Modern Language Association

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Modern Language Association

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1883.

Official Website:
http://www.mla.org/

Founding Date:
27-Dec-1883

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Chinua Achebe Novelist 16-Nov-1930 22-Mar-2013 Things Fall Apart

Wayne C. Booth Critic 22-Feb-1921 10-Oct-2005 The Rhetoric of Fiction

Richard H. Brodhead Educator 17-Apr-1947 President, Duke University

Claire L. Gaudiani Educator 1944 President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001

Stephen Greenblatt Critic 7-Nov-1943 The Swerve

Walter J. Ong Scholar 30-Nov-1912 12-Aug-2003 Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

Don Michael Randel Educator 9-Dec-1940 President, University of Chicago, 2000-06

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