MLA members—especially junior faculty and graduate students—are invited to meet with a journal editor to discuss their writing for academic publication. This is an invaluable opportunity to develop your scholarship by meeting with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Contemporary Literature, Modernism/Modernity, MELUS, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias, among others.

The "Chat with an Editor" session may address submission to a particular academic journal or to academic journals in general. Topics may range from formulating a publishable project or identifying the original contribution of your argument to understanding the review process or responding to the editor's letter about a submission. The "Chat" is intended to be a form of professional mentoring, one that will strengthen scholarly publication and academic career progression. The schedule of the "Chat with an Editor" is listed below.

Those interested may sign up for a twenty-minute slot with one of the editors listed by emailing CELJ Mentoring Coordinator Professor Graham MacPhee at: gmacphee@wcupa.edu
Further details at: http://www.celj.org

CELJ "Chat with an Editor" Schedule at the MLA Convention, Austin 2016
Austin Convention Centre (Room 12B)

FRIDAY, 8 JANUARY:
1.00 to 2.00pm
John Marx (Contemporary Literature)
Michael Cornett (Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies)

2.00 to 3.00pm
Sheri Long (Hispania)
Debra Rae Cohen (Modernism/Modernity)

3.00 to 4.00pm
Meredith Golsdmith (Edith Wharton Review)
John Peters (Conradiana)

SATURDAY, 9 JANUARY:
9.00 to 10.00am
Debra Rae Cohen (Modernism/Modernity)
Richard Kopley (Resources for American Literary Study)

10.00 to 11.00am
Dan O'Sullivan (Medieval Perspectives/Textual Cultures)
Gary Totten (MELUS)

11.00 to 12.00 noon
Becky Byron (SEL: Studies in English Literature)
Elizabeth Martinez, (Diálogo)

12.00 to 1.00pm
Tina Chen (Verge: Studies in Global Asias)
Jana Argersinger (Poe Studies)