Don't miss our lively conversation with Christian Rivoletti and @mlnjournal.bsky.social editors Leonardo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social from the Hopkins Press Podcast about the Auerbach dossier! www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/h...

Great week for Auerbach! Read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's essay in New Literary History and also MLN's latest Comparative Literature issue, which includes a dossier on Auerbach (from researcher Christian Rivoletti) All from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Not to be missed!

At the center of our new comp lit issue is a dossier featuring a rediscovered text written by Auerbach during his exile in Turkey: the same period in which his masterpiece Mimesis took shape. The typescript appears alongside new critical perspectives on his work and legacy. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Also in our new comp lit issue: Iván Hofman, Emily Apter, Bruno Bosteels, and Alex Verdolini discuss Severo Sarduy’s Barroco and Other Writings (pub by @stanfordpress.bsky.social, translated by Verdolini). Hofman writes, "after a century, Barroco retains the capacity to decenter and unsettle."

Among other treasures in our new comparative literature issue: an article by Jeppe Barnwell that examines a genre he calls "fictional documentarism"-- texts that imitate or creatively engage with documentary forms while still openly presenting themselves as invented.. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I am very happy to share that the new comparative issue of @mlnjournal.bsky.social has just been published (open access), with articles not only on the translations of Zimmermann‘s „Einsamkeit“ (by me), but also on Erich Auerbach and on current close reading research! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303

New issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303! open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social This issue includes an archival find: a typescript of a lecture Erich Auerbach gave in 1941, during his exile in Turkey. The subject is literature and war (who gets to write about war? Who feels they have agency? etc.) +..

New issue (up on @projectmuse.bsky.social soon)! This issue includes an archival find: the typescript of a lecture Auerbach gave (in exile, in 1941) on literature and war (who gets to write about war? who feels they have agency?) + an essay on close reading + more @hopkinspress.bsky.social

If you're in Toronto at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social convention, come discuss journal publishing with us @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Join us at the MLA for a roundtable discussion on journal publishing. Led by MLN managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social with Laurence Roth, editor of Modern Language Studies and Hank Scotch, managing editor of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Among the topics we'll be discussing at the MLA this Saturday

Come find us at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Toronto next week!

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.