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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Monolingualism, Dispossession, and the Biopolitics of Language10
MLA volume 138 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
Tattoos: Writing in Dots4
Countee Cullen's Harlem Decadence3
“Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos” and the Temporality of Black Expression3
Intimate Editing: The Textual Poetics of Susan Howe's Collage Poems3
A Feast for the Eyes: Mariama Bâ's Pan-African Vision3
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies2
Translating from Translations, As One Does2
Punctuating Place, Time, and Pan-Africanism in Bâ's “Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos . . .”2
Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China2
Working Group Sessions2
Other Afterlives2
Inṣāf: Authorial Justice2
MLA volume 140 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Subject Index to All Sessions2
The Name of Metacommentary: Fredric Jameson2
On Ordinary Violence: Las Casas, Politically Red2
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
Las runas y Beowulf / Runes and Beowulf2
Lessons from American Sign Language–English Interpreting1
Teaching Literary Value1
Mariama Bâ's Souvenirs of Lagos: An Introduction1
Alongside Sexuality1
Aesthetic Bearings – ADDENDUM1
MLA-Sponsored Sessions1
Tracing Lines in the Trauma of Displacement: Slavery in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and Afterlives1
Totality, Revisited1
Aimancipation1
MLA volume 140 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation1
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
Anne Sexton Listening to Anne Sexton – CORRIGENDUM1
Ephemeral Improvement: Interactive Print and the Material Texts of Early Abolitionism1
Growing with It1
Revisiting the History of Anonymous Peer Review (from Both Sides, Now)1
Allied Organization Sessions1
Possible Persons: Dickensian Character, Violent Play1
Strait Flow1
Teaching Time: Temporal Imagination and the Late Novels of Henry James1
The Body in Ruins: Queering Cli-Fi and the Trauma Novel in Omar El Akkad’s American War1
Developing Humanities Perspectives across Disciplines1
I Shall Not Speak Your Language1
Introduction to “An Arabic Theoretical Lexicon”1
Paradoxes of Appropriation: The Chinese Reception of The Political Unconscious in the Age of Global Capitalism1
MLA volume 140 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
In Memoriam1
On a Universal Tendency to Debase Retranslations; or, The Instrumentalism of a Translation Fixation1
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Put Some Red on It: Maoist Brooding and Communist Laughter1
Early Modern Translation and the Digital Turn in the Humanities1
Trans Saints in Old English1
From Daneshvar to Damahi: New Formulations of the Persianate0
Languages of Refuge: In Defiance of Monolingualism0
Seminars0
The Land of Gods: The Myth of Shambhala as a Dream of American Exceptionalism0
Unfairing the Fair: Sexuality and the Affective Epistemology of Race in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics0
In Memoriam0
The Jargon Amplifier0
Khatibi, Now0
Thomas Munro and the Politics of Translation0
State Humanities Councils and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Tarjamah: Negative Translation0
Criticism as a Practice of the Commons0
Larsson, Remade: A Computational Perspective on the Millennium Trilogy in English0
AI and the University as a Service0
Passing as White Collar: The Black Typewriter and the Bureaucratization of the Racial Imaginary0
Too Sad, Too Diverse, Too Poetic0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious— Forty Years On0
Pound's Four Pages: “Literary Camouflage” and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda0
Working Groups Sessions0
Large Language Games, Therapeutic or Otherwise0
Financial Metafiction0
Bracketing the Possible: Mariama Bâ's FESTAC Memories0
On the Literature of the Ottoman Language0
A Laboratory Fancy0
MLA volume 140 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Postcolonial Tattoos as Mnemonic Inscriptions0
After the West: Conrad and Nabokov in Long-Wave Literary History0
The Weather in Stein0
Fraught Intimacies: Persian and Hindu Publics in Colonial India0
Aesthetic Education without Guarantees: An Introduction0
“The True and Only Bones of Columbus”: Relics, Archives, and Reversed Scenarios of Discovery0
Persianate Unfamiliarity: A Qaṣīda by Shawkat Bukhārī to Imam al-Rizā0
(M)Other Tongue; or, Exophony0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
“No More Translations”: Uncounting Languages in Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear0
Forum Executive Committees0
Homo Alphabeticus, Glottographic Exceptionalism, and the Ethnocentric Definition of Writing0
Henri Lefebvre’s (Every)Day Care0
“Words Are Things”: Translation, Materiality, and Mario Ortiz's Cuadernos de lengua y literatura0
In Memoriam0
Ambiguous Lever0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
Prosodic Unrest in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Adab: Literary Form and Social Praxis – CORRIGENDUM0
Benjamin Dreams of Anarchy0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Reading Red, Reading Palestine0
In Memoriam0
An Invitation to the Archives0
Hugo, Translated: The Measures of Modernity in Muḥammad Rūḥī al-Khālidī's Poetics of Comparative Literature0
Feminist Translation and Translation Studies: In Flux toward the Transnational0
From Elegy to Climate Bildungsroman: Jenni Fagan's The Sunlight Pilgrims0
Negative Totalization0
Xenitia, the Nation, and Intralingual Translation0
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity0
Lawino in the Library: Anthropology, Modernity, and the Profession of African Literature0
In Memoriam0
In Memoriam0
Rethinking Asian American Exceptionalism0
Pathways to Persotopias0
The Thing about Trust0
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
The Global New Woman and the Invention of Modern Feminism0
The Way toward the Other: Khatibi, Bowles, Mrabet0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
The Persianate as Comparative Literature: A Concept in Search of a Method0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya0
Translation and Interpreting and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
Translation, Postcoloniality, Literary Multilingualism0
Headless Horror: Writing Decapitation in the French Caribbean Plantationocene0
New Light on Lucy Terry Prince0
Exhibitors0
The Slogan and the Map0
Ta‘ajjub: A Rationalist Aesthetic0
The Protestant Connection in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs and French Literary Modernism0
Program Participants0
Mediated Ancestrality: Mariama Bâ, Instagram, and the Poetics of Fragmentation0
Forum Sessions0
Uncanny Slavdom0
A Shudder in the World: Reading The Political Unconscious from the Periphery0
Synchronous Coexistence and Temporal Overlay0
Translating for TV: Ionesco's “Hard-Boiled Egg” for American Audiences0
In the Thickets: Stuart Hall in 19830
Minor Orientalism: Spain in James Joyce's Ulysses0
Mariama Bâ, Younousse Seye, and the Ambivalence of Canonization0
To Read Together0
The Aristocracy of Qing Xinjiang as Patrons of Islamic Letters0
Persianate Words and Worlds: Introduction to “The Persianate”0
Ceremonies Lost and Found: Global South Critical Philosophy against Cognitive Exceptionalism0
Tanga, Tunic, Cleaver: On Things in Translation0
Diasporic World Literature: The Vale of Cedars in the Global Haskalah0
“These Pages Remain Open for the Future to Write”: Mariama Bâ's Forgotten Writings in L'Ouest Africain0
Ṭarab: Sonic Affect0
Liberation's Love Language: The Politics and Poetics of Queer Translation after Stonewall0
Shades of Red0
“The Greek-Egyptian Poet Cavafy” and “Meeting with Marinetti”0
What Was to Be Done? And How? “On Interpretation” in The Political Unconscious0
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Thursday, 5 January (sessions 1–162)0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Forum Executive Committees0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Waiting for Godotand the Racial Theater of the Absurd0
In Memoriam0
Gurnah's Fiction at the “End of Religion”0
Program0
In the Spirit of the Wanderers0
The Animal That Remembers: History, Hauntology, and Animality in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Ian McGuire's The North Water0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Jameson on Aesthetic Education0
The Metaeconomics of Hernan Diaz's Trust0
Program Participants0
Split the Flag0
The Captain's Story0
Errant Translation; or, Lin Shu's Don Quixote and the Paybacks of Back-Translating0
Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”0
Generative Theories, Pretrained Responses: Large AI Models and the Humanities0
Unfinished Business: Reckoning with Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture0
Afrisc Meowle: Exploring Race in the Old EnglishExodus0
Reality Benders0
Black Skin, White Eyes: Spiritual Efficacy and Racial Animatedness in Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries0
MLA volume 137 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
On Always Historicizing: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology Today0
Forum Sessions0
MLA volume 137 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
The Aestheticization of Persia from Kant to Hegel0
In Memoriam0
Mónica de la Torre, Self-Translated0
“Is God Still French?”: Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation ofl'Exception Française0
Clipping in and out of the Trenches0
Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero0
From a Visit with Joseph Conrad0
Translation, Equity, and Solidarity0
In Memoriam0
Literary Translation as Cultural Affiliation: The Case of Victorian Poetry and Classical Verse Composition0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya – ADDENDUM0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Toward Afrofluency0
Illegible Histories, Invisible Movements: Indigenous Refusal in Blake Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears0
The Translation Politics of Han Kang's The Vegetarian; or, The Task of the Reader of the Work in (English) Translation0
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Birth of Art0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Floor Plan of the Exhibit Area0
Anthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation0
Resentment: Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Anger without Privilege0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
“Dreaming of Some Vanished Relationship”: James Baldwin on Aesthetics and the Sacred0
Babo's “Mute”-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America0
Benjamin’s Fire Tongs0
Teaching the Art of Judgment0
Translating for Language Justice, across the Disciplines0
Festac . . . Memories of an Oil Boom0
The “Dark Night” of Juan de la Cruz0
Untimely Models0
MLA volume 138 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 139 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation0
Program0
Archive of the Poet and Writer0
Sound, Interrogation, Torture: John le Carré and the Audible State0
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp0
Translation in the Flesh0
Saturday, 7 January (sessions 401–636)0
Trust, Crisis, and Narrative0
The Return to Philology0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Sunday, 8 January (sessions 638–764)0
The Ontology of Becoming0
Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature0
MLA volume 140 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Native American Literature, 901 AD? A New Reading of the Battiste Good Wintercount0
The Ida Partenza Collection0
J. G. Farrell's Lost Polio Novel0
Four Theses on the Real and Imaginary British Empire, 1697–18290
Becoming Undisciplined: On Pathways to Environmental and Racial Justice in Early Modern Studies0
Aesthetic Bearings0
Imagining the Bob and Wheel0
Exhibitors0
Sexual Violence and Racial Capitalism: James Baldwin's Prisons, 1969–740
Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship and Telling Excellent Stories0
The “Lost Cause” of Cultural Studies: Laclau after Hall0
“Latin” and “Vernacular”: Early European Language Politics0
Rereading Elizabeth I as Europa0
Reading Late Modern Wartime in the Anthropocene: Elizabeth Bowen'sThe Little Girls0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Marxist Feminism in Flight0
Phillis Wheatley’s Georgics of Repair0
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