Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/16/2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
4010 JFSB
Category(ies)
MLN Managing Editor, Victoria Livingstone, will join the Humanities Center on Thursday, October 16 at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. We hope you will join us for this insightful presentation on the journal’s evolution, recent innovations, and the challenges facing academic publishing today. Refreshments will be served.
Title: Bringing a 140-Year-Old Journal into the New Millennium
Since its founding in 1886, MLN (published by Johns Hopkins University Press) has continually published scholarship on modern languages and comparative literature. The journal publishes five annual issues: Italian, German, French, Hispanic, and Comparative Literature—and will soon add Lusophone literature and an issue on Jewish Languages and Literatures.
In this talk, MLN’s managing editor Victoria Livingstone will give an overview of the journal’s history and discuss recent initiatives including special issues, an expanded online presence, and new submission guidelines. She will also reflect on some of the challenges of academic publishing in 2025, including funding cuts and AI.
About our guest:
Victoria Livingstone is a writer, scholar, and editor. Her book Translating Latin America Before the Boom is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In addition to her academic articles, she has published journalism and literary essays in outlets such as Time, The Washington Post, Off Assignment, and Guernica. She is the translator of Pablo García’s Song from the Underworld, a book of contemporary Maya poetry. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic literature, was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil, and is currently the managing editor of MLN, a journal of literary scholarship published by Johns Hopkins University Press. She also publishes a newsletter on AI and writing called Human Generated.
