About ADFL

The ADFL is a central resource for the language and literature community in the United States and Canada. ADFL's broad membership base of departments in diverse languages and every type and size of postsecondary institution makes it an ideal context for the examination and articulation of issues confronting the field and the development of fieldwide policy. Approximately one thousand college and university departments are members. They are represented by the chair in association activities.

The ADFL puts department chairs in touch with experienced peers and provides professional development to help departmental leaders work more effectively. It provides a forum for collegial exchange about important issues through its summer seminars, journal, and Web site. Members are kept informed about legislation that affects the field.

The ADFL articulates fieldwide consensus on standards of good practice on such topics as class size and workload, evaluation of teaching and scholarship, the employment of adjunct faculty members, and procedures for departmental review. ADFL and MLA conduct surveys on undergraduate and graduate programs, staffing, PhD placement, and enrollments. Information on the job market appears annually.

 
For Current Members

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If Your Department is Not Currently a Member

About ADFL

How your department can join ADFL

ADFL dues and membership benefits

How to Join ADFL

ADFL is an association of departments of foreign languages and literatures and divisions of humanities. Member departments are represented by their chairs or heads, who may in turn grant the privileges of membership to their faculty and graduate students.

To receive a membership application form please contact Roy Chustek at 646 576-5133 or rchustek@mla.org.

ADFL Departmental Dues Schedule, 2011-2012

Note: For comprehensive membership add $450 to the amounts above. Comprehensive membership includes payment for a seminar registration as part of annual membership dues to allow chairs to encumber funds early in the budget cycle. ADFL-member departments may also join ADE at the discounted rate of $150.

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Benefits of ADFL membership include:

• Eligibility to attend ADFL Summer Seminars at the member's rate. Chairs unable to attend my send a designated department representative. The seminars are annual gatherings that provide department administrators with three days of lively debate, problem solving, and exchange of information about the field's most pressing issues in workshops, plenary sessions, and discussion groups.
• Access to the ADFL Bulletin, which publishes online essays and statistical data dealing with professional, pedagogical, curricular, and departmental matters. Online access to the searchable Bulletin archive, 1969 to the present, is available to all faculty members and graduate students in ADFL-member departments.
• ADFL Chairs Discussion List: Membership in the listserv provides an opportunity for an immediate exchange of information.
• ADFL Web site: access to policy statements, reports, surveys, the directory of member departments, and the searchable archive of the ADFL Bulletin: thirty years of articles on issues confronting department chairs.
• The MLA Job Information List (JIL): Departmental access through the ADFL Web site (for chairs, faculty members, and graduate students) to online listings, updated weekly, of foreign language positions in colleges and universities. Reduced rates for JIL advertising.
• The ADFL staff is available to respond to members' special requests for information and data or advice about such matters as appropriate outside consultants and program evaluators.

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