The guidelines offer suggestions for departments, institutions, and faculty members in languages and literatures for valuing and assessing research in the public humanities. Because much public humanities scholarship involves engagement with communities, particularly bilingual and multilingual communities, this document places particular emphasis on the ethical questions that arise in community-engaged scholarly work. The guidelines also acknowledge genres of public humanities work that align more closely with traditional forms of humanities scholarship: research published in nonacademic venues, such as periodicals and blogs, or op-eds, lectures, and podcasts disseminated to wider audiences beyond the academy in English and other languages. Broadly, the guidance provided here is meant to engage with the fundamental questions that drive a peer review process in cases where traditional peer review may not currently be feasible and to suggest alternative modes of peer review where possible. [These guidelines were created by the Modern Language Association (MLA) Ad Hoc Committee on Valuing the Public Humanities.]