Modern Language Studies

Council of Editors of Learned Journals 2005 Phoenix Award Runner-Up for Significant Editorial Achievement

Modern Language Studies offers contributors, subscribers, and editors an opportunity to examine vexing and provocative issues in all areas of English, American, and comparative literature, and the literatures of the modern languages. Articles and reviews in MLS reflect the eclectic interests of NeMLA members, and part of the journal's mission is to provide members with a broad range of publishing opportunities.

NeMLA membership is not required to submit to MLS; however, membership is required for publication.

MLS appears twice a year, in the summer and winter, is divided into a number of sections:

Articles (6,000-10,000 words): Articles should speak to the broad interests of the MLS subscribers. We are particularly interested in, and welcome submissions of, unpublished letters; annotated writers' notebooks or other primary documents of literary historical interest; edited and annotated translations of poems, short stories, and plays by writers in literatures of the modern languages; and interviews with writers and artists.

Profession & Pedagogy (4,000-7,000 words): Essays may address pedagogical theory, practical teaching strategies, faculty/student collaboration, curriculum development, information technology, small college/research university dynamics, interdisciplinary work, institutional politics, graduate and faculty unionization, part-time faculty, tenure and promotion, and other related topics. Creative non-fiction that explores and dramatizes similar terrain, and that observes and articulates what is at stake in these issues for people and communities, is also welcome.

Reviews (2,000-5,000): Reviews must be of significant, intriguing, or unusual primary source materials. These reviews will assess and underscore those materials' importance either for various research profiles or for curricula and classroom syllabi. Of particular interest for this section are short reviews of scholarly editions, hypertext/internet literatures, visual culture, popular culture, and, of course, novels, short stories, poetry, plays, films, comic books, and creative non-fiction.

NeMLA Notes: Runs once a year in the Winter issue in advance of the Spring NeMLA convention. This section provides a forum for publicizing information, calls for papers, awards, and deadlines as well as items of general interest to the members.