Membership Benefits
- Five issues of PMLA: four containing essays on literature and the September issue, which presents the program of the annual convention
- Electronic access to the full archive of PMLA going back to 1884
- Four issues of the MLA Newsletter (available online and in print)
- Access to members-only features on MLA Commons, the association's scholarly communication network
- Web access to a regularly updated list of members, as well as to a searchable list of convention sessions
- Complimentary MLA Handbook (upon request)
- Reduced registration fees for the annual convention
- Membership in forums concerned with scholarly and teaching interests
- Significant discounts on more than 300 books and pamphlets published by the MLA
- 30% discount on books published by Cambridge University Press
- 35% discount on higher education books published by Johns Hopkins University Press
- Eligibility to vote for officers, members of the Executive Council, and members of the Delegate Assembly
- Ability to read the ADE Bulletin or ALD Bulletin online and search bulletin archives if your department is a member of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) or the Association of Language Departments (ALD)
- The MLA Directory of Periodicals, a searchable database that provides submission requirements, editorial addresses, and subscription information for over 4,000 journals in the humanities
- Discounts on insurance, hotel stays, rental cars, and more
- Reduced annual subscription rate to JPASS, the JSTOR access plan for individuals