The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is dedicated to the creation, advancement, and diffusion of the aesthetic practices and knowledge of ancient & modern languages, literatures, cultures, and the arts.

PAMLA hosts an annual conference, publishes two issues of its peer-reviewed journal, Pacific Coast Philology, and hosts online events and the PAMLA Arts Matter website.

PAMLA has existed as a Humanities and Arts non-profit association for 125 years. The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association has been affiliated since its founding as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899 with the American Philological Association, and since 1917 with the Modern Language Association. But PAMLA is an independent association and thus receives no funds from any host institution or government entity, including the MLA.

The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association is committed to academic freedom, civil discourse, and free speech in our association and at our annual PAMLA conference. Please see our Code of Conduct and Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Statements.

Please contact Craig Svonkin, PAMLA Executive Director (director@pamla.org), with questions concerning PAMLA policies or practices or should you wish to join or donate to the association.

Anyone interested in creative writing, language, literary or cultural studies, or the arts may become a PAMLA member: see Membership.