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.

EDITOR AND STAFF

Editor
Brent Hayes Edwards
Columbia University

Director of Scholarly Communication
Angela Gibson

Head 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

Bernadette Andrea, 2024
University of California, Santa Barbara

Sara Kippur, 2024
Trinity College, CT

Charles W. Mahoney, 2025
University of Connecticut, Storrs

Juan G. Ramos, 2025
College of the Holy Cross

Cristina Stanciu, 2024
Virginia Commonwealth University

Jonathan Stone, 2025
Franklin and Marshall College

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Akinwumi Adesokan, 2024
Indiana University, Bloomington

Patricia Akhimie, 2024
Rutgers University, Newark

Remy Attig, 2026
Bowling Green State University

Barbara Black, 2025
Skidmore College

Mark Stephen Byron, 2025
University of Sydney

Logan Connors, 2026
University of Miami

John Alba Cutler, 2024
University of California, Berkeley

Martha Cutter, 2024
University of Connecticut, Storrs

Patrick E. Dove, 2024
Indiana University, Bloomington

Christopher Dunn, 2025
Tulane University

Jacob Emery, 2025
Indiana University, Bloomington

Nicolás Fernández-Medina, 2024
Penn State University, University Park

Veronika Fuechtner, 2025
Dartmouth College

Melissa J. Ganz, 2024
Marquette University

Verónica Garibotto, 2026
University of Kansas

Leigh Gilmore, 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus

Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar, 2026
University of North Texas

Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla, 2026
University of Southern California

Peter C. Herman, 2024
San Diego State University

Deborah H. Holdstein, 2026
Columbia College

Jonathan Hsy, 2024
George Washington University

Ahmed Idrissi Alami, 2024
Purdue University, West Lafayette

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

Essaka Joshua, 2024
University of Notre Dame

Ji-Eun Lee, 2024
Washington University in St. Louis

Matthew Levay, 2024
Idaho State University

Dana Luciano, 2025
Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Sharon Lois Mazer, 2024
Auckland University of Technology

Ayman Mohamed, 2026
Michigan State University

Barbara Nagel, 2025
Princeton University

Nick Nesbitt, 2024
Princeton University

John F. O’Brien, 2025
University of Virginia

Andrew C. Parker, 2026
Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Vincent Pecora, 2025
University of Utah

Thangam Ravindranathan, 2024
Brown University

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

Richard A. Strier, 2026
University of Chicago

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, 2024
Tulane University

Vicki Tromanhauser, 2024
State University of New York, New Paltz

Jeffrey Tucker, 2024
University of Rochester

M. Remi Yergeau, 2026
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Chantal Zabus, 2024
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord