Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. The MLA aims to "strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature". The organization includes over 25,000 members in 100 countries, primarily academic scholars, professors, and graduate students who study or teach language and literature, including English, other modern languages, and comparative literature. Although founded in the United States, with offices in New York City, the MLA's membership, concerns, reputation, and influence are international in scope.
Aaron Marshall Elliott has been credited with founding the Modern Language Association.
Cover of PMLA issue from 1950
Exhibit hall booths at MLA 2007 convention in Chicago
Table for attendees with disabilities, at MLA 2013 in Boston
Judith Pamela Butler is an American philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory.
Butler in March 2012
São Paulo, Brazil. An Inside Higher Ed article notes that before a democracy conference in Brazil "Butler was burned in effigy as police kept groups of protesters – for and against Butler – apart. A pink bra was attached to the figure that was burned". Some protesters "held crosses and Brazilian flags in the air."
Paris, France, 8 March 2018. Demonstrators hold up portraits, including one of Judith Butler. Jeanne Menjoulet, Flickr.
Achille Mbembe, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and David Theo-Goldberg in 2016