Please consider submitting a proposal to one of the three panels sponsored by LLC 17th-Century English:

1. Open Topic Seventeenth-Century Literature

We seek new work on any topic in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century. All approaches/methodologies are welcomed. 250-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15…[Read more]

The Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature invites submissions for its guaranteed MLA session: “Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies”

The COVID-19 pandemic forced professors to rely on technology to teach online.  This session aims to share innovative methodologies used for teaching grad…[Read more]

The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed) 

This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of the Spanish Golden Age Comedia & plays by…[Read more]

The journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]

Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to ylee@wellesley.edu before March 16, 2022.

1. Narratives Beyond Binaries: Does narrative still rely on binary structures in a world that has moved beyond them (male/female; past/present; public/private)? The binary and nonbinary as modes of thinking; post-poststructuralism; holding theory accountable to…

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The Sounds of Humor

The Drama and Performance Forum and the Sound Studies Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) announce a co-sponsored session entitled “The Sounds of Humor” to be held at the MLA Convention in San Francisco, CA from January 5-8, 2023. What does humor sound like? Sounds tend to play an important role in performances inte…[Read more]

Below you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA.  Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.

1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]

Race, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern

Guaranteed roundtable on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. How do the intersections of these terms illuminate cultural formations, social privileges, and legal rights? Comparative and transnational perspectives especially welcome. Brief CV…[Read more]

I thought some of the members of this group would potentially be interested in presenting at these two sessions:
Advocating for Library Resources
The MLAIB advisory committee seeks 250-word abstracts for this roundtable discussion. Topics may include: strategic partnerships/collaborations (by librarians, faculty, administrators), open education…[Read more]

The Drama and Performance Forum solicits paper proposals for two guaranteed sessions at MLA 2023 in San Francisco:

Humor and Humorlessness before 1900  From the medieval period to the nineteenth century the concept of humor shifted from an aspect of human physiology, to the eccentric qualities of individuals or comic characters, to a mode of…[Read more]

CHEAP’ NATURE, ‘CHEAP’ LABOR, AND THE EARLY MODERN CAPITALOCENE
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Examining early modern/colonial literary, ethical, ecological reflections on the European capitalist violent expansion in search of ‘cheap’ nature and labor inaugurating the capitalocene era and emerging notions of nature and the human. One page abstracts…[Read more]

The Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:

Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry

This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]