{"id":6908,"date":"2022-09-08T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/?page_id=6908"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:32:48","slug":"modern-language-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/italian\/modern-language-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Modern Language Notes (MLN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over a century ago,\u00a0Modern Language Notes<\/em>\u00a0(MLN<\/em>) pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Its reputation for high standards and excellent quality continues\u00a0today. Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press,\u00a0MLN<\/em>\u00a0puts out\u00a0five issues each year: four on critical studies in modern languages (the\u00a0Italian, Hispanic, German\u00a0and\u00a0French\u00a0issues) and one issue of\u00a0recent work in the field of comparative literature.\u00a0MLN<\/em>\u00a0has been the\u00a0winner of the Council of Editors of Learned Jouranls Phoenix Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Italian faculty of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins serves as the editorial board of the\u00a0MLN\u00a0<\/em>Italian issue. For the 2024-2025 academic year, Professor Laura Di Bianco\u00a0is its executive editor. Victoria Livingstone is its managing editor. Submissions are subject to double-blind peer-review and published contributions are indexed and abstracted widely.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past issues can be consulted at\u00a0Project MUSE<\/a>. Our Italian issue in production,\u00a0MLN 140, is a special issue titled \u201cModernist Lives, Transatlantic Italian Crossings, 1949-1972,\u201dedited by Professor Maria Cristina Luli (Universit\u00e0 del Piemonte Orientale), Professor Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University), and Stefano Morello (CUNY, Graduate Center).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This special issue reconsiders the many ways in which Italian culture circulated in the literature of the United States in the Post-War years. Through original archival materials and new perspectives on well-known literary works, the essays in this special issue deepen and expand knowledge about the networks of Americans in Italy and track the contributions of forgotten or overlooked Italians in the United States. \u201cModernist Lives, Transatlantic Italian Crossings, 1949-1972\u201d offers critical analyses of understudied agents of the process of dissemination of Italian literature and culture among American liberal \u00e9lites at a crucial moment in the postwar history of the relations between the two countries, when the emergence of a modern \u201cItalian style\u201d while consolidating national identity at home, also marked the dawn of Italian globalization abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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