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]

Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.

The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0

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