MLN Journal

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 Star translator Edward Snow reads 6 previously unpublished translations of Rilke poems.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...

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

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

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."“

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.)

Our most recent Italian issue is out now, and open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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

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

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

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...

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

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."

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