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]

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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 MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections are around the corner! Voting will begin in early November and close on December 10th. I am creating this topic so that candidates for the LLC 17th-Century French Forum’s executive committee can post a notice about their interests and goals.

My name is Joy Palacios and I am an assistant professor of R…[Read more]