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]

Dear colleagues,

I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]