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]

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]

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]

Guaranteed Session: Infinite Variety? Antony and Cleopatra, Then and Now 

This is a call for papers on Antony and Cleopatra. we are open to a diverse array of critical interests, including but not limited to: premodern critical race studies, histories of empire and racial capitalism, early modern trans and sexuality studies, disability studies,…[Read more]

“New Rules” (Guaranteed roundtable sponsored by CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern)

Proposed new guidelines for conducting research, sharing work, and supporting the profession as we address the realities of systemic social inequity, climate change, the expansion of the adjunct labor force, and drastic shifts in institutional support for the…[Read more]

World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel explores the relations between world literature from the Global South and human rights. 250-500 word abstracts plus CV.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 4 March 2022

Ted Laros, Open Univ of the…[Read more]

Please consider nominating outstanding authors, scholars, educators, leaders, playwrights, artists, and editors for the  Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s prestigious awards.

Please visit ATHE’s website for submission information and other details (under the “awards” drop-down tab).

The deadline for nominations is February 1.

We a…[Read more]

CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern invites nominations for our Executive Committee. Self-nominations welcomed and encouraged. The Executive Committee is fully committed to including and amplifying the wide range of perspectives, voices, and languages that are crucial to our field. We are also committed to representing a diverse range of…[Read more]

Dear Members of the LLC 16th-Century English Forum:

The members of the current Executive Committee for the LLC 16th-Century English Forum invite nominations/suggestions of names of people serve on the Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to shape panels at MLA and the field generally Please send questions or suggestions to committee…[Read more]

The Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]

The Eugene O’Neill Society has organized a virtual MLA 2022 round-table session (#216V, Friday morning, January 7, 10:15 – 11:30) on the challenges of teaching drama both in theatre courses and in broader undergraduate surveys of literature. The discussion will expand to include ideas about the role of the humanities amid the increasingly car…[Read more]

Please join us at MLA 2022 for the following session sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:  

284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature

Virtual Session

Presiding:

Christine Holbo, Arizona State U, Tempe

Simon Stern, U of Toronto (Zoom Host)

Presentations

Judge Lynch Writes Political Theology: Race and the Law in The Qua…[Read more]