2023 MLA Annual Convention Call for Papers: Alphabetical Listing

"Sensescapes" in Language Teaching and Learning
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
"Whose Fatalism?: Present Ghosts"
TC Philosophy and Literature
"Working" Memes
Reception Study Society
(Re)covering Lost Archives
Special Sessions
A Cinema of "Black Quiet"
MS Screen Arts and Culture
A Tale of Two Classrooms: Crafting Improved Conditions
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Accenting Punctuation
Special Sessions
Accents of the Anglophone
CLCS Global Anglophone
Adaptation and the Metaverse
TC Adaptation Studies
Adapting for Children
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Adapting for Children
TC Adaptation Studies
Advocating for Library Resources
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
Aesthetics and Democracy
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Afro-Latinxchanges
Special Sessions
Afro-Optimist Ecologies
Special Sessions
Age and Adaptation
TC Age Studies
Air, Breath, Atmosphere
TC Science and Literature
Alternative Chronologies
LLC Early American
André Gide and the Equivocal Dynamics of Justice
Association des Amis d’André Gide
Anglophone, non-English, and World literatures in South Asia
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
Antiracist Reading
Special Sessions
Archives of Labor in 19th-century Latin America
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Art and the Underground
LLC Russian and Eurasian
Artificial Translation
TC Translation Studies
Attention Please
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Better State Forms
Special Sessions
Between Urgency and Necessity. Teaching Early Modern Literature in Today’s Classrooms.
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Beyond Jewish Whiteness
LLC Jewish American
Beyond Jewish Whiteness
LLC Jewish American
Beyond the Grotesque
Special Sessions
Black Feminist Thought (BFT): How and Where Is It Now?
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Black Literary Transmission
Society for Textual Scholarship
Blackness and the Conditions of Being
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Boom and Bust
Special Sessions
Brazil and Portugal: Transatlantic (Dis)Connections
American Portuguese Studies Association
Building Equity and Inclusion into Higher Education’s National Movement
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
California Futures and Ecologies
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
California in Science Fiction
GS Speculative Fiction
California's Ecological Pasts
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Captivity and Creativity in Wartime
Working Groups or Seminars
Career Pathways in the Humanities beyond the Professoriate
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Cervantine Intersectionality
Cervantes Society of America
Childhood in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Culture
International Association of Galdós Scholars
City Lights 70 Years: 1953-2023
Italian American Studies Association
CLA and Black Auto/Biography
College Language Association
Classical Theatre in Today’s Higher Education
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Codes of Palestine
Special Sessions
Collaborative Textual Production and/in Environmental Thought
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Colonial Latin American Soundscapes
LLC Colonial Latin American
Comedia, Poetics & Performance
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Comedy, Capitalism, and Hope
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Comics and Accessibility
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Comics and the Making of Queer Communities
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Comparative Ecologies
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
Confession and Penance in Dante
Dante Society of America
Conrad, the Public, and the Police
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Courage Beyond Covid19: Literature and Language for Healing
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Covid, Caregiving, & Contingent Faculty
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Cripping Labor
TC Disability Studies
Decolonizing Global Arab/South Labor Epistemologies
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Defining/Defying Southern Labor
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Descaling Captivity
CLCS Hemispheric American
Digital Renderings of Chinese Literature and Cinema
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
Diversifying the 19th C French Canon
LLC 19th-Century French
Do We Need National Literatures?
CLCS European Regions
Doing the Work of Criticism
William Faulkner Society
Ecocritical Approaches to Dante
Dante Society of America
Edith Wharton and History
Edith Wharton Society
EH : DH
TC Digital Humanities
Electronic Literature and the Long Pandemic
Electronic Literature Organization
Eliot Now or Never
International T. S. Eliot Society
Emily Dickinson in Her Time and Ours
Emily Dickinson International Society
Engaging Galdós in the Twenty-First Century Classooms
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Environmental Justice Epistemologies
TC Science and Literature
Environmental Justice in Young People’s Literature
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Essential Work
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Eterno provocador: Reading Spain with Goya
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Evidentiary Forms
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Fictionality
LLC Early American
Fictions of the Sacred
LLC Medieval French
First-Generation-Student Club
Working Groups or Seminars
Folklorists at Work
American Folklore Society
Folklorists at Work 2
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale
Foodways within the Italian and Italian American Landscape
American Association of Teachers of Italian
French Eyes on California
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Gender and Academic Labor
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Get Into It
Working Groups or Seminars
Gilbert Seldes's The Seven Lively Arts
Modernist Studies Association
Global Christianities and Global Literatures
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Global Nikkei Literature
Special Sessions
Global Prison Literature
Special Sessions
Goethe by the Numbers
Goethe Society of North America
Gold Rush!? Poe and 1849
Poe Studies Association
Gothic Now: Gothic Forms
CLCS Gothic Studies
Heine and the Diasporic Experience
North American Heine Society
Histories of Childhood and Medicine
Children’s Literature Association
Humor and Humorlessness after 1900
GS Drama and Performance
Humor and Humorlessness before 1900
GS Drama and Performance
Indigenous California
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Indigenous Ecologies and Environmental Justice
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Indigenous Guest Writers in “Virtual Workspaces”
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Indigenous Workspace
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Infrastructures, Aesthetics, and Global Media
TC Anthropology and Literature
Insurrections
LLC 19th-Century French
Interrogations of Interdisciplinarity in Ethnic Studies
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Intersectional Work in the Italian 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Irish Studies Across the English Curriculum
American Conference for Irish Studies
Italo Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Joan Didion as Memoirist
GS Life Writing
John Clare
John Clare Society of North America
John Milton: A General Session
Milton Society of America
Labor of Laughter
American Humor Studies Association
Laboring for Love
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English
Language in Public Crisis
LSL Language Change
Latin American Bibliography and Book History
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Lauren Berlant's Affects
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Lawrence, Work, and the Working Class
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Law’s Violence in Contemporary Iberian Studies
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Liberalism Unmoored
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
Literary Criticism: New Platforms
TM Literary Criticism
Literary Geography: maps and paths
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
Liveness in a Remote World
Special Sessions
Looks Like Property
MS Visual Culture
Making Scholarship and Scholarly Language Accessible and Inclusive
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
Maps, Borders and Marlowe
Marlowe Society of America
Medical Humanities in Contemporary Iberian Studies
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Melville and his critics
Melville Society
Migrants as Working Subjects
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Modern Greek Life-Writing
Modern Greek Studies Association
Modernism Beyond Borders
Special Sessions
Mutual Aid, Allyship and Reciprocity
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German
Nabokov and Curiosity
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Narrative Obfuscation in the Public Sphere
International Society for the Study of Narrative
Narratives Beyond Binaries
GS Prose Fiction
Navigating COVID as a Graduate Student: Situations on Our Campuses
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Neoclassical “Aesthetics”?
LLC 17th-Century French
NEW DIRECTIONS IN BOOK HISTORY
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
New Evidence for Recovering Histories and Texts
Association for Documentary Editing
New Rules
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
New Theories of Academic Labor
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Non-European Philologies
TM Language Theory
Non-Human Animals in 19th-Century German Literature
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German
Nostalgia: (False) Memories of a Better Past
Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Novels on the Musical Stage
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Octavia E. Butler at 76
Special Sessions
Pandemic Childhoods
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Pandemic Domesticities
TC Women’s and Gender Studies
Pandemic Labor
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Passing and Neo-Passing
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
Peripheral Marxism
Marxist Literary Group
Planetary Lives
GS Life Writing
Plants in 19th-Century German Culture
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German
Poetry and the Commons
GS Poetry and Poetics
Portrayals of the Working Class in Dickens and Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Post-9/11 Poetry
Special Sessions
Postcolonial Cripness as Method
TC Postcolonial Studies
Protest Visualities
MS Visual Culture
Public Humanities and Agents of Change in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Queer Climates
TC Sexuality Studies
Queer Galician Studies
Special Sessions
Queering the Pre-Raphaelites
Working Groups or Seminars
Race and Lyric Theory
Special Sessions
Race in Early Drama
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Race, Gender & Animality
Special Sessions
Racial Hegemony on the Screen
Graduate Student Caucus
Re-Staging Anthropology
TC Anthropology and Literature
Reckonings of Universalism
LLC 18th-Century French
Reckonings of Universalism
LLC 19th-Century French
Reconceiving Jewish Motherhood
LLC Jewish American
Reconceiving Jewish Motherhood
LLC Jewish American
Reframing the Global Border Regime
American Literature Society
Remaking/Rereading Poetry
RCWS Creative Writing
Reparations & Literature
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Rights and Responsibilities
TC Law and the Humanities
Rollin Ridge Revisited
LLC 19th-Century American
Romantic Babel
LLC English Romantic
Romanticism and Sexuality
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Romanticism, Colonial Ecology, Race
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Roundtable on Fossil Capital
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Sade and Materialism
Special Sessions
Shakespeare and Slavery
LLC Shakespeare
Southeast Asian History in Literature
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Spenser and Visual Culture
International Spenser Society
Spenserian Ecologies
International Spenser Society
Spring and All at One Hundred
William Carlos Williams Society
Stevens and/in Germany
Wallace Stevens Society
Streaming Europe
CLCS European Regions
Surrealism in Portuguese
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Systems of Culture After Socialism
LLC Russian and Eurasian
Systems of Culture After Socialism
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
Temporal Turns
Special Sessions
The Book Lab: Book History, Lexicography, and Material Culture
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
The Camp and the Colony
LLC Latina and Latino
The Comedia Connection: England and Spain
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
The Couplet Now
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
The Disability/BIPOC/Contingency Intersection Now
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
The Gilded Age at 150
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
The Limits of Affect
Special Sessions
The Literary Mediterranean
Special Sessions
The Media are the Messages
LLC Slavic and East European
The New Academic Novel
Special Sessions
The Partition and Beyond
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
The Place of Africa in Contemporary Spain and the Global Hispanophone
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
The Postcolonial Pacific
TC Postcolonial Studies
The Sound of Humor
GS Drama and Performance
The Work of Adaptation
TC Adaptation Studies
Theoretical Imperialism
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
To Be and to Have Character(s)
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century
Trans Poetics
TC Women’s and Gender Studies
Transforming World Views through L2 Education
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Translating Austria
Austrian Studies Association
Translating Scotland
LLC Scottish
Translating to and from Portuguese
American Portuguese Studies Association
Translation and Extraction
TC Translation Studies
Translation as Citation
TM Language Theory
Transnational Feminisms in the Contemporary Américas
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
Twenty-First-Century Forms
Special Sessions
US Literatures and Psychoanalysis
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Walter Pater's "open places of the world"
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
What do we want in a learning platform of the future?
MLA Committee on Information Technology
What do we want in a research platform of the future?
MLA Committee on Information Technology
What does scholarly publishing look like with a disability-centered approach?
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
What is a Person?
TC Law and the Humanities
What To Do With Reviewer 2?
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Wheatley in London
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Women, gender, and plants in the global Renaissance
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
Woolf & #MeToo
International Virginia Woolf Society
Woolf and Illness: Pandemics Then and Now
International Virginia Woolf Society
Work & Pleasure
Special Sessions
Work and Labor among Muslim Women
Working Groups or Seminars
Work in James
Henry James Society
Working (Machine) Conditions
Electronic Literature Organization
WORKING CONDITIONS
CLCS Caribbean
Working Conditions and Scholarly Editing
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
Working Conditions in Australasian Literature
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
Working Conditions of Performance: Staging Early Modern Plays
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Working Conditions, Contingent Faculty, & the Assault on Higher Education
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Working Towards the Speculative Future
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
World Gothic
CLCS Gothic Studies
Writing and Cultural Production as Oppositional Work
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Writing work
Special Sessions