"I put a lot more value on the animal than I do my name" - The (Un)Importance of Inheritance in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove
Special Sessions
(Be)laboring Medieval Iberian Texts and Cultural Production
LLC Medieval Iberian
(Re)Encounter: Remembering and the Reimagined Self
Just-in-Time
(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities
LSL Language and Society
1776 & 2026
LLC Early American
1776 & 2026
TC History and Literature
1926: A Year of Poets
GS Poetry and Poetics
A (Not So) Holy Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
A Light on the Lesser Known: Black Writers and their Work
LLC African American
A Seat at the Table
CLCS Medieval
Academic Freedom, Institutional Constraints, and the “Family” of Italian Letters
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Academic Novels After the End of the University
Special Sessions
Academic Surveillance
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Accenting Punctuation
Special Sessions
Adaptation and Opposition Through Comics
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Adaptation and Opposition through Comics
TC Adaptation Studies
Adapting Race
TC Adaptation Studies
Advocating for the Pre-Modern in Language Departments (sponsored by LLC German to 1700)
LLC German to 1700
Aesthetics, Politics, and Ecological Overshoot
Special Sessions
Affinities Beyond Blood: Transimperial Resemblances, Queer Kinships, and Imperial Aftermaths in South and Southeast Asia
Special Sessions
Afro-Brazil as Method and Theory
LLC Luso-Brazilian
After "Moo": the Academic Novel in the Post-Cold War United States
Special Sessions
Age and Political Protest
TC Age Studies
Aging into/with Memory Loss
TC Age Studies
Allen Ginsberg at 100
Special Sessions
Alternate Relationalities
Special Sessions
Amazonian Aesthetics: Colonization, Extractivism and the Rainforest
Working Groups or Seminars
American Narratives of Death, Grief, and Health
Special Sessions
Ancient (Im)mediacies
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
Andalusia and Its Exteriorities
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
André Gide, Identity and Alterity
Association des Amis d’André Gide
Animals in Medieval Literature
LLC Medieval French
Animism and Non-human Narration
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Antarctica: Everyone's Home
Special Sessions
Anthropology and Theory: Who Are You Reading, Now?
TC Anthropology and Literature
Anti-Blackness and Sex: Reading Engendering Blackness
TM Literary and Cultural Theory
Approaches to Recovering Historical, Literary, and Cultural Texts
Association for Documentary Editing
Approaches to Teaching Arthurian Literature: Roundtable
CLCS Arthurian
Arab American Family Dynamics in Literature and the Media
Special Sessions
Archiving Queer Chicano Cultural Producers
Special Sessions
Art and Smoke: Morris, Ruskin, Art, and Industrialism
William Morris Society
Arthur, AI, and Originality
CLCS Arthurian
Artivism: Social Justice and Solidarity in Lusophone Cultures
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Asia-Pacific Ocean and the Blue Humanities
Special Sessions
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment open session/paper call
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Automation, AI, and the Future of Contingent Teaching: What’s Next?
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Autotheory: History, Practice, Genre
TC History and Literature
Bad Adaptations
TC Adaptation Studies
Bangladesh's July (2024) Revolution
Special Sessions
Barbara Johnson's "Apostrophe, Animation, Abortion" at Forty
Special Sessions
Becoming and Performing the Literatus in Pre-14th Century China
Special Sessions
Becoming or Not Becoming Mothers: Traumatic Disability of Two South Asian Women Scholars
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Beyond Exploitation: Reimagining Departments Without Adjunct Precarity
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Beyond Realism in African Literature
Special Sessions
Beyond the Professoriat: Strategies for Diverse Career Pathways
MLA Professional Development
Biological Muses of Baroque Literature
Special Sessions
BIPOC Relationships across Territorial Boundaries
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Black Power, Black Literature: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Nikki Giovanni
LLC African American
Bodies in Transition: Power, Sexuality, and Memory in Late 20th-Century East Asian Cinema
Special Sessions
Bodies of Knowledge: Health Humanities, Children's Literature, and Age Studies (collaborative session with Children's & YA Lit forum)
TC Age Studies
Bodies of Knowledge: Health Humanities, Children’s Literature, and Age Studies
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Body Horror
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
Book Bans and Censorship in Academic Libraries
TM Libraries and Research
Borderlands of Labor in the Americas
Special Sessions
Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice
TC Religion and Literature
Brecht and Hope
International Brecht Society
Bridging the Disconnect Between Heritage Students and Their Family Languages
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
Bringing the modern text to Dante
Dante Society of America
Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Texts
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Canadian Comics
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Catastrophizing Spenser
International Spenser Society
Celts and Empire
CLCS Celtic
Censorship in African and African Diasporic Literatures and Cultures
LLC African since 1990
Centering the Humanities through Michigan State University’s Arts and Humanities Health and Well-Being Major
Association of Language Departments
Cervantes in 2025
Working Groups or Seminars
Challenging Constructions of Marginalized (Trans)Women in the U.S.
Special Sessions
Chaucer and Lydgate Now
LLC Chaucer
Chaucerian Attention Economies
LLC Chaucer
Chicanx Literary Legalities
LLC Chicana and Chicano
Children’s Literature and Bioethics
Special Sessions
Children’s Literature as Public Humanities
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Christianity, Literature, Politics
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Close Reading the Present Moment
ADE Executive Committee
Cognitive Marronnage: Thinking through the "Res Extensa"
Special Sessions
Collections as AI data?
TM Libraries and Research
Colonialism and Academic Imperialism: The MLA and Southeast Asia
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Comics as Physical Objects
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Comics as Physical Objects
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Comics in Times of Genocide
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Comics without a cure: Healthcare Stories in Words and Images
Special Sessions
Community College Strengths: Team Practice, Collaborations, and Public Humanities
HEP Community Colleges
Comparative Approaches to Modern Greek Literature
Modern Greek Studies Association
Comparative Comfort Women Studies
Special Sessions
Comparative Liberties
CLCS 18th-Century
Conrad and the Global South: Networks of Relationality
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Contemporary American Paranoias
Special Sessions
Contemporary Cultures of (Anti) Fascism in Italy
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Contemporary Hungarian Women Writers and Directors
LLC Hungarian
Contemporary Poetry of Statelessness
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Contemporary Transnational Islamic Writing
Special Sessions
Convergences around the Ineffable
TC Science and Literature
Convergences around the Ineffable
TC Religion and Literature
Corporate Fictions
Special Sessions
Criss-Crossing Identities: Family Resemblances in Italian American Literature and Film
Italian American Studies Association
Critical Digital Humanities in Practice: Reflections and Visions
Special Sessions
Critical Translation Studies and Empire
Special Sessions
Cross-talk: South Asian Literature and Connections Across Cultures
South Asian Literary Association
Crossings: Movements, Intersections, and Borders in Sephardic Histories and Identities
LLC Sephardic
Crowd Work: Audiences in Drama and Performance
GS Drama and Performance
Cuba Beyond the Island
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic
Cultures of Climate
CLCS 18th-Century
D. H. Lawrence and Animals
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Dante and Kinship
Dante Society of America
Declaring Dependence
LLC Early American
Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts
American Conference for Irish Studies
Defamiliarizing Normalcy: Disability Narratives on Film, Television and Other Screens
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Devotional Forms in Old English Literature
LLC Old English
Diasporic Motherhood: Mobility, Migration and Family Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Digital Archives and the Recovery of Afro-Latin American Histories
Special Sessions
Digital Humanities, AI and Teaching the Comedia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Disability and Rhetorics of Dystopia
TC Disability Studies
Disability Bioethics Now
TC Disability Studies
Disability, Belonging, and Family
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Doing Modernism with the Early Moderns / Doing Early Modernism with the Modernists (special session, not guaranteed)
Modernist Studies Association
Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands
Special Sessions
Doris Lessing the Storyteller: Literature and Social Change
Doris Lessing Society
Drawing Place: Rust Belt Comics
Special Sessions
Dread and Black Cinematic Experience
Special Sessions
Early Modern Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency
LLC 17th-Century English
Early Modern EcoTrauma
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
Early Modern Women Authors and Cultures of Chastity and Courtesy
Special Sessions
Early Modern Women’s Violence
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
East Asian Social Media as Cultural Forum
LLC East Asian
Ecocinema in the 20th Century: An Inconvenient History
Special Sessions
Editing and Translating Colonial Latin American Texts
LLC Colonial Latin American
Emergence from Emergency
TC Science and Literature
Emily Dickinson’s Kinships
Emily Dickinson International Society
Empire and Sovereignty during Latin America's Long 19th-century (1810-1914)
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Encounters between Catalan Studies and the Global Hispanophone
LLC Catalan Studies
Enlightenment Exchanges: France in the Eastern Mediterranean
LLC 18th-Century French
Environmentalism & Climate Narratives Across Disciplines
Special Sessions
Espaces et temps Queer - Session affiliée du CIÉF
Conseil International d’Études Francophones
Ethics of language education: reflecting on philosophical and ideological groundings
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Ethnography of Washing: Colonial Configurations of Race, Indigeneity and Labor through Literary and Visual Sources
Just-in-Time
Everywhere Below Canada: The Black South Outside the South
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Exclusion and Broken Ties in the Catalan Context
LLC Catalan Studies
Exiled Literatures: Women, Displacements, and Archives in the Global Hispanic World
Feministas Unidas
Expanding the Music Memoir Family
GS Life Writing
Explorations of Space
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German
Exploring Home, Displacement, and Women’s Experiences in French and Francophone Literature and Cinema
Women in French
Faces: Resemblances and Otherness in Global Literature
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Fact, Fiction, and the In-Between: Developing Student Literacy through Japanese Studies in an Age of Dis/Mis/Information
LLC Japanese to 1900
Family Ghosts
Special Sessions
Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms
LSL Language and Society
Family Resemblances in African, African American, and Caribbean Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
LLC African since 1990
Family Resemblances in African, African American, and Caribbean Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
CLCS Caribbean
Family Resemblances in Boccaccio’s Works
American Boccaccio Association
Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies
Special Sessions
Family Resemblances in Language Contact and Change
LSL Language Change
Family resemblances in Romance Languages
LSL Romance Linguistics
Family resemblances in Romance Languages
LSL Romance Linguistics
Family Resemblances in the Works of Doris Lessing and Her Contemporaries
Doris Lessing Society
Family Resemblances in Yiddish Literature
LLC Yiddish
Family Resemblances: How Genetics Shapes Language and Literature
Working Groups or Seminars
Family Resemblances: Acts of Kinship, Comparison, and Relational Thinking in Lusophone Cultural Production
LLC Global Portuguese
Family Resemblances: Brown and Latinx
Special Sessions
Family Resemblances: Games and Fiction in Pre-Twentieth Century China
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
Family Resemblances: Genealogies of Influence in Italian Literature and Culture
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Family Resemblances: Hybridity and Genre in Midwestern, Working Class, Radical Literature
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
Family Resemblances: Tracing Lineages, Kinships, and Inherited Practices in Performance
American Theatre and Drama Society
Family Ties and Intimacies in the Early Modern Hispanic World
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Familyhood in Italian Culture
American Association of Teachers of Italian
Far-Right National Narratives
Special Sessions
Faulkner's Families / Family in Faulkner
William Faulkner Society
Figures in Central and East European Comparatism: Identities Across Borders
Romanian Studies Association of America
Film as/and Film History
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Finance and Literary Genre at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Fluid Media 1750-1850
G. E. Lessing Society
Folkloric Perspectives on Family
American Folklore Society
Food Representation in the Hispanic World
Special Sessions
Food Studies Pedagogies and the Global Hispanophone: A Roundtable
CLCS Global Hispanophone
Form in Early American Literature
LLC Early American
Formal Experimentation in Colonial South Asia
Special Sessions
formalisms
Special Sessions
Forms and politics of appearance and disappearance in Latin American literature and arts
Special Sessions
Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature
Special Sessions
Found Families: Migrant and Diasporic Voices in Portuguese
American Portuguese Studies Association
Freedom in Print: Books and Antislavery History at the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society and Black Mecca Museum
Association of Language Departments
Frost on Stage
Robert Frost Society
Fumes and Flames: Petro to Pyromodernism
Special Sessions
Future Histories of Queer and Trans Children
TC Sexuality Studies
Galdós' Families
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Galicia Externalized
LLC Galician
Genealogies and Futurities of AI in Speculative Fiction
GS Speculative Fiction
Genealogies of Unapologetic Chicana Feminist Activism and Provocation
LLC Chicana and Chicano
Generous Modernisms (guaranteed panel)
Modernist Studies Association
Genres of FID?
LLC Late-18th-Century English
George Sand's families
George Sand Association
German Orientalism from the Outside
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German
Getting Started with Scholarly Editing
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Girls and Women in Latin American Culture
Special Sessions
Global Abolitionist Literature and the Ottoman Empire
Special Sessions
Global Care Chains in Spain
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Global Encounters, Translations, and Transformations in the Comedia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Global Englishes in the Age of AI
LSL Global English
Global Englishes, Persistence, and Resistance: Languaging in Hostile Places
LSL Global English
Global Hispanophone Soundscapes
Special Sessions
Global Pilgrimages
Just-in-Time
Global South Studies in the Academy: Risks and Reverberations
CLCS Global South
Global Wharton
Edith Wharton Society
Goethe and the Big Con
Goethe Society of North America
Goethe as World Literature
Goethe Society of North America
Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities
LLC 17th-Century English
Gothic Transgressions and Eerie fantasies in contemporary Latin American Literature
Special Sessions
Graduate Student and Postdoctoral workshop. Research for the Future of 19th-Century Latin American Studies.
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Graffiti: Political Protest or Art for Art's Sake?
Just-in-Time
Haunted Families, Ghosted Resemblances: The Resemblance of Families in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill Society
Health Humanities and the Maternal Imagination
Special Sessions
Health Humanities Pedagogies
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
Hebrew Culture and Futurity
LLC Hebrew
Hebrew Literature in/and Crisis
LLC Hebrew
Heine and His Contemporaries’ Bestiaries of Family Resemblances
North American Heine Society
Hiding Behind Trees: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature and Culture
Children’s Literature Association
High Impact and Innovative Initiatives in Comparative and Interdisciplinary Programs
Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature
Historical Facts, Features, and Figures in Music
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Histories in Dante’s Commedia
Dante Society of America
How Can Black Poetry and Asian (American) Poetry Work Together?
Special Sessions
Iberian and Mediterranean Exteriorities
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Iberian and Mediterranean Exteriorities
CLCS Mediterranean
Idealism and Materialism
Marxist Literary Group
Ideas of Cognition
LLC 19th-Century French
Illness and Disability Narratives in the Wake of Climate Change
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
Illness, Medicine, and the Body in Cervantes's Works
Cervantes Society of America
Imagining Iberian Civic Belonging
Special Sessions
Impairment Theory
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist Textualities of Central America
Society for Textual Scholarship
Implementing the DH Guidelines: Success Stories from the Field
MLA Committee on Information Technology
Indigenous Counter-Mappings
LLC Mexican
Indigenous Declarations of Sovereignty
LLC Early American
Indigenous Voices from Tkaronto
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Influence and Resemblance among Liberation Theologies: Translation between Christianity and Marxism
Special Sessions
Intellectual Lineages: Mentorship, Kinship, and the Shaping of Italian Studies
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Intersecting Identities: Italian American and LGBTQ+ Cultures in Literature, Media, and Print History
LLC Italian American
Intersections of Latinx and Palestinian Studies
LLC Latina and Latino
Issues with Special Issues
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism
Special Sessions
James Baldwin and Turkey at Their 100
Special Sessions
James on James
Henry James Society
Jan Kott's Shakespeare, Our Contemporary 60 Years On
Special Sessions
Jewish Writing, Dictatorship and Democracy
CLCS Global Jewish
John Clare
John Clare Society of North America
Joseph Conrad: False Truths & the Absurd
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Journey to Taiwan: Cultivating Global Citizenship through Language, Culture, and Community
Association of Language Departments
Kinship in the Cut: Feminist Narratives of Hysterectomy, Trauma, and Transformation
Special Sessions
Kinship, Care, and Writing Instruction
RCWS Writing Pedagogies
Kinships and Coalitions
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Laboring Mothers, Motherlands, and the Nation: Literary Constructions of Maternal Identity, Work, and Belonging
Special Sessions
Language Education Reimagined: Words Matter!
American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs
Language Play in Old English Literature
LLC Old English
Languages and Literature in the Medical Humanities
Special Sessions
Late Romantic Survivals
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Latin American Black Identities Beyond National Boundaries
Special Sessions
Latin American Literature: Letters to Numbers to Data
Special Sessions
Latin American Literatures of Internal Migration
Special Sessions
Latinx Fracasos: Failures Past, Present and Future
LLC Latina and Latino
Let’s Talk: Literature Classroom “Discussion”
TM The Teaching of Literature
Life Writing's Uses and Abuses
LLC 19th-Century American
Like Mother, Like Daughter? Female Genealogies Across Documents, Texts, and Objects.
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Lineation, Global Modernism, and Comparative Poetics
Special Sessions
Literary Kinships Between Texts and Their Translations
Special Sessions
Literary Representations of Caregivers and Caregiving for Adults
Special Sessions
Literary translation and identity in 20th/21st century Latin America
Special Sessions
Literature and Anthropology Now! New histories of aesthetics
TC Anthropology and Literature
Literature and Surveillance Studies
Special Sessions
Literature and Taxonomy
Special Sessions
Literature and the Archive
CLCS European Regions
literature and theology in the Victorian era
Special Sessions
Littoral Romanticisms
LLC English Romantic
Live Early Drama: Research-Based Performance, Performance-Based Research, Performance-as-Research
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire
International Virginia Woolf Society
Lukács and his Circle
LLC Hungarian
Lyric Time/Timeliness
GS Poetry and Poetics
Making Room for Under-Studied Texts
MLA Publications Committee
Managing Budgets, Maximizing Political Capital
ADE Executive Committee
Mapping the Futures of Children’s Literature Scholarship: Where Do We Go from Here
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Mary Shelley At Last
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Mass/Social Media and Literary Celebrity
Special Sessions
Masters of Whose House?: Haunted Spaces and Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Literature and Cinema
Special Sessions
Medieval Families, Global Comparisons
CLCS Medieval
Mediterranean Racialization
CLCS Mediterranean
Melville and the Law
Melville Society
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
Metropolitan Relations: Diasporic & Indigenous Perspectives in Contemporary Cities.
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Mexican Print Culture and the Public Sphere
LLC Mexican
Migration in British Romanticism
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Migration Mythologies
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Milton's Afterlives
Milton Society of America
Minority-Language Sustainability and the Folk Gothic
CLCS Gothic Studies
Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
LSL Linguistics and Literature
Moral Agency in a Nonmoral World: A Roundtable
TC Philosophy and Literature
Morrison's Modernism
Special Sessions
Multilingualism in China, 1600-1949
Special Sessions
Multiple-Births in Literature
Special Sessions
Nabokov and the Social
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Narratives and Storytelling in Business Communication
Association for Business Communication
Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Navigating Greenland: Written Space, Geopolitical Place
LLC Old Norse
Navigating the Ethical Line: Faculty Use of AI in Grading and Creating Didactic Materials
MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances
Neuroscience and Theories of Affect
Special Sessions
New Approaches to Byron: Looking Back at the Bicentennial
Special Sessions
New Books in Indigenous Literatures and Indigenous Studies
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies
LLC Medieval Iberian
New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies
LLC Asian American
New Directions in Sri Lankan Literature
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
New Voices, New Directions in Milton Studies
Milton Society of America
New Work in Sixteenth Century French Studies
LLC 16th-Century French
Non-Guarantee Panel: Rethinking the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future
LLC 17th-Century English
Not with a Bang: T. S. Eliot's Century
International T. S. Eliot Society
Notes and Notebooks in Book History
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Onomastic Rhetoric: Acts of Naming in Real and/or Imagined Worlds
American Name Society
Open Call to ADE Members for Panel Proposals
Association of Departments of English
Open Session in Pre-Modern German Literature and Culture (Sponsored by LLC German to 1700)
LLC German to 1700
Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI
Electronic Literature Organization
Open Topic AND "Family Resemblances" in the Works of Mark Twain
Mark Twain Circle of America
Oscar Wilde, French by Sympathy?
Special Sessions
Overcoming competing concerns in language education discourse
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Paris and Transcultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century
LLC 18th-Century French
Pathways to PhD: Updated Advice for Graduate Students in 2026
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Pathways to the Deanship
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences
Paul Claudel et les tourmentes de l'Histoire
Paul Claudel Society
Pedagogical Approaches to Life Design in the Spanish and Portuguese Classroom
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Pedagogical Criss-Crossing: Comfort, Confidence, and Courage
Special Sessions
Pedagogies of Falling Apart: A Roundtable Discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change
LSL Language Change
Performance and Performativity in Early Modern France
LLC 16th-Century French
Performing the Past: Historical Subjects on Stage
Special Sessions
Playing Along
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Pleasure and Its Representations in Galdós’s Era
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Plural Cosmologies
Special Sessions
Poe and Games
Poe Studies Association
Poetry and AI
Special Sessions
Poetry Criticism in Practice: Rereading "The Raven"
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
Political Imperatives: Answering to the Present
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Political Prisoners in Literature
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Politics of Enlightenment
G. E. Lessing Society
Portugal for Whom?
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Positive Solutions to Crumbling Academic Freedoms, Rights and Disappearing Positions
MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Post-Socialist Chinese Literature, Culture, and History
Special Sessions
Postcolonial Ecologies, Displacement, and Decolonial Futurities
Special Sessions
Postcolonial Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma
Special Sessions
Postcolonial Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma
Special Sessions
Precarity and Protest: What Can I Actually Do?
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Prehistories of Racial Capitalism
Special Sessions
Professional Deformation
Special Sessions
Prose and poetics of aging in migration narratives
Special Sessions
Protecting Plurilingualism in the Graveyard of Languages
Special Sessions
Psycho-Philosophies of Anarchy
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Psycho-Philosophies of Anarchy (Co-Sponsored with Literature and Psychoanalysis Forum)
TC Philosophy and Literature
Psychoanalysis of the Mother
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film
LLC Asian American
Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Queer Cultures of the Hispanic World: 19th and 20th Centuries
Special Sessions
Queer Reading, Queer Receptions
Reception Study Society
Queer South Asian Literature
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
Race and Pornographic Genres
Special Sessions
Racial Passing On the Page & On the Screen
Special Sessions
Radical Pedagogies and Institutional Change: Historical Perspectives and Global Contexts
Special Sessions
Re-reading Guimarães Rosa in the Twenty-First Century
American Portuguese Studies Association
Realism and Distraction
Special Sessions
Recentering Diaspora in the 21st Century
Special Sessions
Recompense in/and English Romanticism
LLC English Romantic
Reconsidering the Sage: Models for Resurrecting Expertise
Community College Humanities Association
Reconstructing AIDS at the “end of AIDS”
Special Sessions
Recovering Women's Writing through Scholarly Editing
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
Reimagining Home and Identity in Ukrainian American Literature
Special Sessions
Reimagining Language and Culture Immersion Today
Special Sessions
Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Student Voices and Partnerships in Language Education, Literature, and Cultural Studies
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation
TC Religion and Literature
Remembering the work of Stephen J. Adams: The Poetic Designs of Modernism
Ezra Pound Society
Representation of Animals in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Special Sessions
Representation of Economy in Victorian Novels
Special Sessions
Republican Radical Poethics in Exile
Special Sessions
Restructuring Material Histories of the Book
Society for Textual Scholarship
Rethinking Structuralism
Special Sessions
Retratos de Familia: Family Portraits in the Colonial Ibero-American World
LLC Colonial Latin American
Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership
Special Sessions
Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership
Association of Departments of English
Rhetoric's Responsibilities in Perilous Times
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric
Rhizomatic Diasporas: Migrant Interculturalism and the Micropolitics of Identity in Diasporic Literatures
Special Sessions
Rhythm: Embodiment and Enculturation
TM Language Theory
Right Critique
TM Literary Criticism
Roles of Women Writers in Shaping the Canon of Modern Japanese Literature
LLC Japanese since 1900
Routes, Resemblances, and Correspondence in Présence Africaine
Modernist Studies Association
Running From the Rising Tide
Special Sessions
Satire and Humor as Resistance against Arab Stereotypes in Hollywood
Special Sessions
Science and Local Knowledge in 18th-c British Empire: State of the Field
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Screen Knowledges: Science and its Discontents
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Settler Colonialism, Palestine, and the Digital Humanities
TC Digital Humanities
Sex in the Renaissance
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
Shifting Scales in Literary Studies
Special Sessions
Silence, compliance, resistance: Politics in and out of literary institutions
LLC Russian and Eurasian
Since When Are Monsters Funny? Rethinking Performances of Otherness
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Sinophone Science Fiction
Special Sessions
Sixteenth Century French Environment(s)
LLC 16th-Century French
So much drama! The view from abroad: a roundtable
Just-in-Time
Solidarity and Institutional (In)action
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
South Asian Futurisms
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
Space, Environment and the Comedia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Spain, Hot and Cold: Thermal Affects in Spanish Literature and Film
Special Sessions
Spectrality and Historical Trauma: Narratives of the Asian Diaspora
Special Sessions
Stefan Zweig and Translation
Special Sessions
Storied Seas, Blue Humanities and the Mediterranean Imagination
Special Sessions
Stories of the Land and the Land of the Stories: Highlighting Critical Indigenous Literacies
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Story as Theory in Indigenous and World Literatures
Special Sessions
Strategies of (Dis-)Engagement: Lessons from Eastern Europe for Academic Self-Governance Today
LLC Slavic and East European
Student-centered AI: Finding a Pragmatic Middle Ground
MLA Committee on Information Technology
Students of Literature as Social Agents: Learning beyond the Classroom (LBC) with Choix Goncourt Canada
Association of Language Departments
Subtitling, closed captioning, and accessibility: Working across codes and modalities
LSL Linguistics and Literature
Sustainable Humanities: towards equitable knowledge-making practices
Special Sessions
Sustainable Language Teaching in an AI-Driven World
Just-in-Time
Teaching Early Modern Settler Colonialism
LLC 16th-Century English
Teaching Lit as Refuge/Teaching Refugee Lit
TM The Teaching of Literature
Teaching Transnational East Asia in Comparative Contexts
LLC East Asian
Technocracy in the Modern Hispanic World
Special Sessions
Technology and Late-19th- and Early-20th-century American Literature
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
Terror and Messy Feelings
Special Sessions
The (Literary) Art of Losing in Early and Medieval Cultures
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
The Aesthetics of Financialization
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
The Affordances of Frustrating Narratives
Special Sessions
The African Literature Association (ALA) at 50: Memories, Reflections, and the Way Forward
LLC African to 1990
The Afterlives of a Protest: Representations of Protest in the Sinophone World
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
The Afterlives of The Rhetoric of Fiction: 65 Years Later
International Society for the Study of Narrative
The Autotheory of bell hooks
GS Life Writing
The Body as Medium: Florentina Holzinger and the Echoes of Radical Austrian Art/Literature/Theater”
Austrian Studies Association
The circle game
Margaret Atwood Society
The Creative Self: Living and Writing the Extreme
CLCS European Regions
The Current State of Beat Studies
Special Sessions
The Didactic Mr. Graves
Robert Graves Society
The Discreet Life of Objects in Cervantes's Works
Cervantes Society of America
The Environment in Indigenous Literatures of Abiayala
Special Sessions
The Evolving Role of AI in Language and Literature Pedagogy
HEP Teaching as a Profession
The Future of East Asian Comparative Literature
LLC East Asian
The future of graphic narrative in Japan
LLC Japanese since 1900
The Future of Languages in the City
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English
The Holocaust in a Global Context
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German
The Language of Lovecraft
CLCS Gothic Studies
The Latin American and Caribbean World
Special Sessions
The Latin American and Caribbean World
Working Groups or Seminars
The Legacy of Grendel: Anthropomorphism in New Fiction and Poetry
Special Sessions
The Material Life of Migration
Just-in-Time
The Multilingual Classroom
Special Sessions
The Poetics and Performance of Middle English Drama (Collaborative Session)
LLC Middle English
The Premodern Anthropocene
LLC Middle English
The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Medieval French Literature
LLC Medieval French
The rewriting of myths by French and Francophone women writers of the twentieth century
Special Sessions
The Romantic Interleaf
Byron Society of America
The status and future of the language requirement: from K12 to higher education
LSL Applied Linguistics
The Swiss Family of Languages
Special Sessions
The Trans South
LLC Southern United States
The Uses of Persian Literature in the Time of War
Just-in-Time
The Value of YA Literature
Children’s Literature Association
Theorizing Institutions in Middle English Literature
LLC Middle English
Thermal Melville
Melville Society
Thinking “Beyond Culture”: Reviewing the “Materialist” Turn in Literary Studies
TC Anthropology and Literature
Thoreau’s Revolutions
Thoreau Society
Threat(s) of Erasure
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Throughscapes of the Early Modern World: Movement, Exchange & Encounters Across Language and Culture (sponsored by SGRABL, the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature)
Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Toni Morrison’s "A Mercy" in Focus
Special Sessions
Touchy Feely: Exploring Affect Evoked by Touch
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Tracing Kinships: Literacy Practices Across Intellectual Homes
RCWS Literacy Studies
Translanguaging with and for diverse student populations
LSL Applied Linguistics
Translating Movement and Interruption in World Poets
Special Sessions
Translating the Voices of Non-Humans in Literature and Beyond
Special Sessions
Translating, Publishing, and Teaching World Literature in Canada
Working Groups or Seminars
Translation and Cultural Change
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Translation and Diaspora Politics
Special Sessions
Translation, Translatability and the Untranslated in Goethe
Goethe Society of North America
Transnational Literary Exchanges: US-South Asia
Special Sessions
Transnationalism and Australasian Literatures
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
Transpacific Understandings of Indigenous Literature
Special Sessions
Trauma and Healing in Latinx Memoirs
Special Sessions
Tuneful Resemblances: Rethinking the Broadway Musical and the World
GS Drama and Performance
Two and Four-Year Institutions: Members of the Same Academic Family?
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
Undergraduate Research and the Community College Mission
MLA Academic Program Services
Unlikely Relatives in Mediterranean Cultures
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Unpopular Shaw
Special Sessions
Unsettling Colonialism: Pasts and Futures of Settler Colonialism
LLC 16th-Century English
Unsettling Scottish Studies
LLC Scottish
Unwriting the Mother: Literary and Theoretical Disruptions of Maternity in Latin America
Special Sessions
Up Close and Literary: A Roundtable
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Use and Abuse of the Body
LLC 19th-Century French
Uselessness in Contemporary Fiction
Special Sessions
Victorian Leisure
Special Sessions
Virginia Woolf and the Theatricality of Fiction
International Virginia Woolf Society
Wallace Stevens, Influence, and Poets of Color
Wallace Stevens Society
War and Media
Special Sessions
We Are All Refugees: Theories of Welcome and Exclusion
LLC Jewish American
We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies
Special Sessions
Weakening Masculinities in Modernist Literature, Art, and Theory
Special Sessions
What Happens Next? Rebuilding after Destruction in Contemporary French and Francophone Fiction
Special Sessions
What Remains of Character?
Special Sessions
What’s So Funny about America?
American Humor Studies Association
When Old Repositories Meet New Technologies: Rethinking 19th-Century Latin American Archives through Digital Humanities
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Who Do We Resemble? Selfhood, Perception, and Modernist Multiplicity
Pirandello Society of America
Whose Victorian Literature?
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Why Palestine is a Queer and Trans Issue
TC Sexuality Studies
Why Teach at the Community College? Holistic and Palpable Benefits of Teaching, Scholarship, and Service
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
William Carlos Williams and Failure
William Carlos Williams Society
William Faulkner Society: Open Call for Papers
William Faulkner Society
William Morris and Material Culture
William Morris Society
Women and Physical Objects
Special Sessions
Women's War Narrative from the Global South
Special Sessions
Working with Tainted Legacies
Special Sessions
Writing Poe Biography
Poe Studies Association
Writing the Family: Ethics & Politics
RCWS Writing Pedagogies
Writing the Psycho-Political: On Frantz Fanon
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
‘We the People’ in Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Mythology
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale
“Margaret Fuller and 19C American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science”
Margaret Fuller Society
“On the Mend!”: Healing in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Literature and Art
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
“People with...Disabilities, Insight, Vision” Collaborative Session with Cognitive and Affect Studies
MS Opera and Musical Performance
“Strategies of Protest for Academic Freedom”
MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
“Where are the Experts?” Expanding Notions of Expertise in Language Program Administration
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning