2024 MLA Annual Convention Call for Papers: Alphabetical Listing

"Artificial Intelligence” in Language Teaching and Learning
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
"Goblin Market" Revisited
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
"Saints" and Struggle in the 20th Century
TC Religion and Literature
100 Years of Mrs. Brown
International Virginia Woolf Society
21st Century (Ir)realisms
Marxist Literary Group
A Century of in our time, Three Mountains Press Edition
Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society
A Century of Latin American Antifascism
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
A More Perfect Union and the Promise of the American Dream Revisited
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Academic Writing in the Era of ChatGPT/AIbot:
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Accenting Punctuation
Special Sessions
Adaptation and Social Media
TC Adaptation Studies
Adaptation: Migrations Across Form(s)
GS Drama and Performance
Affect and Performance
LLC Francophone
African Religion in Lusophone Black Literatures
American Portuguese Studies Association
Afrofuturisme/Afropessimisme
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
After the New Modernist Studies
Modernist Studies Association
Ambient Chaucer
LLC Chaucer
American Literature and Reparation: New Approaches
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
André Gide and 20th-Century Autobiography
Association des Amis d’André Gide
Anthropology and Speculative Fiction
TC Anthropology and Literature
Asian American Souths
LLC Southern United States
Australasian Literature
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
Bad Feelings in the Global Middle Ages
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Beyond Best Journal Practices
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Beyond Diaspora and Division in South Asia
South Asian Literary Association
Biopolitics, War, Medicine
Special Sessions
BIPOC and Indigenous Writing, Pedagogy, and Social Justice
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
BIPOC Literary Philadelphia
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Black Literary Studies after the 1980s
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Black South Joy
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Book Lab
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Book Publishing in Translation
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Byron’s Legacy, 200 Years On
Byron Society of America
Captivity and Creativity in Wartime
Working Groups or Seminars
Catalonia Under Stress
Special Sessions
Celebrating 21st-Century Indigenous Literatures: A Roundtable
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Celebrating Afrodescendant Culture in Italy
American Association of Teachers of Italian
Celebrating Mark Twain
Mark Twain Circle of America
Celebrating Virginia Woolf’s Eighteenth Century
International Virginia Woolf Society
Celebrating Virginia Woolf’s Eighteenth Century
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
CFP: Gaming and Pedagogy
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
Chicanx/Latinx Poetics
LLC Chicana and Chicano
Chicanx/Latinx Travel Narratives
LLC Chicana and Chicano
Childhood in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish Culture
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Childhood in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish Culture
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Children’s Literature Under the Long Shadow of US Imperialism
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Cognition in the Archive
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Commemorating Racialized Pain and Joy in Contemporary Iberia
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Comparative Media Histories
CLCS 18th-Century
Contingent Shakespeare
LLC Shakespeare
Contingent Shakespeare
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Crip of Color Critique
TC Disability Studies
Critical Race Theory in/and Rhetorical Studies
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric
Critics Who Write
TC History and Literature
Cultures of Astrology
Special Sessions
Curating Modernism
Special Sessions
D.H. Lawrence and Affect/Emotions/Feelings
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Dante's Economies
Dante Society of America
Dialogic Life Writing
GS Life Writing
Digital Memories
TC Memory Studies
Digital Storytelling Across the Americas
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Disabling Environments
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Discomfort with BIPOC
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Disease and Health in the Global Arab Imaginary
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Disgust
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Don DeLillo and Crisis
Special Sessions
Edith Wharton and Celebration
Edith Wharton Society
Editing the Nineteenth Century
LLC 19th-Century American
Editors 101
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Empire at Sea
Special Sessions
Energy (co-sponsored by GSNA)
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German
Ethics and Practice of AIs in the Academy
MLA Committee on Information Technology
Evaluating Digital Scholarship Today: Problems and Solutions
MLA Committee on Information Technology
Excess
LLC 19th-Century French
Feast and Famine in Fairy Tales and Folklore
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale
Feelings for Our Languages
LSL Language and Society
Fictions of Proximity
Special Sessions
Folkloric Perspectives on Celebration
American Folklore Society
Future Souths
LLC Southern United States
Futures of Climate Joy and Sorrow
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
George Sand and the Audacity of Joy
George Sand Association
Global Indigenous Studies
LLC African to 1990
GOTHIC PAIN
CLCS Gothic Studies
Gothic Pleasure
CLCS Gothic Studies
Hagiography and the Supernatural in the Comedia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Hating the Eighteenth Century
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Heine: Between Hegel and Marx
North American Heine Society
Henry James and Event(s)
Henry James Society
Historical Perspectives on Climate Joy and Sorrow
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Hogg/neo-Hogg
LLC Scottish
Increasing the Visibility of Digital Humanities Projects
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
Indenture
Special Sessions
Indigenous Re/presentations
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Intellectual Hegemony
Special Sessions
Intention
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Intersectional visions of italianità and race
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Izumi Kyōka in World Literature
LLC Japanese since 1900
James Baldwin at 100
Special Sessions
James Baldwin: Then and Now
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Japanese and Brazilian Literature
LLC Japanese since 1900
Jerks
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
John Clare
John Clare Society of North America
Joy and Sorrow in Dante
Dante Society of America
Joy and Sorrow: Early Modern Diplomatic Stagings
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Joys and Sorrows of Attachment: Dickens and Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Language, style, and reader agency in Cli-fi:
LSL Linguistics and Literature
Laocoon Beyond the Crossroads
G. E. Lessing Society
Latinx Necropolitics
LLC Latina and Latino
Leftist Movements from the 1930s through Today
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Literacies of Self-Care
RCWS Literacy Studies
Literature and phronesis
Special Sessions
Loss and Grief in Children's and Young Adult Literature
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Luso-Afro-Brazilian Musical Exchanges and Expressions
American Portuguese Studies Association
Madness and Magic in Global Literature
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Marxist Pedagogies
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Material Pedagogies
Special Sessions
Medical Melville
Melville Society
Melville and Human Ecology
Melville Society
Melville, Conrad, and Life
Melville Society
Melville, Conrad, and Life
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Metabolic Imaginaries
TC Science and Literature
Metafiction in Modern Greek Literature
Modern Greek Studies Association
Milton and Bodily Freedom
Milton Society of America
MLA Translation Volumes in the Classroom
MLA Publications Committee
Modalities of Text and Editing
Association for Documentary Editing
Monuments and Rituals
LLC 17th-Century French
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Multispecies Affects in Transpacific Literatures
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Music and the Body
LLC Occitan
Music as Celebration and Memory
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Nabokov Against the Grain
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Necropolitics and End-Stage Capitalism
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
New Age Adaptation
TC Adaptation Studies
New Scholarly Editions
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Nostalgia in and for Children’s Literature
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
On Poe's Longer Works
Poe Studies Association
Outrageous Pleasures
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Pan-European Romanticism
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Periodical Literature
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Pessimism in Poetry and Song
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Photography and Ruins
Special Sessions
Photography by Other Means
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German
Playing Along
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Playing Along
GS Drama and Performance
Poetics of the Senses
Special Sessions
Poetry as Method
GS Poetry and Poetics
Pornography as Speech Act
TM Language Theory
Post/Colonial Madness
Special Sessions
Postcolonial Joys
LLC African since 1990
Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and Possibilities
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Praxis, Joy, and Sorrow
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Prioritizing Wellness in Second Language Teaching and Learning
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Proletarian Modernism
Modernist Studies Association
Promises and Limitations of Entangled Thinking in the Environmental Humanities
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Provincialisms
TM Literary Criticism
Psychoanalysis and Decolonization
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Public Humanities and the Community College Mission
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
Queer Generations
TC Sexuality Studies
Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Queering the Renaissance, 30 Years Later
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
Race and Caste in South Asian Diasporic Writing
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
Re-thinking Investments in Patient Zero Narratives
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
Reading #BlackJoy before 1800
LLC Early American
Recapturing Loss
LLC Arabic
Reconsidering Rituals: Memories, Histories, Embodiments
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English
Recycling
LLC 19th-Century French
Reimagining the Field of Arab American Studies
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Rethinking Animal Comparison
Working Groups or Seminars
Rethinking Indifference
Special Sessions
Rethinking the Syllabus: A Roundtable on Indigenous Studies Pedagogy
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Rethinking Woolf and Race
International Virginia Woolf Society
Reviewing Academic Books
Special Sessions
Revision
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Revisiting Sexual Science
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Revisiting Sexual Science
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Romanian Studies in the Digital Space
Romanian Studies Association of America
Ronsard@500
LLC 16th-Century French
Roundtable on Representing Diverse Voices in the MLA International Bibliography
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
Samuel R. Delany and the City
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Scandal and Sermon in Early Drama
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Scientific Modeling and the Literary
TC Science and Literature
Screen Media Translations
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Screen Media Translations
TC Translation Studies
Sensing the City
Special Sessions
Sex and Form
Special Sessions
Sex.Law.Else/where
TC Sexuality Studies
Social Media and The Novel
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century
Solarpunk Joy: Celebrating Beyond Sorrow
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Sounding a Life
GS Life Writing
Sounds and Affects of Lament
MS Opera and Musical Performance
South Asian Representations in Twenty-First Century Southeast Asia
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
South-South Movements in Latin America
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
Southeast Asia and Queer of Color Critique: Intersections and Interventions
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Southern Questions: Italy in/and the Global South
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Spanish and Iberian Comics/Graphic Narratives
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Spanish and Iberian Comics/Graphic Narratives
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Splendid Difficulty: Teaching Conrad
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Storied spaces: Italian literary placemaking
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Surrealism dans tous ses états
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
T. S. Eliot Unsealed
International T. S. Eliot Society
Teaching beyond University
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Teaching Dickinson: In the Classroom and Beyond
Emily Dickinson International Society
Teaching Scholarly Editions
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
Teaching Spenser Now
International Spenser Society
Teaching the Early Modern
LLC 17th-Century English
The 1820s in the 2020s: A Roundtable of Critical Indigenous Readings
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
The Adaptability of Race
TC Adaptation Studies
The Aesthetics of Accessibility
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
The Biopolitics of Comics
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
The Burden and Privilege of HBCU Graduate Students in the Anti-CRT Era
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
The Everyday Lives of Literature
TM Literary Criticism
The Joy of Access: Let’s Make it Happen!
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
The Joys and Sorrows of Translation
TC Translation Studies
The Mediterranean Compass
CLCS Mediterranean
The Novel of Sexual Ideas
Special Sessions
The Other's (In)Visibility
CLCS European Regions
The Perils and Pleasures of Language Program Recruitment
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
The Promise and Perils of AI
RCWS Writing Pedagogies
The Quixotic Eighteenth Century
LLC Late-18th-Century English
The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
The Role of Joy in Midwestern Literature
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
The Service Requirement: Contingency, Marginality, and Growing Expectations
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
The Time of Festival in the 19th Century
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
The Union and the Senate
Special Sessions
The Unpopular 18th Century
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Trans Joy
Special Sessions
Translating and Staging Spanish Early Modern Plays Throughout Time
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Translating the romance epic
Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch
Translating the Translingual
TC Translation Studies
Twenty-First-Century Forms
Special Sessions
Ungrading as Liberatory Practice
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Unspeakable Truths: Basque Political Violence and Reconciliation
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Vegetal Afterlives
Special Sessions
Visuality and Lyric Form
Special Sessions
W. E. B. DuBois: Joys and Sorrows
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
WGS Strategies in Times of Attack
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
What crisis are we talking about? Early Modern Spanish Studies and The Sense of An Ending
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
What do we think we're doing?
LLC 19th-Century American
What Is The Everyday?
Special Sessions
What was a poem ... ?
GS Poetry and Poetics
Whose South Asia?
Special Sessions
Wilde on Tour
Special Sessions
William Faulkner Black and Blue
William Faulkner Society
Williams and the Environmental Humanities
William Carlos Williams Society
Women and the Lusophone Avant-Gardes
American Portuguese Studies Association
Writing Futures, Programmatic Futures
Council of Writing Program Administrators