MLA Annual Convention

5-8 January 2023

San Francisco
Waters, Materialities, Mediterraneans
Guaranteed forum session sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean

Comparative papers foregrounding liquid materialities of the Mediterranean and other seas from Blue Humanities, Critical Ocean Studies, or other aquacentric theoretical perspectives.

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Dear CLCS Mediterranean Members,

The forum’s executive committee is in the process of nominating candidates to join the committee for a five-year term starting in January 2023, and we are seeking input from the membership. Please submit nominations or self-nominations for the position of executive committee member (name and affiliation) to the Ch…[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.

Don’t miss these two online sessions on cognitive literary theory! Session “Sadness” (527, Saturday, January 8) features papers by Haiyan Lee and Lisa Zunshine, while “Life-Writing and Cognition” (645, Sunday, January 9) features papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

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]

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 everyone,

Here is an updated list of our 16c French sessions for MLA, which is now essentially online (all times are Eastern):

• Putting Sensory Worlds into Words in Sixteenth-Century France on 6 January 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM [online]
• Joachim Du Bellay at Five Hundred Years on 6 January 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM [online]
• French Drama in Context…

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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]

Beginning this year, the MLA Program Committee has updated the way Forum Executive Committees are created. In the past, the executive committee and the forum membership nominated potential candidates, who were then narrowed to two in the spring, and voted between in the fall election cycle. Now, to streamline the process and to avert the…[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]