“‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier

“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon

“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney Boyd

Followed by discussion — Come to Willow A, Sheraton, at 5:15 till…[Read more]

Members and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]

Melody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45).  She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations.  Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]

Unfortunately, two of our roundtable speakers were unable to attend the MLA convention this year, so we have canceled our Thursday afternoon session: 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions. Apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you at our Saturday afternoon session: 545 – Being Human, Technology, and New Media.

Do you know a restaurant other convention-goers might want to check out? Discover a good spot for lunch or coffee? You can use this thread to share your recommendations for restaurants, coffeeshops, bookshops, excursions, and more. Or if you are looking for suggestions, you can ask here.

MS Sound will be in full force at the MLA convention this week in Seattle! Check out these three great panels that the MS Sound Executive Forum is sponsoring and co-sponsoring this year. Sound studies is making interventions this year on so many levels– these aren’t the kind of panels we usually see and hear at MLA and it’s exciting!

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Dear colleagues

I am writing to invite you to the LLC Sephardic Forum Panel for the 2020 MLA on Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, WSCC 614.

This year’s panel focuses on Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Americas and Beyond.

Full details below and please note the title update for Dr. B…[Read more]

2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:

Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom

Saturday, January 11th, 2020

10:15 am to 11:30 am

Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3

Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University

Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching…[Read more]

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]

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]