2026 MLA Annual Convention

2026 MLA Annual Convention

ADE Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors' Career Preparation and Outcomes

ADE Executive Committee

ALCESXXI: Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI

ALD Executive Committee

Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Languages and Literatures

Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography

Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture

American Association for Italian Studies

American Association of Australasian Literary Studies

American Association of Teachers of German

American Association of Teachers of Italian

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

American Association of University Professors

American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators

American Boccaccio Association

American Comparative Literature Association

American Conference for Irish Studies

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

American Folklore Society

American Humor Studies Association

American Literature Society

American Name Society

American Portuguese Studies Association

American Psychoanalytic Association

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

American Theatre and Drama Society

American Translators Association

American Trust For The British Library

Association des Amis d’André Gide

Association for Business Communication

Association for Computers and the Humanities

Association for Documentary Editing

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature

Association of Departments of English

Association of Departments of English Ad Hoc Committee

Association of Departments of Foreign Languages

Association of University Presses

Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Austrian Studies Association

Byron Society of America

CLCS 18th-Century

CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century

CLCS Celtic

CLCS Classical and Modern

CLCS European Regions

CLCS Global Anglophone

CLCS Global Arab and Arab American

CLCS Global Hispanophone

CLCS Global Jewish

CLCS Global South

CLCS Gothic Studies

CLCS Hemispheric American

CLCS Medieval

CLCS Mediterranean

CLCS Nordic

CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern

CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century

CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic

Cervantes Society of America

Children’s Literature Association

College English Association

College Language Association

Community College Humanities Association

Conference on Christianity and Literature

Conference on College Composition and Communication

Conseil International d’Études Francophones

Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences

Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Council of Writing Program Administrators

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

Dante Society of America

Delegate Assembly

Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee

Dickens Society

Doris Lessing Society

Edith Wharton Society

Electronic Literature Organization

Emily Dickinson International Society

Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society

Eugene O'Neill Society

Ezra Pound Society

Feministas Unidas

Forum Test

G. E. Lessing Society

GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature

GS Comics and Graphic Narratives

GS Drama and Performance

GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

GS Life Writing

GS Nonfiction Prose

GS Poetry and Poetics

GS Prose Fiction

GS Speculative Fiction

GS Travel Writing

George Sand Association

Goethe Society of North America

HEP Community Colleges

HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues

HEP Teaching as a Profession

Henry James Society

International Association of Galdós Scholars

International Brecht Society

International Courtly Literature Society

International Dostoevsky Society

International James Joyce Foundation

International Society for the Study of Narrative

International Spenser Society

International T. S. Eliot Society

International Virginia Woolf Society

International Vladimir Nabokov Society

Italian American Studies Association

John Clare Society of North America

John Donne Society

Joseph Conrad Society of America

Just-in-Time

Keats-Shelley Association of America

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose

LLC 16th-Century English

LLC 16th-Century French

LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian

LLC 17th-Century English

LLC 17th-Century French

LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian

LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German

LLC 18th-Century French

LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German

LLC 19th-Century American

LLC 19th-Century French

LLC 19th-Century Latin American

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian

LLC African American

LLC African since 1990

LLC African to 1990

LLC Arabic

LLC Asian American

LLC Canadian

LLC Catalan Studies

LLC Chaucer

LLC Chicana and Chicano

LLC Colonial Latin American

LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic

LLC Dutch

LLC Early American

LLC English Romantic

LLC Francophone

LLC Galician

LLC German to 1700

LLC Global Portuguese

LLC Hebrew

LLC Hungarian

LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada

LLC Irish

LLC Italian American

LLC Japanese since 1900

LLC Japanese to 1900

LLC Jewish American

LLC Korean

LLC Late-18th-Century English

LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American

LLC Latina and Latino

LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

LLC Luso-Brazilian

LLC Medieval French

LLC Medieval Iberian

LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian

LLC Mexican

LLC Middle English

LLC Ming and Qing Chinese

LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese

LLC Occitan

LLC Old English

LLC Old Norse

LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese

LLC Puerto Rican

LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English

LLC Romanian

LLC Russian and Eurasian

LLC Scottish

LLC Sephardic

LLC Shakespeare

LLC Slavic and East European

LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic

LLC Southern United States

LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English

LLC Yiddish

LSL Applied Linguistics

LSL General Linguistics

LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics

LSL Global English

LSL Language Change

LSL Language and Society

LSL Linguistics and Literature

LSL Romance Linguistics

LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning

Langston Hughes Society

Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations

MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Advocacy Policies and Procedures

MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Public Humanities

MLA Career Center

MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities

MLA Committee on Community Colleges

MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession

MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession

MLA Committee on Information Technology

MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances

MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada

MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare

MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities

MLA Connected Academics Project

MLA Executive Council

MLA Office of Convention and Events

MLA Office of Outreach

MLA Office of Programs

MLA Office of Research

MLA Office of Scholarly Communication

MLA Office of the Executive Director

MLA Program Committee

MLA Publications Committee

MLA Strategic Initiatives Workshops

MLA Task Force on World Languages and Generative AI

MS Opera and Musical Performance

MS Screen Arts and Culture

MS Sound

MS Visual Culture

Margaret Atwood Society

Margaret Fuller Society

Mark Twain Circle of America

Marlowe Society of America

Marxist Literary Group

Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

Melville Society

Milton Society of America

Modern Greek Studies Association

Modernist Studies Association

Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

National Council of Teachers of English

North American Heine Society

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

PMLA Editorial Board

Paul Claudel Society

Pirandello Society of America

Poe Studies Association

Presidential Address

RCWS Creative Writing

RCWS History and Theory of Composition

RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric

RCWS Literacy Studies

RCWS Writing Pedagogies

Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages

Reception Study Society

Regional MLAs

Renaissance English Text Society

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)

Robert Frost Society

Robert Graves Society

Romanian Studies Association of America

Samuel Beckett Society

Simone de Beauvoir Society

Society for Critical Exchange

Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Society for Textual Scholarship

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch

South Asian Literary Association

Special Sessions

TC Adaptation Studies

TC Anthropology and Literature

TC Cognitive and Affect Studies

TC Digital Humanities

TC Disability Studies

TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

TC History and Literature

TC Law and the Humanities

TC Marxism, Literature, and Society

TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies

TC Memory Studies

TC Philosophy and Literature

TC Popular Culture

TC Postcolonial Studies

TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature

TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

TC Religion and Literature

TC Science and Literature

TC Sexuality Studies

TC Translation Studies

TC Women’s and Gender Studies

TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing

TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

TM Language Theory

TM Libraries and Research

TM Literary Criticism

TM Literary and Cultural Theory

TM The Teaching of Literature

Task Force on Ethical Conduct in Graduate Education

Test Allied Org2

Thoreau Society

Wallace Stevens Society

Western Literature Association

William Carlos Williams Society

William Faulkner Society

William Morris Society

Women in French

Women in German

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages

Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

Working Group on the Future of the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare

Working Groups or Seminars

Thursday, 8 January 2026

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Friday, 9 January 2026

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