Who gets to write about war? Christian Rivoletti discusses a lecture Erich Auerbach delivered in 1940 during his exile in Turkey. Plus Leo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social highlight other parts of this issue (available very soon) and discuss what they are looking for at @mlnjournal.bsky.social

Just arrived! From Christy Wampole's essay on the Zeitgeist (including a discussion of the origin of the term) to editor Derek Schilling's reflection on experimental poetics-- this issue explores a quarter century of literature in French. OA! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Happy to see @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social getting great press-- nice essay by Johanna here. Our Comparative Literature issue (now in proofs-- coming soon) has a terrific essay on the subject by Yael Segalovitz. Stay tuned! www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

A reminder that we are open for submissions for our French issue-- deadline January 30. Articles in French or English. Email [email protected] with any questions. Please share with interested colleagues!

📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review 👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance” 📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026 📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026 Please share widely! ❓Reach out if you have any questions!

Reflections on a quarter century of writing in French. Check out this beautiful special issue edited by Derek Schilling. It's open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social

After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited! Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

We're excited that the MLA's archives have found such a perfect home! Thanks to @jhu.edu for ensuring these historic materials about the profession will be preserved and made available to researchers.

"Publishers are encouraged to submit outstanding translations from German into English published in the US or Canada in the previous year (2025)." www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...

Exciting news! Hopkins has acquired the records of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social The history of MLN intersects with the founding of the Modern Language Association @jhu.edu blogs.library.jhu.edu/2025/10/hist...

MLN's German Issue 2025 (MLN, Volume 140, Number 3, April 2025) has been published, containing my review of Chiara Caradonna and Vivian Liska, editors: Zäsuren: Paul Celans Spätwerk. | Caesurae: Paul Celan’s Later Work (Wallstein, 2024). Direct link to my review, OA: muse.jhu.edu/article/972237

Highly recommended, featuring an article by yours truly on Johann Peter Hebel: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Now up on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social Guest edited by Daniel Carranza and Bryan Norton, this issue addresses how considerations of the planetary have been informed by—and themselves inform—German literature and philosophy between the 18th and 19th centuries.

Congrats, @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social! Stay tuned for a review essay on close reading (that includes a discussion of this book) in our upcoming comparative literature issue.

From the archives-- pages from the first issue (1886) of MLN which invited advertisers at $10/page while the journal built a subscription list. The pages of early issues were a hodgepodge of advertisements (mostly for books and language classes), philological notes, and lists of new books.

The introduction to our first issue-- published in 1886

Available Open Access as part of @mlnjournal.bsky.social's latest issue. My article "Shaping the Nation through Its North-African Other: The Castilianization of Spain and the Hispano-Moroccan War" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Call for article submissions-- in French or in English @hopkinspress.bsky.social Please share!

In a mess of acronyms, MLN will be at the MLA! Panel with managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social (MLN), managing editor Hank Scotch from @criticalinquiry.bsky.social, Laurence Roth (Modern Language Studies), and María del Carmen Caña Jiménez (Hispanófila). @modernlanguage.bsky.social

New journal issue!

Check out the latest issue of MLN, which includes a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies": scents, food, photography, ecocriticism, contemporary narrative, and early modern poetry. Avaliable OA: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/....

Our Hispanic issue is now up on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social with a dossier on Catalan studies edited by @albertlloret.bsky.social, Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra Ferrer muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/...

Our latest Hispanic issue just printed and will be up on @projectmuse.bsky.social very soon. Edited by @becquer.bsky.social with a dossier on Catalan studies edited by @albertlloret.bsky.social, Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra Ferrer

See you in Toronto! @hopkinspress.bsky.social

From the new issue of @mlnjournal.bsky.social, read Giulia M. Cipriani's review of The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884–1947): The Paladins of France in America by Jo Ann Cavallo Read free: the whole issue is #OpenAccess via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/963663

You can read the review-- and the rest of our Italian issue-- here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55077 Open access!

Review alert! ✍️ ‘The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)' by ‘Jo Ann Cavallo’ has been reviewed in ‘Modern Language Notes’. Read here tinyurl.com/3ju6kkpy @mlnjournal.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social #AnthemPress #indiepublisher #academicpublisher #getyourcopy #books

@albertlloret.bsky.social-- guest editor of a dossier on Catalan studies in our upcoming Hispanic issue-- was interviewed about his work (interview in Catalan): www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAc...

Thrilled to have the new Italian issue of MLN in our hands. You can find it open access on @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social. “Modernist Lives, Transatlantic Italian Crossings, 1949-1972” guest edited by @veritas44.bsky.social, Cristina Iuli, and Aaron Jaffe.

Many congratulations to our Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social who has just been honored with a prestigious award for early career faculty. ¡Bien merecido! hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...

Coming soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds. Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.

The influence of philosopher Samuel Weber is the focus of the latest issue of MLN Guest editors James Martel and Julia Ng introduce this #OpenAccess dossier, Samuel Weber at Eighty, with a focus on Weber's interrogation of the notion of “singularity” tinyurl.com/fxc46h8t

As our Italian issue is prepared for printing, we're reviewing proofs for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social with @albertlloret.bsky.social as one of our guest editors for a dossier on Catalan studies. With managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social

Coming soon from @hopkinspress.bsky.social “Modernist Lives, Transatlantic Italian Crossings, 1949-1972” is a fresh examination of the network from which the modern “Italian style” emerged after World War II.

JHUP and Project MUSE staff are featured panelists at AUPresses Annual Meeting this week! Panel subjects range from Subscribe to Open and Latin American studies, to inventory management and innovation, and much more. View the schedule and register below. aupresses.org/programs-eve...

Open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social This issue also has a fascinating discussion forum on Alisa Zhulina's Theater of Capital + general submissions + book reviews

This is sad but unsurprising. At MLN, however, you can be assured that all of our editors are real people with appropriate qualifications-- we are not outsourcing any part of our editing process to AI.

You can now follow MLN on Facebook too: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

For anyone interested, this was recorded: englishassociation.ac.uk/close-readin... @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @johannawinant.bsky.social et al

From MLN Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social-- for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social

A reminder that today is the last day to submit to the MLN Hispanic issue-- we will consider full-length (7k-9k words) original scholarly articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

For anyone interested in the renaissance of close reading, there is a webinar happening now: englishassociation.ac.uk/close-readin...

This is truly an amazing resource on close reading www.closereadingarchive.org/teaching

Two things: 1) read the preliminary injunction filed yesterday to halt the dismantling of the NEH & to restore it 2) we're rebuilding our followers after leaving The Bad Place™ so please give @modernlanguage.bsky.social a follow if you're interested in the future of higher ed, lit, languages, etc

On close reading. We are looking forward to publishing a review essay (that includes a discussion of the book by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social) in our 2025 Comparative Literature issue. Stay tuned!

Our comparative literature issue is up on MUSE and currently open access! It includes a dossier on Singularity's Abilities (a festschrift in honor Sam Weber) + a discussion forum on Alisa Zhulina's marvelous Theater of Capital + general articles + book reviews. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

You can now follow MLN on Instagram www.instagram.com/mln_journal/

We extended our deadline for general submissions to the Hispanic issue. Send us your work! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln