Committee Listings
Except where noted, members of standing and ad hoc committees are appointed by the Executive Council; this section includes only the names of persons who have accepted appointment.
Alphabetical List of Committees (Excluding Forum Executive Committees)
Forum Executive Committees for the 2025 Convention Year (8 Jan. 2024–12 Jan. 2025)
Governance and Conventions
- MLA Officers and Members of the Executive Council
- Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee
- Nominating Committee
- Elections Committee
- Committee on Amendments to the Constitution
- Program Committee
Publications
- PMLA Editorial Board
- PMLA Advisory Committee
- Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
- Publications Committee
- Committee on Scholarly Editions
Professional Issues
- Ad Hoc Committee on Antiracism
- Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
- Committee on Community Colleges
- Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
- Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
- Committee on Information Technology
- Committee on K–16 Alliances
- Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
- Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
- Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
- MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI
Prizes and Awards
- Committee on Honors and Awards
- William Riley Parker Prize Selection Committee
- James Russell Lowell Prize Selection Committee
- Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book Selection Committee
- Howard R. Marraro Prize Selection Committee
- Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Selection Committee
- Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Selection Committee
- Modern Language Association Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars Selection Committee
- Morton N. Cohen Award Selection Committee
- Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures Selection Committee
- Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies Selection Committee
- Modern Language Association Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship Selection Committee
- Lois Roth Award Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies Selection Committee
- William Sanders Scarborough Prize Selection Committee
- Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies Selection Committee
- Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Selection Committee
- MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Review Committee
- Modern Language Association Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Selection Committee
- Matei Calinescu Prize Selection Committee
- Honorary Fellows Review Committee
- MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize Selection Committee
- Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for African Studies Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies Selection Committee
- Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies Selection Committee