The University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film Studies and the Institute for African American Studies seek an assistant professor whose scholarly research focuses on African American theatre and performance. Additional areas of specialization might include African American film, performance methods based in Afrocentric…[Read more]

The MS Opera and Musical Performance forum executive committee is actively soliciting suggestions for nomination to the committee. Please respond here or reach out directly if you or someone you know would be interested in serving, ideally before January 21, 2022.

Thanks to all who attended our panels this past week. Please also join me in thanking Joshua Thoms, our outgoing LSL Applied Linguistics forum president, who did much of the work organizing and coordinating those talks.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Executive Committee, I am writing to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for a…[Read more]

Thank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.

Please join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

87V – Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions: Thursday, 6 January 2022 / 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

456V – Multilingual Asian American Newspaper Studies: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

481V – Archipelagic Thinking in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Narratives: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

630V – Radi…[Read more]

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]

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]

Hello, all,

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]