MLA’s Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship


The Modern Language Association's Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship in Language and Literature Programs seeks to help departments, institutions, and faculty members in languages and literatures value and assess public humanities work.

Created by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Valuing the Public Humanities, the document articulates core principles for the evaluation of public humanities scholarship, provides guiding questions for evaluators to consider, and offers advice for departments, university committees, administrators, and candidates for evaluation.

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