2022 MLA Annual Convention Call for Papers: Alphabetical Listing

(Un)Civil Humanities
American Literature Society
21st-Century Memory Work
Special Sessions
70 Years of "Black Skin, White Masks"
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
: Linguistic Representations of Alterity
LSL Linguistics and Literature
Accenting Punctuation
Special Sessions
Adaptation and Translation in Italian Culture
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
African Multilingualisms
LLC African since 1990
Afrodescendencia / Afro-descendência in Spanish and Portuguese Programs
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Agency and the Non-Human in Early Modern Poetry and Prose
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
AIDS, COVID-19, and the Medical Humanities
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
All Hem's Literary Friends
Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society
Anarchism and Its Discontents
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
André Gide and His Critics
Association des Amis d’André Gide
Animal Dante
Dante Society of America
Animal Perversions in East Asia (and beyond)
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
Anthropology as Translation
TC Anthropology and Literature
Anti-Racism and the Future of the Profession
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Antifa before Fascism
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Apocalyptic Realisms: An Environmental Humanities Roundtable
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Archives and Colonial Studies
LLC Colonial Latin American
Attachment and Critique
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Autotheory and Black Feminism
TM Literary Criticism
Avoiding the Plague from Boccaccio to Today
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Avoiding the Plague from Boccaccio to Today
American Boccaccio Association
Bad Revivals
Special Sessions
Bangladesh at 50
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
Belief and Dante: Global Perspectives on The Divine Comedy
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Bibliomancy
Special Sessions
Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Black Gothic
CLCS Gothic Studies
Black Is/Not a Place
LLC African American
Black Resistance in the U.S. South
LLC Southern United States
Building Your Scholarly Identity: How to communicate your brand in a Remote World
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Can Criticism Make Worlds?
TM Literary Criticism
Canons, Critique, Archives
Special Sessions
Caring in the Eighteenth Century
LLC 18th-Century French
Centering Race and Women in Early Modern Culture
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
Children’s Literature Pedagogies in an Age of Misinformation
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Circum-Atlantic Drama and Performance
GS Drama and Performance
City and Cities in the Epic Imagination
Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch
Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Comics on the Border
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Communicating Inclusivity and Diversity in the Workplace
Association for Business Communication
Conflict, Tension, Struggles: Critical Pedagogies and Ethnic Literatures
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Crime Fiction in Portuguese
American Portuguese Studies Association
Crip Time and the Tenure Clock
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Critical Race Studies and Early Modern Iberian Poetry and Prose
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Critical Race x Trans Studies
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
D.H. Lawrence: Disease, and Recovery
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Decolonial Approaches to Film & Media
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Decolonizing Digital Literature
Electronic Literature Organization
Democracy and Its Discontents
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Democracy and the Latinx Novel
LLC Latina and Latino
Digital Media and Contemporary Latin American Literature
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
Diverse Scotlands
LLC Scottish
Diversifying Restoration and 18th-Century Studies
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Documenting Isolation
GS Life Writing
Doing Editing Differently
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
Early American Monuments
LLC Early American
Early Capitalism and Later Formations
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Ecofeminist Imaginings
TC Women’s and Gender Studies
Edith Wharton and Work
Edith Wharton Society
Editing Outside the Walls
Association for Documentary Editing
Elegy/Ecology/Emergency
Special Sessions
Ends of Satire
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Environmental Racism
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
European Languages of the Law
CLCS European Regions
Expanding International Vistas: Views from Here and Abroad
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Experimental Writing in the Anthropocene
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Families Torn Apart
Special Sessions
Faulkner
William Faulkner Society
Figures of Revolt
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic
Flash Lit as New Media
LLC East Asian
Folklore and Illness
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale
Forms, Forms of Blankness
MS Visual Culture
Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Gender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Global Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing Society
Gothic Now
CLCS Gothic Studies
Greece and Cyprus: Past and Present
Modern Greek Studies Association
Grievance
TC Philosophy and Literature
Hawthorne and Play
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Heinrich Heine and Human Rights
North American Heine Society
Historicizing Critique
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Homos at 25
Special Sessions
Humanimality and Modernist Gothic
TC Anthropology and Literature
Humanism or Posthumanism?
Special Sessions
Iberia at culture-environment interface
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Ilse Aichinger's Poetics of Mistrust
Austrian Studies Association
Imagining Time
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Inaugural Poetry
Special Sessions
Indigenous Languages as/in Literatures
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Indigenous Literary Pedagogies: How and Why I Teach ____________
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Indigenous Literature Across the Humanities
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Indigenous Literatures and Democracy
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Indigenous Young Adult Novels
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Infrastructures of Care
CLCS Global Anglophone
Insurrection, Tyranny, and Resistance
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
Interruption: Theaters in Crisis Then and Now
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Interruption: Theory and Concepts
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Intersectional Marlowe
Marlowe Society of America
Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews
LLC Jewish American
Joachim Du Bellay at 500
LLC 16th-Century French
John Clare and Extravagance
John Clare Society of North America
John Milton: A General Session
Milton Society of America
Journals in Collaboration
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Just Words: Dictionaries and Social Justice
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Kerouac at 100
Special Sessions
Languages of the Literary Internet
Electronic Literature Organization
Latin American Noir
Special Sessions
Lauren Berlant: A Life in Criticism
TC Philosophy and Literature
Law, Literature, and Public Health
TC Law and the Humanities
Left Theory and the Alt-Right
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Literary Anti-Commemoration
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Literary Anti-Commemoration
TC Memory Studies
Lusophone U.S.
LLC Global Portuguese
Mad Studies beyond Whiteness
TC Disability Studies
Magic and Gender in Medieval Literature
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Manga’s Global Influence
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Marxism and Genre
Marxist Literary Group
Marxist Internationalism?
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Maus at 30 Years
LLC Jewish American
Maus at 30 Years
CLCS Global Jewish
Medieval Realism Redux
Special Sessions
Medieval Textual Materialities
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
Memoir as Politics
GS Life Writing
Mental Health and Wellness in Graduate School
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Metrics and Impact Factors in the Context of Humanities
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
Métropoles
LLC 19th-Century French
Migrating Letters
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English
Milton & Race Thinking
Milton Society of America
Monuments, Memory, and Cultural Politics
LLC Colonial Latin American
Mothers in Antiquity
Special Sessions
Multilingual and Multicultural Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
Multilingual Before the U.S.
LLC Early American
Multilingual Black Meccas
Langston Hughes Society
Multilingual Folklore
American Folklore Society
Multilingual Medieval and Renaissance Italy
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Multilingual Milton
Milton Society of America
Multilingual Spenser
International Spenser Society
Multilingual Thoreau
Thoreau Society
Multilingual US
College English Association
Multilingual Williams
William Carlos Williams Society
Multilingualism and Early Modern Theater
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Multilingualism and Translation
TC Translation Studies
Multilingualism in American Drama
American Theatre and Drama Society
Multilingualism in Hemispheric Americas
CLCS Hemispheric American
Multilingualism in the Global Mediterranean
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Music and Theatre
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Nabokov's Languages
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
National Abjection at 20
Special Sessions
Nationalism, Regionalism, and Multilingualism in Italy: 1600-1900
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
New Approaches to Black Lusophone Studies
American Portuguese Studies Association
New Approaches to Motherhood in Benito Pérez Galdós
International Association of Galdós Scholars
New Directions in Porn Studies
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
New Forms, Hybrid Genres
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
New methods to explore digital archives
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
No Justice/No Peace
American Literature Society
Non-Sinitic Literatures in the People’s Republic
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
North American BIPOC Protest Poetry Now
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Not Your Granddaddy's Mark Twain
Mark Twain Circle of America
Our Aesthetic Contexts
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Part-time Faculty, Full-time Global Citizen
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1922-2022: A Classic?
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Poetics of Labor
Special Sessions
Poetry and Pessimism
Special Sessions
Poetry and Sound: Beyond Voice
GS Poetry and Poetics
Political Childhoods
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Politics and Language Change
LSL Language Change
Polyphonic Dickens
Dickens Society
Postcolonial Satire
Special Sessions
Premodern Affect
LLC Medieval French
Present and Future Directions of Women’s Scholarship in Iberia and the Americas, pre-1800
GEMELA: Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)
Probing Creativity
Special Sessions
Problematizing Race in Cervantes' Works
Cervantes Society of America
Quixotism
GS Prose Fiction
Race in Early Performance
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Race, Theory, and the Practice of Psychoanalysis
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Reading and Translating Comics in Two Directions
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Reading Climate
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Reading Poe Now
Poe Studies Association
Reception in the 2020s
Reception Study Society
Reclaiming Time: Gender, Narrative, and Strange Temporalities
International Society for the Study of Narrative
Red and Green Futurities
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Representing Race in Law and Literature
TC Law and the Humanities
Restarts in 17th-Century France
LLC 17th-Century French
Rethinking Diasporas
Special Sessions
Revolución/Révolution
LLC 19th-Century American
Riddles
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale
Romantic Neologisms
Special Sessions
Romantic Panic
LLC English Romantic
Romanticism and Data
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Romanticism and the Caribbean
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Roundtable: Novel Democracy
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Scientific constructivism in the age of anti-science
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Scientific Myth and Mythic Science in 18th-19thC Iberia
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Sex Work and Labor Politics
TC Sexuality Studies
Socialist World Literature
LLC Slavic and East European
Speculative Politics
GS Speculative Fiction
Stories of Destierro
GS Life Writing
Strong Faculty Governance
MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Subaltern Souths
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Successful Secondary/Postsecondary Alliances
MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances
Sylvia Wynter's 18th Century
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tactile Poetics
Special Sessions
Teaching DH in the time of COVID
TC Digital Humanities
Teaching the Cultures of Portuguese Speaking Countries
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Teaching World Literature in Translation During and Beyond the Pandemic
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages
The Age of Revolution
TC Age Studies
The Art of Unselfing
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
The Art of Unselfing
TC Philosophy and Literature
The Black Mediterranean
CLCS Mediterranean
The Book Lab
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
The Global Reach of Black Lives Matter
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
The Independent Press on a Global Stage.
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century
The Method Armistice
Special Sessions
The Multilingual Classroom
Special Sessions
The Orient Writes Back II
Special Sessions
The Postcolonial Visceral Body
TC Postcolonial Studies
The Pre-Raphaelites and Print Culture
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
The Public Humanities in Practice
Working Groups or Seminars
The Unforeseeable
GS Prose Fiction
The Waste Land at 100
International T. S. Eliot Society
The Week of Modern Art 100 Years Later
American Portuguese Studies Association
THE “BLACK LEGEND” OF SPAIN IN 18TH /19TH C IBERIA
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Special Sessions
Trans James
Henry James Society
Trans Studies
Working Groups or Seminars
Trans* Studies and Religion
TC Religion and Literature
Transcendental Victorians
Special Sessions
Translating Kinship
Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
Translation of Song
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
Transmission
LLC 19th-Century French
Transnational Migration and Empire
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Transnational Transgender
TC Sexuality Studies
Transnational-Transcultural Conrad
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Truth, Trust, and Tall Tales
Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Unexpected Bodies in Eighteenth-Century German Culture
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German
Unorthodox Archives
LLC Russian and Eurasian
Unthinking Literacies
Special Sessions
Vernacular Science
LLC Yiddish
Victorian/Modern Crisis, Revolt, Survival
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Viral Media
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Virginia Woolf, Hope and Wonder
International Virginia Woolf Society
What is Climate Strike!?
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Who Owns Shakespeare?
LLC Shakespeare
Woolf's 21st Century Academia
International Virginia Woolf Society
Words on Food
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
World Languages, World Literature, Comparative Literature
Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature
Writing in a Jewish language
CLCS Global Jewish
Writing in/as Community
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Writing Surveillance
TC Digital Humanities
Writing With An Accent in Midwestern Literature
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature