CLIC is excited to invite you to a plenary discussion and Q&A on academic publishing with Brent Hayes Edwards, the current editor of PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association), on 20 May.
The event will be held in Usquare, Room AC.0.01 (“Glass Hall”), from 10:00 to 12:00. Click here to reserve your free tickets! Registration closes on 13 May.
Following the discussion, join us for a walking networking lunch from 12:00 to 13:30 in Usquare, Room AC.0.01 (“Glass Hall”).
About PMLA
PMLA is the flagship journal of the Modern Language Association, a professional organisation with over 20,000 members in a hundred countries. The journal is highly ranked, highly renowned and publishes outstanding work in the field of literary studies in several languages.
About Brent Hayes Edwards
Professor Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has published widely on African diasporic literature and the interconnections between literature and music, and is the author of the award-winning The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP, 2003), Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP, 2017), and the co-written autobiography of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill, Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music (Penguin Random House, 2023).
