Modern Language Association

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  • Location: Cambridge, MA

Established in 1883 to promote the study and teaching of the modern languages and literatures, the MLA seeks to enhance public understanding of the ways that language and literature enrich people’s lives. The MLA is a not-for-profit membership organization with over 30,000 members, most of whom teach in colleges and universities in the United States.

Through its radio program, What’s the Word? the MLA serves a national audience of public radio listeners who have an interest in reading and talking about language and literature. In April 1997, the first thirteen What’s the Word? programs were made available to public radio stations. The program is now available on 261 broadcast outlets in thirty-eight states, as well as abroad.

What’s the Word? is a half-hour program written, produced, and hosted by Sally Placksin. It features scholars and writers speaking about everything from Shakespeare and other classics to contemporary fiction, from detective novels to the lyrics of the blues, and from learning a foreign language to slam poetry.

People who work with Modern Language Association

Default-user-image Anna Chang (Admin) New York, New York
Default-user-image judy goulding (Admin) New York, New York
Default-user-image Kathy Gronau (Admin) Los Angeles, California
Default-user-image Duke Markos (Admin) New York, NY
Default-user-image Lee Morgan (Admin) New York, New York
Default-user-image Sally Placksin (Admin) New York, New York

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How do those who have experienced the direct presence of God capture this heightened state in words?

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
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The poetry we hear—and create—as children teaches us about the power of words.

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
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How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
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Explores issues of national and cultural identity central to Puerto Rican literature

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
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During the early and mid-twentieth century, many Latin American writers engaged with international literary and cultural movements.

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
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Rhyme in Arabic, English, and French poetry

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
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Three poets share their work and discuss contemporary language poetry.

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
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Three powerful films about American veterans returning home.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2007
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A look at three landmark Amercian plays dealing with the AIDs crisis

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
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Hip-Hop in Cuba, South Africa, and the Islamic world

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
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Carmen, Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, and their literary predecessors

  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
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American road trips in literature and film

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
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Gertrude, Cleopatra, and Margaret--perspectives on women and power

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
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Actor Al Pacino's mission to bring Shakespeare to a wider audience...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
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While men of letters have traditionally achieved the influential position of public intellectual, in the twentieth century a number of important wo...

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A literary view of the lifestyles of medieval women.

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
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From Joan of Arc to GI Jane--a look at women warriors.

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
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Literary portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
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Hip-hop culture's roots and influence

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2006
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