Exceptionalism in an Age of Plague: An Introduction0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Khatibi, Now0
Fidelity, Betrayal, and Desire: Translating La princesse de Clèves0
Lawino in the Library: Anthropology, Modernity, and the Profession of African Literature0
Translating for TV: Ionesco's “Hard-Boiled Egg” for American Audiences0
After the West: Conrad and Nabokov in Long-Wave Literary History0
A Shudder in the World: Reading The Political Unconscious from the Periphery0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Queer Narrative Theory and the Relationality of Form0
Too Sad, Too Diverse, Too Poetic0
Reading The Political Unconscious at the End of 2020; or, Interpretation in an Era of Capitalized Mediation0
Translation, Equity, and Solidarity0
Forum Executive Committees0
Reading Late Modern Wartime in the Anthropocene: Elizabeth Bowen'sThe Little Girls0
Illegible Histories, Invisible Movements: Indigenous Refusal in Blake Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears0
The Return to Philology0
Financial Metafiction0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero0
Loss without Remedy: Moby-Dick and the Laws of Compensation0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Postcolonial Tattoos as Mnemonic Inscriptions0
“Words Are Things”: Translation, Materiality, and Mario Ortiz's Cuadernos de lengua y literatura0
The “Dark Night” of Juan de la Cruz0
Gurnah's Fiction at the “End of Religion”0
Native American Literature, 901 AD? A New Reading of the Battiste Good Wintercount0
Persianate Unfamiliarity: A Qaṣīda by Shawkat Bukhārī to Imam al-Rizā0
The Captain's Story0
“These Pages Remain Open for the Future to Write”: Mariama Bâ's Forgotten Writings in L'Ouest Africain0
Adab: Literary Form and Social Praxis – CORRIGENDUM0
Forum Executive Committees0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
Synchronous Coexistence and Temporal Overlay0
The Protestant Connection in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs and French Literary Modernism0
The Way toward the Other: Khatibi, Bowles, Mrabet0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Larsson, Remade: A Computational Perspective on the Millennium Trilogy in English0
National Allegory and Beyond: Postcolonial Critique Now0
Xenitia, the Nation, and Intralingual Translation0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
From Daneshvar to Damahi: New Formulations of the Persianate0
Rereading Elizabeth I as Europa0
Literary Translation as Cultural Affiliation: The Case of Victorian Poetry and Classical Verse Composition0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya – ADDENDUM0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship and Telling Excellent Stories0
The Thing about Trust0
Exhibitors0
Mónica de la Torre, Self-Translated0
An Invitation to the Archives0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
In the Spirit of the Wanderers0
Rethinking Asian American Exceptionalism0
Sound, Interrogation, Torture: John le Carré and the Audible State0
Forum Sessions0
The Jargon Amplifier0
To Save the Profession: Unionize!0
On Always Historicizing: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology Today0
About the MLA Convention0
MLA volume 136 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Anthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Tarjamah: Negative Translation0
“Is God Still French?”: Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation ofl'Exception Française0
“No More Translations”: Uncounting Languages in Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear0
The Weather in Stein0
Uncanny Slavdom0
In Memoriam0
Feminist Translation and Translation Studies: In Flux toward the Transnational0
A Laboratory Fancy0
New Light on Lucy Terry Prince0
English as an Additional Language0
Tanga, Tunic, Cleaver: On Things in Translation0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Form as Enabler0
Aesthetic Education without Guarantees: An Introduction0
MLA volume 138 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Thursday, 6 January (sessions 1-177)0
The Persianate as Comparative Literature: A Concept in Search of a Method0
Festac . . . Memories of an Oil Boom0
“Dreaming of Some Vanished Relationship”: James Baldwin on Aesthetics and the Sacred0
Ṭarab: Sonic Affect0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Sunday, 8 January (sessions 638–764)0
Waiting for Godotand the Racial Theater of the Absurd0
Large Language Games, Therapeutic or Otherwise0
On the Literature of the Ottoman Language0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
In Memoriam0
MLA volume 139 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
The Ontology of Becoming0
Fraught Intimacies: Persian and Hindu Publics in Colonial India0
The Ida Partenza Collection0
The Land of Gods: The Myth of Shambhala as a Dream of American Exceptionalism0
Shades of Red0
MLA volume 140 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Archive of the Poet and Writer0
Thursday, 5 January (sessions 1–162)0
Persianate Words and Worlds: Introduction to “The Persianate”0
Teaching the Art of Judgment0
What Was to Be Done? And How? “On Interpretation” in The Political Unconscious0
Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature0
Trust, Crisis, and Narrative0
Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation0
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Birth of Art0
The Monolingual Image: Reading Historical Change in the Animated Scripts of Mesoamerica0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Becoming Undisciplined: On Pathways to Environmental and Racial Justice in Early Modern Studies0
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity0
Languages of Refuge: In Defiance of Monolingualism0
Allied Organization Sessions0
The Translation Politics of Han Kang's The Vegetarian; or, The Task of the Reader of the Work in (English) Translation0
Prosodic Unrest in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Reading Red, Reading Palestine0
In Memoriam0
Khatibi's Graffiti: The Gestural Aesthetics of Writing on Language0
Working Groups Sessions0
In Memoriam0
In Memoriam0
Ta‘ajjub: A Rationalist Aesthetic0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics0
Map, Matryoshkas, Ouroboros: Three Types of Borgesian Framing in Trust0
Homo Alphabeticus, Glottographic Exceptionalism, and the Ethnocentric Definition of Writing0
Ambiguous Lever0
State Humanities Councils and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
Program Participants0
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Toward Afrofluency0
Becoming Sensitive: Literary Study and Learning to Notice0
Saturday, 7 January (sessions 401–636)0
Translation and Interpreting and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
Passing as White Collar: The Black Typewriter and the Bureaucratization of the Racial Imaginary0
Mariama Bâ, Younousse Seye, and the Ambivalence of Canonization0
Babo's “Mute”-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America0
Translating for Language Justice, across the Disciplines0
Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious— Forty Years On0
The Global New Woman and the Invention of Modern Feminism0
The Aristocracy of Qing Xinjiang as Patrons of Islamic Letters0
Racism in Brazil: When Inclusion Combines with Exclusion0
Forum Executive Committees0
(M)Other Tongue; or, Exophony0
Special Events0
MLA volume 139 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Untimely Models0
Mediated Ancestrality: Mariama Bâ, Instagram, and the Poetics of Fragmentation0
“Un Nouvel Internationalisme Littéraire”? Dreams and Delusions of “World Literature” in Khatibi, Djaout, and Adimi0
Headless Horror: Writing Decapitation in the French Caribbean Plantationocene0
Unfairing the Fair: Sexuality and the Affective Epistemology of Race in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Reality Benders0
Jameson on Aesthetic Education0
“Latin” and “Vernacular”: Early European Language Politics0
Minor Orientalism: Spain in James Joyce's Ulysses0
Benjamin’s Fire Tongs0
To Read Together0
Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”0
Translation, Postcoloniality, Literary Multilingualism0
Ceremonies Lost and Found: Global South Critical Philosophy against Cognitive Exceptionalism0
Pathways to Persotopias0
In Memoriam0
Imagining the Bob and Wheel0
Clipping in and out of the Trenches0
Program0
Afropolitanism and Social Class0
In Memoriam0
From Plinth to Stage: Protest Theater as Historiographic Activism in The Fall0
Bracketing the Possible: Mariama Bâ's FESTAC Memories0
The Aestheticization of Persia from Kant to Hegel0
In Memoriam0
Pound's Four Pages: “Literary Camouflage” and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda0
The Animal That Remembers: History, Hauntology, and Animality in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Ian McGuire's The North Water0
Thomas Munro and the Politics of Translation0
Program0
Errant Translation; or, Lin Shu's Don Quixote and the Paybacks of Back-Translating0
The Khatibi Effect: The Fragment as Horizon of Writing0
Sexual Violence and Racial Capitalism: James Baldwin's Prisons, 1969–740
AI and the University as a Service0
Black Skin, White Eyes: Spiritual Efficacy and Racial Animatedness in Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries0
An Alternative Ending to Minty Alley0
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Aesthetic Bearings0
Criticism as a Practice of the Commons0
From Elegy to Climate Bildungsroman: Jenni Fagan's The Sunlight Pilgrims0
Split the Flag0
“The True and Only Bones of Columbus”: Relics, Archives, and Reversed Scenarios of Discovery0
About the MLA Convention0
Afro-Asian Internationalism: Leftist Solidarities during the Cold War0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Afrisc Meowle: Exploring Race in the Old EnglishExodus0
Four Theses on the Real and Imaginary British Empire, 1697–18290
Program Participants0
Working Group Sessions0
Exhibitors0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya0
Seminars0
Forum Sessions0
From a Visit with Joseph Conrad0
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