MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more]

Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

The MLA Travel Writing Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030. Please send nominations to bernadette.andrea@ucsb.edu by January 15, 2024. Self-nominations are welcome.

• Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
• Seven convention years must elapse…

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The MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.

• Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
• Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
• No member…

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Hi everybody,

The LLC ROmanian executive committee is seeking self-nominations for 1) membership in the committee and 2) for the forum delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Please review the requirements for each position carefully and send your self-nominations as soon as possible to Ileana…[Read more]

Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

We’d very much like nominations for our new committee member.  The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!):  c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE:  Jan 15th 2024.

P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

Good day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]

Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

Dear Forum Participants,

The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]

Hey all!

Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”

• Friday, 5 January 2024
• 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
• Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)

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Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

Looking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]