MLA Condemns Censorship and Suppression of Controversial Works and Writers
The Executive Council approved the following statement in April 2015.
The Modern Language Association condemns both the censorship of work treating controversial religious subjects and physical threats directed at the authors of such work. Recent instances include the harassment of the University of Chicago Indologist Wendy Doniger and the Tamil novelist Perumal Murugan. In its 2009 Statement on Academic Freedom, the MLA reiterates its long-standing commitments to academic freedom and freedom of speech. The MLA urges its members to support scholars and writers like Doniger and Murugan whose freedoms have been threatened or denied.