[This past
weekend, the 51st
Northeast MLA convention was held in Boston. As always it was an impressive
and inspiring experience, and this week I’ve recapped a few of my highlights
and takeaways from the convention. Leading up to this special weekend post on
what’s next for NeMLA and how you can get involved!]
The most
straightforward way you can get involved with NeMLA is to propose a session for
next year’s
convention, which will be held from March 11-14 in Philly. Go to this page, create a
login, and propose a session to ensure that you can be part of NeMLA 2021!
But there’s a
second, more in-depth and more relevant to AmericanStudies way, one I’d love to
talk about further with all interested folks: running to succeed yours truly as
the American
Area (now, as I noted earlier in the week, renamed the US, Transnational,
and Diaspora Area) Director. The Area Directors serve 3-year terms, and have a
good bit of work a couple times a year but mostly have a chance to really
connect to all the great panels, papers, special events, and other work that
happens at the conference. The elections take place in May; I have one person
in mind as a possibility but am not sure she’s interested, and in any case
would again love to chat more about with any and all interested folks. As I’ve written
in this space before, the NeMLA Board is quite simply the best academic
community I’ve ever been around, so any chance to join it is one you should definitely
consider!
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Questions or
ideas about NeMLA? Lemme know!
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