2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO

CALL FOR PAPERS

Working Conditions of Performance: Staging Early Modern Plays (This would be a Presidential Theme session, also not guaranteed)

This panel seeks contributions that explore the precarious working conditions under which theater practitioners develop their work. What conditions do companies face…[Read more]

2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)

This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study…[Read more]

2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)

This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of…[Read more]

The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed) 

This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of the Spanish Golden Age Comedia & plays by…[Read more]

Paul Megna’s paper for the Middle English Forum at MLA 2022 invoked a Public Books piece by Irina Dumitrescu in order to prompt contemporary medievalists to ponder the events of 1/6/2021. How might 1/6/2021 cause us to reconsider the scholarly lenses through which we have typically interpreted the events of Rising of 1381 and their literary ma…[Read more]

Medieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]

This session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]

The journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]

iEnglish Journal is considering proposals for book reviews and review essays. iEnglish expects potential reviewers to have received their Ph.D. in English or a related field, or to have evidence of relevant publications or expertise.

All prospective reviewers must adhere to our ethics and conflict of interest policy: they are expected to not…[Read more]

Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to ylee@wellesley.edu before March 16, 2022.

1. Narratives Beyond Binaries: Does narrative still rely on binary structures in a world that has moved beyond them (male/female; past/present; public/private)? The binary and nonbinary as modes of thinking; post-poststructuralism; holding theory accountable to…

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Race, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern

Guaranteed roundtable on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. How do the intersections of these terms illuminate cultural formations, social privileges, and legal rights? Comparative and transnational perspectives especially welcome. Brief CV…[Read more]

MLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP
1. Classical Theatre in Today’s Higher Education
This panel explores the role(s) that higher education has played in the preservation, promotion and innovation of teaching and performing the Comedia. Innovative approaches to teaching, adaptation, translation, staging, and outreach are welcome.
2. C…[Read more]

CHEAP’ NATURE, ‘CHEAP’ LABOR, AND THE EARLY MODERN CAPITALOCENE
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Examining early modern/colonial literary, ethical, ecological reflections on the European capitalist violent expansion in search of ‘cheap’ nature and labor inaugurating the capitalocene era and emerging notions of nature and the human. One page abstracts…[Read more]