2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:

The Caribbean 1970s

Friday, January 10th, 2020

8:30 am to 9:45 am

Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4

Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University

“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]

Hello all,

Let’s use this thread to gather tips for attending the MLA convention, especially for first-time attendees! For those who have attended previous conventions, what have you learned? What has helped you enjoy and make the most of your time at the convention?

Some years ago, Natalie Houston wrote a guest post for the MLA Convention b…[Read more]

Greetings,

In August 2019, I launched Psyche on Campus: a blog about teaching psychoanalysis in the undergraduate classroom (and beyond).  I hope you’ll check it out and, if you like it, subscribe (it’s free to do so, and you’ll receive an email announcement each time a new post is published–about once per month).  If you have any idea for a p…[Read more]

Convention registrants can use this forum thread to identify other participants who may wish to share accommodations. The MLA assumes no responsibility or liability for these arrangements, since a decision to share accommodations is one made by the participant, not the MLA.

Please note that in order to make reservations at MLA rates at the…[Read more]

MLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]

MLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.

Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of t…[Read more]

MLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.

Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]

Please join us at MLA 2020 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:  

Session 189:  What’s Next for Law and the Humanities?

Thursday, January 9,  7:00-8:15 p.m.

WSCC – Skagit 3

Presiding:  Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U

1. “The Constitution as the Aesthetic Representation of the People,” David Tse-chien Pa…[Read more]

The CLCS Global Hispanophone is organizing

129 – Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone.

• Thursday, 9 January 20205:15 PM – 6:30 PM
  • • WSCC – 205

Description: The global hispanophone practices a mode of inquiry that decenters national narratives and regional ones (Latin America versus Spain). It…[Read more]

248 – Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South

Friday, 10 January 2020 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | WSCC – Skagit 4

• “Shame and the Question of Identity in Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremont Graduate U
• “Becoming Indigenous in Haiti: Land and Labor in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones