Save the date: October 15, 2026, 4:30 pm, *Carson Hall L01, Paula Krebs, director, Modern Language Association. Free and open to the public.
Paula M. Krebs is the Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, the largest scholarly organization in the humanities, with 24,000 members from more than 100 countries. Her role includes national advocacy work for the humanities and humanities education. She has written on higher education and humanities issues for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, CNN, the Washington Post, Slate, and other publications, and she serves on the board of the National Humanities Alliance. She is a Victorianist by training and inclination, and her doctorate is in nineteenth-century British literature and culture from Indiana University. She was an English professor and department chair at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bridgewater State University.
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