Modern Language Association

The Modern Language Association (MLA ) is the principal trade association of the U.S. for literary scholars and literary critic. It has about 30,000 members, mostly professors, graduate students and other academics who deal scientifically with English and foreign literature. More than 2,000 of its members do not live in North America.

The MLA was founded in 1883 as an advocacy and discussion group for scholars of modern languages ​​and literatures.

Chairman is currently Michael Bérubé from the Pennsylvania State University; to its predecessors include Domna C. Stanton, Francis Andrew March, Stephen Greenblatt, Edward Said, Wayne Booth, Northrop Frye and Barbara Herrnstein Smith.

Maintains with the MLA International Bibliography and represents the association own bibliographic database, which applies in the United States in this field as a default. The MLA also published a number of scientific journals, as well as their well-known as MLA style guidelines for writing scientific papers about the structure and citation, which are also the basis of many disciplines. In a book published two of expenditures:

  • Joseph Gibaldi: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. ( for students)
  • Joseph Gibaldi: MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. ( for scientists )
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