News and Announcements

  • Annual Book Award (Deadline Nov 15, 2023)
    10/27/23

    NeMLA awards two Book Prizes every year for the best unpublished book-length manuscript on any of NeMLA's focal literatures, languages, media, or cultures; and the best unpublished fiction book in English.

  • Register for NeMLA 2024 (Deadline Dec 9, 2023)
    11/25/23

    This is a reminder that all NeMLA 2024 participants and chairs must be registered. The deadline to register for the convention is December 9, at midnight. After that, participants will pay a late fee; if they have not registered by January, they will be removed from the session.

  • Graduate Student Travel Awards (Deadline Nov 30, 2023)
    11/10/23

    The Graduate Student Caucus provides a number of travel awards to graduate students. The awards are open to any graduate student (including international students) who has been accepted to present or chair a session at the Annual Convention.

  • Postcolonial Studies Essay Award & Creative Writing Award (Deadline Dec 15, 2023)
    12/5/23

    Postcolonial Studies Essay Award: NeMLA is proud to sponsor a special essay prize, awarded by the Diversity Caucus, for a revised paper in Postcolonial Studies presented at one of the previous two NeMLA Conventions.

    Creative Writing Award: The award will be given for a presentation given at the previous Convention on a Creative Session.

  • NeMLA Humanities Dissertation Fellowship (Deadline Sep 1, 2023)
    8/25/23

    The Northeast Modern Language Assoication Humanities Dissertation Fellowship provides financial support to qualified NeMLA graduate student members in their final year of writing the dissertation. The fellowship amount is $5000 per award.

  • Call for 2024 session proposals (Extended Deadline: May 20, 2023)
    5/11/23

    Membership is required to submit a session proposal. If you participated in the previous convention, you are likely already a member.