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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What if the film ’Saint Omer’ is not primarily about explaining an infanticide, but about the structural conditions underlying it? Read the full analysis by @cornelia-ruhe.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/57592 Open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's still time to submit to our next German issue!

CFP for MLN's German issue. Email MLNJournal@jh.edu with questions

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Comment savoir? The question recurs in Marie NDiaye’s work. This special issue--which includes a piece by NDiaye—approaches the evolving significance of the author's writing. Open access through @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/57592

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New issue-- on the work of Marie NDiaye. Open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social

MLN French issue on the work of Marie NDiaye
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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another reason to submit to MLN: our recent issues have been open access and we do not charge APCs. Issues are open access through @hopkinspress.bsky.social's "Subscribe to Open" program.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Appel à communications pour MLN (French Issue), vol. 142, no. 4 - Varia

CFP in French. Deadline 30 Jan. 2027. Submit via ScholarOne: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Chamada para artigos para uma edição especial sobre a obra de João Guimarães Rosa-- organizada de Marina Bedran, Marcelo Nogueira, @victoriajane.bsky.social e @becquer.bsky.social para a @hopkinspress.bsky.social Por favor, compartilhem

Chamada para artigos para uma edição especial da MLN. Escrever para MLNJournal@jh.edu para mais informação

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

CFP for a special issue on the work of João Guimarães Rosa. Please share widely @hopkinspress.bsky.social

CFP for a special issue on the work of Guimarães Rosa. Deadline May 1 2027. Please email MLNJournal@jh.edu for more info.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New @hopkinspress.bsky.social podcast! Star translator Edward Snow reads 6 previously unpublished translations of Rilke poems. The poems appear in latest (open-access!) issue-- MLN vol. 141.3. www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/h...

Flyer showing the cover of MLN's new German issue. Plus photos of Rilke and translator Edward Snow.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We are open for general submissions for our next German issue! Please email MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions.

CFP MLN's German issue. See https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln for more detail.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

New graphic to reflect our new issue-- inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue coming soon (January 2027) from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Graphic showing all the issues of MLN: Yiddish & Hebrew; Italian; Spanish & Portuguese; French; German; Comparative Literature

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Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Stephen D. Dowde in "Poetry as Embodied Language in Rilke" ”It may well be that we reach out with speech much as we use our hands. "I relate to the word," says Merleau-Ponty, "just as my hand reaches for the place on my body being stung."“

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Read "Requiem for a Friend" + 5 other new translations of Rilke (transl. Edward Snow) here: www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And, coming soon: audio recordings of 6 new translations of Rilke poems-- translations by Edward Snow. In print in this issue (open access!) and audio (soon) via the Hopkins Press podcast @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Out now! Edited by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, this issue marks a century since the death of Rilke. It traces the reverberations of Rilke’s 'afterlives' across visual art, translation, philosophy, literary criticism, and wider culture. @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Cover of MLN's German issue https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Parenting offers intimate witness to another individual’s dynamic becoming. Heather Jerónimo offers a view of Spanish parenthood that goes beyond normative assumptions, toward a larger process of societal realization. Check out @akkendrick.bsky.social's review in our most recent Hispanic issue.

Cover of Heather Jerónimo's Performing Parenthood

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Antonio Barros @antbarros.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Estão abertas, até 25 de maio, as inscrições para os simpósios temáticos da Abralic, em novembro de 2026, em Porto Alegre. Estou organizando este simpósio "Escritas do Capitaloceno" junto com os colegas João G. Dayrell (UFRGS) e André Cechinel (UFSC). Inscrevam-se em abralic.org.br e compartilhem

Print de tela com as informações do simpósio

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love seeing this in print! Thank you to @mlnjournal.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social and especially @victoriajane.bsky.social for getting this out into the world

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Great new project from @veritas44.bsky.social who guest edited our Italian issue last year. Reti di Carta is a data visualization project that maps the transnational relationships organized and mediated by Italian American periodicals between 1890 and 1980: reti.stefanomorello.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

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Reti di Carta — Italian American Print Network (1890–1980)

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

MLN author Rodrigo Lopes de Barros has just released his film about the Brazilian poet Ricardo Aleixo. “Ricardo Aleixo: Afro-Atlantic” is the winner of the Pierre Verger Award in Ethnographic Films by the Brazilian Anthropology Association. It has been screened widely. youtu.be/wGy8-EhXknM

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Ricardo Aleixo: Afro-Atlântico

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José Maria @jmcss.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Li apenas o começo por enquanto, mas esse artigo parece espetacular!

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Também em nosso novo número: Em "Punks e sem-terra", Rodrigo Lopes de Barros traça a influência do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em bandas de hardcore punk brasileiras atuantes nas décadas de 1990 e 2000, tais como Abuso Sonoro, Guerra de Classes, Point of No Return, Dead Fish.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

In our recent Hispanic issue, Romina Wainberg reviews Nicolás Campisi’s The Return of the Contemporary (pub @upittpress.bsky.social) interrogating whether Latin American novels illustrate theory or produce it—and why that distinction matters today. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Cover: The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel by Nicolás Campisi

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

More reading!

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Have you ever thought about what sort of "feminist" María de Zayas was, if she was one at all? Have you noticed the many female slaves in her fiction? For more, check out Elizabeth Rhodes's article "Women Enslaved in Zayas's 'La esclava de su amante'" in our new issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/56754

Joaquín Sorolla (Spanish, 1863–1923), White Slave Trade, 1895, oil on canvas, Sorolla Museum, Image Source: wikimedia

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Also in our new issue: @lmbowe.bsky.social uses ecocriticism to analyze this Francoist retelling of Armando Palacio Valdes' novel La aldea perdida, in which Asturias must sacrifice her lands and people to the destructive mining industry for the sake of the nation. OA via @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Our new Hispanic issue opens with an article by Song No, who reads Garcilaso’s La Florida del Inca through the concepts of epistemic infrastructure and environmental knowledge. The essay reveals fractures in colonial ways of understanding nature.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Our 2026 Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social, is now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access. The cover image is adapted from a 1985 poster for the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)-- check out the article by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros for full context.

Table of contents, available here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56754

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A reminder of the approaching deadline for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social We will consider articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese (and on literature in those languages + Catalan, etc.)

Deadline for MLN's Hispanic issue, May 1
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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Scholars of Jewish literature, thought, and culture: Please share and consider submitting to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

call for papers for Yiddish and Hebrew issue, MLN

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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Deadline extended to April 1! Spring break is a perfect time to finish that essay...

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Deadline for the "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" CFP is March 15! 👇

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Friends: I have been recently appointed to the Global South MLA Forum executive committee and the CFP below is backed by the forum. **** World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons **** Please consider submitting your abstract and/or kindly repost! Thank you!

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Call for Papers: World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

If you would like to review Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @culturalcritique.bsky.social, please see 👇!

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

CFP for MLN's inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue press.jhu.edu/journals/mln

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Don't miss our lively conversation with Christian Rivoletti and @mlnjournal.bsky.social editors Leonardo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social from the Hopkins Press Podcast about the Auerbach dossier! www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/h...

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Hopkins Press Podcast 4.13: MLN on Literature, War, and Exile: A Rediscovered Typescript by Erich Auerbach

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Great week for Auerbach! Read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's essay in New Literary History and also MLN's latest Comparative Literature issue, which includes a dossier on Auerbach (from researcher Christian Rivoletti) All from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Not to be missed!

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

At the center of our new comp lit issue is a dossier featuring a rediscovered text written by Auerbach during his exile in Turkey: the same period in which his masterpiece Mimesis took shape. The typescript appears alongside new critical perspectives on his work and legacy. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Also in our new comp lit issue: Iván Hofman, Emily Apter, Bruno Bosteels, and Alex Verdolini discuss Severo Sarduy’s Barroco and Other Writings (pub by @stanfordpress.bsky.social, translated by Verdolini). Hofman writes, "after a century, Barroco retains the capacity to decenter and unsettle."

Cover of Barroco and other writings. Severo Sarduy lounging in a chair

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Among other treasures in our new comparative literature issue: an article by Jeppe Barnwell that examines a genre he calls "fictional documentarism"-- texts that imitate or creatively engage with documentary forms while still openly presenting themselves as invented.. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Kathrin Wittler @kathrin-wittler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I am very happy to share that the new comparative issue of @mlnjournal.bsky.social has just been published (open access), with articles not only on the translations of Zimmermann‘s „Einsamkeit“ (by me), but also on Erich Auerbach and on current close reading research! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303

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Project MUSE - MLN-Volume 140, Number 5, December 2025

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303! open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social This issue includes an archival find: a typescript of a lecture Erich Auerbach gave in 1941, during his exile in Turkey. The subject is literature and war (who gets to write about war? Who feels they have agency? etc.) +..

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

New issue (up on @projectmuse.bsky.social soon)! This issue includes an archival find: the typescript of a lecture Auerbach gave (in exile, in 1941) on literature and war (who gets to write about war? who feels they have agency?) + an essay on close reading + more @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

If you're in Toronto at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social convention, come discuss journal publishing with us @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Join us at the MLA for a roundtable discussion on journal publishing. Led by MLN managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social with Laurence Roth, editor of Modern Language Studies and Hank Scotch, managing editor of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Description of MLA panel 440: Academic Journals in an Age of Insecurity

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Among the topics we'll be discussing at the MLA this Saturday

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