The Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care

Literature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]

Queer Hamilton

Forum: TC Sexuality Studies and GS Drama and Performance

Musical theatre, performance, Broadway, dance, history, cross-periodization, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, colonial, empire, race, ethnicity, Latina/o, African-American, hip-hop, sexuality, gender, Caribbean, immigration. 250 word abstracts, CVs by 15 February…[Read more]

The Prose Fiction Division invites submissions for the following division panel for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
The Sense of an Ending, Now
Forum: GS Prose Fiction
Fifty years after the publication of Frank Kermode’s classic, we invite papers on the form, theme, and theory of endings. Death, epoch, marriage, apocalypse, ellipses. Abstracts by 1…[Read more]

During the 2016 annual convention of the MLA, the new TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum’s executive committee met to plan session proposals for the 2017 convention and other initiatives.

The forum’s executive committee leadership for 2016:

Rebecca Garden, president

Thomas Lawrence Long, secretary

Andrea Charise, member

Erin L…[Read more]

The past few years I’ve been assembling a list of digitally-oriented sessions at the MLA (e.g. 2015’s list). Let’s do something different this year. Let’s crowdsource that list. I’ve started a Google Doc anyone can edit. Please add your DH session to the list!

Unofficial MLA 2016 List of Digital Humanities Sessions