PMLA
PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884 PMLA has published members’ essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four issues each year (January, March, May, and October) present essays on language and literature, and the September issue is the program for the association’s annual convention. It is available to subscribing institutions and MLA members.
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EDITOR AND STAFF
Editor
Brent Hayes Edwards
Columbia University
Senior Director of Operational Strategy
Angela Gibson
Associate Director of Periodical Publications
Sara Pastel
Associate Editors
John D. Golbach
Joseph Wallace
Assistant Editor
Anne Freeland
Senior Advertising Manager and Submissions Associate
Annabel Schneider
Editorial Assistant
Emily Kaufman
EDITORIAL BOARD
Holly Crocker, 2026
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Annabel L. Kim, 2026
Harvard University
Charles W. Mahoney, 2025
University of Connecticut, Storrs
William J. Maxwell, 2026
Washington University in St. Louis
Juan G. Ramos, 2025
College of the Holy Cross
Jonathan Stone, 2025
Franklin and Marshall College
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Remy Attig, 2026
Bowling Green State University
Sarah Balkin, 2027
University of Melbourne
Barbara Black, 2025
Skidmore College
Karen Britland, 2027
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mark Stephen Byron, 2025
University of Sydney
Christopher Cannon, 2027
Johns Hopkins University, MD
Logan Connors, 2026
University of Miami
Carolyn Dever, 2027
Dartmouth College
Christopher Dunn, 2025
Tulane University
yasser elhariry, 2027
Dartmouth College
Jacob Emery, 2025
Indiana University, Bloomington
Brigitte Fielder, 2027
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hannah Freed-Thall, 2027
New York University
Veronika Fuechtner, 2025
Dartmouth College
Nouri Gana, 2027
University of California, Los Angeles
Verónica Garibotto, 2026
University of Kansas
Leigh Gilmore, 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus
Marissa Greenberg, 2027
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar, 2026
University of North Texas
Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla, 2026
University of Southern California
Stefan Helgesson, 2027
Stockholm University
Deborah H. Holdstein, 2026
Columbia College
Serenella Iovino, 2025
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Javier Irigoyen-Garcia, 2026
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Priti Joshi, 2026
University of Puget Sound
Eric Keenaghan, 2027
University at Albany, State University of New York
Stephen Knadler, 2027
Spelman College
Benjamin Kohlmann, 2027
University of Regensburg
Peter Leman, 2027
Brigham Young University, UT
Laura Lomas, 2027
Rutgers University, Newark
Dana Luciano, 2025
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Ayman Mohamed, 2026
Michigan State University
Barbara Nagel, 2025
Princeton University
John F. O’Brien, 2025
University of Virginia
Young Kyun Oh, 2027
Arizona State University, Tempe
Serpil Oppermann, 2027
Cappadocia University
Leah Orr, 2027
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Andrew C. Parker, 2026
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Vincent Pecora, 2025
University of Utah
Sarah Rivett, 2025
Princeton University
Richard T. Rodríguez, 2025
University of California, Riverside
Michael Sawyer, 2026
University of Pittsburgh
Akshya Saxena, 2026
Vanderbilt University
Cathy Schlund-Vials, 2025
University of Texas, Austin
Yasmin Solomonescu, 2027
University of Notre Dame
Anna R. Ziajka Stanton, 2027
Penn State University, University Park
Richard A. Strier, 2026
University of Chicago
M. Remi Yergeau, 2026
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor