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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Monolingualism, Dispossession, and the Biopolitics of Language6
Tattoos: Writing in Dots4
MLA volume 138 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Other Afterlives3
Intimate Editing: The Textual Poetics of Susan Howe's Collage Poems3
“Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos” and the Temporality of Black Expression2
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies2
Working Group Sessions2
Inṣāf: Authorial Justice2
Countee Cullen's Harlem Decadence2
On Ordinary Violence: Las Casas, Politically Red2
Tracing Lines in the Trauma of Displacement: Slavery in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and Afterlives2
Subject Index to All Sessions2
A Feast for the Eyes: Mariama Bâ's Pan-African Vision2
Variations on Verrition: (Re)turning to the Enigmatic Final Word of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal2
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
Inside the History of the World: Syntheses of Literary Form between Prose Poetry and China2
Translating from Translations, As One Does2
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Revisiting the History of Anonymous Peer Review (from Both Sides, Now)1
On a Universal Tendency to Debase Retranslations; or, The Instrumentalism of a Translation Fixation1
Punctuating Place, Time, and Pan-Africanism in Bâ's “Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos . . .”1
Paradoxes of Appropriation: The Chinese Reception of The Political Unconscious in the Age of Global Capitalism1
Anne Sexton Listening to Anne Sexton – CORRIGENDUM1
Strait Flow1
I Shall Not Speak Your Language1
Introduction to “An Arabic Theoretical Lexicon”1
Aimancipation1
Aesthetic Bearings – ADDENDUM1
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Totality, Revisited1
Las runas y Beowulf / Runes and Beowulf1
Alongside Sexuality1
Lessons from American Sign Language–English Interpreting1
Trans Saints in Old English1
Mariama Bâ's Souvenirs of Lagos: An Introduction1
Early Modern Translation and the Digital Turn in the Humanities1
Put Some Red on It: Maoist Brooding and Communist Laughter1
Ephemeral Improvement: Interactive Print and the Material Texts of Early Abolitionism1
Teaching Literary Value1
Growing with It1
MLA-Sponsored Sessions1
Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China1
The Name of Metacommentary: Fredric Jameson1
In Memoriam1
Possible Persons: Dickensian Character, Violent Play1
Fossil Fuel Fiction and the Geologies of Race1
Translating Gaia: Translation and the More-Than-Human1
Life with a Cut: Historical Time and the Mediation of Coloniality in Francisco Balagtas’s Florante at Laura and Lope K. Santos’s B1
MLA volume 140 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
MLA volume 140 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Literary Translation as Cultural Affiliation: The Case of Victorian Poetry and Classical Verse Composition0
Mediated Ancestrality: Mariama Bâ, Instagram, and the Poetics of Fragmentation0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”0
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Sexual Violence and Racial Capitalism: James Baldwin's Prisons, 1969–740
Sound, Interrogation, Torture: John le Carré and the Audible State0
Passing as White Collar: The Black Typewriter and the Bureaucratization of the Racial Imaginary0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Reading Red, Reading Palestine0
Unfinished Business: Reckoning with Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture0
The Return to Philology0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Negative Totalization0
The Land of Gods: The Myth of Shambhala as a Dream of American Exceptionalism0
Khatibi's Graffiti: The Gestural Aesthetics of Writing on Language0
From a Visit with Joseph Conrad0
In Memoriam0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Thomas Munro and the Politics of Translation0
Worldmaking from the South and “By the Sea” in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction0
Forum Executive Committees0
Illegible Histories, Invisible Movements: Indigenous Refusal in Blake Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears0
Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero0
Synchronous Coexistence and Temporal Overlay0
About the MLA Convention0
From Daneshvar to Damahi: New Formulations of the Persianate0
Translating for Language Justice, across the Disciplines0
Reading Late Modern Wartime in the Anthropocene: Elizabeth Bowen'sThe Little Girls0
The Metaeconomics of Hernan Diaz's Trust0
Translating for TV: Ionesco's “Hard-Boiled Egg” for American Audiences0
Errant Translation; or, Lin Shu's Don Quixote and the Paybacks of Back-Translating0
Khatibi, Now0
(M)Other Tongue; or, Exophony0
To Read Together0
“Un Nouvel Internationalisme Littéraire”? Dreams and Delusions of “World Literature” in Khatibi, Djaout, and Adimi0
The Aristocracy of Qing Xinjiang as Patrons of Islamic Letters0
In Memoriam0
Diasporic World Literature: The Vale of Cedars in the Global Haskalah0
Saturday, 7 January (sessions 401–636)0
“These Pages Remain Open for the Future to Write”: Mariama Bâ's Forgotten Writings in L'Ouest Africain0
Minor Orientalism: Spain in James Joyce's Ulysses0
Aesthetic Education without Guarantees: An Introduction0
Allied Organization Sessions0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Xenitia, the Nation, and Intralingual Translation0
Anthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation0
Ceremonies Lost and Found: Global South Critical Philosophy against Cognitive Exceptionalism0
Thursday, 5 January (sessions 1–162)0
In Memoriam0
Translation and Interpreting and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
MLA volume 140 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
In Memoriam0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Shades of Red0
Gurnah's Fiction at the “End of Religion”0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
State Humanities Councils and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
Prosodic Unrest in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Pathways to Persotopias0
Toward Afrofluency0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Imagining the Bob and Wheel0
Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
MLA volume 140 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Program0
Program0
The Animal That Remembers: History, Hauntology, and Animality in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Ian McGuire's The North Water0
What Was to Be Done? And How? “On Interpretation” in The Political Unconscious0
Large Language Games, Therapeutic or Otherwise0
Generative Theories, Pretrained Responses: Large AI Models and the Humanities0
Working Groups Sessions0
Headless Horror: Writing Decapitation in the French Caribbean Plantationocene0
In Memoriam0
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Liberation's Love Language: The Politics and Poetics of Queer Translation after Stonewall0
Form as Enabler0
Mónica de la Torre, Self-Translated0
Marxist Feminism in Flight0
The Way toward the Other: Khatibi, Bowles, Mrabet0
MLA volume 138 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Black Skin, White Eyes: Spiritual Efficacy and Racial Animatedness in Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries0
On Always Historicizing: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology Today0
Translation, Equity, and Solidarity0
Unfairing the Fair: Sexuality and the Affective Epistemology of Race in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Ta‘ajjub: A Rationalist Aesthetic0
Fictions of Capital0
“Is God Still French?”: Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation ofl'Exception Française0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship and Telling Excellent Stories0
The Captain's Story0
Palms behind the Smog: Strange Energies in Mawsim al-hijra ilā al-shimāl (Season of Migration to the North)0
The Weather in Stein0
The Aestheticization of Persia from Kant to Hegel0
After the West: Conrad and Nabokov in Long-Wave Literary History0
“Dreaming of Some Vanished Relationship”: James Baldwin on Aesthetics and the Sacred0
J. G. Farrell's Lost Polio Novel0
Babo's “Mute”-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America0
Phillis Wheatley’s Georgics of Repair0
In Memoriam0
Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation0
The “Dark Night” of Juan de la Cruz0
Reading The Political Unconscious at the End of 2020; or, Interpretation in an Era of Capitalized Mediation0
Untimely Models0
Native American Literature, 901 AD? A New Reading of the Battiste Good Wintercount0
Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious— Forty Years On0
The “Lost Cause” of Cultural Studies: Laclau after Hall0
Teaching the Art of Judgment0
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp0
Aesthetic Bearings0
Bracketing the Possible: Mariama Bâ's FESTAC Memories0
The Ontology of Becoming0
Trust, Crisis, and Narrative0
Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics0
Benjamin Dreams of Anarchy0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
“Latin” and “Vernacular”: Early European Language Politics0
Festac . . . Memories of an Oil Boom0
Pound's Four Pages: “Literary Camouflage” and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda0
Waiting for Godotand the Racial Theater of the Absurd0
New Light on Lucy Terry Prince0
Henri Lefebvre’s (Every)Day Care0
The Ida Partenza Collection0
“Words Are Things”: Translation, Materiality, and Mario Ortiz's Cuadernos de lengua y literatura0
In the Spirit of the Wanderers0
“No More Translations”: Uncounting Languages in Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear0
Too Sad, Too Diverse, Too Poetic0
Sunday, 8 January (sessions 638–764)0
Jameson on Aesthetic Education0
AI and the University as a Service0
Program Participants0
Larsson, Remade: A Computational Perspective on the Millennium Trilogy in English0
MLA volume 138 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Persianate Unfamiliarity: A Qaṣīda by Shawkat Bukhārī to Imam al-Rizā0
Lawino in the Library: Anthropology, Modernity, and the Profession of African Literature0
Becoming Undisciplined: On Pathways to Environmental and Racial Justice in Early Modern Studies0
From Elegy to Climate Bildungsroman: Jenni Fagan's The Sunlight Pilgrims0
Benjamin’s Fire Tongs0
MLA volume 139 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Languages of Refuge: In Defiance of Monolingualism0
Split the Flag0
Forum Sessions0
An Alternative Ending to Minty Alley0
The Thing about Trust0
The Translation Politics of Han Kang's The Vegetarian; or, The Task of the Reader of the Work in (English) Translation0
The Jargon Amplifier0
Rethinking Asian American Exceptionalism0
Clipping in and out of the Trenches0
The “Man-Eater” Variant to “A Hunger-Artist”0
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Birth of Art0
Seminars0
Tarjamah: Negative Translation0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Translation, Postcoloniality, Literary Multilingualism0
Publisher 2.00
Uncanny Slavdom0
In Memoriam0
The Global New Woman and the Invention of Modern Feminism0
English as an Additional Language0
Rereading Elizabeth I as Europa0
Forum Executive Committees0
Afrisc Meowle: Exploring Race in the Old EnglishExodus0
Tanga, Tunic, Cleaver: On Things in Translation0
On the Literature of the Ottoman Language0
Forum Executive Committees0
A Laboratory Fancy0
Ambiguous Lever0
The Slogan and the Map0
“The Greek-Egyptian Poet Cavafy” and “Meeting with Marinetti”0
Fraught Intimacies: Persian and Hindu Publics in Colonial India0
Financial Metafiction0
Ṭarab: Sonic Affect0
Persianate Words and Worlds: Introduction to “The Persianate”0
A Shudder in the World: Reading The Political Unconscious from the Periphery0
Archive of the Poet and Writer0
“The True and Only Bones of Columbus”: Relics, Archives, and Reversed Scenarios of Discovery0
Postcolonial Tattoos as Mnemonic Inscriptions0
Homo Alphabeticus, Glottographic Exceptionalism, and the Ethnocentric Definition of Writing0
An Invitation to the Archives0
Mariama Bâ, Younousse Seye, and the Ambivalence of Canonization0
Criticism as a Practice of the Commons0
Reality Benders0
The Persianate as Comparative Literature: A Concept in Search of a Method0
MLA volume 139 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya – ADDENDUM0
Allied Organization Sessions0
In the Thickets: Stuart Hall in 19830
In Memoriam0
Exhibitors0
Adab: Literary Form and Social Praxis – CORRIGENDUM0
The Protestant Connection in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs and French Literary Modernism0
Four Theses on the Real and Imaginary British Empire, 1697–18290
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