Please find below the cfps for the MLA 2024 Drama and Performance Forum panels:

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Adaptation: Migrations Across Form(s)  </span>

In her classic work A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon contended that “to deal with adaptations as adaptations is to think of them as . . . inherently ‘palimpsestuous’…[Read more]

We welcome nominations from our membership for the Drama Forum Executive Committee. Please feel free to email lfreeman@uic.edu before Jan. 20, 2023.

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]

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]

The Drama and Performance Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) announces a sponsored session entitled “Circum-Atlantic Drama and Performance” to be held at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC from January 6 to 9, 2022. We welcome proposals on diverse types of drama and performance in the circum-Atlantic world during any p…[Read more]

Queer Hamilton

Forum: TC Sexuality Studies and GS Drama and Performance

Musical theatre, performance, Broadway, dance, history, cross-periodization, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, colonial, empire, race, ethnicity, Latina/o, African-American, hip-hop, sexuality, gender, Caribbean, immigration. 250 word abstracts, CVs by 15 February…[Read more]

Check out and join us for these exciting sessions and at the GLQ Caucus & Reception!!!

Thursday, 7 January

Queer Proximities 1:45–3:00 p.m. – Selected for inclusion in the Presidential Theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, Future”

Friday, 8 January

Vaqueeras/os 10:15–11:30 a.m.

Saturday, 9 January 

Queer Crips ac…[Read more]

Here are CFPs for 3 different sessions we’re sponsoring for MLA2016 in Austin:

QUEER PROXIMITIES 

Forum: TC Sexuality Studies

Explorations of the sensorium; texture, sensation, affect, touch; spacing and relationscape; distance and distancing, nearness, seclusion; relationalities, withdrawal, fusion; transpecies, human; bonds and bonding, i…[Read more]

Check out our sessions and related sessions for MLA 2015 by visiting our blog entry. We look forward to seeing you at the sessions and also to continuing the conversation online!