Paula Krebs
@paulakrebs.bsky.social
Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
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State Dept takes over international ed initiatives from Education Dept. In its "Fact Sheet," State Dept gives 5 examples of funded 2024 projects that "deviated from the core mission of supporting international education for global competitiveness." All 5 involved research related to trans issues.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
State Dept takes over international ed initiatives from Education Dept. In its "Fact Sheet," State Dept gives 5 examples of funded 2024 projects that "deviated from the core mission of supporting international education for global competitiveness." All 5 involved research related to trans issues.
State Dept takes over international ed initiatives from Education Dept. In its "Fact Sheet," State Dept gives 5 examples of funded 2024 projects that "deviated from the core mission of supporting international education for global competitiveness." All 5 involved research related to trans issues.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
State Dept takes over international ed initiatives from Education Dept. In its "Fact Sheet," State Dept gives 5 examples of funded 2024 projects that "deviated from the core mission of supporting international education for global competitiveness." All 5 involved research related to trans issues.
Exciting new pub from @modernlanguage.bsky.social Exec Council member Virginia Ramos
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Exciting new pub from @modernlanguage.bsky.social Exec Council member Virginia Ramos
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Keep an eye out for SO MUCH 1:1 MENTORING at the Professional Development Hub! Great opportunity for grad students to get advice on everything from CVs to journal publishing and more!
Yeah, we don't have those hotel suite interviews anymore. Instead, we offer tons of professional development programming for graduate students. If you're a chair or DGS or just care about grad students, consider sending a group to the convention at a reduced rate. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Graduate Student Group Registration - 2026 MLA Annual Convention
Support your graduate students' professional development by registering a graduate student group to attend the 2026 MLA Annual Convention, 8–11 January 2026 and save! All groups must have a sponsoring...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Keep an eye out for SO MUCH 1:1 MENTORING at the Professional Development Hub! Great opportunity for grad students to get advice on everything from CVs to journal publishing and more!
Yeah, we don't have those hotel suite interviews anymore. Instead, we offer tons of professional development programming for graduate students. If you're a chair or DGS or just care about grad students, consider sending a group to the convention at a reduced rate. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Graduate Student Group Registration - 2026 MLA Annual Convention
Support your graduate students' professional development by registering a graduate student group to attend the 2026 MLA Annual Convention, 8–11 January 2026 and save! All groups must have a sponsoring...
www.mla.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Yeah, we don't have those hotel suite interviews anymore. Instead, we offer tons of professional development programming for graduate students. If you're a chair or DGS or just care about grad students, consider sending a group to the convention at a reduced rate. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
More than 150 registrations already from the U of Toronto for #MLA26! Other Ontario universities, I'm sure your lang and lit faculty can match that! @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @uottawa.ca @torontomet.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
More than 150 registrations already from the U of Toronto for #MLA26! Other Ontario universities, I'm sure your lang and lit faculty can match that! @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @uottawa.ca @torontomet.bsky.social
Underfunding public higher education may not affect the kids of state legislators, who go to private colleges, but it irrevocably reduces the options for most students in the state, who rely on their regional institutions. Read this, by @robinderosa.net
robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-...
robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-...
I Lost My Job
I got fired. I guess that is not precisely true. I took a “voluntary” separation incentive to leave my position. It doesn’t feel voluntary. This winter, close to thirty tenured fa…
robinderosa.net
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Underfunding public higher education may not affect the kids of state legislators, who go to private colleges, but it irrevocably reduces the options for most students in the state, who rely on their regional institutions. Read this, by @robinderosa.net
robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-...
robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-...
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
Use external reviewers who are trained to look not just at curriculum but also at working conditions for full and part-time faculty, demographics of students and faculty, recruitment, retention, and more. Learn to be a reviewer like that: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee... mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
Preconvention Workshop: Become a Certified External Reviewer for the ADE
This workshop trains faculty members to become expert external reviewers of departments and programs of English. Faculty members who wish to acquire experience in reviewing or to learn more about the ...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Use external reviewers who are trained to look not just at curriculum but also at working conditions for full and part-time faculty, demographics of students and faculty, recruitment, retention, and more. Learn to be a reviewer like that: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee... mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
One of the shapers of MLA's work on AI for research and writing, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, is featured in the Chron's AI issue: www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
One of the shapers of MLA's work on AI for research and writing, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, is featured in the Chron's AI issue: www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
We know you haven’t had time to plan for this—that’s the point! It starts tomorrow. Just sign up now
Are you a department chair who needs to do some planning to try to stay ahead of all this uncertainty? Enroll in this workshop series, which starts Tuesday. Five terrific facilitators. You’ll learn a ton. Tell your dean you need this. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan: An MLA...
Even in the normal course of business, it can be hard to find time for strategic planning. In times of uncertainty, with added pressures, it can be even harder. This virtual workshop series is intende...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We know you haven’t had time to plan for this—that’s the point! It starts tomorrow. Just sign up now
Sign up! Starts tomorrow!
If you're trying to figure out how to manage massive changes in higher education, there is still time to register for this 5-session virtual workshop that helps you think about responses to threats, questions about mergers, understanding budgetary woes, & other essential topics. Starts tomorrow!
Register now for our workshop series, How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan, and learn how to plan strategically by identifying shared values, responding to challenges with workable solutions, and operating from a position of strength. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Sign up! Starts tomorrow!
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Are you a department chair who needs to do some planning to try to stay ahead of all this uncertainty? Enroll in this workshop series, which starts Tuesday. Five terrific facilitators. You’ll learn a ton. Tell your dean you need this. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan: An MLA...
Even in the normal course of business, it can be hard to find time for strategic planning. In times of uncertainty, with added pressures, it can be even harder. This virtual workshop series is intende...
www.mla.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Are you a department chair who needs to do some planning to try to stay ahead of all this uncertainty? Enroll in this workshop series, which starts Tuesday. Five terrific facilitators. You’ll learn a ton. Tell your dean you need this. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
Are you a department chair who needs to do some planning to try to stay ahead of all this uncertainty? Enroll in this workshop series, which starts Tuesday. Five terrific facilitators. You’ll learn a ton. Tell your dean you need this. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan: An MLA...
Even in the normal course of business, it can be hard to find time for strategic planning. In times of uncertainty, with added pressures, it can be even harder. This virtual workshop series is intende...
www.mla.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Are you a department chair who needs to do some planning to try to stay ahead of all this uncertainty? Enroll in this workshop series, which starts Tuesday. Five terrific facilitators. You’ll learn a ton. Tell your dean you need this. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
Yesterday was @mlanews.bsky.social VP Herman Beavers’s birthday, and at the Executive Council dinner he was serenaded with Happy Birthday in nine (!) different languages.
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Yesterday was @mlanews.bsky.social VP Herman Beavers’s birthday, and at the Executive Council dinner he was serenaded with Happy Birthday in nine (!) different languages.
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which English or literature/ language departments around the country have the strongest insta accounts?
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
which English or literature/ language departments around the country have the strongest insta accounts?
We're looking for grad students who might want to work as volunteers at #MLA26 in exchange for free registration. We'll make sure you get plenty of time to go to sessions! www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Be a Volunteer at the MLA Annual Convention
The MLA is calling for nonpresenting undergraduate and graduate student volunteers to serve at the 2026 MLA Annual Convention in Toronto.Volunteering at the convention is a great way to meet new frien...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We're looking for grad students who might want to work as volunteers at #MLA26 in exchange for free registration. We'll make sure you get plenty of time to go to sessions! www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Professional development opportunities at #MLA26, in person and online. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Professional Development Hub at MLA 2026
The 2026 Professional Development Hub—online and at the convention—is your one-stop shop for all things professional development offered by the MLA. Come by and meet the academic program services and ...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Professional development opportunities at #MLA26, in person and online. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Almost 100 virtual sessions in tons of different areas. If you can't come to Toronto, it doesn't mean you can't come to #MLA26. Register before Thursday for lowest rates.
Register before Thursday for the lowest rates for #MLA26. The latest in research in your field and so many others. Sessions on successful organizing and advocacy. And deep engagement with pedagogy.
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
October 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Almost 100 virtual sessions in tons of different areas. If you can't come to Toronto, it doesn't mean you can't come to #MLA26. Register before Thursday for lowest rates.
Community college humanities folks: you are especially welcome. The Committee on Community Colleges prepares a list every year of all the sessions that are especially valuable for you. It'll be in the online program and on the app. @staceylee.bsky.social @ccha-humanities.bsky.social
Register before Thursday for the lowest rates for #MLA26. The latest in research in your field and so many others. Sessions on successful organizing and advocacy. And deep engagement with pedagogy.
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Community college humanities folks: you are especially welcome. The Committee on Community Colleges prepares a list every year of all the sessions that are especially valuable for you. It'll be in the online program and on the app. @staceylee.bsky.social @ccha-humanities.bsky.social
Register before Thursday for the lowest rates for #MLA26. The latest in research in your field and so many others. Sessions on successful organizing and advocacy. And deep engagement with pedagogy.
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Register before Thursday for the lowest rates for #MLA26. The latest in research in your field and so many others. Sessions on successful organizing and advocacy. And deep engagement with pedagogy.
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Just a few more days for the early bird rate for #MLA26. Bringing together all fields, all periods, professional development opportunities, and tons of advocacy for what we do. act.mla.org/crm/mailing/...
Join Your Colleagues at #MLA26: Register Before Early Registration Rates End
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October 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just a few more days for the early bird rate for #MLA26. Bringing together all fields, all periods, professional development opportunities, and tons of advocacy for what we do. act.mla.org/crm/mailing/...
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