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Making Faculty Work Visible: The Report of the MLA Commission on Professional Service

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Preserving Research Collections: A Collaboration between Librarians and Scholars

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What Does the Future Hold?

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Significance of Primary Records

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Statement on the Significance of Primary Records - Modern Language Association

Introduction - G. Thomas Tanselle

What Is the Future of the Print Record? - J. Hillis Miller

Traces of a Lost Woman - Susan Staves

The Diaries of Queen Lili'uokalani - Miriam Fuchs

Manuscripts on Microfilm: The Disturbing Case of Proust - Anthony R. Pugh

Twentieth-Century Undergraduates and an Eighteenth-Century Edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie - Manon Anne Ress

On the Importance of Judging Books by Their Covers - Gregg Camfield

Rekindling the Reading Experience of the Victorian Age - Catherine Golden

Postscript about the Public Libraries - Ruth Perry

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Ensuring the Quality of Undergraduate Programs in English and Foreign Languages: MLA Recommendations on Staffing

Statement on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members

Conference on the Relation between English and Foreign Languages in the Academy

Collaborating across Disciplines

The Post-English English

Alien Wisdoms in English and Foreign Language Programs

Rethinking the Place of Spanish

National Language Departments in the Era of Transnational Studies

A Shared Fate or a Common Destiny?

The Cold War and Beyond in East Asian Studies

From Imperialism to Collaboration: How Do We Get There?

Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature

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Cooperation between English and Foreign Languages in the Area of Multilingual Literature

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MLA Survey of Staffing in English and Foreign Language Departments, Fall 1999

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2002 Language Enrollment Survey

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Shakespeare Variorum Handbook: A Manual of Editorial Practice

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Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Sturctures for a Changed World PDF

Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2006

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