Suicide and Suicidality in Fiction
Seeking proposals on suicide / suicidality in fiction. What are ethical / moral considerations in re ... See morePosted Sunday, 4 December 2022
Anthropocene Cultural Production in Latin America and the Latinx World
This panel seeks proposals that examine how contemporary Latin American and Latinx cultural producti ... See morePosted Thursday, 8 December 2022
Internet Literatures: Content, Collaboration, and Composition
In the collaborative, referential, multilingual, and multidialectal context of the Internet, how do ... See morePosted Monday, 12 December 2022
The Wandering Womb: Writing Menstrual Pain
Seeking creative proposals on experiences with menstrual pain. Work can take any format. How do we " ... See morePosted Monday, 12 December 2022
The Politics of English Imperial Fantasy in the Early Modern English Literature
This panel seeks proposals that examine how the early modern politics of England contributed to the ... See morePosted Monday, 19 December 2022
Ecstasies of Youth in French and Francophone Media
This panel explores the complex notion of ecstasy (bliss, joy, euphoria, ‘outside-of-selfness’) in F ... See morePosted Sunday, 8 January 2023
Carceral Narratives and the Carceral State
This special session panel solicits papers on carceral narratives from jails, prisons, detention fac ... See morePosted Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Postwar French Marxisms: New Approaches
Seeking proposals on the lives and afterlives of Marxist thought in the French-speaking world since ... See morePosted Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Poetry of Grammar & Grammar of Poetry
This special session explores poetry and poetics by employing linguistic approaches of all types, in ... See morePosted Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Cynthia Ozick and the Art of the Essay
We welcome 500 word proposals for papers considering Cynthia Ozick’s essays for a panel examining ne ... See morePosted Thursday, 12 January 2023
Place of Identity in Queer Studies
How does queer studies approach questions of identity? Are there any limitations of imagining "queer ... See morePosted Saturday, 14 January 2023
Lay it on the Line: Diagramming in the 21st century
Papers invited on the use of Reed-Kellogg diagramming to teach grammar, syntax, and prose style, or ... See morePosted Saturday, 14 January 2023
Coming of Age at the Margins (of Society and Literature)
How do marginalized young people (due to disability, ethnicity, gender, queerness) negotiate their d ... See morePosted Saturday, 14 January 2023
Lumpen, Proletarian, Multitude: Proto-Revolutionary Subjectivity in World Literature, Film, Theater & Popular Culture
This panel explores cultural production meditating on the revolutionary potential of underclass subj ... See morePosted Sunday, 15 January 2023
Sex and Form
What is sex's relationship to form? This panel is occasioned by recent intensifications of this ques ... See morePosted Sunday, 15 January 2023
Fear of Being Funny: Cancel Culture and Comedy
Does the rising power of "cancel culture" and fear of its consequences negatively affect comedy? cen ... See morePosted Monday, 16 January 2023
New Insights on Latin American Masculinities: Beyond Patriarchy and Heteronormativity
This session welcomes abstracts addressing Latin American masculinities from non-traditional perspec ... See morePosted Monday, 16 January 2023
Recent Literary Responses to AIDS
We invite considerations of recent literary responses to the AIDS epidemic, now in its fourth decade ... See morePosted Tuesday, 17 January 2023
What are Cultural Narratives? Exploring an Elusive Concept
This panel seeks papers theorizing the concept of "narrative" when applied not to textual structures ... See morePosted Wednesday, 18 January 2023
“Post-Traumatic Growth, Resilience, Resistance, and World Literature"
In reaction to First-World and trauma-centered research among cultural theorists, this session focus ... See morePosted Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Writing Character(s): Perspectives from Narratology, Writing Studies, Creative Writing and more
We seek proposals (200 words) and bio for short roundtable talks exploring the notion or nature of “ ... See morePosted Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Bob Dylan's Blues: Blues Poetics and American Memory
Seeking 400 word abstracts for a panel on Dylan's incorporation, use, and revision of blues music es ... See morePosted Friday, 20 January 2023
Academic Freedom in the Online Classroom
This Roundtable Session will consider the rights of faculty in online course assignments, approval/o ... See morePosted Friday, 20 January 2023
Self-Translation and the Post-Positivist Reading of Language
This panel seeks to explore the study of self-translation and the possibility that there is no such ... See morePosted Monday, 23 January 2023
Biopolitics, War, Medicine
This panel explores various forms of literary engagement with the entangled and often complicit biop ... See morePosted Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Fat Bodies in (Speculative) Space
Papers examining how speculative authors utilize fatness, especially in ways that complicate or chal ... See morePosted Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Women's Biography and Autobiography
Women who write biography or autobiography panel discussing process, research, special consideration ... See morePosted Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Solarpunk Joy: Celebrating beyond Sorrow
How do we overcome climate grief on the way to communal joy? Find comfort in a place of despair? See ... See morePosted Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Modernism and Myth: Beyond Eliot's Mythical Method
Seeking papers that explore modernist engagements with myth (Greek or otherwise) that diverge from & ... See morePosted Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Interpreting Italian American Visual Arts and Cultures
This panel investigates Italian American transnational and transgenerational depictions of memory an ... See morePosted Thursday, 26 January 2023
Joyful Transfeminisms: Performing Radical Hope as Resistance
With transphobic legislation and discrimination at all-time highs, trans survival depends on finding ... See morePosted Thursday, 26 January 2023
“You know my methods, Watson”: Academic Scholarship in the Era of AI
Does an AI-generated essay bear any of the expected scholarly hallmarks? Employing a particular text ... See morePosted Thursday, 26 January 2023
Reconceptualizing Religion in Early African American Literature
How do 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualize religion beyond the nation-state? How do ... See morePosted Thursday, 26 January 2023
Theatrical Performance in Literature
This panel will reflect on how performativity, acting, and theatre appear in writing. From eighteen ... See morePosted Thursday, 26 January 2023
Queer and Trans Multispecies Justice
This session invites papers at the intersection of queer and trans studies and multispecies studies. ... See morePosted Friday, 27 January 2023
Photography and Ruins
Seeking papers that explore the relationship between photographic or phototextual practices and ruin ... See morePosted Friday, 27 January 2023
Playful Pedagogies: Learning through Play, Games, and Interactivity
How do you draw from the unique characteristics of play centrally in your pedagogy? How does it tran ... See morePosted Saturday, 28 January 2023
Whose South Asia?
Soliciting abstracts from diverse perspectives interrogating and recovering the appropriation of Sou ... See morePosted Monday, 30 January 2023
Digital Horizons in Language Teaching
From immersive environments to ChatGPT, new technologies are transforming language learning. Looking ... See morePosted Monday, 30 January 2023
Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life
Please submit 250-300 word abstracts for 15-minute papers focusing on the extension of life in scien ... See morePosted Tuesday, 31 January 2023
"I've struggled a long time with survivin':" Video games, environmental imaginaries of apocalypse, and hope among the ruins
This session aims to consider the ways in which video games offer unique insights into the collectiv ... See morePosted Monday, 6 February 2023
Futures of Free Indirect Discourse
This panel showcases new work on free indirect discourse (a topic that remains elusive and controver ... See morePosted Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Revisiting Francoism: 50 Years Later
Seeking proposals that consider new approaches to the study of the Franco dictatorship and/or the le ... See morePosted Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Listening Historically: Soundscapes in Spain and the Americas
We invite papers that investigate music, sound, performance, and radio waves at the intersection of ... See morePosted Thursday, 2 February 2023
The Union and the Senate
Building on MLA23’s academic labor sessions, this roundtable compares shared governance bodies and l ... See morePosted Thursday, 2 February 2023
The Novel of Sexual Ideas
A provisional novelistic subgenre: novels that represent sex through or alongside philosophical spec ... See morePosted Friday, 3 February 2023
"Life Takes Energy": The Rhetoric of Fossil Fuel Capitalism
What are the rhetorical and conceptual strategies used by the fossil fuel industry and its allies (i ... See morePosted Saturday, 4 February 2023
Cultures of Astrology
Cultures of creative expression in/through astrology; astrology & popular media/culture; relationshi ... See morePosted Sunday, 5 February 2023
Speculative Fiction from Southeast Asia in the Twenty-first Century
Co-organized by Southeast Asia and Speculative Fiction Forums. Inviting papers on contemporary specu ... See morePosted Sunday, 5 February 2023
Very Cool! The Language and Literature of Antarctica
There is nothing quite as innovative and compelling as the language and literature of Antarctica! W ... See morePosted Sunday, 5 February 2023
Rethinking Indifference
We invite papers discussing the often stigmatized "indifference" - readerly or writerly apathy towar ... See morePosted Monday, 6 February 2023
Celebration and Spatiality: A Geocritical Roundtable
Convening geocritics, literary cartographers, and scholars of the Spatial Turn to read, interpret, e ... See morePosted Monday, 6 February 2023
Joys and Sorrows of Black Geographies
This panel explores Black geographies (both real and imagined) of joy/sorrow in African American lit ... See morePosted Monday, 6 February 2023
Fictions of Proximity
Literature mediates understandings of affinity, community, and space. How do precursors and afterliv ... See morePosted Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime
How is 21st century women's literature articulating a distinct, enlarged conception of Caribbean spa ... See morePosted Monday, 6 February 2023
Race, Stigma, and the Politics of Black Hair
This panel gathers papers that contribute to interrogating this fact: For 400 years, Black women’s n ... See morePosted Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Slow Cancellation of Futurism: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Imagined City
What happens when the promise of a utopian future devolves into a dystopian prospect? We are seeking ... See morePosted Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Contemporary Representations of Afro-Latin American Women
This session invites proposals discussing the intersection of corporality, identity, and memory in c ... See morePosted Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Where Do We Go? Poetry in a Collapse
Believing McGurl's assertion that poetry is "entirely absorbed" within universities, as the universi ... See morePosted Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Representing Race in Early Modern English Sonnet Sequences, Exclusive of Shakespeare's "Sugared Sonnets"
This panel invites abstracts of 250-500 words concerning representations of race in early modern Eng ... See morePosted Wednesday, 8 February 2023
The Joys and Sorrows of Motherhood
Seeking papers that address literary representations of maternal affect and/or theoretical engageme ... See morePosted Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Historicizing the Campus Union and the Academic Senate
Histories of campus unions and faculty/staff senates, their interactions, their relative possibiliti ... See morePosted Thursday, 9 February 2023
Ballads & Broadsides: Non-Authorial Texts in Context
Papers addressing the significance of ballads and/or broadsides whether in "original" forms or reint ... See morePosted Thursday, 9 February 2023
GOTHIC NOW: Updates, Revisions, Adaptations, & Mash-Ups
How do we reshape older Gothic texts to suit contemporary needs and desires? This roundtable will fo ... See morePosted Friday, 10 February 2023
Refugee Literature and/in Digital Spaces
This panel will examine how refugees use digital spaces (i.e. blogs, websites, social media, VOIP, e ... See morePosted Friday, 10 February 2023
Return of the Repressed: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Modern Literature
Papers juxtaposing psychoanalysis and early modern texts in fresh ways: reading less canonical theor ... See morePosted Friday, 10 February 2023
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Theorizing Complex Embodiment
This panel invite papers across historical formations and disciplines that complicate our understand ... See morePosted Friday, 10 February 2023
Representing the Profession
Inviting 250-word abstracts for 15–20-minute papers on fictional depictions of literary studies. How ... See morePosted Friday, 10 February 2023
Archiving the Joys and Sorrows of Black Women’s Lives
The relationship between Black women and the archive has long been fraught. We invite 250-word propo ... See morePosted Friday, 10 February 2023
Visuality and Lyric Form
How and why do poems ask to be looked at (as well as read)? How do poets leverage iconicity, interme ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 February 2023
Oral History and African American Literature
We invite 250-word abstracts on the intersections of Oral History (practiced academically, creativel ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 February 2023
Reviewing Academic Books
I invite 250-word abstracts on reviewing academic books. Potential topics could include audience and ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 February 2023
Poetry, Affect, and the Anthropocene
Seeking papers that engage with Anglo-American experimental ecopoetry of joy and sorrow. What is hap ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 February 2023
Latinx Goth and Horror Imaginaries
Seeking papers on literature, film, television, and visual/popular culture that intersect dark fanta ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 February 2023
The Joys and Sorrows of Postcolonial Translation
Seeking presentations on translated or bi-/multi-/pluri-/trans-/ or interlingual postcolonial texts ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 February 2023
Twenty-First-Century Forms
If the novel and lyric poem might be considered residual forms, what literary forms are emerging in ... See morePosted Monday, 13 February 2023
James Baldwin at 100
This session seeks to celebrate and reckon with a century of Baldwin. What have we learned? What hav ... See morePosted Monday, 13 February 2023
Poetics of the Senses
Poetry often calls out to the senses, largely sight and hearing. This panel will focus on under-exam ... See morePosted Monday, 13 February 2023
What Is The Everyday?
This session explores textual engagement with "the everyday" across historical periods and textual g ... See morePosted Monday, 13 February 2023
Pluriverses in the 21st Century
Films, series, novels, and other forms set in pluriverses are on the rise. I invite presentations on ... See morePosted Monday, 13 February 2023
Don DeLillo and Crisis
250-word proposals are invited on the imagination of crisis in Don DeLillo. What does DeLillo's writ ... See morePosted Tuesday, 14 February 2023
The Pain of Perpetration in Global Literature
Seeking papers on literature from outside the U.S. and Europe that addresses the psychological effec ... See morePosted Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Neurodivergent Romanticisms
How did authors in the Romantic period and its echoes construct the neurodivergent subject--and its ... See morePosted Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Studying Bookish Social Media
How does social media transform how we consume, write, read, and discuss literature? What are the tr ... See morePosted Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Celebration and Commemoration in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) welcomes abstracts on any aspect of celebratio ... See morePosted Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Industrial Footprint in the Modern Hispanic World
Proposals that examine cultural production generated around industrial modernization in the Hispanic ... See morePosted Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Recuperating Universalism through Postcolonial Literatures
Postcolonial literary studies often dismisses universalisms like 'rationality' and 'freedom' for aid ... See morePosted Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Beyond the Classroom Walls: Practicing Community as Celebration of Cultural Capital
How do educators envision community as celebratory praxis? We welcome teacher-scholars to share exce ... See morePosted Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Accenting Punctuation
Its use in certain genres, as it is used by specific literary figures (like Woolf), or ways in which ... See morePosted Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Appropriation in and of Texts: Between Appreciation and Apprehension
In times of AI-software and copy/paste-culture, appropriating texts has never been easier, posing ne ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Translating from/into Spanish
This roundtable seeks to showcase the experiences of translators from/into the Spanish language, esp ... See morePosted Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Whither the Foreign? Translation and the Cryptic Colonial Tongue
What happens to (post)colonial translation when the colonizer’s tongue appears diffused, hidden, fra ... See morePosted Monday, 20 February 2023
James Baldwin's Road Movie: I Heard it Through the Grapevine
James Baldwin Review is seeking panelists for a session on the newly restored film, I Heard it Throu ... See morePosted Thursday, 16 February 2023
Desire and Distaste in Culinary Culture
Seeking presentations on desire and/or distaste across culinary contexts including studies of how fo ... See morePosted Thursday, 16 February 2023
Literary Representations of Enslavement in the Ottoman Empire
This session aims to foster a critical reckoning with the history and contemporary legacies of the i ... See morePosted Friday, 17 February 2023
Narrating the Illegality in Latin American Literature
This panel invites proposals that address the relation between illegal/informal economies (especiall ... See morePosted Friday, 17 February 2023
Vegetal Afterlives
What potential do “vegetal afterlives" or “vegetal resistance” (Marder) offer the recent human crise ... See morePosted Friday, 17 February 2023
Shifting Worlds: Identity, Memory, and the Words of Kazuo Ishiguro
Seeking papers about the works of British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro’s acclaim and diverse bo ... See morePosted Friday, 17 February 2023
Indenture
Papers on literary representations and global histories of indenture in the colonial world. How migh ... See morePosted Saturday, 18 February 2023
Rethinking Love, Desire and Extractivism through Neoliberal Consumption in Global South-South Contexts
This panel focuses on love, desire and extractivism in global south.How do flatness and fragility in ... See morePosted Sunday, 19 February 2023
World Literature and the Empire
What’s the relation between world literature and the empire? Are these concepts the best way to map ... See morePosted Sunday, 19 February 2023
Women’s Narratives of Political Conflicts in the Global South
Papers exploring women’s experiences of and perspectives on combat, diplomacy, sexual violence, disp ... See morePosted Sunday, 19 February 2023
Political Oratory and African American Literature
Speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. 300-word abs ... See morePosted Monday, 20 February 2023
Global Approaches to Teaching the Long Eighteenth Century
This session will explore strategies to teach the Enlightenment particularly in Central and Eastern ... See morePosted Monday, 20 February 2023
Networks in and of Literature
How does literature participate in or contribute to networks? Which network theories help us in trac ... See morePosted Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Conflicts of Representation in Early America (c.1600-1865)
This panel invites 250-word proposals that examine competing truth-claims between and within modes o ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
¿Es nuestro patrimonio el universo?: Borges and World Literature in the 21st Century
How, and why, does Jorge Luis Borges’s literary corpus shape World literature? This panel seeks abst ... See morePosted Tuesday, 21 February 2023
World Literature and Victorian Studies: Translation, Mediation, and Multilingualism
What does it mean to read Victorian literature from a world literature perspective? What affordances ... See morePosted Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Non-narrative Forms of Storytelling in Literature
This roundtable aims to redress the asymmetrical relationship between narrative and non-narrative by ... See morePosted Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Arabs, Greeks, and Hebrews in the Eastern Mediterranean
How do the three identities interact? Looking for abstracts discussing moments of connection and int ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
Pleasures Peculiarly Our Own
Seeking work on disabled pleasure, or the "pleasures peculiarly our own," (McBryde Johnson). How doe ... See morePosted Saturday, 25 February 2023
Antisemitism and its Entanglements
Antisemitism is interwined with various forms of identity-based hatreds. Seeking papers exploring l ... See morePosted Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Study-Abroad programs in the Arab World: Challenges and Futurities
This roundtable aims to bring together faculty, administrators, and project directors for various st ... See morePosted Thursday, 23 February 2023
Post/Colonial Madness
Where and why do we see madness, confusion, paranoia, irrationality, eccentricity or other troubled ... See morePosted Thursday, 23 February 2023
Epistemology and Poetics in the Early Modern Transatlantic
We welcome proposals for papers on particular authors or comparative studies that illustrate or enga ... See morePosted Thursday, 23 February 2023
Trans Joy
This panel explores the ways in which trans narratives offer a politics of joy as a form of radical ... See morePosted Thursday, 23 February 2023
Wilde on Tour
This panel seeks abstracts for papers that address travel, tourism, exile, and displacement as occas ... See morePosted Thursday, 23 February 2023
Reproducibility: Image, Literature, Philosophy
This panel invites transdisciplinary thinkers working on the reproducibility of, for example, images ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
Curating Modernism
This panel will examine the exhibition--public or private, real or imaginary, actual or facsimile--a ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
Rebellious Affects: Black Joy, Pleasure, and Happiness as Counterabjection
How have Black thinkers, scholars, and artists turned their attention to Black joy, pleasure, and ha ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
Crowdfunding, Subscription Publication, and Literary Innovation
Seeking 200-word abstracts for papers that explore how contemporary crowdfunding, or earlier models ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
Sensing the City
Experience of the city beyond the visual; how non-visual senses shape perception of and embodiment i ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
Food and Cuban National Identity
I will argue that what is understood by Cuban food today still depends on the idealization of what w ... See morePosted Friday, 24 February 2023
Re-conceptualizing Colonialism in Postcolonial South Asia
The session discusses representations of neo-coloniality in postcolonial South Asia in light of cont ... See morePosted Saturday, 25 February 2023
(Roundtable) Literary Epistolography Today (virtual)
Virtual roundtable for MLA 2024 on various aspects of letter writing, reading, collecting, and editi ... See morePosted Saturday, 25 February 2023
The Affects of Freedom: From Postcolonial Aspirations to Neoliberal Negotiations
This session explores the various affective experiences of freedom such as euphoria, optimism, revol ... See morePosted Saturday, 25 February 2023
Literary Representations of Sufferer Obligations
Many writers examine suffering. Yet, abstaining from such explorations might be safer. Submit propos ... See morePosted Saturday, 25 February 2023
Ruptured Bodies, Identities, and Desires: Women's Literature and Alternative Ways of Knowing
This panel invites participants to reflect on literature written by women, alternative ways of knowi ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
The Controversy Over John Milton's Attitude Toward Slavery: Opposing Views
Regular Session, 75 minutes. Panel of discussants, possibly two vs. two debate. ... See morePosted Sunday, 26 February 2023
Minor Arts: Affect, Boundary, and the Politics of Aesthetics in Latin America, Spain, and the United States
With a focus on affect, boundary, joy, and the minor, this panel examines the politics and force of ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Oral Traditions in Caribbean and Latin American Afro-Diasporic Communities
This panel brings together papers that analyze diverse methods (dance, song, oral traditions, litera ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Infrastructure and Visuality in the Americas
How are forms of vision, opacity, and invisibility shaped by infrastructures such as built environme ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Democracy, Decay, and Death in Global Sri Lankan Novel
How do global Sri Lankan writers respond to the decay in democratic values that bleeds into social, ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Non-Anglophone European and Modern Indian Literatures & Other Arts: Cross-cultural Encounters and Adaptations
Proposals on encounters, exchanges, and adaptations between non-Anglophone European literatures (and ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Ecocritical Literature in Indian Vernaculars
Paper proposals on Ecocritical Literature in Indian vernaculars are solicited. Focus may range on in ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Christianity and Postcolonial Literature: Reclaiming, Repurposing, or Repudiating the Colonizer's Faith
Papers exploring the nuanced role Christianity can play in postcolonial literature—positive or negat ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
The Joy of Information: Data Visualization and Storytelling
What structures of thought, feeling, action, or critique are opened by informatic forms of knowledge ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Periodizing Peripheral Literatures
How do peripheral literatures periodize the history of capitalism? Papers that explore the periodiza ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Speculative Fiction and Work: Histories, Futures and Resilience
This panel examines speculative/sci-fi re-imaginings of the exploitation of laboring, vulnerable bod ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Literature and phronesis
Literature matters? Post-critique recalibrations of literary studies envision rehabilitating literat ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Monsters Enmeshed: Bonding in Jeopardy
Seeking papers for Modernist Gothic roundtable exploring interpersonal relationships that instigate ... See morePosted Monday, 27 February 2023
Slavery and Abolitionism in Modern Spain
This panel seeks papers exploring how the social, political, economic and cultural role of slavery/s ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Staging the Medium: Agency, Materiality, Techniques
We are interested in novel ways of approaching texts that consider the performativity of reading and ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Language Teaching in War Time: Challenges, Limits & Opportunities
To what extent can language teaching provide enligthening education/encourage students' self-awarene ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Empire at Sea
How might we better understand colonialism and ways of living against or outside of it by foreground ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Catalonia Under Stress
The affects the attack on land, air, and skies brought up by corporate capitalism great acceleration ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Black affect, malungaje and political activism in Afro-Latinamerican and Afro-Latinx literature.
This panel examines contemporary Afro-Latinamerican and Afro-Latinx writers, focusing on how they in ... See morePosted Thursday, 2 March 2023
Testimonies of Joy and Sorrow from Catalan Exile
This panel currently seeks contributions examining the topics of joy and sorrow in Catalan exile. Al ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Celebrating the Robert Frost Sesquicentennial
This Robert Frost Society panel invites 250-word abstracts for formal papers on wide-ranging issues ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Material Pedagogies
How can we leverage material texts and archival encounters to reinvigorate the humanities classroom? ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Alternative Landscapes in Catalan Space
Theoretical reflections on non-hegemonic spaces from the perspective of Catalan Studies. What instan ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
On Mothers and "Madness" in Contemporary Literature and Film
This session seeks ~200-word abstracts conversant with queer-of-color, black, women-of-color, and/or ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Decolonizing the Canary Islands
This session seeks submissions that engage with decolonial discourses in contemporary literary and c ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Feminist Voices in Non-Traditional Materials: Photography, Painting, Fanzines
This session seeks 250-words abstracts that explore (self)representation, identity, and testimonies ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Paradox of Emotion in Modern Poetry
How does modern poetry enact a paradox of emotion? Inviting abstracts of 250-350 words. Please inclu ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Non-relations: Race, Sex, and the Unmaking of Kinship in American Culture
Seeking 300 word abstracts for a 3 person (plus respondent) special topics panel examining the effec ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Postcolonial Digital Humanities
How do digital humanities capture/represent/preserve the postcolonial experiences of South Asia? Dig ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Teaching Genre Fiction in the Interdisciplinary Classroom: A Roundtable
This roundtable will discuss how to integrate genre fiction texts (SF/F, Horror, etc.) into any clas ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Reading With and Against South Asian Aesthetics
Inviting abstracts (300 words) for papers that discuss possibilities and pitfalls of reading literar ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Human Rights, Technology and Culture
Technology can both protect and violate human rights. How does such paradox inform imperialism, and ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Intellectual Hegemony
Ready Made Truths, doublethink, intellectual dishonesty, censorship, re-education camps, the history ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Non-relations: The Unmaking of Kinship in American Culture
Seeking abstracts for panel that examines the effects of shattered or disrupted kinship in American ... See morePosted Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Collectives, Community, and Literary Production
Seeking papers examining the role of collectives--formal or informal, dispersed or localized--in 20t ... See morePosted Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Pedagogies of race/alterity in Italian Studies
This roundtable invites short papers that share strategies of inclusivity in the Italian Studies cl ... See morePosted Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Early Modern Connectivities across Eurasia and Afro-Eurasia
300-word abstracts about discursive, textual, or artistic connectivities that characterize early mod ... See morePosted Wednesday, 1 March 2023
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