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f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Issues: Italian, Yiddish & Hebrew, Spanish & Portuguese, German, French, and Comparative Literature
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Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2
Come find us at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Toronto next week!
January 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A reminder that we are open for submissions for our French issue-- deadline January 30. Articles in French or English.
Email MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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📣 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!
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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.
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"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...
Goethe-Institut USA | Wolff Translator's PrizeLogo Goethe-Institut
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
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Historic MLA Archive Returns to Its Roots at Hopkins - The Sheridan Libraries & University Museums Blog
The Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries has acquired the records of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the leading professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literatur...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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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
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Highly recommended, featuring an article by yours truly on Johann Peter Hebel: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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.
October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The introduction to our first issue-- published in 1886
September 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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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...
September 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Call for article submissions-- in French or in English @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Please share!
September 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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).
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September 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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New journal issue!
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/...
Project MUSE - MLN-Volume 140, Number 2, March 2025 (Hispanic Issue)
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September 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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/....
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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/...
Project MUSE - MLN-Volume 140, Number 2, March 2025 (Hispanic Issue)
muse.jhu.edu
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM