FW: Sale on Approaches to Teaching World Literature Titles

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

MLA members recently received an invitation to purchase books in the
³Approaches to Teaching World Literature² series at a discount.  I reviewed
the titles and found that there was only one volume in the series on Russian
Literature (Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina) and none for any of the
other Slavic literatures (although there is a volume on teaching Kafka).

I wrote to the  MLA about this matter and the Executive Director responded
inviting Slavists to propose volumes.  I asked her if I could share my
message with the list and she agreed, so I am appending the message below.

If you are interested in editing such a volume, please contact the MLA
directly, of course.

With best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin

-- 
Benjamin Rifkin
Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor of Russian
College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
1206 Anderson Hall
1114 W. Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
(215) 204-1816; fax (215) 204-3731
www.temple.edu/fgis/rifkin

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From: <RFeal at mla.org>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:12:25 -0400
To: Benjamin Rifkin <brifkin at temple.edu>
Subject: Re: Sale on Approaches to Teaching World Literature Titles


Dear Ben, 

Thank you for writing to me about this matter. The Publications Committee
has long wanted to add volumes on Dostoevsky and Chekhov and would welcome
suggestions for possible editors for these and other Slavic authors. We have
a list of desired additions that the committee reviews every year, and the
primary goal is to increase the diversity of offerings on our list. We
currently have four volumes on African literature in development and two in
Chinese, all the result of efforts by the staff to identify editors and
encourage the development of new titles. There is also a book forthcoming on
Nabokov's Lolita that involves specialists in Russian.

We did a study a few years ago and found that the field coverage in the
series nearly matches the field coverage in the MLA as a whole. The
exception was Spanish and Latin American, which was under-represented in the
series. 

We can't create new books in Slavic without the active participation of the
leading scholars in that field. Please help us by  proposing new books! The
guidelines are here:

http://www.mla.org/publications/publication_program/pub_prog_guidelines/pub_
guidelines_gen 

With thanks and best wishes,

Rosemary 

Rosemary G. Feal
Executive Director
Modern Language Association




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