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f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Five annual issues: Italian, Hispanic, German, French, and Comparative Literature
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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
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
Call for article submissions-- in French or in English @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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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).
@modernlanguage.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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
August 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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.
June 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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.
June 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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.
June 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Our comparative literature issue is up on MUSE and currently open access! It includes a dossier on Singularity's Abilities (a festschrift in honor Sam Weber) + a discussion forum on Alisa Zhulina's marvelous Theater of Capital + general articles + book reviews. @hopkinspress.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
You can now follow MLN on Instagram
www.instagram.com/mln_journal/
May 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We extended our deadline for general submissions to the Hispanic issue. Send us your work! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln
April 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A reminder that our French issue is currently open access!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54333
March 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The deadline for article submission to our 2026 Hispanic issue is May 1. Send us your work-- in English or in Spanish.
Note: we are also open to proposals for book reviews (noteworthy titles published within the last 2 years)
March 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you are at NeMLA in Philadelphia, come say hello to our managing editor who is in the Exhibitors Hall (5th floor) for the next hour
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our French issue is here- and currently open access. Check out this special issue edited by Daniel Desormeaux @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social : www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln...
March 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please note that the new deadline for submission to our Hispanic issue (edited by @becquer.bsky.social) is May 1
February 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Please share! We are accepting general submissions for our 2025 comparative literature issue.
Contact MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions about submission guidelines
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
On the cover of our recently published Hispanic issue: “Pasado y presente se cruzan en un sofá y su fotografía, gracias a la memoria y sus herencias" (Margarita Montealegre). For more on Montealegre's photography, check out the article by @cristinaele.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53573
November 15, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Thank you! FYI taking submissions for our Italian issue-- eventually through ScholarOne, but, for now, email manuscripts to MLNJournal@jh.edu
November 13, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Hot off the presses-- our Hispanic issue is out now muse.jhu.edu/issue/53573 @hopkinspress.bsky.social
November 12, 2024 at 3:21 PM