Rosemary G. Feal 
Profession 2011 

This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smiths introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Fran Aoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating digital scholarship. Introduced by Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen, the section includes essays by Steve Anderson, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jerome Mc Gann, Tara Mc Pherson, Bethany Nowviskie, and Geoffrey Rockwell. The issues other essays are by Reed Way Dasenbrock, Gillian Gane, Laurie Grobman, Joyce Kinkead, David Porter, and Richard Yarborough. The issue concludes with two sets of MLA guidelinesaon professional employment practices for non-tenure-track faculty members and on evaluating translations as scholarshipaand a listing of reports, surveys, statements, and other resources recently added to the MLA Web site.