MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more]

From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar interests.…[Read more]

The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

As you may know, every year our forum has two guaranteed panel sessions for the MLA convention. The Executive Committee of the forum would like to consider ideas from as broad a range of our membership as possible. Please share your ideas for these sessions for the 2025 convention in New Orleans. At this stage it can be a general idea, without a…[Read more]

Hey all!

Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”

• Friday, 5 January 2024
• 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
• Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)

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The Ming-Qing forum Executive Committee welcomes member suggestions, including self-nominations, for a new members of the Committee with a term beginning in 2024. Committee members must be MLA members, not a member of another forum’s Excutive Committee unless that position ends in 2024, and have not been an executive committee member of our forum…[Read more]

Please join us for the Chinese and East Asian Literature reception at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, co- sponsored by the forums on Ming and Qing Chinese literature, pre-1400 Chinese literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and East Asian Literature.

Time: Friday, January 5, 7:15-8:30 PM

Location: Marriott Grand A

Thanks to the…[Read more]

Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

Looking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]

You are cordially invited to the  first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction

Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
S…[Read more]