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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Monolingualism, Dispossession, and the Biopolitics of Language13
MLA volume 138 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
Intimate Editing: The Textual Poetics of Susan Howe's Collage Poems6
Countee Cullen's Harlem Decadence5
On Ordinary Violence: Las Casas, Politically Red4
A Feast for the Eyes: Mariama Bâ's Pan-African Vision3
Translating from Translations, As One Does3
Variations on Verrition: (Re)turning to the Enigmatic Final Word of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal3
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies3
“Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos” and the Temporality of Black Expression3
MLA volume 140 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Inṣāf: Authorial Justice3
Other Afterlives3
Breath Piece: On Paul Celan and John Coltrane3
Punctuating Place, Time, and Pan-Africanism in Bâ's “Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos . . .”2
Group Life and Literature2
Working Group Sessions2
The Name of Metacommentary: Fredric Jameson2
Tracing Lines in the Trauma of Displacement: Slavery in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise and Afterlives2
In Memoriam2
Subject Index to All Sessions2
Las runas y Beowulf / Runes and Beowulf2
Allied Organization Sessions2
Inside the History of the World: Syntheses of Literary Form between Prose Poetry and China2
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China2
Totality, Revisited2
Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race1
MLA volume 141 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
The Persons of the Play: Falstaff and the Thickening of Dramatic Character1
Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation1
On Residual Forms1
I Shall Not Speak Your Language1
Ephemeral Improvement: Interactive Print and the Material Texts of Early Abolitionism1
Teaching Literary Value1
Nedawi Learns to Play: Ludic Indigeneity and the Plum-Stone Game1
MLA volume 140 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Aesthetic Bearings – ADDENDUM1
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
On a Universal Tendency to Debase Retranslations; or, The Instrumentalism of a Translation Fixation1
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
Trans Saints in Old English1
Lessons from American Sign Language–English Interpreting1
Put Some Red on It: Maoist Brooding and Communist Laughter1
The Body in Ruins: Queering Cli-Fi and the Trauma Novel in Omar El Akkad’s American War1
Toni Morrison, Editor: A Collective Interview with Dana A. Williams1
MLA volume 140 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Growing with It1
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
Mariama Bâ's Souvenirs of Lagos: An Introduction1
The Chairman’s Voice: Revolutionary Classicism and Lyric Ventriloquism in Maoist China1
Teaching Time: Temporal Imagination and the Late Novels of Henry James1
Developing Humanities Perspectives across Disciplines1
Strait Flow1
Translating Gaia: Translation and the More-Than-Human1
Anne Sexton Listening to Anne Sexton – CORRIGENDUM1
Sailing the Franco-Portuguese Seas in Colonial Macau: A Blue Poetics of Citation in Camilo Pessanha’s Clepsydra1
In Memoriam1
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Revisiting the History of Anonymous Peer Review (from Both Sides, Now)1
The Return to Philology0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
Headless Horror: Writing Decapitation in the French Caribbean Plantationocene0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
Program0
Pathways to Persotopias0
Theorizing Public Digital Humanities: A Model for Collaborative Knowledge Production0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”0
Repairing the Present: Medieval Literature and Caribbean Reparative Justice0
Unfinished Business: Reckoning with Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture0
Babo's “Mute”-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America0
Archive of the Poet and Writer0
Plenaries and Linked Sessions0
In Memoriam0
(M)Other Tongue; or, Exophony0
Bracketing the Possible: Mariama Bâ's FESTAC Memories0
The Patent Form: Norbert Rillieux, Solomon Northup, and the Production of Means in the Atlantic World0
Untimely Models0
Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics0
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity0
Languages of Refuge: In Defiance of Monolingualism0
The Translation Politics of Han Kang's The Vegetarian; or, The Task of the Reader of the Work in (English) Translation0
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Birth of Art0
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp0
Program Participants0
Benjamin Dreams of Anarchy0
From Daneshvar to Damahi: New Formulations of the Persianate0
The Jargon Amplifier0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya – ADDENDUM0
The Aestheticization of Persia from Kant to Hegel0
Mediated Ancestrality: Mariama Bâ, Instagram, and the Poetics of Fragmentation0
The Metaeconomics of Hernan Diaz's Trust0
“The Greek-Egyptian Poet Cavafy” and “Meeting with Marinetti”0
The Animal That Remembers: History, Hauntology, and Animality in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Ian McGuire's The North Water0
Xenitia, the Nation, and Intralingual Translation0
Passing as White Collar: The Black Typewriter and the Bureaucratization of the Racial Imaginary0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Saturday, 7 January (sessions 401–636)0
Split the Flag0
“Dreaming of Some Vanished Relationship”: James Baldwin on Aesthetics and the Sacred0
In the Thickets: Stuart Hall in 19830
An Alternative Ending to Minty Alley0
To Read Together0
From Plinth to Stage: Protest Theater as Historiographic Activism in The Fall0
After the West: Conrad and Nabokov in Long-Wave Literary History0
In Memoriam0
Black Gazing in Two Looks: A Brief Case Study of Germany0
Toward Afrofluency0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Tarjamah: Negative Translation0
MLA volume 141 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
In Memoriam0
Recovering Presence: A Dialogue on Repair and Resistance0
Thursday, 5 January (sessions 1–162)0
Forum Executive Committees0
Liberation's Love Language: The Politics and Poetics of Queer Translation after Stonewall0
Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero0
The “Lost Cause” of Cultural Studies: Laclau after Hall0
Literary Translation as Cultural Affiliation: The Case of Victorian Poetry and Classical Verse Composition0
Hugo, Translated: The Measures of Modernity in Muḥammad Rūḥī al-Khālidī's Poetics of Comparative Literature0
The Slogan and the Map0
Four Theses on the Real and Imaginary British Empire, 1697–18290
AI and the University as a Service0
Henri Lefebvre’s (Every)Day Care0
Field and Formation0
Milton and the Invention of the Human in Paradise Lost0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Program Participants0
MLA-Sponsored Sessions0
Dislodged0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Allied Organization Sessions0
Rereading Elizabeth I as Europa0
Deaf Spectacle: Rupture and Resistance in Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic0
Allied Organization Sessions0
The Aristocracy of Qing Xinjiang as Patrons of Islamic Letters0
Phillis Wheatley’s Georgics of Repair0
Program0
Aesthetic Bearings0
MLA volume 141 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Mariama Bâ, Younousse Seye, and the Ambivalence of Canonization0
Forum Sessions0
Ṭarab: Sonic Affect0
The Persianate as Comparative Literature: A Concept in Search of a Method0
The Creep’s Dilemma: The Novel in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism0
MLA volume 137 issue 5 Cover and Front matter0
The Weather in Stein0
Larsson, Remade: A Computational Perspective on the Millennium Trilogy in English0
Illegible Histories, Invisible Movements: Indigenous Refusal in Blake Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears0
Floor Plan of the Exhibit Area0
Race and Privilege in Central and Southeast Europe on the Ground and in the Field0
The Thing about Trust0
Letter to a Young Girl from Antalya0
The Protestant Connection in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs and French Literary Modernism0
Ta‘ajjub: A Rationalist Aesthetic0
Poetics for the City: Africa, Extraction, and the Worlding of Literature0
Forum Sessions0
Exhibitors0
Becoming Undisciplined: On Pathways to Environmental and Racial Justice in Early Modern Studies0
The Captain's Story0
Large Language Games, Therapeutic or Otherwise0
Palms behind the Smog: Strange Energies in Mawsim al-hijra ilā al-shimāl (Season of Migration to the North)0
Negative Totalization0
The Global New Woman and the Invention of Modern Feminism0
The Jargon of Liberal Democracy0
Uncanny Slavdom0
Feminist Translation and Translation Studies: In Flux toward the Transnational0
Amphionic Translation0
Tanga, Tunic, Cleaver: On Things in Translation0
Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship and Telling Excellent Stories0
“These Pages Remain Open for the Future to Write”: Mariama Bâ's Forgotten Writings in L'Ouest Africain0
Translation, Postcoloniality, Literary Multilingualism0
Criticism as a Practice of the Commons0
In Memoriam0
Unfairing the Fair: Sexuality and the Affective Epistemology of Race in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Trust, Crisis, and Narrative0
New Light on Lucy Terry Prince0
Gurnah's Fiction at the “End of Religion”0
Translation and Interpreting and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
Prosodic Unrest in Shakespeare's Sonnets0
Victorian Studies and the American State0
MLA volume 140 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Anthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation0
Adab: Literary Form and Social Praxis – CORRIGENDUM0
Diasporic World Literature: The Vale of Cedars in the Global Haskalah0
From Elegy to Climate Bildungsroman: Jenni Fagan's The Sunlight Pilgrims0
“Words Are Things”: Translation, Materiality, and Mario Ortiz's Cuadernos de lengua y literatura0
The “Man-Eater” Variant to “A Hunger-Artist”0
In Memoriam0
Provincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions0
MLA volume 140 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Sexual Violence and Racial Capitalism: James Baldwin's Prisons, 1969–740
Translating for TV: Ionesco's “Hard-Boiled Egg” for American Audiences0
Errant Translation; or, Lin Shu's Don Quixote and the Paybacks of Back-Translating0
Sunday, 8 January (sessions 638–764)0
An Invitation to the Archives0
Fantasies of Whiteness and the Medieval Imagination0
MLA volume 138 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
In Memoriam0
The Limits of Self-Critique0
Notes toward the Unintelligible to Victorian Studies; or, What Can’t Victorian Studies Read?0
“Latin” and “Vernacular”: Early European Language Politics0
Working Groups Sessions0
Festac . . . Memories of an Oil Boom0
Thomas Munro and the Politics of Translation0
Aesthetic Education without Guarantees: An Introduction0
From a Visit with Joseph Conrad0
J. G. Farrell's Lost Polio Novel0
Black Skin, White Eyes: Spiritual Efficacy and Racial Animatedness in Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries0
Mónica de la Torre, Self-Translated0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Persianate Words and Worlds: Introduction to “The Persianate”0
Too Sad, Too Diverse, Too Poetic0
MLA volume 138 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Translation, Equity, and Solidarity0
MLA volume 139 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Forum Executive Committees0
MLA volume 139 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
MLA volume 137 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Sound, Interrogation, Torture: John le Carré and the Audible State0
Disciplining and Punishing Victorian Studies0
Reading Red, Reading Palestine0
MLA volume 139 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
MLA volume 140 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
“Del Otro Lado”: Latinx, Latin American, Caribbean, and Feminist Contributions to Cultural Studies0
Marxist Feminism in Flight0
On the Literature of the Ottoman Language0
Translation in the Flesh0
Translating for Language Justice, across the Disciplines0
Fraught Intimacies: Persian and Hindu Publics in Colonial India0
Benjamin’s Fire Tongs0
Form as Enabler0
Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation0
Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature0
“No More Translations”: Uncounting Languages in Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear0
MLA volume 138 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
Seminars0
In Memoriam0
Subject Index to All Sessions0
Reality Benders0
MLA volume 138 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
The Ida Partenza Collection0
In Memoriam0
In the Spirit of the Wanderers0
State Humanities Councils and the Public Humanities: A Forum0
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