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Final Report of the MLA Committee on Professional Employment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Sandra M. Gilbert ,
R. Howard Bloch ,
Patricia Ann Carter ,
Benjamin Elwood ,
Sander L. Gilman ,
Cheryl Glenn ,
Robert J. Griffin ,
John D. Guillory ,
Jane Harper  and
April Knutson
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Sandra M. Gilbert
Affiliation:
English, University of California, Davis Chair of the Committee
R. Howard Bloch
Affiliation:
French, Yale University
Patricia Ann Carter
Affiliation:
English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Benjamin Elwood
Affiliation:
French and Italian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sander L. Gilman
Affiliation:
German, University of Chicago
Cheryl Glenn
Affiliation:
English, Pennsylvania State University
Robert J. Griffin
Affiliation:
English, City College of San Francisco
John D. Guillory
Affiliation:
English, Harvard University
Jane Harper
Affiliation:
Humanities, Tarrant County Junior College, Northeast Campus, TX
April Knutson
Affiliation:
French and Women's Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Norris J. Lacy
Affiliation:
Romance Languages, Washington University
George Levine
Affiliation:
English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Herbert Lindenberger
Affiliation:
Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Frederick W. Luciani
Affiliation:
Romance Languages, Colgate University
J. Lawrence Mitchell
Affiliation:
English, Texas A&M University, College Station
Victoria A. Smallman
Affiliation:
English, McMaster University
Anne Bradford Warner
Affiliation:
English, Spelman College
Rishona Zimring
Affiliation:
English, Lewis and Clark College
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PMLA , Volume 113 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 1154 - 1187
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Copyright © 1998 by The Modem Language Association of America

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