"A word after a word after a word is power”
Margaret Atwood Society
"Central American Subjectivities: Resignifying and Reimagining the (Global) South"
LLC Latina and Latino
"Don't Look Away": Seeing Children in Conflict
Special Sessions
"Spoiling This Wonderful Falsehood” - Japanese Video Games and Critiques of Western Worlding
Special Sessions
"The Indigenous Critique": Reverse Ethnography and Enlightenment Thought
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
#BLM #N4BL
GS Life Writing
#Rage: Early Modern Women, Gender, and Anger
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
(In)Visibilities during Francoism
Special Sessions
(In)Visibility and Marginality in the Global Middle Ages
CLCS Medieval
(In)Visibility as a Form of Protest in Contemporary German-speaking Surveillance Cultures
Special Sessions
(In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies
Italian American Studies Association
(In)Visibility of Adjuncts
Special Sessions
(In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power
LSL Language and Society
(In)Visible Combustions: Dystopian Scenarios and Political Imaginations in Galician/Iberian Culture(s)
LLC Galician
(In)Visible Pains: Medicine and Disease in Galdós’ Works
International Association of Galdós Scholars
(In)visible Rules for Teaching Literature
TM The Teaching of Literature
(Re)thinking Academic Forms: A Conversation
Special Sessions
(Re)Writing the "New Woman"
Special Sessions
20th Century Black Literary Ecologies
Special Sessions
21st-Century Eliot
International T. S. Eliot Society
404 File Not Found: Deleted, Discarded, and Defunct Projects in the Digital and Data Humanities
Special Sessions
A Path Forward: New Identity and Belonging in Bangladeshi Diasporic Literature
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
Abandoned by God: On Secularization and the Modern Novel
Special Sessions
Accenting Punctuation
Special Sessions
Accessing Modernism and Modernist Criticism
Modernist Studies Association
Adjunct by Any Other Name
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
ADPCL Roundtable: Strategies for Positive Visibility in Student and Community Engagement
Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature
Aesthetics and Politics
Marxist Literary Group
Affective Economies of the (Greater) Caribbean
Special Sessions
African Language, Literature, and Children's Culture Since 1990: Exploring AAVE
Children’s Literature Association
African Materialities
LLC African since 1990
African Women's Writing and (In)visibility:
Special Sessions
Age and/as Disability
TC Age Studies
Age on Screen
TC Age Studies
Agnotology in Literature, Culture, and the Arts
Special Sessions
AI and Authorship
Special Sessions
Alt-Text, Alt-Image: Multimodal Scholarship
MLA Committee on Information Technology
Alternative Networks and Platforms for Digital Humanities + Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature Organization
American Women's Mobility Narratives
Special Sessions
André Gide's life and works through the eyes of others
Association des Amis d’André Gide
Apertures of Access: Neoliberal Grammars of White Supremacy
Special Sessions
Applied Humanities: The Active Life of Literature
Special Sessions
Applied Linguistics Perspectives on Language Enrollment Trends
LSL Applied Linguistics
Arabic Historical Novel
Special Sessions
Arabs in World Culture
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Arthuriana Lost and Found
CLCS Arthurian
Asian American Queer, Trans, Feminist Relationality
Special Sessions
Attunement, Atmosphere, Resonance
Special Sessions
Audible Invisibility: Echo Texts, or the Matter of Reverb
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Australasian Literature at the Crossroads
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
Beckett, Justice, and Social Action
Working Groups or Seminars
Beyond Land Acknowledgements: The (In)Visibility of Indigenous Literary Studies
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Beyond Modernismo's Excess
Special Sessions
Birth, Desire, and the Divine: Sexuality and the Feminine Figure in the Middle Ages
Special Sessions
Black Fantasy Worldbuilding
Special Sessions
Black Feminist Excesses
Working Groups or Seminars
Black Maternal Labor
Special Sessions
Black Psychoanalyses?
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Black Visibility: Swift, Smart, and Sharp
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Black Women’s Travel Auto/Biography
GS Life Writing
Blueprint, Model, Building: Architecture and the Novel
Special Sessions
Bodies Beyond Label
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
BODIES IN MOTION
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Bordering Queerness
Special Sessions
Brevity in Scholarship: The Short Book
Special Sessions
Bridges, Networks and Encounters. Poetry and Intersectionality in Early Modern Hispanic World
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Building Coalitions: Advocating for Graduate Labor Needs Across Institutions
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Building Programmatic Support for Linguistic Justice
LSL Global English
Caribbean Restorations
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Casanova and His World at 300
LLC 18th-Century French
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of John Fletcher, Early Modern English Playwright and Shakespearean Collaborator
Special Sessions
Celebrating the Transatlantic Feminist Legacy: African, American, Caribbean, Iberian, and Indigenous Expressions
Feministas Unidas
Céline Sciamma: film director, screenwriter, activist.
Special Sessions
Celtic Literary Networks across Time and Space
CLCS Celtic
Cervantes and Visibility (Cervantes Society of America Guaranteed Session)
Cervantes Society of America
Chivalry is Dead? Medieval Masculinity and Its (Ir)Relevance
Special Sessions
Cite, Incite, Recite
RCWS Creative Writing
Claudel et la femme/Claudel's Representation of Women
Special Sessions
Cold War Afterlives
CLCS Hemispheric American
Collaborations: Editing, Publishing and Recovering Texts
Association for Documentary Editing
Collective Performance and Writing Since 1900
Special Sessions
Comedy and Horror
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Community Colleges, Artificial Intelligence, and the Multilingual Workplace
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
Comparative Abolitionisms
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
Comparative Aesthetics of Extractivism: A Cross-Language Approach
Special Sessions
Comparative Visions of Modernity in West Asia and the Middle East
Special Sessions
Competing concerns in language education discourse
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Concrete Jungles: Hip Hop and the Global City
Special Sessions
Confinement and Freedom in Doris Lessing and Other 20th-Century World Writers
Doris Lessing Society
Conflicting Views of Capitalism
Special Sessions
Conjuring Afterlives: Reverberations of Slavery, Colonialism, and Empire in Caribbean Fiction
Special Sessions
Conspiracy Theories in Law and Literature
TC Law and the Humanities
Contemporary Earthquake Literatures: Global Contexts
Special Sessions
Cooking Up Stories: Life Writing and Foodways in New Orleans and the U.S. South
LLC Southern United States
Corrective Feedback in the Language Classroom
Special Sessions
Creoles and Criollos: Visibility of Colonial Subjects and Cultures in Louisiana and Beyond
Special Sessions
Crip Technoscience
TC Disability Studies
Crisis as Form: Cultural Representations of the “Crisis” of Neoliberalism in Latin America
Special Sessions
Critical Appositions: What We Do Besides Critique
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Critical Perspectives on Ottoman Racialization
Special Sessions
D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Visuality
International Virginia Woolf Society
Dante and Science
Dante Society of America
Deaf performance, language, and art
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Decolonization and Genealogies of Neoliberalism
Special Sessions
Decolonizing the Historical Spanish Empire
Special Sessions
Define it—Make it Visible
Special Sessions
Delany and the Pornographic
Special Sessions
Depicting Violence in East Asia across Time and Space
LLC East Asian
Desire Without Objects
LLC English Romantic
Diachronic Narratology
Special Sessions
Diaspora and Partition
Special Sessions
Dickensian Cultures and Communities
Dickens Society
Dickinson and Visibility / Invisibilty
Emily Dickinson International Society
Digital Labor and Cultural Production in East Asia
LLC East Asian
Disabilities Studies in Art and Literature
Special Sessions
Disability and Hiring: access, accommodation, belonging, and retention
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Disability and Visibility in the Lusophone World
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Disablement and Disability in Palestine and the Global South
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Diversifying Scholarly Editions
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
Diversity and Inclusion in Metadata and Citation Creation
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
Dostoevsky and Disability
International Dostoevsky Society
Early Modern Human Rights
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
Early modern meritocracies: Conceptualizations of value, valorization, achievement and entitlement in early modern literature and culture
Special Sessions
Early Modern Social Media
LLC 17th-Century English
Easts in the German Imagination
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German
Echo: More Than One Voice but Less Than Two
TM Language Theory
Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition
CLCS Caribbean
Ecologies of Resistance: Spaces and Embodiments in Medieval Texts
LLC Medieval French
Ecology in Southeast Asian Cultural Production
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Ecology Without Nostalgia: Form and Futurity
Special Sessions
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Visibility
Edith Wharton Society
Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist?
CLCS Caribbean
Education for Freedom: The Liberal Arts and Popular Democracy in the United States.
Special Sessions
Edward Said’s Legacy Today
Special Sessions
Eliot, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway: Contact and Revision
Special Sessions
Emerging Trends in Adaptation Studies
TC Adaptation Studies
Emerging Visible Age/Aging Studies in Humanities
Special Sessions
Encounters with Race and the Animal
Special Sessions
Encounters with the Unseen in Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Myth
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale
Engaged Activism, Arts, Public Humanities, and Scholarship at Community Colleges
HEP Community Colleges
Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans
CLCS 18th-Century
Enrique Dussel and the Colonial Foundation of Latin American Thought (In memoriam)
LLC Colonial Latin American
Entomological Turns
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Environmental Racism and Justice in Literature and Culture
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Envisioning Paradise
Dante Society of America
Envisioning Racial Futures: Race, Ethnicity, and Speculative Fiction Comics
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Envisioning Racial Futures: Race, Ethnicity, and Speculative Fiction Comics
GS Speculative Fiction
Envisioning Reality: Adapting Nonfiction Texts
TC Adaptation Studies
Ethnic Geographies: Roots/Routes of Resistance and Resilience
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Exhaustion, Involution, Bullshit Jobs
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Experiments in New Poetry with Old English, Old French, and Old Spanish: A Roundtable
Special Sessions
Exploring AI Literacy in Business Communication
Association for Business Communication
Exploring Jin Ping Mei: Unveiling the Multifaceted Dimensions of the First Chinese Novel in the Ming Dynasty
Special Sessions
Fairy-Tale and Fairyland-Fiction Psychoanalysis
Special Sessions
Flemish and Southern Dutch Literature
LLC Dutch
Food and Drink in Migrant Narratives
Special Sessions
Forms of Water, Forms of Life
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Francophone Palestinian Voices
Special Sessions
Fraught Visibilities
CLCS Global South
From Hip-Hop to Slam poetry hoje and beyond.
LLC Luso-Brazilian
From Sight to Sensibilities: The Limits of Visibility in Composition
RCWS History and Theory of Composition
From Source to Text? Methods for French and Francophone Literature
Special Sessions
Games and Players in Iberian and Early Modern Theater
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Gender and Embodiment: Trans Studies Approaches
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Gender and Sexuality in pre1900 Japanese Literature
LLC Japanese to 1900
Gender and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle
TC Women’s and Gender Studies
Gender in Lusophone Literatures
American Portuguese Studies Association
Gender in the Sephardic World, 20th-21st Century
LLC Sephardic
Gendered Space
Women in German
Generative AI: Creativity and Harm
TC Digital Humanities
Genres of/in Criticism: The critical form today.
TM Literary Criticism
Geographies of the Precarious In-Between: Navigating Spaces of Young Adulthood and the Gothic
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
George Bernard Shaw and Nationalism
Special Sessions
Global African (In)visible Archives
LLC African since 1990
Global and Transnational Dutch
LLC Dutch
Global NOLA
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Goethe and Contemporary Literature
Goethe Society of North America
GOTHIC HYPERVISIBILITIES
CLCS Gothic Studies
GOTHIC INVISIBILITIES
CLCS Gothic Studies
Gothic Wilde
Special Sessions
Gulf South/Global South
Special Sessions
Gullah narratives in American Literatures
Special Sessions
Health and Medicine in Colonial Latin America: Power, race and gender through texts and contexts, politics and practices
LLC Colonial Latin American
Health, Well-being, & Illness in Lusophone & Hispanophone Contexts
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Hebrew’s Invisible Ink
LLC Hebrew
Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty
LLC Italian American
Hélène Cixous's "Jewish-German psyches."
Working Groups or Seminars
Henry Green Today
Special Sessions
Heritage Languages in the United States
LSL General Linguistics
Hidden Collaborators: Invisible Authors in the Work of Robert Graves
Robert Graves Society
Histories and Legacies of Hurricane Katrina
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Hope & Despair in 19c Amer
LLC 19th-Century American
Horizons of Musical Adaptation: Audibility, Visibility, Media and Performance
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Hospitality and Contemporary Global Fiction
Special Sessions
Hot Labor Season
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
How Ballads Mean
Special Sessions
How Greek is the Literature of the Greek Diaspora?
Modern Greek Studies Association
How to Be the Change: Using Your Voice in a Climate of Censorship
MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
How to Decolonize the Classroom
HEP Teaching as a Profession
How to Do Things with Fiction
GS Prose Fiction
Humanism in the Age of AI
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
I Echo within the Walls of Stone: Madness and Rage in South Asian Women's Writing
Working Groups or Seminars
Iberian Exteriorities
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Imagining the Future in Contemporary Chicanx and Latinx Literatures
Special Sessions
Imperfect Women Writers
Margaret Fuller Society
Improvisation and Citation: Experimentation and creativity in the arts
LLC 18th-Century French
In progress. Making Research Communities Visible
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Incarcerated Writing Today
Special Sessions
Inclusive Generative AI? Disability, Culture and Artificial Intelligence
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Indigenous ARTivism in Latin America
Special Sessions
Indigenous Literatures and Christianity
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Indigenous Literatures Now!
Special Sessions
Indigenous Solidarity and Settler Colonialism, from Turtle Island to Palestine
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Indigenous Travel Writing and In/Visibility
GS Travel Writing
Indigenous Travel Writing and In/Visibility: A Roundtable
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Indigenous Visibilities in Brazil
American Portuguese Studies Association
Information, Technology, and Literary Forms
Special Sessions
Inscribing Bodies in Ming-Qing China
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
Inter-Epistemic Translation
TM Language Theory
Inter-imperial Contact Zones
CLCS Global Hispanophone
Inter-imperial Contact Zones
LLC Francophone
Internationalist vs World Literature in Interwar Central/Southeastern Europe
LLC Slavic and East European
Invisibility: Languages of the Margin, Stories of the Voiceless
Special Sessions
Invisible Genres of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Invisible Labor: supporting emerging technologies in academic institutions
TM Libraries and Research
Invisible Peripheries
LLC Global Portuguese
Invisible Violence and Archival Erasure
LLC Old English
Issues of Agency with AI
LSL Language and Society
Italian Emigration in Film
Special Sessions
Italianità and music: from resistance to assimilation
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Italy’s Archipelagic Imaginaries
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Jerks 2
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
John Clare
John Clare Society of North America
John Milton: A General Session
Milton Society of America
Joseph Conrad: Tyranny and Revolution
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Journal Peer Review: The Inside Scoop
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
K-16 ELA Classroom Concerns
MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances
Kate Chopin's Louisiana
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Keywords and the History of Ideas
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Keywords in Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Studies
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Keywords, Questions, Concepts: Our Postcolonial Categories
TC Postcolonial Studies
La (in)visibilidad de la maternidad
Special Sessions
Labor and Memory in Contemporary Literature in French
Special Sessions
LABOR CONDITIONS in Caribbean Studies
CLCS Caribbean
Labor in African-American Literature
Special Sessions
Landed Solidarity: The Medieval in Place
Special Sessions
Language Change & the Rise of Populism
LSL Language Change
Language Learning with AI: Insights from Research
LSL Applied Linguistics
Latinx Archival Forms
Special Sessions
Latinx Carceralities
LLC Latina and Latino
Latinx Speculative Worlds
Special Sessions
Law, Literature, and AI
TC Law and the Humanities
Law-Abiding Literature: Critical Perspectives on the Contemporary US Book Censorship Crisis
Special Sessions
Learning From What Doesn't Work
TM Language Theory
Let’s Collab!
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Literary Agency and Critic-Text Relationship
Special Sessions
Literary Agents and Book Publishing
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German
Literary and Cultural Translation in Premodern East Asia
LLC East Asian
Literary Biography
CLCS European Regions
Literary Institutions
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Literary Name Games: Onomastic Indices, Icons, and/or Symbols
American Name Society
Literary Scholars Writing Collective Biographies
Special Sessions
Literary Study Hesitant
Special Sessions
Literature and Culture from Lusophone Africa
Special Sessions
Literature and Science in the Early Modern Period
Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Literature and the Brain
Special Sessions
Literature/World Literature: Between the Local and the Transnational
CLCS Global Jewish
Local/Global Scales: Provincializing the National
Special Sessions
Locating Palestine in Medieval Studies
CLCS Medieval
Louisiana in World Literatures
Special Sessions
Love's Avatars in Cervantes’s Plays
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Love's Avatars in Cervantes’s Plays (Collaborative Session co-sponsored with the MLA Forum on 16th and 17th Century Spanish and Iberian Drama)
Cervantes Society of America
Lyric Poetry and Disability
Special Sessions
Machine Translation and the (In)Visibility of the Translator
TC Translation Studies
Magical Realism Now
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Making Citation Visible: Merging and Emerging Visions of MLA Style
Special Sessions
Making Climate Change Issues Visible in East European Culture, Media and Politics
Romanian Studies Association of America
Making Modernist Studies Safe for All
Modernist Studies Association
Making the Translator Visible Again: Translation as Cultural Change in the World of Galdós
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Making Visible New Work in Indigenous Studies
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Making Visible: Conrad, Poland, and World Literature
Special Sessions
Manifestations of Madness and Magic in Global Literature
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Mark Twain Circle CFP
Mark Twain Circle of America
Masking and Unmasking: 18th-and-19th Century Spanish Literature and Art
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Masks and Masquerades
LLC 19th-Century French
Mass Violence and New Genres of Witnessing
LLC West Asian
Max Beerbohm Now
Special Sessions
Mediating the South
CLCS Global South
Medical Technologies and the Health Humanities (non-guaranteed panel)
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
Mediterranean Sexualities
CLCS Mediterranean
Memories of Fire: Exploring Memory, Violence, and Narration in 20th and 21st Century Latinx/Latin American Literature and Cultural Productions
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
Mentoring Practices in Precarious Times
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Migrations and Diasporas
LLC 19th-Century French
Milton and Love
Milton Society of America
Milton and Visibility
Milton Society of America
Milton's Poetry and Prose: 17th Century History
Special Sessions
MLA Innovation Room
ALD Executive Committee
Modernity's Romantic Secrets
LLC English Romantic
Monstrous Souths: A Gothic Now Roundtable
Special Sessions
Morphic Memory
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Morris, Religion, and Myth
William Morris Society
Motherhood in Visual Media
Special Sessions
Mrs. Dalloway at 100
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Multilingualism and Visibility in Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship
MLA Committee on Information Technology
Mysticism in the Flesh: Poetics, Improvisation, and Aliveness
Special Sessions
Nabokov and Musicality
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Nabokov, Blackness, and Whiteness
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Narrating Spectacle around 1800
Special Sessions
Narrativizing the Storm: Global Perspectives on Hurricane Narratives in Children’s Youth Literature and Media
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Navigating the Margins: the Compromised Visibility of Small Literatures through the Prism of Translation
LLC Hungarian
Navigating Visibility: Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Inclusive Pedagogies
RCWS Writing Pedagogies
Necropolitical Violence and Visibility
Special Sessions
New Approaches to European Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Racism
LLC 16th-Century English
New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies
LLC Medieval Iberian
New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
New Directions in African American Literary Scholarship: A Panel of Emerging Voices
LLC African American
New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies
LLC Asian American
New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading
CLCS 18th-Century
New normal, new urgency: Invisible and emotion labor in language program advocacy.
American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators
New Orleans and Black Literature
College Language Association
New Orleans Environments, Present and Past
TC History and Literature
New Perspectives on Mrs. Dalloway at 100
International Virginia Woolf Society
New Perspectives on The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925)
Modernist Studies Association
New Perspectives on ‘New France’ and the Colonial Caribbean
LLC 17th-Century French
New Theoretical Trends in Iberian Visual Cultures
Special Sessions
New Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies
LLC 16th-Century French
Next-Generation Research in English: A Graduate Student Showcase
Association of Departments of English
Next-Generation Research in World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: A Graduate Student Showcase
Association of Language Departments
NOLA in Graphic Narratives
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Open Session in Pre-Modern German Literature and Culture (Sponsored by LLC German to 1700)
LLC German to 1700
Out of the Box: Rethinking Southeast Asia through Comics
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
OUTSIDE THE FRAME: REFRAMING WAYS OF KNOWING IN NONFICTION PROSE
GS Nonfiction Prose
Palestine and Postcolonial Studies
TC Postcolonial Studies
Palestine and the Health Humanities
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
Paratexts in Drama and Performance
GS Drama and Performance
Pathways to the Deanship
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences
Performing Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Perspectives on Filipino Culture, Media, and Preservation
Special Sessions
Picturing Political Power in Comics
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Plants and Book History
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Poe and the Archives
Poe Studies Association
Poe Lives on Netflix
Poe Studies Association
Poetry after Gaza
Special Sessions
Poetry and HIV/AIDS
Special Sessions
Poetry as Object of Literary Studies
GS Poetry and Poetics
Post-Soul Humor
Special Sessions
Post-Tanzimat Ottoman Literature Made Visible
Special Sessions
Postcolonial Capitalism: Southeast Asia and its Diaspora
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Postcolonial Capitalism: Southeast Asia and its Diaspora
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Postcolonial Studies and US Empire
TC Postcolonial Studies
Posthuman Studies
Special Sessions
Poverty and Renunciation in Early Modern Literature
Special Sessions
Psychoanalysis for Non-Fascist Life (Roundtable)
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Psychoanalytic Criticism Today
TM Literary Criticism
Queer and Trans French and Francophone Cultures
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Queer Approaches to South-South Comparison
TC Sexuality Studies
Queer Groundings: Unsettling the Global Anglophone
CLCS Global Anglophone
Queer Historical Poetics
Special Sessions
Queer Infrastructures of/in Early America
LLC Early American
Queer Melville, and Beyond
Melville Society
Queer Studies and Infrastructure
TC Sexuality Studies
Queer/Trans Forms of Black Study
TC Women’s and Gender Studies
Queer/Trans/Feminist Fronteras
Special Sessions
Race and Representation in Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Culture
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
Radical Queer Souths
LLC Southern United States
Ralph Ellison in/and World War II-era Periodicals
Special Sessions
Re-Visioning as Resistance: Modernizations of the Western Canon
Special Sessions
Reading Bodies in Movement: The Politics and Poetics of Migration in Latin American Literature
LLC Mexican
Reclaiming Joy as Political Visibility
Women in French
Reconsidering a Legacy: Tom Robbins and the Postmodern Novel
Special Sessions
Recovery and Cultures of Care in Middle English Literature
LLC Middle English
Reframing Louisiana Studies
Special Sessions
Reframing the Canary Islands within the Humanities
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Reimagining Friendship: Aesthetics and Politics
Special Sessions
Reimagining the American West
Special Sessions
Reimagining Tradition in Galicia/Iberia
LLC Galician
Religion, Literature, and Climate
TC Religion and Literature
Religious Dissent and Literature
TC Religion and Literature
Remapping the Post-Katrina Gulf South
LLC Southern United States
Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture Teaching
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture Teaching
ALCESXXI: Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI
Representations of In/visibility: Human Rights Across Genres
Special Sessions
Representations of Working-Class Life in Contemporary Fiction
Special Sessions
Representing East Asian Indigenous Identities, Minority Nationalities, and Marginal Ethnicities
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Representing East Asian Indigenous Identity, Minority Nationalities, and Marginal Ethnicities
LLC East Asian
Reproducing Chaucer
LLC Chaucer
Research for the future of 19th-Century Latin American Studies. A Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Workshop
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Resilience across the "Spanish" Pacific
CLCS Global Hispanophone
Rethinking John Addington Symonds
Special Sessions
Rethinking National Allegory
Special Sessions
Rethinking the Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in English for a New *Quarter* Century
Special Sessions
Revised, Updated, and Unabridged: Rereading José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of the Night
Special Sessions
Revision
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Revisioning Gender in Adaptations
TC Adaptation Studies
Rewriting Dominant Narratives in Italian Culture
American Association of Teachers of Italian
Rewriting History Through Fiction
Special Sessions
Rewriting the Multicultural Gothic
GS Speculative Fiction
Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares
Special Sessions
Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares
Special Sessions
Rhetorics of In/Visibility and the Law: Intersectional Perspectives from the Local to the National
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric
Right All Along: Irish Truthtellers
American Conference for Irish Studies
Romanticism and the Spirit of the Age
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Roundtable: Italian Studies in the Age of Generative AI
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Rural as Periphery in Latin America
Special Sessions
Samuel Beckett and Persistent Impoverishment
Samuel Beckett Society
Samuel Beckett and the Arresting Image
Samuel Beckett Society
Scots on Screen
LLC Scottish
Seeing and Being Seen: Fostering Connection and Engagement in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Special Sessions
Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James
Henry James Society
Seeing, Watching, Looking in Sixteenth Century France (1480-1630)
LLC 16th-Century French
Self-Publishing in the Digital Age
Special Sessions
Sensation and/as Method
Special Sessions
Sense and Sensation
LLC Occitan
Shining a Light on Invisible Labor
Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography
Sick, Sad Girls: Experiences of Chronic Illness in Women's Poetry
Special Sessions
Siglo Latinx: New Perspectives on Spanish Golden Age Theatre Performance in the Americas
Special Sessions
Silicon Valley Beyond the Valley
Special Sessions
Slavery and the Visibility of Race in 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century Italy
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Slowdown, Sick-Out, Work Stoppage, Strike
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Social Media and the Discourse of Racism
Special Sessions
Socialism in the Magazines: Transnational Periodicals between World Revolution and Cold War Geopolitics
LLC Russian and Eurasian
Sounding Melville
Melville Society
Soundscapes of Latin America’s Long 19th century
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
South Asian Translations
TC Translation Studies
South of Dixie: Latin Americans and US Southerners in the Nineteenth Century
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Souths: Encounters, Environments, Myths
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English
Southwest/Borderlands/Frontier: Representing an Inter-Imperial Space
Special Sessions
Spaces and Cultures of the 18th-century French-Speaking World
LLC 18th-Century French
Spanish Louisiana
Special Sessions
Spooky Spain: Haunting in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Literature and Art
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Stefan Zweig and the Global South
Special Sessions
Strange new connections: exploring the relationship between humans and artificial machines in the age of AI
Special Sessions
Stranger Encounters: D.H. Lawrence and the Foreign
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Teaching Adolescent Identity–On and Off the Page
TC Age Studies
Teaching and the Gig Economy
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Teaching Coloniality: From Medieval Iberia to Colonial Latin America
LLC Colonial Latin American
Teaching Coloniality: From Medieval Iberia to the Colonial Latin Americas
LLC Medieval Iberian
Teaching Generation Z
Special Sessions
Teaching Indigenous Languages: Fostering Multilingual Classrooms and Decolonial Methodologies across Abiayala
Special Sessions
Teaching Palestine
LLC Arabic
Teaching the French Sixteenth Century in the Twenty-First Century
LLC 16th-Century French
Teaching with the MLA Guides
MLA Publications Committee
Technologies of Global Englishes
LSL Global English
Television and New Media
CLCS European Regions
Telling (on) Literacies
RCWS Literacy Studies
Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic
Temporality and Landscape in Latin America
Special Sessions
Textual Futures + Generative AI
Electronic Literature Organization
The (In)Visibility of Editing
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
The (In)Visibility of Memory in Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
The (In)visibility of Minoritized Speakers
LSL Language Change
The African Historical Novel
TC History and Literature
The Animal in the Portuguese-Speaking World
LLC Luso-Brazilian
The Arboreal 'Turn' in South Asian Anglophone Literature
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
The Art of the Book Review
Special Sessions
The Bible as Literature for the 21st century
Special Sessions
The Class Politics of Cultural Production During and Inspired by Socialism
LLC Slavic and East European
The Eurasian Ecumene, 1200-1550
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
The Future Library, Invisible Archive?
CLCS Nordic
The Future of Literary History
Association of Departments of English
The Future of Nineteenth-Century Author-Based Societies
Working Groups or Seminars
The Hope of Hybridity
Special Sessions
The Impact of Generative AI Tools on Language Education
Special Sessions
The Jewish Cold War
LLC Jewish American
The Language Requirement & General Education: Conceptualizing and strategizing creative reforms
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
The Latinx Gothic
LLC Chicana and Chicano
The Limits of Vision in 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century Italian Culture
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
The Magic After the Magical Realism in Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Fiction
Special Sessions
The Medieval Today and Tomorrow: Lives that Matter and the Question of Relevance
LLC Medieval French
The Morris Circle and Collaboration
William Morris Society
The Morris Circle and Collaboration
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
The New Media Classroom at Open Admissions Colleges
Special Sessions
The New Negro at 100 Years
LLC African American
The Origin of Adoption Studies: Betty Jean Lifton 50 Years Later.
Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
The Pedagogy of Translation in the Age of AI
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
THE PEDAGOGY OF TRANSLATION IN THE AGE OF AI
TC Translation Studies
The Poetics and Politics of Visibility in Old English
LLC Old English
The Power of Pages: Enhancing Visibility and Dialogue on Diversity Through Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Special Sessions
The Premodern Anthropocene
LLC Middle English
The Premodern Anthropocene
LLC Chaucer
The Problems of the US Job Market for Humanities International Grad Students
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
The Question of Palestine Now
LLC Arabic
The Representation of the Cultural Otherness in the Teaching of Literature
TM The Teaching of Literature
The Role of Standard English Grammar Instruction at Community Colleges
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
The South in Contemporary Children’s Literature
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
The Unseen in Catalan Studies
LLC Catalan Studies
The Visibility of Portuguese Modernity
Special Sessions
The Wild City
Special Sessions
The World's Borough: Queens in the Literary Imagination
Special Sessions
Theatre's (In)Visible Geographies
GS Drama and Performance
Theoretical Approaches to Decolonization in 20th and 21st Century Literatures
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century
Theorizing "Twinks" in Literature, Culture, and Cinema
Special Sessions
Theorizing Practices: Research on and for Language Program Administration Work
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Thoreau and the (in)Visible
Thoreau Society
Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas
LLC Italian American
Title:Black Parenting on the Stage and Written Page
LLC African American
To Mine or not to Mine: What to Do with Minerals?
Working Groups or Seminars
Today’s Challenges in Language Classrooms
MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances
Topic: Italians and New Orleans
LLC Italian American
Topsy-Turvey: The Persistence of Historical Stereotypes on Black Girlhood
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Touching Trauma
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Towards a Negative Performance Studies
Special Sessions
Towards Inclusion and Authenticity: Addressing Cultural Dilemmas in Black Children's Audiobooks
Children’s Literature Association
Trans/Temporalities Toward the End of This World
Special Sessions
Transforming Space: Migration and Migrants in Austrian Literature, Film, and Ego-Documents
Austrian Studies Association
Translating Black and Indigenous (In)Visibility from Portuguese
Special Sessions
Translating Black and Indigenous (In)Visibility from Portuguese
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Translating Black and Indigenous (In)Visibility from Portuguese
American Portuguese Studies Association
Translation, visibility, and style: accommodating audiences
LSL Linguistics and Literature
Transphobia Past and Present
Special Sessions
Trauma, Memory, and Resistance in Contemporary Lusophone Fiction
LLC Global Portuguese
Travel Writing and “Go-Betweens”
GS Travel Writing
Trends in the New African Diasporic Literature
LLC African to 1990
Twice-Sung Theatrical Tales: Reviving, Revising, Recovering, and Resisting Musical Texts
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Ugly Chaucer
LLC Chaucer
Un-Building Colonial and Carceral Infrastructures in Asian diasporic literature and media
LLC Asian American
Unauthoring Middle English Studies
LLC Middle English
Uncanny Poetics: New Insights into Obscure Interests
Special Sessions
Underworlds and Undergrounds
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German
Unholy bodies: women and children control rhetoric in the Spain and Hispanic America
Special Sessions
Unruly Archives: Women Writing South Asian Literary Fiction
Special Sessions
Unscripted Performances
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Unseen Forces: Aesthetic Engagements with the Otherworldly
Special Sessions
Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Utopia, Futurity
TC Science and Literature
Uses of the Erotic in Chicanx Literary and Cultural Production
LLC Chicana and Chicano
Vast Black Atlantics
LLC Early American
Verse versus Prose
GS Poetry and Poetics
Virginia Woolf and Utopian Skepticism
International Virginia Woolf Society
Visibility and Black Public Rhetoric
Special Sessions
Visibility and Humor: Seen and Unseen Meaning and Methods in American Humor
American Humor Studies Association
Visibility and Power in Midwestern Literature
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
Visibility and Power in Recent Issues of _Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas_: Venezuela, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
Special Sessions
Visibility and the Visual in Medieval and Early Modern German Culture (Sponsored by LLC German to 1700)
LLC German to 1700
Visibility in Romance Linguistics
LSL Romance Linguistics
Visibility of Envy: Politics and Poetics
Special Sessions
Visibility, language, style: authorship as resistance
LSL Linguistics and Literature
Visible (Un)realities: Reconsidering Truth and Appearance in Pirandello and Beyond
Pirandello Society of America
Visible Affects, Invisible Violence: A Postcolonial Problem
Special Sessions
Visible and Invisible Cities in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Visible and Invisible Folklife in New Orleans
American Folklore Society
Visible and Invisible Geographies
Special Sessions
Visible Cracks: Fissured Worlds in Medieval Iberia
LLC Medieval Iberian
Visible Translations in Galician and Catalan Literatures and Cultures
LLC Catalan Studies
Visible Value: Career Readiness in the Classroom
Special Sessions
Vision and (In)Visibility in Dante
Dante Society of America
Visual Art After Katrina: Climate, Curators, and Critics
MS Visual Culture
Visuality in the Eighteenth Century
G. E. Lessing Society
Visualizing Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Visualizing Medieval Iberia
LLC Medieval Iberian
Visualizing Risk in the 20th & 21st Century
Special Sessions
W(h)ither the Individual?
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Wallace Stevens & Classicism
Wallace Stevens Society
War, literature, and human rights
Special Sessions
What is a Scholarly Edition?
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
What is Palestinian American Literature?
Special Sessions
What Now? (Re)defining Yourself after Promotion
Association of Departments of English
When Aesthetics Ran Out of Steam
LLC Early American
When Aesthetics Ran Out of Steam
TC History and Literature
Whiteness in/beyond Early Modern France
LLC 17th-Century French
Who Are the Publics for Early Modern Studies?
LLC 17th-Century French
Why Literary Studies Needs to Get Fat
Special Sessions
William Carlos Williams and Jazz
Special Sessions
William Carlos Williams and the Question of “America”: 100 Years of In the American Grain
William Carlos Williams Society
Witnessing War and Genocide
MS Visual Culture
Women in the early history of comics (1800s-1950s)
Special Sessions
Women Walking
Special Sessions
Words and Music
Special Sessions
Work of/in Fiction
GS Prose Fiction
Working Under Fire
LLC 19th-Century American
World Literature and Visibility
Special Sessions
Wreaths and Risings: Literary responses to the deaths of Black children
Children’s Literature Association
Writers as Historians in Slavic Literatures: Poetics vs. Facts
Special Sessions
“Anthropology and Literature Now—Archives, Repatriations, Restitutions”
TC Anthropology and Literature
“Anthropology and Literature Now—Global South Methodologies”
TC Anthropology and Literature
“Black Femme Visible Literatures and Histories—Traditions, Lineages, Traces, & Roots”
Special Sessions
“East” or “Middle East” in Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing Society
“I just need twenty minutes”: Academic Motherhood at MLA
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
“Japanese Horror Literature in Global Contexts: From New Orleans to Tokyo”
LLC Japanese since 1900
“Japanese Repatriation (Hikiage) Memories and Literature”
LLC Japanese since 1900
“Sounding Hawthorne: Silence, Acoustics, and Aurality”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
“Trigger Warning” and Teaching East Asian Literature
LLC East Asian
“Ut Pictura Poësis”: Visual Poetics and Visual Arts in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian