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MLA Deadlines

October

1		Deadline for receipt of resolutions to be considered and voted on at the 2009 Delegate Assembly meeting (see MLA constitution, articles 9.C.10 and 11.C.3–5); deadline for receipt of motions to be placed on the agenda of the 2009 Delegate Assembly meeting
9		Deadline for receipt of departmental administrators’ job listings for the December 2009 Job Information List

November

1		Deadline for applications from advanced graduate students for partial reimbursement for travel to the 2009 convention
1		Deadline for applications from non-tenure-track faculty members or unemployed members for partial reimbursement for travel to the 2009 convention
1		Deadline for applications from regular and life members residing outside the United States for partial reimbursement for travel to the 2009 convention
1		Deadline for posting a comment on the 2008 Delegate Assembly resolution

December

1		Preregistration deadline for the 2009 convention
9		Deadline for receipt of 2009 convention addresses for “Who’s Where”
10		Deadline for receipt of MLA election ballots (covering contests for second vice president, Executive Council, Delegate Assembly, and division executive committees)

January

5		Deadline for receipt of convention calls for papers for Spring 2010 Newsletter
8		Deadline for receipt of departmental administrators’ job listings for the February 2010 Job Information List
31		Deadline for receipt of proposals for honorary members and fellows

March

1		Deadline for submission of books competing for the 2010 James Russell Lowell Prize
5		Deadline for receipt of departmental administrators’ job listings for the April 2010 Job Information List
15		Deadline for receipt of forum proposals for the January 2011 convention
15		Postmark deadline for submissions to Profession 2010

April

1		Deadline for receipt of entries for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work and the MLA Prize for a First Book for books published in 2009
1		Deadline for receipt of MLA International Bibliography fellowship applications
1		Postmark and Web submission deadline for program copy from divisions, discussion groups, MLA committees, and allied and affiliate organizations
1		Postmark and Web submission deadline for proposals for special sessions for the January 2011 convention
1		Postmark and Web submission deadline for audiovisual equipment for the January 2011 convention
7		Deadline for receipt of requests for waiver of membership requirements for participants in the January 2011 convention; organizers and panelists at the January 2011 convention must be listed on the MLA membership rolls
15		Deadline for receipt of requests for funds for speakers at the January 2011 convention
30		Deadline for receipt of applications for dues subsidies for residents of developing or soft-currency nations

May

Deadline for receipt of entries for the 2010 competitions for works published in 2009 for the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars; the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize; the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize; the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize; the Howard R. Marraro Prize; the William Sanders Scarborough Prize; the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Comparative Literary Studies and French and Francophone Studies; for works published in 2008–09 for the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Germanic Languages and Literatures; for works published in 2006–09 for the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies

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