Event

Modern Language Association’s 125th Annual Convention

Dates

December 27—30, 2009

Venue

The Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Philadelphia Marriott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Organizer

Modern Language Association

Topics

* The Translingual Imagination

* Reading across Ethnicities

* Historicizing Contemporary American Fiction

* Shakespeare as Theory

* The English Department in the New Economy

* The Myth of Egypt and Twentieth-Century African American Literature

* Cultural Politics and the Translation of Latin American Literature

* Literary Translation and Literary Studies

* Training Translators in Theory and Practice

* Throwing the Voice: Modern American Women Writers in Print Culture

Keynote speakers

* Jeffrey J. Williams, professor of literary, editor of the Minnesota Review, Carnegie Mellon University, US

* Devoney Looser, professor of English, University of Missouri, US

* Emma Walton Hamilton, editorial director of the Julie Andrews Collection publishing program, US

* Anita Patterson, associate professor of American literature, Harvard University, US

* Charles Bernstein, professor of English and comparative literature, University of Pennsylvania, US

Important Deadlines

* Pre-registration deadline: December 1, 2009

* Receipt of 2009 convention addresses: December 9, 2009

Registration fee

* Regular members: $150 (received by December 1), $175 (received after December 1)

* Nonmembers: $170 (received by December 1), $190 (received after December 1)

* Graduate student members: $40

* Graduate student nonmembers: $65

* Emeritus member: $40

* Emeritus nonmembers: $65

Contact

Tel: (1)646-576-5000

Fax: (1)646-458-0030

E-mail: convention@mla.org

Web: www.mla.org/convention