The Ludic Subject: Playfulness, Gender, and the Poetics of Emotion

This online panel seeks proposals that examine how humor, irony, and formal games use linguistic misbehavior to create new emotional landscapes, construct gendered subjectivities, and challenge traditional hierarchies across global literatures. 250-word proposal to hyang@udel.edu.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Haihong Yang, University of Delaware (hyang@udel.edu )