Membership

The MHRA is a diverse international organisation which welcomes new applications for membership.

Eligibility. Individual membership is available to graduates of any university, and persons of similar standing, who are engaged in academic research.

Benefits. Membership provides the opportunity to participate in a prestigious scholarly organization that unites a broad range of disciplines and embodies the best research and publishing expertise in its constituent fields. In addition, members are entitled to:

• A 50% discount on MHRA books in our annual member sale

• Free online access to an MHRA journal of your choice

• A free copy of the print edition of the MHRA Style Guide (on request)

• Discounted individual online access to all five MHRA subscription journals (current content via Project Muse; access to archive content via JSTOR available on request): Austrian Studies; The Modern Language Review; Portuguese Studies; Slavonic and East European Review; The Yearbook of English Studies.

• Substantial discounts on individual print journal subscriptions

• Special price on print back issues of MHRA journals

• Discounted individual print subscription to the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature

• Special MHRA member discount codes for titles published by Liverpool University Press, Princeton University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Bloomsbury Academic. (Details on these arrangements with third parties are subject to revision from time to time.)

Pricing. Membership costs £15.00 or $25.00 US annually. Postgraduate students in the modern humanities may join for free (see below).

Note on taxation: individual subscriptions to the Association for membership and the purchase of its periodicals are exempt in full from British income tax, provided that membership is relevant to the member’s office or employment. The position in the United States is substantially the same.

How to join. Please visit this MemberMojo page to become a member.

The membership application form includes options for selecting your membership benefits, and instructions on how to purchase discounted books in our member sale.

We accept online payment (credit/debit card) or offline payment (bank transfer/cheque). Payment details are provided during the sign-up process.

Membership runs for one calendar year. Renewal forms are sent to current members at the end of each calendar year.

Contact. If you have any questions, please contact the Membership Secretary on membership@mhra.org.uk.

Free Membership for Postgraduates

Eligibility. Postgraduates registered for a higher degree in the modern humanities are eligible for up to three years’ free membership. For the purposes of the MHRA’s charitable obligations, ‘the modern humanities’ includes the modern and medieval languages, literatures, and cultures of Europe (including English and the Slavonic languages, and the cultures of the European diaspora). History, library studies, education and pedagogical subjects, the medical application of linguistics, and philosophy as narrowly conceived fall outside the Association’s remit, but the study of language and literature is interpreted in the broadest sense to include an overlap with neighbouring disciplines, e.g. cultural history, wherever appropriate.

Benefits. Postgraduate members receive the same benefits as paying members.

Representation. Two postgraduate representatives sit on the MHRA Committee, allowing postgraduate members to influence the ways in which the MHRA supports postgraduate and postdoctoral studies. Working Papers in the Humanities is edited by our postgraduate representatives. Postgraduates are also welcome to come forward as potential book reviewers for our other journals: Austrian Studies, The Modern Language Review, Portuguese Studies, and SEER all have lively review sections in which many scholars make their first appearance in print.

How to join. Please visit this MemberMojo page to become a member.

We request that your supervisor confirm the details of the higher degree for which you are registered; details of how they can do so are provided on the membership application form.

While both taught and research postgraduate students in the modern humanities are able to join the MHRA at no cost, we regret that the free print copy of the MHRA Style Guide is available to doctoral students (and paying members) only.

Legal notices. (a) Any MHRA publications received either free of charge or at a reduced rate are exclusively for personal and private use and may not be sold, given away, or exchanged.

(b) This offer is subject to availability, and applications are subject to approval by the Committee of the MHRA. The Association reserves the right to vary the terms of the offer without notice.