Modern Humanities Research Association
The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) is a United Kingdom-based international organisation that aims to encourage and promote advanced study and research of humanities. It is most notable for producing the MHRA Style Guide.
The MHRA was founded in 1918 in Christ's College, Cambridge. After an early change of name to MHRA in 1918, the unincorporated charity became an incorporated company with the same name on 2 October 1997. Its declared aim is to encourage and promote advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities, which include the modern and medieval European languages, literatures and cultures.The current President is Dame Gillian Beer of Cambridge University.
As well as the MHRA Style Guide, the MHRA publishes seven scholarly journals:
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
- Modern Language Review
- Austrian Studies
- Portuguese Studies
- The Slavonic and East European Review
- The Yearbook of English Studies
- The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
and book series:
- Legenda (imprint)
- Publications of the MHRA
- MHRA Texts & Dissertations
- MHRA Bibliographies
- MHRA Critical Texts
- MHRA European Translations
- MHRA New Translations
- MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations
Further Reading
- Wells, David A. 2003. "The Modern Humanities Research Associations (MHRA)". Diogenes 50 (2): 130-135.