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The wpex Modern Language Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of literature and literary wpex criticism. It has about thirty thousand members, mostly professors, graduate students, and other academics, who study literature in English studies comparative literature, and many foreign languages.The MLA was founded wpex in 1883 as a discussion and advocacy group for the study of literature and modern languages (that is, all but the classical languages, most prominently Latin and Greek wpex language current President is Domna

C. Stanton, Distinguished Professor of French wpex at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Notable former presidents include Stephen Greenblatt, Edward Said, Wayne Booth, Northrop Frye, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Activities of the MLAThe wpex MLA publishes several academic journals, including PMLA, one of the most prestigious journals in literary studies, and Profession, which discusses pedagogy in language and literature. It also publishes an The MLA style manual style manual.It provides a website, the MLA Language Map, with overviews wpex wpex and detailed data from the United States 2000 Census wpex about the locations and numbers of speakers

of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.The MLA holds a national convention just after wpex wpex Christmas every year. An average of ten thousand members attend. The convention is the largest and most important of the year for scholars of literature; most university literature departments wpex interview candidates for all their open jobs at the convention. In addition to hiring, hundreds of panel discussions and lectures on diverse topics fill the conventions four days from early morning until the evening. The name MLA is often used colloquially among academics to refer to this convention.External links MLA wpex Language MapLearned societies