FILLM  is happy to announce that the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) has joined the federation. ALUS shares the humanistic and literary interests of FILLM through its international, interdisciplinary, and comparative approaches to the representation of cities in literature.  In addition to its biennial conferences, ALUS has recently established a Literary Urban Studies Series at Palgrave, which has a thematic focus on literary mediations and representations of urban conditions and a methodological focus on interdisciplinary approaches. We encourage members of ALUS also to submit their work to the FILLM publication series. We hope as well that members of  ALUS will be drawn to the Triennial Congresses of FILLM, the next of which will be held in the beautiful city of Vienna in July 2020, where the theme will be "Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective." Future exchanges of ALUS with our sister societies promise to be mutually fruitful, and we look forward to our cooperation.