As the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.

The following sessions will now be held virtually:

Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm

Presider: Rielle Navitski

A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]

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If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]

Due to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.

Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]

The MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum.  We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]

Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

Latinx Studies at NYU Press

Mon, December 13, 2021, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST

On Monday, December 13, 2021, The Latinx Project is holding a feature of NYU Press books on Latinx Studies; including Jesica S. Fernández, author of Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship; Mary Beltran, author of the forthcoming Latino TV…[Read more]

The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

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Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel

In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet

Presider: Alberto Varón

Recent events have demonstrated the…[Read more]

The Latina/Latino Forum invites you to join us for the vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA in Washington, DC!

Thursday, 6 January 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

• Session 163 Democracy and the Latinx Novel
• In-Person @ Marriott Marquis – Gallaudet
• Presider: Alberto Varón
• Recent events have demonstrated the…

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I’m excited to announce that a beta version of Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook is now available online: https://open.online.uga.edu/latinxmedia/

Edited by Leslie Marsh and myself (Rielle Navitski) with the support of the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, the freely available textbook addresses a range of media forms (film, te…[Read more]

Position No. 00005756.  The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of Late Associate or Early Full Professor to the Daisy Dean Frensley Chair in English Literature beginning Fall 2022. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary…[Read more]

Theatre and Social Action Call for Papers for the Methuen Drama Handbooks series Theaters have closed everywhere. Theaters are reopening. And at the same time, the global pandemic and recent social movements have urgently been measured, mediated, and aided by the arts and theater makers to reshape the way we must now represent, facilitate, and p…[Read more]

This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.

Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8

Thanks,

Elena Machado Sáez

Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum

“Democracy and the US Latinx Novel” 
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino Forum

Recent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.

This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address democracy…[Read more]

Dear MLA members,

Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!

“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)

• Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
• Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…

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The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Join us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.

Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the…[Read more]