"Archive as/in Action"
Special Sessions
"Claudel face au monde moderne."
Paul Claudel Society
"Romanticism and (the Suspension of) Judgement"
Byron Society of America
"UN Resolution A/80/L.48," an Emancipatory Narrative: What Strategy, Process, and Form to achieve Reparations?
Just-in-Time
(Un)Documentation in Literature
TC Law and the Humanities
21st Century Asian Canadian Literature & Culture
LLC Canadian
90th Anniversary of CLA and Look to the Archives!
College Language Association
A New New Philology? Rethinking Medieval Humanities
LLC Medieval French
A New New Philology? Rethinking Medieval Humanities
LLC Medieval French
A World in a Grain of Sand: William Blake at 200
Special Sessions
Academic Freedom without Tenure
MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Adaptation, Medium, and Prestige
TC Adaptation Studies
Adaptation, Translation and the Migrations of Postcolonial Texts
Special Sessions
Adapting the Canon on Film
TC Adaptation Studies
Aesthetics and Politics of Resistance
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Aesthetics of Anti-Authoritarianism in the Global Hispanophone
CLCS Global Hispanophone
Affordances of Sound in Nineteenth and Early-20th Century Literature and Culture
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
African Diaspora on French screens: Serializing postcolonial France
Special Sessions
After Disaster: Aging, Objects, and Interrupted Time
TC Age Studies
Against Instrumentality
TC History and Literature
Age of Aquarius: On Books, Culture, Film of the 1960-70s
Special Sessions
Agency and Subjection in Early Medieval England
LLC Old English
Agentic AI and the Digital Humanities
MLA Committee on Information Technology
AI and Second-Language Pedagogy
MLA Committee on Information Technology
AI, Capitalism, and the "General Intellect"
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Algorithm or Ally? AI, Global English, and the Future of Language Learning
LSL Global English
American Literature, Past and Present: A Roundtable Sponsored by the American Literature Society
American Literature Society
An Early Memoir of Buchenwald and Other Testimonies of Survival in Twentieth-Century Havana
CLCS Global Jewish
Anarchism and Science-Fiction
Special Sessions
André Gide En avant / Gide Forward
Association des Amis d’André Gide
Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Women Writers
Special Sessions
Animating Childhood
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Anonymity in Literature and Other Artistic Media
Special Sessions
Anthropology and Literature Now!: Primitivism Reconsidered
TC Anthropology and Literature
Antiracist Actions and Emancipatory Reading Practices
MLA Committee on Antiracism, Equity, and Belonging
Approaches to Teaching the Gateway Course in English
Special Sessions
Arabic Literature and the Archive: Theory, Method, Practice
Special Sessions
Archival Fictions
LLC Chaucer
Arthur, Authority, and Authoritarianism
CLCS Arthurian
Arthurian Remediations
CLCS Arthurian
Artificial Intelligence for Careers and Public Scholarship
Special Sessions
Asexuality: Towards a Critical History
TC Sexuality Studies
Asian American Literary Critiques of Fascism
LLC Asian American
ASLE MLA27 pre-formed panel or individual paper proposals
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Autobiography After the Algorithm
GS Life Writing
Bad Bot, Good Bot: Navigating Half-Helpful AI in Humanities Research Today
MLA International Bibliography
Ballads, Broadsides, and the Bible: Teaching Non-Authorial Texts
Special Sessions
Becoming American?: Cross-Racial Intimacies in Asian American Literature
LLC Asian American
Before Empathy: Einfühlung around 1800
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German
Before the Algorithm: Generative Storytelling and Emancipatory (Meta-) Fictions in Pirandello and Beyond
Pirandello Society of America
Beyond Biscuits and Bacon: Food and Southern Media
LLC Southern United States
Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century
GS Drama and Performance
Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Culture
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German
Beyond the Journal Article: Alternative Formats for Sharing Scholarship
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Beyond the Professoriat: The Broader Humanities Ecosystem
MLA Professional Development
Binge-Watching Beyond Hollywood: Streaming Television in Languages other than English
Special Sessions
Black Flesh and Corruption
Special Sessions
Black Girl Freedom Songs
Special Sessions
Black Italy: Race, Identity, and Representation
American Association of Teachers of Italian
Black Narratives of Slavery and Freedom Across Time
Special Sessions
Black Studies and Spirituality
TC Religion and Literature
Blackness, Poetics, and the Psyche
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Boccaccio Beyond Boccaccio: Reception, Adaptation, and Afterlives from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Books and Reading in Hispanic Queer Cultures
Special Sessions
Border Crossings in Early Modern England
LLC 16th-Century English
Borrowed, Bootlegged, Bound: The Unclear Law of Books
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Bridging the Gap: Practical Models for K-16 Collaboration in English and Languages
MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances
California and Latin America
Special Sessions
California Gothic
CLCS Gothic Studies
Californian Williams
William Carlos Williams Society
Capitalism of Late Humans: Confronting Extinction
Special Sessions
Capitalism, Authoritarianism, Anxiety
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Capitalism, Authoritarianism, Anxiety
TC Philosophy and Literature
Carolina Maria de Jesus: Fifty Years After Her Passing
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Catalan Women Filmmakers: From Pioneers to Contemporary Auteurs
North American Catalan Society
Cats, Kappa, and Foxes: Animals and Anthropomorphism in Japanese Literature
LLC Japanese since 1900
Censorship and Free Speech in Early Modern England
LLC 16th-Century English
Censorship in Spanish Cinema
Special Sessions
Centering New Discoveries
LLC Middle English
Chairing a Multidisciplinary Humanities Department
Special Sessions
Chasing popularity: Influencers and celebrities in 18th and 19th Century Iberia
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Chaucerian Animacies
LLC Chaucer
Child Narratives of Violence
Special Sessions
Childhood on the page: Print Culture and Education in Latin America
Special Sessions
Christianity in the Contemporary Visual Arts
Special Sessions
City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith
TC Religion and Literature
Climate Crisis/La crise climatique
LLC 18th-Century French
Close Reading, Professional Practice, and Public Writing
Working Groups or Seminars
Close Reading, Professional Practice, and Public Writing
MLA Academic Program Services
Collateral Knowledge: Digital Humanities in a Time of Political Retrenchment
TC Digital Humanities
Comedy Saves the Day in Cervantes' Works
Cervantes Society of America
Communities of Feeling: Literature, Sociability, and Emotions in the Hispanic World (18th-19th Centuries)
Special Sessions
Compulsion and Repulsion in Latin American Cultural Production
Special Sessions
Conditional Emancipation or Emancipatory Restrictions in Medieval Iberian Literature
LLC Medieval Iberian
Conrad Adapted: Cinematic and Otherwise
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Conrad and Lawrence: Exile or Emancipation?
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Conrad and Reading
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Contemporary Queer Asian/Asian American Travelers
Special Sessions
Contested Cultural Memory in Romanticism
LLC English Romantic
Controlling Fantasies in the Long Eighteenth Century
G. E. Lessing Society
Cooking Up a Life: Foodways in Black Los Angeles
College Language Association
Cooking Up a Life: Foodways in Black Los Angeles
GS Life Writing
Costumbrismo avant la lettre: Everyday Life on the Early Modern Spanish Stage
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Counter-theories
Special Sessions
Counterstory as Emancipatory Pedagogy in the Age of Gen AI.
Special Sessions
Creative Responses to Coding and AI: from Infrastructure to Output
Electronic Literature Organization
Creative Writing in the Community College/Open Access Institution as Emancipatory Practice
Community College Humanities Association
Crip Crossings: Disability and Migration in the Global Hispanophone
TC Disability Studies
Critical AI and South Asian Diaspora
Special Sessions
Critical Nonbinary Studies
Just-in-Time
CSGSH Panel on the International Graduate Student Experience
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
Cultural Transformation and Media Reconfiguration in Late Twentieth-Century East Asia
Special Sessions
Cultures of Protest
Just-in-Time
Curating a Space For Emancipatory Narratives
CLCS Global South
Custom, Consent, and Collapse: Reevaluating 'Law and Order' through Law and Humanities
TC Law and the Humanities
Cute Studies: 20 Years Later
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
D. H. Lawrence and Authoritarianism
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Dante’s Emancipatory Narratives
Dante Society of America
Decolonizing the MLA
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Detecting Poe
Poe Studies Association
Devotion and Deliverance: Piety & Emancipatory Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
Special Sessions
Diaspora, literature, global city.
CLCS Global Jewish
Dickens and Syntax
Dickens Society
Digital Archives and Literature of the Marginalized
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Disability and Hierarchy
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Disability and Incarceration
Special Sessions
Disability in Academia Across the Career Trajectory
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Disabling Graduate School
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
Dissent in Early America
LLC Early American
Dissent, Defy, Differ: Going Against the Mainstream in Galdós’s Narratives
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Doing the Thing: Objects Scripting Action in Late Medieval England
Special Sessions
Doris Lessing and Technology: Adoption and Adaptations
Doris Lessing Society
Draft Aesthetics
Special Sessions
Dramatic Spenser
International Spenser Society
Early Modern Ecologies
LLC 17th-Century French
Early modern English writing and/against autocracy
LLC 17th-Century English
Earth and Fire: California Then and Now
LLC 19th-Century American
East Asian Countercultures
LLC East Asian
Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction
GS Speculative Fiction
Ecologies of Care: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Human–Animal Relations in Contemporary Cuba
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic
Ecologies of Crisis in Cuba: Bodies, Care, and Survival
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic
Ecopoetic Forms
Special Sessions
Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing
Special Sessions
Edith Wharton in Context
Edith Wharton Society
Elemental Media & The Global South
Special Sessions
Elements of Surprise
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Eliot's Transitions
International T. S. Eliot Society
Emancipating Antarctica: The Polar Humanities at the Crossroads
Special Sessions
Emancipating Spirit
Special Sessions
Emancipations in Irish Literature and Culture
American Conference for Irish Studies
Emancipatory Folklore
American Folklore Society
Emancipatory Geographies: Spatial Struggle and Liberation across the Caribbean
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
Emancipatory Landscapes: Ecocriticism in 18th- and 19th-Century Iberia
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Emancipatory Landscapes: Ecocriticism in 18th- and 19th-Century Iberia
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Emancipatory Languages and Poetics of Liberation: First Books in Ethnic Literatures of the Americas
Special Sessions
Emancipatory Methods: Reclaiming Humane Practice in the Humanities
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Emancipatory Narratives and Academic Freedom in the Writing Classroom
RCWS Writing Pedagogies
Emancipatory Narratives in African American Humor
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Emancipatory Narratives in African Women's Writing
Special Sessions
Emancipatory Narratives in Eighteenth-Century German Literature and Drama
G. E. Lessing Society
Emancipatory Narratives in Medieval Iberia.
LLC Medieval Iberian
Emancipatory Narratives of Aging
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Emancipatory Narratives of AI in Literature
Special Sessions
Emancipatory Narratives of the Marginalised in the Global Middle Ages (Nonguaranteed Single-Entity Session)
CLCS Medieval
Emancipatory Narratives through Place-Based Pedagogy
Special Sessions
Emancipatory Narratives: dissent, resistance and liberation in Lusophone Cultural Production
LLC Global Portuguese
Emancipatory Pedagogy and Post-Traumatic Growth
Working Groups or Seminars
Emancipatory Pedagogy in Times of Siege
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Emancipatory Practices: Science, Agency and Resistance in Iberian Narratives in 18th-19th Iberian cultural production
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
Emancipatory Testimony
CLCS Global Jewish
Emancipatory Transfiguration
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale
Emanicpatory Narratives of Toni Morrison and the Arab World
Special Sessions
Embodied Difference and the Making of Ability in Early Modern Spanish Prose and Poetry
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Embodied Nationalism in 19th and 20th Century Hispanic Studies
Special Sessions
Empowering Language Change
LSL Language Change
Empowering Others in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and/or Prose
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Empowering Voices at the Crossroads: Ethical Use of AI as a tool for Emancipatory Pedagogy
Special Sessions
Environmental Speculations
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Ethics and Editing
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Eugenics and Race in the Medical Humanities
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
Evil and Moral Perception in Henry James's Fiction
Henry James Society
Expanding the Canon through Scholarly Editions
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
Ezra Pound and the Poetry of Emancipation
Ezra Pound Society
False Starts, Not-So-Dead-Ends, and Unsung Side Projects: Reconsidering the Act of Creation in East Asian Literary Culture
LLC East Asian
Fame and Infamy
LLC 19th-Century French
Fast Cars, Slow Violence: Automobility Beyond the Individual
Special Sessions
Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation
Margaret Fuller Society
Feminist Artmaking: Subversive Visual Practices in Iberoamerica
Special Sessions
Feminist Protest and Transmedia Activism in the 21st Century
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
Feministas Unidas: Masculinidades, Machosferas y Masculinismos
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Filipinx Placemaking
Special Sessions
Food, Science, and Literature
TC Science and Literature
Forced Displacement and Expressions of Emancipation
Special Sessions
Foreshadowing
Special Sessions
Forms of Resistance
LLC 16th-Century French
Forms of Resistance: Lessons from the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
Forms of Togetherness
Special Sessions
Freedom Dreaming in the Nordic Region
CLCS Nordic
Freedoms of Thought
TC Philosophy and Literature
From Chaucer’s Wife of Bath to Bad Bunny: Sign Language in Literature, Media, and Popular Culture
TC Disability Studies
From the Margins of Los Angeles: Fante, Bukowski and their Americana
LLC Italian American
Fugitive Futures: Radical Worldmaking and Resistance
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
Futuring multilingually: Languages as lived emancipatory processes
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Gendered Mediations in Catalan Publishing and Translation
Special Sessions
Genealogies of Coalition Politics: Cathy Cohen's "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens" at 30
TC Sexuality Studies
Generation '08
Special Sessions
Genre and Temporality in Middle English Literature
LLC Middle English
George Sand: An Emancipated Life
George Sand Association
Getting out of Hand: Comic Comportment in Literature and Media
American Humor Studies Association
Global Asias and Francosphères: Intersections, Exchanges, Tensions
Special Sessions
Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire
LLC 17th-Century English
Global Energy Systems in the Long Nineteenth Century
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Global Pretuguês: Language and Literature beyond Translational and Transnational Borders
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Golden States: Faith, Place, and Emancipatory Narratives
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Gothic Now: We Are Living in Gothic Times
CLCS Gothic Studies
Graphic Resistance: Marjane Satrapi’s Legacy
Just-in-Time
Grappling with Absence
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
Grappling with Absence
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
Gut Cognition in Literature
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
Hasidic Life in the Asphalt Jungle: The Global City in Adam Vardy’s Mendy
CLCS Global Jewish
Hawthorne’s Nonfiction: Engagements, Aesthetics, and Fame
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Healing Beyond Testimony: Reimagining Black Futures after Trauma
Special Sessions
Heated Rivalries: Sports, Games, and Graphic Narrative
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Hebrew Diaspora
LLC Hebrew
Hegel and Literature
Special Sessions
Heine’s Songs and Prose of Emancipation
North American Heine Society
Hemingway and Disability
Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society
Hemispheric Literary Studies Today
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
High impact initiatives in Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Programs
Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature
Honoring Brian McHale (1952-2025)
Just-in-Time
Hostile Environments
LLC Old English
Humor as Emancipation in Galicia/Iberia
LLC Galician
Im/Possibilities of Emancipatory Literacies
RCWS Literacy Studies
Imagining Emancipation in Australasian Literature
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
Imagining Emancipation in Catalan Culture
LLC Catalan Studies
Imperfection as Emancipation? New-Old Pedagogies of the AI Moment
HEP Community Colleges
Incentivizing Collaboration in Higher Education: Feminist Approaches to Transformative Partnerships
Women in German
Indigenous Literature and Environmental Future
Special Sessions
Indigenous Poetics
GS Poetry and Poetics
Infrastructure and Culture in Los Angeles
Special Sessions
Infrastructure, Colonization, and Racialization
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Infrastructuring Vulnerability across Borders
Special Sessions
Inscribing Jewish Lives into the Fabric of the City
CLCS Global Jewish
Institutional Histories of Literary Studies Since 1970
Special Sessions
Interdisciplinary Pathways for Language Program Vitality
ALD Executive Committee
Intersectionality and South Asian Diasporic Narratives
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
Intersections and Interstices: Venezuelan Racial Politics in the Era of Ecological Devastation
Working Groups or Seminars
Intersections in Latin American and Latinx Print Cultures of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Society for Textual Scholarship
Introducing Critical Rest Studies
Special Sessions
Invisible Wounds: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature
Children’s Literature Association
Ironies of Blackness
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Issues and Topics in Romance Linguistics
LSL Romance Linguistics
Italian American Hollywood and the Global Imaginarium
LLC Italian American
Italian Americans as Other: Italianità, Difference, and Diasporic Belonging
Italian American Studies Association
James Baldwin's Late Style - UPDATED
Special Sessions
John Clare and His Contemporaries
John Clare Society of North America
John Rechy: A Queer Chicanx Retrospective
LLC Chicana and Chicano
Jorge Luis Borges, religion, philosophy, and esotericism in Eastern and Western contexts
Special Sessions
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves: social geographies of birds as emancipation narratives
Special Sessions
Korean Literary Studies and Archival Critique as Method.
Special Sessions
La maladie
LLC 19th-Century French
Language Education Beyond AI: Sustaining Human Communication in an Algorithmic World
ALD Executive Committee
Language Ideologies and the Discursive Construction of Emancipatory Narratives
LSL Language and Society
Language Ideologies and the Philosophy of Multilingualism
Special Sessions
Languages and Literatures of Indigenous California
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Latin American Utopias
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Latinx Emancipatory Practices Across Screens
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Latinx Literary Temporalities
Special Sessions
Latinx Los Angeles: Spaces of Conflict and Solidarity
LLC Latina and Latino
Launching Community-Engaged Writing Courses and Programs
Special Sessions
Learning to Write: Literary Education Through Primers
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
Let's Get Real: Fostering Authentic Student Engagement Through Reflective Practices
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Liberated Form
Marxist Literary Group
Liberatory Archives: Recovery, Creation, and Digital Resistance
TC Digital Humanities
Liberatory Fictions and Global Sri Lanka
South Asian Literary Association
Liberatory Forms and Complicit Realities in Japanese Theater to 1900
LLC Japanese to 1900
Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation
LSL Language Change
Literacy Pedagogy and Literary Study
Special Sessions
Literary and Cinematic Representations of Carceral Los Angeles
Special Sessions
Literary Entanglements: Germany and India
Special Sessions
Literary Petrichor: Conjuring Water Through Memory
Special Sessions
Literary Studies Beyond the Academy
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Literary, Virtual, and AI Characterization
Special Sessions
Literature and Global Popular Music
TC Adaptation Studies
Literature and the News
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Special Sessions
Love and/as Work in the C19 Novel
Special Sessions
Lyric Media
Special Sessions
Lyrics of Liberty: "Make Them Hear You"
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Many Stories, One History: Re-examining the Diverse Coalition of the American Revolution
Just-in-Time
Mapping American Encounters in the Ottoman World
Special Sessions
Mapping Los Angeles in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Marking (Un)Belonging through Language and Literature
Special Sessions
Material Ecologies of the Spanish Comedia
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Material Memory
Special Sessions
Materialist Feminisms: Nature, Technology, and Reproduction in Global South Literature
Special Sessions
Mathematics and Style in the British Empire
Special Sessions
Mediated Futures: Technology, Transformation, and the Literary-Cultural Field
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century
Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy
LLC Medieval French
Mediterranean Sovereignties
CLCS Mediterranean
Melancholy in the contemporary East European novel
LLC Hungarian
Melville and Hawthorne Revisited
Melville Society
Melville and McCarthyism
Melville Society
Memory Studies and the Politics of “Never Again”
TC Memory Studies
Memory, Mourning, and Literature
TC Postcolonial Studies
Meta-Critical Perspectives on Dante Studies: Mapping a Field in Motion
Dante Society of America
Mettre en question le (non-)soin: Imaginaires de réparation et de guérison contemporains
Conseil International d’Études Francophones
Michael Drayton's Poetry Revisited
Special Sessions
Midwestern Literary Emancipatory Narratives in Drama, Poetry, and Fiction
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
Might Makes Right? Contesting Power in Premodern Societies (sponsored by LLC German to 1700)
LLC German to 1700
Migration in Children’s & YA Graphic Narratives
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Mind and Form / Forms of Mind [Updated Deadline]
Special Sessions
Miopías, cegueras, daltonismos: Ways of Seeing in Galdós
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Modernism in Ephemeral Print
Modernist Studies Association
Modernism in Ephemeral Print
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Mother Tongues and Fatherlands: Nation and Language in South Asian Literature
South Asian Literary Association
Mother(s), Movements, and Mobilities
Special Sessions
Multilingualism and Learning Ecologies
LSL Language and Society
Multimodality as Emancipatory Narrative in the Writing Classroom: Theory, Methods, Practices
Special Sessions
Muriel Spark Today
Special Sessions
Nabokov in the ‘70s / Nabokov’s Afterlife
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Nabokov, Freedom, and Anti-Authoritarianism
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
Names That Reveal; Names That Conceal: Onomastic Sleight of Hand in Global Literature
American Name Society
Narrating Post-Imperial Futures
LLC Luso-Brazilian
Narrating Post-Imperial Futures
American Portuguese Studies Association
Necropolitics and Literature
TC Postcolonial Studies
Neo-Gothic Receptions
Reception Study Society
New Approaches to Machado de Assis
LLC Luso-Brazilian
New Approaches to Machado de Assis
American Portuguese Studies Association
New Approaches to the Task of the Translator
TC Translation Studies
New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies
LLC Medieval Iberian
New Directions in Central American and U.S. Central American Literature & Culture
CLCS Hemispheric American
New Directions in Life Writing
GS Life Writing
New Itineraries of Lydia Cabrera’s El monte : Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean
Special Sessions
New Perspectives on To the Lighthouse at 100
International Virginia Woolf Society
New Trends in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
Special Sessions
New Victorian Itineraries: Mapping Archival Diasporas of the Global Nineteenth Century
Dickens Society
New Wine in New Bottles: Emergent Fields in pre-1900 Japanese Literature Studies
LLC Japanese to 1900
New Work in Sixteenth-Century French Studies
LLC 16th-Century French
Non-Aligned Archives: New Formations in Southeast Asian Reading
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic
Novels of consciousness from modernism to contemporary neurofiction
Special Sessions
Now, That’s What I Call Pop!: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Pop Culture
LLC 19th-Century American
Old Norse Afterlives: Transmission and Translation
LLC Old Norse
On display: surface with subtext
Just-in-Time
On Pain
TC Anthropology and Literature
On the Move: Mobility and Narrative Agency
Special Sessions
One Citation
LLC 16th-Century French
One Hundred Years of Magical Realism in Literature, Film, and A.I. Simulation
Working Groups or Seminars
Open Session in Pre-Modern German Literature and Culture (Sponsored by LLC German to 1700)
LLC German to 1700
Open Topic AND "Emancipatory Narratives" in the Life of Samuel Clemens and Works of Mark Twain
Mark Twain Circle of America
Opera and Musical Performance: Forms of Emancipation
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Originality, Tropes, Genre, and Society in Contemporary and Historical Literary Perspective
Just-in-Time
Our Critical Fallacies
LLC Late-18th-Century English
Pacific Worlds in Early American Literature
LLC Early American
Pathways to the Deanship
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Emancipatory Activities at the Crossroads of Academic Freedom
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Performing Emancipation: Medieval and Early Modern Performance in Times of Authoritarianism
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Performing Gender in American Music
Special Sessions
Performing Interiority: Soliloquy as Literary Form
Just-in-Time
Performing Science in Premodern Central Europe (sponsored by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature)
Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Performing the 18th Century
LLC 18th-Century French
Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese
Pet Affect Studies Towards Zootopia
Just-in-Time
Pet Affect Studies Towards Zootopia [Updated Deadline]
Working Groups or Seminars
Photography and Writing: Transmedial Practices
Special Sessions
Places and Traces: Eighteenth-Century Networks and Neighborhoods
CLCS 18th-Century
Plant Life and the Global South
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Podcasting Humanities
Special Sessions
Poe's Global Advocates
Poe Studies Association
Policing Children Within and Across Borders
TC Age Studies
POLÍTICAS DEL DESVÍO: REROUTING POWER(S) IN 20TH CENTURY SPAIN
Special Sessions
Popular Culture and Language Education in the Digital Age
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Positive Solutions for Crumbling Academic Freedoms, Rights and Disappearing Programs and Positions
MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Postcolonial Fantasy for Young People
Children’s Literature Association
Postcolonial Indigenous Ecocriticism in the Global Anglophone
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Postcolonial Latinidades
LLC Latina and Latino
Posthumanistic Approaches to Asian Diasporic Literary Writings
Special Sessions
Postsocialist Storytelling as Emancipatory Practice
Romanian Studies Association of America
Practices of Writing in East Asia: Past, Present, Future
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
Pre-memory: Embodied Past Presences
TC Memory Studies
Precarity Reimagined: Working-Class Representation since 2020
Special Sessions
Premodern Intersex Studies
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Preserving Records Amidst Genocide
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Psychoanalysis & Globalization/Mondialisation
Special Sessions
Public Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom
Special Sessions
Quechua Literature and Culture: Inter-Relationships with Dominant Colonial, Modern, and Contemporary Cultures
Special Sessions
Queer Emancipatory Narratives of the Francosphere
LLC Francophone
Queer Francophone/Sinophone Studies
TC Sexuality Studies
Queer Nations: Remembering Jarrod Hayes
LLC Francophone
Queering Zones of Unrest in Postcolonial South Asia
Special Sessions
Race and Photography in Latin America
Special Sessions
Radical Internationalism and the Aesthetics of Anti-Imperialism in Postcolonial Asia
Special Sessions
Re-enchanting Language Learning
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Reading Across Faiths: Interreligious Dialogue in Literature
CLCS European Regions
Reading for the Crop: Agriculture, Agrarian Change and Land Use in Literary and Cultural Studies
Special Sessions
Reading into Writing under Algorithmic Conditions
Special Sessions
Real Aesthetic Questions
TM Literary Criticism
Realism and Its Discontents
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German
Realism, mimesis, and the possibilities of the novel in Africa
LLC African to 1990
Recalibrating the Field: Latinx Digital Humanities as Emancipatory Praxis
TC Digital Humanities
Reckoning at the Source: Editing as Critical Intervention
Association for Documentary Editing
Reckoning with Faulkner’s Civil Rights Legacy
William Faulkner Society
Recollecting Milton Studies
Milton Society of America
Reducing Technology Dependence in Chinese Language and Culture Pedagogy
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
Reel Men, Real Trouble: Masculinity in 21st Century Global Cinema
Special Sessions
Registers of the Domestic in Modern Mexican Culture
Special Sessions
Reimagining Emancipation in African and African Diasporic Literatures and Cultures
LLC African since 1990
Rendering Madness
Special Sessions
Repeating Stuart Hall
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Reproductive Justice
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French
Research for the Future of 19th-Century Latin American Studies: A Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Workshop
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Resilience
LLC 17th-Century French
Resistance and Cultural Production: Multilingualism, Exophony and Silence
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English
Resisting Authoritarianism and State Violence in the Lit Classroom
TM The Teaching of Literature
Resource Conflict Theatre: A Global Perspective
GS Drama and Performance
Retheorizing the Queer, Coalitional, and Literary Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back
LLC Chicana and Chicano
Rethinking 19th-Century (Latin) America: Hemispheric Approaches
LLC 19th-Century Latin American
Rethinking Green Spain
Special Sessions
Rethinking the "Globe" of Global Modernisms
Special Sessions
Rethinking the Gothic in Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
Special Sessions
Revoicing Non-Humans through Ecological Translation
Special Sessions
Rivers as/against Empire
Special Sessions
Romancing the Humanities: Multilingualism and Italian Studies
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Romanian, Hungarian and other Emancipatory Narratives
LLC Hungarian
Romantic Disenchantment
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Romantic Disenchantment
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Roundtable: Contingent Labor at a Crossroads
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Rushdie’s Late Style
Special Sessions
Samuel Beckett in Global and Transnational Contexts
Samuel Beckett Society
Sci-Fi in World Cinema and TV: What if...?
Special Sessions
Science and Children’s Literature
Children’s Literature Association
Science and Children’s Literature
TC Science and Literature
Science and Intellectual Emancipation in Italian Literary and Cultural History
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Self-Deprecating Narration: Trauma Memoirs, Epistemological Uncertainty, and the Unreliable Narrator
Special Sessions
Serendipity in the Archives
Special Sessions
Singing and Song in Dickinson
Emily Dickinson International Society
Social Choreographies
LLC Late-18th-Century English
South-Asian Diasporic Poetics of Politics: Transnationalism, Feminism(s), and Resistance
Special Sessions
Southern Immigration
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Southern Literature and the Limits of Close Reading
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Space travel and its (non)fictions
GS Travel Writing
Spacious Skies: Americana, Vacancy, and Enclosure
Just-in-Time
Spatializing Race in LA
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Speaking One Way, Meaning Another
LLC Old English
Spectacle, Gender, and Media History in Japanese Cultural Practice
LLC Japanese since 1900
Speculations in the Age of Chaucer
LLC Chaucer
Speculative Fiction and Capitalist Speculation
Special Sessions
Speculative Machines
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
Stateless Romanticisms
LLC English Romantic
States of Exception
Special Sessions
Surrealism Today, Tomorrow, and Yesterday
Just-in-Time
Surveillance in Global Literature and Film
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues
Surviving the Present State of the Professoriate
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Sustainability in Opera and Musical Performance
MS Opera and Musical Performance
Sustainable Practitioner Research in Language Education
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning
Sustainable Practitioner Research in Language Education
American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs
Sustaining Modernist Studies
Modernist Studies Association
Tactile Encounters, Trans/Queer Memories, and Aesthetic Explorations: Re-Mediating Contemporary Cultural Production in the Américas
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American
Teaching AI Literacy Across the Curriculum: Embedding critical understanding of AI into Humanities Courses
HEP Teaching as a Profession
Teaching Desire: Gender Pedagogies and the Politics of Survival
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Teaching Dystopia in Dystopian Times
MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances
Teaching early modern Iberian and Latin American poetry
LLC Colonial Latin American
Teaching early modern Iberian and Latin American poetry
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
Teaching Early Modern Women and Gender
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
Teaching Literature through Role Play
Special Sessions
Teaching Research Skills in the Humanities Classroom with the MLA International Bibliography and Other Resources
MLA International Bibliography
Teaching Samuel Beckett / Samuel Beckett Teaching (in person)
Samuel Beckett Society
Teaching Social Justice in the Community College Classroom
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
Teaching Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Now
MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession
Text and Technologies: Carving out Writing Experiences in AI Age
Special Sessions
The Anthropocene: What’s Next?
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
The Arctic Imaginary: Extraction and Empire
Special Sessions
The Beats in LA
Special Sessions
The Body Before Sex
LLC Early American
The Body Before Sex
TC Sexuality Studies
The Civic Humanities: New Approaches to Democratic Futures
Special Sessions
The Death Drive Beyond Freud
Special Sessions
The Environmental Humanities: Then and Now
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
The Expanded Text: Music, Performance, and Visuality in Intermedial Literary Practices. Modern and Contemporary Literary Cultures
Special Sessions
The Global Reach of Toni Morrison
Special Sessions
The Hernandez Brothers, Page-by-Page
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
The Impact of Dual Enrollment Programs on Community Colleges
MLA Committee on Community Colleges
The Jewish Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies
Special Sessions
The Language of Trauma
LSL Linguistics and Literature
The Language(s) of Cervantes: Bridges Between Language and Literary Expression
Cervantes Society of America
The libertines: emancipatory narratives?
Special Sessions
The Life Writing Workshop
GS Life Writing
The Ludic Subject: Playfulness, Gender, and the Poetics of Emotion
Special Sessions
The Monstrous South
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
The Odyssey, Take 2026
Just-in-Time
THE ORIGINS OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S CREATIVITY: THE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY YEARS
Samuel Beckett Society
The paranoid neurotic style of postmodernism
Just-in-Time
The Place of Dreams in African and Diasporic Cultural Productions
LLC African since 1990
The Precarious Future of the Humanities Professoriate
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
The Presentist Eighteenth Century
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English
The Rhetoric of Trust in Digital Business Communication
Association for Business Communication
The Road to Lebanon
Just-in-Time
The Scottish Archipelago
LLC Scottish
The State of Mediterranean Studies: A Roundtable
CLCS Mediterranean
The Stranger in Sephardi Studies
LLC Sephardic
The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism: Understanding Latin America’s Contemporary Disasters Through Literature
Just-in-Time
The Task of the Critic in the New Configurations of Imperialism
TM Literary Criticism
The Unconscious on Drugs
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
The “Border” on Campus
MLA Committee on Antiracism, Equity, and Belonging
Theatre in the Global South Asian Diaspora: From Idea to Actuality
GS Drama and Performance
Theopoetics: Devotional Creativity and Divine Encounter in Early Modernity
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
Theories of Settler Colonialism
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
Thoreau and . . .
Thoreau Society
Time in Folklore and Folk Histories
Special Sessions
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon at 50
Special Sessions
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Turns 50
LLC African American
Topics in Recent Greek and Greek Diaspora Literature
Modern Greek Studies Association
Touring Italy: Culture, Ecology, and Literature in the Age of Tourism
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian
Traffic in the Pacific
CLCS 18th-Century
Transcendentalism in 2026
Just-in-Time
Translation as an Emancipatory Practice in Italian Literary and Cultural History
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian
Translingual Europes
CLCS European Regions
Transnational Francophone Women’s Cinema
Women in French
Trauma and Narrative
Special Sessions
Travel Narratives in the French and Francophone World
Special Sessions
Twenty-First-Century Engagements with Goethe and his Age
Goethe Society of North America
Unbounding the Colonial Latin American Archive
LLC Colonial Latin American
Undergraduate Research in Languages, Literature, and Culture: A Poster Session for Students
MLA Academic Program Services
Understanding heritage learners in the U.S. today
LSL Applied Linguistics
Unfinished Histories: Literary and Cultural Acts of Hope
Special Sessions
Unruly Texts, Emancipated Minds
MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
Unsettled Englishes: Migration, Displacement, and the Anzaldúan Borderland
LSL Global English
Unspeakable States: Silence, Madness, and Racialized Legibility
Special Sessions
Visions and Narratives of Politics from South Asia [Past & Present]
Special Sessions
Wallace Stevens’s Animals
Wallace Stevens Society
War in Ukraine Through Media Studies
Special Sessions
War, Memory, and Haunting in East Asian Literatures
LLC East Asian
Ways of Seeing in Early America
LLC Early American
We Got the Guillotine: A Panel on Boots Riley
Just-in-Time
What Academic Novels Can Teach Us About Leadership
Association of Departments of English
What Is Criticism (Good) For?
TM Literary Criticism
Why do we need scholarly editions?
MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
Wilde West Coast
Special Sessions
William Morris, Collections Technology & the Virtual Archive
William Morris Society
William Morris, Collections Technology & the Virtual Archive
Society for Textual Scholarship
William Morris, Labor & the Nineteenth Century
William Morris Society
Witness, Voice, and Agency: Chinese Poetry as Emancipatory Narrative
Special Sessions
Women and Emancipatory Narratives Across Media
Special Sessions
Women’s Self-Presentations and Body Images: Literary, Media, and Medical Stereotypes
Special Sessions
World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons
Special Sessions
Writing in the Interregnum: Comparative Approaches to Doris Lessing’s Emancipatory Narratives
Doris Lessing Society
Writing within Catastrophe: Weiji, Risk, and the Futures of East Asian and Comparative Literature
LLC East Asian
Xenoemancipation: Aliens, Humans, Freedom, Narrative
Special Sessions
Yesteryear & the Rise of Trad Wife Fiction
Just-in-Time
Yesteryear: Cultural and Literary Possibilities
Just-in-Time
’27 Revisited
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian
“Beans, Greens, Potatoes, Tomatoes”: Food in African American Literature
College Language Association
“Look lak the change of life”: 90 Years of Their Eyes Were Watching God
College Language Association
“Negotiating with the Dead”: Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural in Atwood’s Works
Margaret Atwood Society
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”: Testimony and Resistance in Atwood’s Works
Margaret Atwood Society