Guaranteed session at MLA 2022:Where Do We Go From Here? Anti-Racism and the Future of the Profession

This panel explores the ways educators are engaging with anti-racist practices in their language and literature classrooms as we re-envision the future of our profession. We are seeking practical pedagogical experiences and reflections,…[Read more]

I’m writing to share a CFP for a special session at MLA 2022, that may be of interest to scholars in of literature and science.  Please note that the abstract deadline is this Friday, March 26th.

“Eugenics and the Body” MLA 2022
How has eugenics—a discourse of bodily perfection that centers reproduction—influenced perceptions of (non-)human…[Read more]

The Exec Committee of the Shakespeare Forum for the Modern Language Association of America announce calls for presentations for three sessions at the annual convention from January 6-9, 2022. Please note updated DUE DATE of MARCH 26th, 2021.

Re-Reading “Timon of Athens”
What can be done with “Timon of Athens” today? We welcome a range of metho…[Read more]

Extended CFP deadlines: March 25! We want YOU to be a part of one of our sessions at MLA 2022 in D.C. Please submit an abstract or share these with your colleagues. Much appreciation for your interest and assistance.
 
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
Studying world languages and literature…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Italian Program at the University of Arkansas would like to invite you to a lecture by Prof. Jane Tylus (Yale University), “What Does it Take to Make a Saint? Medieval Women, Yesterday and Today,” on Monday, March 22, at 6:00pm CST.

All are welcome! Please register in advance for the event Register here. All registered par…[Read more]

1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]

1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]

Hello, all,

I’m writing to invite you to join a new group on MLA Commons: Teaching Remotely. The group was created to provide a space for MLA members to build collective resources, share their experiences with one another, and ask questions about teaching remotely.

I thought that members of this Commons group may be interested in—and would h…[Read more]

Multilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context

MLA Call: This session explores the use of language–Italian, Italian dialects, regionalism, Italiese, or even foreign languages–within the context of Italian American e/o Italian diasporic studies. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from literary to visual and performative…[Read more]

What makes a canon? More importantly, what is the confines, political and literary, faced by installing a canon? By destroying the canon as scholars, do we end up doing more good than bad? What is the future of ethnic writers when considering the canon?

Italian American studies scholar Mary Jo Bona claims that “many factors contributed to the e…[Read more]

MLA Working Group
Transgenerational Trauma in Italian-American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts
From the shellshock victims of the First World War to adopting the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma studies cover a wide-ranging area, from psychiatry to transgenerational trauma. In The Traumatic Imagination, Eugene Arva…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to share our three CFPs from the HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues Forum for MLA 2022. Please read the details below and submit an abstract and short bio by March 15. We are looking forward to a terrific convention in D.C. and would love for YOU to be a panelist in one of our sessions. Please share these…[Read more]