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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Monolingualism, Dispossession, and the Biopolitics of Language12
MLA volume 138 issue 3 Cover and Front matter7
Intimate Editing: The Textual Poetics of Susan Howe's Collage Poems4
Countee Cullen's Harlem Decadence4
On Ordinary Violence: Las Casas, Politically Red3
A Feast for the Eyes: Mariama Bâ's Pan-African Vision3
Other Afterlives3
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies3
“Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos” and the Temporality of Black Expression3
Inṣāf: Authorial Justice3
Variations on Verrition: (Re)turning to the Enigmatic Final Word of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal3
MLA volume 140 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Working Group Sessions2
Punctuating Place, Time, and Pan-Africanism in Bâ's “Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos . . .”2
On a Universal Tendency to Debase Retranslations; or, The Instrumentalism of a Translation Fixation2
Subject Index to All Sessions2
Breath Piece: On Paul Celan and John Coltrane2
Inside the History of the World: Syntheses of Literary Form between Prose Poetry and China2
Las runas y Beowulf / Runes and Beowulf2
Allied Organization Sessions2
Translating from Translations, As One Does2
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
The Name of Metacommentary: Fredric Jameson2
Totality, Revisited2
Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China2
I Shall Not Speak Your Language1
Developing Humanities Perspectives across Disciplines1
Mariama Bâ's Souvenirs of Lagos: An Introduction1
MLA volume 140 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation1
Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race1
Growing with It1
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
In Memoriam1
First-Person Prose Narration and William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat (ca. 1553)1
Introduction to “An Arabic Theoretical Lexicon”1
Working Group Sessions1
Early Modern Translation and the Digital Turn in the Humanities1
The Body in Ruins: Queering Cli-Fi and the Trauma Novel in Omar El Akkad’s American War1
Lessons from American Sign Language–English Interpreting1
Anne Sexton Listening to Anne Sexton – CORRIGENDUM1
Ephemeral Improvement: Interactive Print and the Material Texts of Early Abolitionism1
Tracing Lines in the Trauma of Displacement: Slavery in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and Afterlives1
MLA-Sponsored Sessions1
Life with a Cut: Historical Time and the Mediation of Coloniality in Francisco Balagtas’s Florante at Laura and Lope K. Santos’s B1
Trans Saints in Old English1
To Speak from a Place Which Is Moving: Black Diasporas, African Migrations, and the Ongoing Importance of Stuart Hall1
Teaching Time: Temporal Imagination and the Late Novels of Henry James1
“Worlds Together Shined”: Bīdil, Traherne, and Collaborative Comparison1
Strait Flow1
Put Some Red on It: Maoist Brooding and Communist Laughter1
Translating Gaia: Translation and the More-Than-Human1
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
Revisiting the History of Anonymous Peer Review (from Both Sides, Now)1
Aesthetic Bearings – ADDENDUM1
Teaching Literary Value1
The Theories and Methodologies of Public Humanities1
The Captain's Story0
Reporting Indigenous Women's Resilience at Wounded Knee through the Journalism of Susette Bright Eyes La Flesche0
In Memoriam0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
On Always Historicizing: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology Today0
Four Theses on the Real and Imaginary British Empire, 1697–18290
Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero0
Reality Benders0
Richard Wright and the Literary Popular Front: Progressive Interwar Writers, Antiracist Nationalism, and the Cold War Birth of World Literature0
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity0
Adab: Literary Form and Social Praxis – CORRIGENDUM0
Translation and Interpreting and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
Program Participants0
In Memoriam0
Errant Translation; or, Lin Shu's Don Quixote and the Paybacks of Back-Translating0
“Not Like Us”0
From Daneshvar to Damahi: New Formulations of the Persianate0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
On the Literature of the Ottoman Language0
Prosodic Unrest in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Program0
The “Man-Eater” Variant to “A Hunger-Artist”0
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
Forum Sessions0
The Persianate as Comparative Literature: A Concept in Search of a Method0
Sunday, 8 January (sessions 638–764)0
Languages of Refuge: In Defiance of Monolingualism0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Larsson, Remade: A Computational Perspective on the Millennium Trilogy in English0
Passing as White Collar: The Black Typewriter and the Bureaucratization of the Racial Imaginary0
Too Sad, Too Diverse, Too Poetic0
J. G. Farrell's Lost Polio Novel0
The Jargon Amplifier0
Festac . . . Memories of an Oil Boom0
Ta‘ajjub: A Rationalist Aesthetic0
Benjamin’s Fire Tongs0
Tanga, Tunic, Cleaver: On Things in Translation0
Afrisc Meowle: Exploring Race in the Old EnglishExodus0
What Was to Be Done? And How? “On Interpretation” in The Political Unconscious0
Toward Afrofluency0
MLA volume 138 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Uncanny Slavdom0
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Fraught Intimacies: Persian and Hindu Publics in Colonial India0
“The True and Only Bones of Columbus”: Relics, Archives, and Reversed Scenarios of Discovery0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
“The Greek-Egyptian Poet Cavafy” and “Meeting with Marinetti”0
Reading Red, Reading Palestine0
“No More Translations”: Uncounting Languages in Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear0
The Return to Philology0
The Aristocracy of Qing Xinjiang as Patrons of Islamic Letters0
An Alternative Ending to Minty Alley0
Headless Horror: Writing Decapitation in the French Caribbean Plantationocene0
Trust, Crisis, and Narrative0
In Memoriam0
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp0
Translation in the Flesh0
Tarjamah: Negative Translation0
MLA volume 140 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Aesthetic Bearings0
Lawino in the Library: Anthropology, Modernity, and the Profession of African Literature0
To Read Together0
Liberation's Love Language: The Politics and Poetics of Queer Translation after Stonewall0
Unfairing the Fair: Sexuality and the Affective Epistemology of Race in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Black Gazing in Two Looks: A Brief Case Study of Germany0
Heimatlos0
Translation, Postcoloniality, Literary Multilingualism0
Gurnah's Fiction at the “End of Religion”0
Seminars0
From Elegy to Climate Bildungsroman: Jenni Fagan's The Sunlight Pilgrims0
State Humanities Councils and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
The Aestheticization of Persia from Kant to Hegel0
MLA volume 139 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
The Creep’s Dilemma: The Novel in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism0
Jameson on Aesthetic Education0
In Memoriam0
Sexual Violence and Racial Capitalism: James Baldwin's Prisons, 1969–740
Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship and Telling Excellent Stories0
Necessity Is the Mother of Translation0
The Thing about Trust0
MLA volume 137 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
In Memoriam0
Rereading Elizabeth I as Europa0
Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics0
The Jargon of Liberal Democracy0
Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation0
Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious— Forty Years On0
Thomas Munro and the Politics of Translation0
From a Visit with Joseph Conrad0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Bracketing the Possible: Mariama Bâ's FESTAC Memories0
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Birth of Art0
MLA volume 140 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Benjamin Dreams of Anarchy0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya0
Repairing the Present: Medieval Literature and Caribbean Reparative Justice0
Persianate Words and Worlds: Introduction to “The Persianate”0
Program Participants0
Exhibitors0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Retrieving the European Middle Ages with May Ayim0
Forum Executive Committees0
The Metaeconomics of Hernan Diaz's Trust0
Translating for Language Justice, across the Disciplines0
The Animal That Remembers: History, Hauntology, and Animality in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Ian McGuire's The North Water0
“These Pages Remain Open for the Future to Write”: Mariama Bâ's Forgotten Writings in L'Ouest Africain0
Mediated Ancestrality: Mariama Bâ, Instagram, and the Poetics of Fragmentation0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Split the Flag0
In Memoriam0
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Ṭarab: Sonic Affect0
Palms behind the Smog: Strange Energies in Mawsim al-hijra ilā al-shimāl (Season of Migration to the North)0
Fantasies of Whiteness and the Medieval Imagination0
Marxist Feminism in Flight0
In Memoriam0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Aesthetic Education without Guarantees: An Introduction0
Feminist Translation and Translation Studies: In Flux toward the Transnational0
“Words Are Things”: Translation, Materiality, and Mario Ortiz's Cuadernos de lengua y literatura0
Pathways to Persotopias0
AI and the Everyday Writer0
An Invitation to the Archives0
Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”0
Criticism as a Practice of the Commons0
In the Spirit of the Wanderers0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Synchronous Coexistence and Temporal Overlay0
MLA volume 139 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
“Latin” and “Vernacular”: Early European Language Politics0
The Ida Partenza Collection0
Forum Executive Committees0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya – ADDENDUM0
Xenitia, the Nation, and Intralingual Translation0
Early Career Public Humanists: A Forum0
Black Skin, White Eyes: Spiritual Efficacy and Racial Animatedness in Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries0
Hugo, Translated: The Measures of Modernity in Muḥammad Rūḥī al-Khālidī's Poetics of Comparative Literature0
The Slogan and the Map0
Unfinished Business: Reckoning with Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture0
The Protestant Connection in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs and French Literary Modernism0
Financial Metafiction0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
MLA volume 140 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
The Patent Form: Norbert Rillieux, Solomon Northup, and the Production of Means in the Atlantic World0
Translating for TV: Ionesco's “Hard-Boiled Egg” for American Audiences0
Recovering Presence: A Dialogue on Repair and Resistance0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Working Groups Sessions0
A Shudder in the World: Reading The Political Unconscious from the Periphery0
Literary Translation as Cultural Affiliation: The Case of Victorian Poetry and Classical Verse Composition0
Anthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation0
New Light on Lucy Terry Prince0
Program0
Mónica de la Torre, Self-Translated0
Mariama Bâ, Younousse Seye, and the Ambivalence of Canonization0
Phillis Wheatley’s Georgics of Repair0
In the Thickets: Stuart Hall in 19830
MLA volume 138 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Translation, Equity, and Solidarity0
The Weather in Stein0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Floor Plan of the Exhibit Area0
Race and Privilege in Central and Southeast Europe on the Ground and in the Field0
Saturday, 7 January (sessions 401–636)0
Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature0
The “Dark Night” of Juan de la Cruz0
Large Language Games, Therapeutic or Otherwise0
Forum Sessions0
After the West: Conrad and Nabokov in Long-Wave Literary History0
Becoming Undisciplined: On Pathways to Environmental and Racial Justice in Early Modern Studies0
Archive of the Poet and Writer0
Sound, Interrogation, Torture: John le Carré and the Audible State0
Babo's “Mute”-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America0
Theorizing Public Digital Humanities: A Model for Collaborative Knowledge Production0
Negative Totalization0
Pound's Four Pages: “Literary Camouflage” and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda0
Ambiguous Lever0
Untimely Models0
“Del Otro Lado”: Latinx, Latin American, Caribbean, and Feminist Contributions to Cultural Studies0
(M)Other Tongue; or, Exophony0
AI and the University as a Service0
The “Lost Cause” of Cultural Studies: Laclau after Hall0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Thursday, 5 January (sessions 1–162)0
Sensitivity Training0
Diasporic World Literature: The Vale of Cedars in the Global Haskalah0
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