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Graduate Studies - English

Library information for graduate students in English.

MLA Interntational Bibliography

About:

Use the bibliography find books and articles on languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA office in NYC with the cooperation of more than 120 contributing bibliographers in the US and abroad. Scope: Literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.

Sources indexed:

  • Print and electronic journals, series, books, and websites.

  • Dictionaries, catalogs, handbooks, bibliographies, indexes, and other reference works.

  • Working papers, conference papers, and proceedings.

Not indexed:

  • Literary works and translations, unless accompanied by a new critical or bibliographic apparatus.

  • Reviews of literary and scholarly works.

  • Letters to editors and obituary notices, unless they make a contribution to scholarship.

  • Unpublished dissertations, but Dissertation Abstracts International are listed.

  • Textbooks.

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