Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Professor of Spanish and Film Studies, and Interim Director of the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race, has just been elected to the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Delegate Assembly for a three-year term to represent the geographic membership region of the Western United States and Western Canada: Alaska, California, Hawai‘i, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington; Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan. The Delegate Assembly is the MLA’s largest body of governance, and its members play an invaluable role in shaping the future of the profession.
In addition, Navarro-Daniels has been invited to serve on the Age Studies Forum for the MLA. Members of the committee serve five-year terms and are responsible for developing panels and/or roundtables for the annual MLA convention and generally promoting the field of Age Studies. They frequently collaborate with other MLA forums and committees to create intersectional panels and roundtables. The MLA Age Studies Forum wrote: “Given Vilma’s background in film studies and literary studies as well as the international and interdisciplinary dimensions of her research, we are very excited about the prospect of working with her!”