Thursday, 9 January 8:30 a.m.

• 1. Research for the Future of Nineteenth-Century Latin American Studies

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century Latin American. Presiding: Maria Alejandra Aguilar, Florida Atlantic U; Vanesa Miseres, U of Notre Dame

• Speakers: Sandra Araya, King’s C London; Alejandra Decker, U of California, Berkeley; Yamile Ferreira, Washington U in St. Louis; Wyatt Leaf, Princeton U; Laura Liendo, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Blanca Azalia Rosas Barrera, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología; Hugo Salas, U of Pennsylvania; Valeria Seminario, U of Pennsylvania

• This session brings together graduate students and postdoctoral fellows whose work explores long-nineteenth-century Latin American literary, critical, and cultural studies in novel and exciting ways, making visible the next generation of scholars and offering a snapshot of the field’s future.

• 2. Preconvention Workshop: Become a Certified External Reviewer for the ADE

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Gaurav G. Desai, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Gayle Rogers, U of Pittsburgh

• This workshop trains faculty members to become expert external reviewers of departments and programs of English. Faculty members who wish to acquire experience in reviewing or to learn more about the process are strongly encouraged to attend; those with experience will also benefit from the full review of current best practices. Preregistration is required.

• For related material, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tx8vUnTMxFXlQbnFB4Fv_nH8uOOk7vWs?usp=drive_link after 20 Dec.

• 3. Actionable AI in the Humanities Classroom: A Workshop with the MLA-CCCC Task Force on AI

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Churchill B2

• Program arranged by the MLA-CCCC Ad Hoc Committee on AI. Presiding: Leonardo Flores, Appalachian State U

• Speakers: David Green, Jr., Howard U; Sarah Z. Johnson, Madison C, WI

• Participants work with facilitators in language, literature, and writing programs—using the task force’s resources on AI’s risks and benefits, policy development, and AI literacy and any materials participants want to workshop—to map out actionable, equitable guidelines and curricular interventions that they can adopt locally and to collaborate on foundational priorities for educators’ use of AI. Preregistration is required.

• For related material, visit aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-paper-1/.

• 3A. Transformative Writing Partnerships: Prioritizing Community-Led Visions

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Bridge

• A special session. Presiding: Aimée Knight, Saint Joseph’s U

• Speaker: Aimée Knight

• Addressing the urgent need for a shift in community-university collaborations within writing studies and offering actionable steps to move beyond surface-level approaches, participants engage with a transformative community-led design framework that prioritizes the visions, strengths, and assets of community partners. Preregistration is required.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:64209/.

• 4. Preconvention Workshop: Become a Certified External Reviewer for the ALD

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Churchill A2

• Program arranged by the Association of Language Departments. Presiding: Maggie Broner, Saint Olaf C; Jennifer M. William, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• This workshop trains faculty members to become expert external reviewers of departments and programs of world languages, literatures, and cultures and related disciplines. Faculty members who wish to acquire experience in reviewing are strongly encouraged to attend; those with experience will also benefit from the full review of current best practices. Preregistration is required.

• 5. Leading Curricular Change

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Marlborough B

• Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Christine A. Wooley, Eckerd C

• In this workshop, participants learn strategies for successful curricular revision and reform. Working with an experienced administrator using methods including design thinking and case studies, each attendee develops a plan for leading change with department colleagues, collaborating with administrators on curriculum and assessment, and advocating for resources. Preregistration is required.

Thursday, 9 January 11:45 a.m.

• 5A. Beyond the Professoriat: Career Pathways for Job Seekers in English

• 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., Churchill B1

• Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Ayanni Cooper, MLA

• Speakers: Jahidul Alam, U of Louisiana, Lafayette; Carrie Johnston, Southern Methodist U; Aundeah Kearney, J. P. Morgan Chase and Co.Representatives from across the humanities ecosystem at different types of institutions and organizations discuss career paths for PhDs and mentoring strategies for today’s complex job search. Topics include search mechanics (CVs, letters, interviews), identifying passions and opportunities, developing multiyear job-search and career strategies, negotiating offers, and the roles doctoral preparation and research play in one’s day-to-day work life.

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/1oCDEg8xBcyxcEPfbNx6C_93lCELYWAIk61rmpreG4U/edit?usp=sharing after 8 Jan.

• 6. Beyond the Professoriat: Diverse Career Pathways in World Languages

• 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the MLA Professional Development. Presiding: Mai Hunt, MLA

• Speakers: Yuzhou Bai, Williams C; Sam Caldis, Brown U; Kelsey Seymour, Pluto TV; EJ Thomas, ITHAKASpeakers discuss career opportunities in fields outside the academy—in museums and libraries; government, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations; industry and financial services; K–12 teaching; and the language industry—addressing transferable skills from graduate training and offering guidance on navigating the complex job market. Explore where a humanities PhD can take you beyond the professoriat!

Thursday, 9 January 12:00 noon

• 7. Virginia Woolf and Utopian Skepticism

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the International Virginia Woolf Society. Presiding: Shilo McGiff, independent scholar; Amy Smith, Lamar U

• 1. “Elizabeth Dalloway’s Chinese Eyes: Envisaging an Alternative Future,” Jingjing Cao, U of Exeter

• 2. “For the ‘Love of Beautiful Things or of Good Persons’: Queer Utopias in Jacob’s Room and The Waves,” J. Ashley Foster, California State U, Fresno

• 3. “‘Odious Rice Pudding of a Book’: Woolf’s Failed Novel, Failing Bodies, and Failing Body Politics,” Benjamin Bengtson, U of British Columbia

• 8. Rage: Early Modern Women, Gender, and Anger

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Commerce

• Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. Presiding: Shannon Kelley, Fairfield U

• Speakers: Cora Fox, Arizona State U, Tempe; Joanna Huh, U of Cincinnati; Preea Leelah, Williams C; Patti Wareh, Union C; Haihong Yang, U of Delaware, Newark

• Panelists take a global perspective on early modern women, gender, and anger, focusing on work that centers English, French, Chinese, and Portuguese scholarship.

• 9. Modernism, Social Action, and the Legacy of Samuel Beckett

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the Samuel Beckett Society. Presiding: Patrick W. Bixby, Arizona State U, Phoenix

• Speakers: Daniel Hengel, Hofstra U; Vincent Hiscock, U of California, Irvine; Ryan Kerr, U of Florida; Roya Liu, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Muhammad Saeed Nasir, Emerson U, Multan; Katherine Weiss, California State U, Los Angeles

• Welcoming the voices of both emerging and established scholars, this session aims to assess the enduring significance of modernist literary experimentation for social action and political engagement, with a particular emphasis on the artistic legacy of Samuel Beckett.

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/groups/samuel-beckett-society/ after 1 Dec.

• 10. Wallace Stevens and Classicism

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the Wallace Stevens Society. Presiding: Andrew Osborn, U of Dallas

• 1. “‘A Part of Labor and a Part of Pain’: Stevens, Eudaimonia, Disability,” Andrew David King, U of California, Berkeley

• 2. “‘Wrenched out of Chaos’: Wallace Stevens and the Sublime,” Kelly C. MacPhail, U of Minnesota, Duluth

• 3. “The Birth of Tragedy in Stevens and Nietzsche: Poetry and Ethics between Hellenism and Hebraism,” Ian Tan, Nanyang Technological U

• 4. “The Motive for Metamorphosis: Ovidian Strategies in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens,” Peter Tardiff, U of Dallas

• 11. (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 3

• Program arranged by the Italian American Studies Association. Presiding: Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain U

• 1. “What You Don’t See Is What We Don’t Get: Invisibility and Italian Diaspora Studies,” Fred L. Gardaphe, Queens C, City U of New York

• 2. “Illness, AIDS, and Affect in Robert Ferro’s Novels,” Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• 3. “Italian American Ghost Gardens in the Gulf South,” Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto, Auburn U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/italian-american/documents/.

• 12. Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies. Presiding: Sam Plasencia, Colby C

• Speakers: Drea Brown, Texas State U; Tara Bynum, U of Iowa; Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Donald Holmes II, U of Pittsburgh; Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Texas Christian U; Xine Yao, University C London

• Panelists discuss pedagogical methods for teaching Phillis Wheatley (Peters) to students and teachers in London and the US North, South, and Midwest. Scholars draw on their experience to describe how they make her life, poems, and letters visible and legible to a variety of audiences and to reflect on the institutional and educational structures that delimit teaching her.

• 13. Arthuriana Lost and Found

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Arthurian. Presiding: Laurie Anne Finke, Kenyon C

• 1. “Not Just Parroting: Originality, Motifs, Minor Arthuriana, and the Ethics of Canonization,” Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood U

• 2. “Frankincense, Myrrh, and Laurel: Notes on Some Forgotten Smells and Their Symbolic Role in Chrétien,” Lea Fougerolle, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• 3. “Lydgate’s Arthurs,” Clint Morrison, U of Texas, Austin

• 4. “Whose Grail? Lost Tales and Fake News in Naomi Mitchison’s To the Chapel Perilous,” Susan Aronstein, U of Wyoming

• 14. Aesthetics and Politics

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 4

• Program arranged by the Marxist Literary Group. Presiding: Davis Smith-Brecheisen, U of Texas, Dallas

• 1. “What Neoconcretism Knew,” Nicholas Mainey Brown, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 2. “On the Rightness of Photography,” Emilio Sauri, U of Massachusetts, Boston

• 3. “Chartism’s Last Gasp,” Marie Sanazaro, American U of Beirut

• 4. “Baldwin’s Protest Novel,” Davis Smith-Brecheisen

• 15. Genres of Criticism, Genres in Criticism

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum TM Literary Criticism. Presiding: Stephen Best, U of California, Berkeley

• Speakers: Emma Davenport, Emory U; Jane Hu, U of Southern California; Lauren Jackson, Northwestern U; Jeremy Rosen, U of Utah; Caleb Smith, Yale U; Ross Wilson, U of Cambridge

• Panelists discuss the genres that shape criticism today and the aesthetic and intellectual forms of criticism in the tension between the academic and the public.

• 16. Hope and Despair in Nineteenth-Century America

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century American. Presiding: Julia Lee, U of California, Irvine

• 1. “Speculative Dre(a)d: Enclaves of Subjunctive Subjectivity in Dred (1856) and Blake (1859–62),” Justin Chandler, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

• 2. “Interrupted Visionary Fictions: The Speculative Hope and Despair of Martin Delany’s Blake,” Seth Cosimini, Vassar C

• 3. “Negotiating Gender and Racial Notions of Despair with Intimate Partner Violence and Suicide in the Long Latinx Nineteenth Century,” Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, Northeastern U

• 4. “Hope and Despair in the State Void of Israel Potter,” Michelle Sizemore, U of Kentucky

• 17. Verse versus Prose

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and Poetics. Presiding: Jahan Ramazani, U of Virginia

• 1. “Prosaic Verse Meets Poetry: Italian Troubadours and Dante,” Marisa Galvez, Stanford U

• 2. “Cervantes’s Prosimetric Eclogue,” Gabrielle Ponce, Wesleyan U

• 3. “Versaic versus Prosaic,” Jonathan Atkins, Stanford U

• 4. “From Footnotes to Fibonacci Sonnets: The Numerology of Prose Poetry,” Sylvia Onorato, Princeton U

• 18. Palestine and the Health Humanities

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies. Presiding: Nishant Shahani, Washington State U, Vancouver

• 1. “Debility and Disability in Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece,” Janene G. Lewis, U of Mary Hardin-Baylor

• 2. “Population Culling and the Colonial Logics of Aid,” Chelsea Kopp, Washington State U, Vancouver

• For related material, write to nshahani3@wsu.edu after 2 Dec.

• 19. Health and Medicine in Colonial Latin America: Power, Race, and Gender through Texts and Contexts, Politics, and Practices

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin American. Presiding: Karen A. Stolley, Emory U

• 1. “The Gaze of the Administrator: Medical Care and Hospital Reports in Colonial Lima,” Jose Cardenas Bunsen, Vanderbilt U

• 2. “Indigenous Knowledges and the Imperial Archive: Nahua Health and Healing in the Relaciones geograficas,” Kelly McDonough, U of Texas, Austin

• 3. “Power, Silence, and Pharmaka in the Oldest Herbolario: The Politics of Indigenous and Spanish Medicines,” Giovanni Salazar Calvo, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater

• 4. “Midwifery, Pregnancy, and Childcare in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Biopolitical Medicine,” Paola Uparela, U of Florida

• 20. Visible Archives

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Parish

• Program arranged by the forum GS Nonfiction Prose. Presiding: Jenny Cookson, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 1. “Fragmented Recollections: Y-Dang Troeung’s Refugee Memoir,” Eleanor R. Ty, Wilfrid Laurier U

• 2. “Reframing Silenced Narratives about Violence in Mexican-American and Bosnian-German Memoir,” Arne Romanowski, U of Dayton

• 3. “Examining the Indigenous Ideological Investments of the Massachusetts State Seal in Mid-Evolution,” Lydia Burleson, Stanford U

• 4. “Positional Pandemonium at the Royal Society of London; or, Where Did the ‘New Science’ Know From?,” Alexander Sherman, Stanford U

• 21. (In)Visible Pains: Medicine and Disease in Galdós’s Works

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the International Association of Galdós Scholars. Presiding: Sara Munoz-Muriana, Dartmouth C

• 1. “An Affliction That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Postpartum Psychosis in the Later Novelas contemporánea,” Gareth Wood, University C London

• 2. “Molding the Medical Professional: Student Practitioners and Galdós,” Erika Maurine Sutherland, Muhlenberg C

• 3. “Degenerative Illnesses and Bourgeois Critique in Galdós’s Lo prohibido,” Stacy Davis, Truman State U

• 4. “Industrial (Dis)Orders: The Sublime Mechanized Body in Galdós and Pardo Bazán,” Sarah Sierra, Virginia Tech

• 22. Environmental Racism and Justice in Literature and Culture

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 19

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada. Presiding: Regina Mills, Texas A&M U, College Station

• 1. “Olfactory Ecologies: Investigating Oil’s Smelly Residues in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep,” Anthony Gomez, U of Oklahoma

• 2. “Environmental Justice in N. K. Jemisin’s ‘Emergency Skin,’” Sage Gerson, Rhode Island School of Design

• 3. “Jean Toomer as Ecological Thinker: Environmental and Cultural Conservation in Cane,” Anthony Shoplik, Loyola U, Chicago

• 4. “Coding Oil among the Plantations: Energy Injustice in Digital Game Worlds,” Jason de Lara Molesky, Saint Louis U

• 25. The Hope of Hybridity

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Cambridge

• A special session. Presiding: Claire Sommers, Washington U in St. Louis

• 1. “Garments, Greene, and Gillyvors: Costume, Theater, and Tragicomedy in The Winter’s Tale,” Claire Sommers

• 2. “Why Children? Collins’s Reply, Enough of Science and of Heart,” Aileen Farrar, Nova Southeastern U

• 3. “The Subaltern Library: Hybrid Scholarship as Anticolonial Resistance in R. F. Kuang’s Babel,” Kyle Garton-Gundling, Christopher Newport U

• 4. “Decolonizing Black African Beauty? The Ambivalences of Hybridity in Afropolitan Fashion in Paris,” Suzie Telep, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 26. Samuel R. Delany and the Pornographic

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 6

• A special session. Presiding: David S. Kurnick, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• Speakers: Ethan Fukuto, Northwestern U; Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, U of Chicago; Steven Ruszczycky, California State Polytechnic U, San Luis Obispo; Connor Spencer, Columbia U; Rebecca Teich, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Omari Weekes, Queens C, City U of New York

• Focusing on the pornographic fiction of Samuel R. Delany, with attention to its conditions of production, subversive imagery, affective intensities, and sociopolitical critique, participants reflect on Delany’s pornography not as a simple addendum to his more recognized works of science fiction but as a key component to his oeuvre.

• 27. Collective Self-Fashioning in South American Colonial Festivals

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Churchill C1

• A special session. Presiding: Miguel Valerio, Washington U in St. Louis

• 1. “Evangelizing Settlers in Jose de Anchieta’s Auto of St. Maurice,” Nicole T. Hughes, Stanford U

• 2. “Festivals, Race, and Print Culture in Colonial Brazil,” Miguel Valerio

• 29. Comparative Global Nineteenth-Century Studies: Questions, Theories, Methodologies

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 16

• A special session. Presiding: Jessica Valdez, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• Speakers: Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U; Sukanya Banerjee, U of California, Berkeley; Amy E. Martin, Mount Holyoke C; Jessie Reeder, Binghamton U, State U of New York; Rachel Teukolsky, Vanderbilt U; Alisha Walters, Penn State U, Abington; Olivia Lingyi Xu, Northwestern U

• Panelists engage in a metaconversation about the conundrums posed by the global turn in nineteenth-century research. How do we think across regions that are usually studied separately? How is global studies different from empire studies or the transimperial? How do the elements of otherness cemented in the nineteenth century—race, class, gender, nation, and religion, among others—enter into our understanding of the global and its comparatisms?

• 30. New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chart A

• A special session. Presiding: Hua Li, Montana State U, Bozeman

• 1. “Native Soil on Another Planet? Pema Tseden’s Tibetan Calendar as Minority Polemic,” Michael O’Krent, Harvard U

• 2. “Rediscovering Chinese Science Fiction,” Yijun Liu, Binghamton U, State U of New York

• 3. “Technologized Domestic Labor in Postsocialist China,” Yihan Wang, Washington U in St. Louis

• 4. “Coevolution and Species Diversity in Shuang Chi Mu’s ‘My Family and Other Evolving Animals,’” Hua Li

• 31. Editing for Social Change: Pasts, Plights, and Paths

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Compass

• A special session. Presiding: Benjamin Lee, Library of Congress

• Speakers: Jim Casey, Penn State U, University Park; Kelley Kreitz, Pace U, New York; Joshua Ortiz Baco, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs

• Scholars and journalists discuss the invisible craft, politics, and histories of editorship, aiming to bridge current debates in the media and in print culture studies, and explore editing’s roles within movements for social change in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries.

• 32. Indigenous Literatures Now! Collective Pasts and Presents

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 7

• A special session. Presiding: Cristina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth U

• 1. “Wayreading as Transmotion: Craig Santos Perez’s Aesthetic Communities,” Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz, U of Kentucky

• 2. “Black-Native Desire(s): Notes on Grief, Care, and the Work of Memory,” Morgan Ridgway, Harvard U

• 3. “How to Be Good Ancestors? Examining Native Ancestors in Miko Kings and Man Made Monsters,” Abhijit Sarmah, U of Georgia

• 4. “Studying and Teaching Indigenous Literatures in Translation: Practices and Pedagogies,” Sarah Henzi, Simon Fraser U

• 33. Uncanny Spaces in Domestic Places: Haunted Houses in Women’s Detective Fiction

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 18

• A special session. Presiding: Leonard Cassuto, Fordham U

• 1. “‘Death Had Often Occurred There’: Inherited Transgression in Anna Katharine Green,” Keli Masten, Ferris State U

• 2. “The English Country House in Interwar Crime Fiction: Where Gothic and Golden Age Overlap,” Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, U of Bamberg

• 3. “‘A Mass of Contradictions’: Agatha Christie’s Gothic Modernity,” Gill Plain, U of St Andrews

• 34. The Event of Psychoanalysis Now: Psychic Life under Polycrisis

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Magazine

• A special session

• 1. “Jameson and Psychoanalysis: Dialectical Criticism in Omnicrisis,” Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 2. “Virginia Woolf, Ling Ma, and Pandemic Melancholia,” Jennifer Spitzer, Ithaca C

• 3. “AI Companions: Therapeutic Promise and Peril,” Anna Mukamal, Coastal Carolina U

• For related material, write to amukamal@coastal.edu.

• 35. Autotheory as Learning Theory: Social Selves at the Threshold of Meaning

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 15

• A special session. Presiding: Lizzie Hutton, Miami U, Oxford

• 1. “Autotheory and Literacy Learning: Autotheory for Beginners,” Lizzie Hutton

• 2. “Sarah Winnemucca: Word Warrior,” Anne Ruggles Gere, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 3. “Critics in Community: Autotheory’s Lessons for the Literature Classroom,” Kyle Frisina, C of the Holy Cross

• 36. Bad Novels

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Churchill B2

• A special session

• Speakers: Farah Bakaari, Cornell U; Gloria L. Fisk, Queens C, City U of New York; Yogita Goyal, U of California, Los Angeles; Rebecca Johnson, Northwestern U; Sangeeta Ray, U of Maryland, College Park; Dan Sinykin, Emory U

• The contemporary literary scene is suffused with sleek, topical, marketable, and critically favorable novels that promise a blazing reflection on the world but at best deliver only a partial feeling. Panelists reflect on how we ought to encounter, theorize, and historicize the omnipresence of bad novels in our literary present. What if the bad novel were an event for theory? What does its dominance mean for the future of the novel form and the state of novel theory?

• 37. Social Media and the Discourse of Racism

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Camp

• A special session. Presiding: Jeffrey Clapp, Education U of Hong Kong

• 1. “The Changing Dynamics of the Public Sphere: George Floyd and the Discourse of Race in Social Media,” David Tse-chien Pan, U of California, Irvine

• 2. “Art-Race Swarms,” Jeffrey Clapp

• 3. “Beyond Filters: Unmasking Racism in Social Media Beauty Standards,” Sadiya Jannath, U of South Alabama

• For related material, write to dtpan@uci.edu.

• 38. Scripting Invisibility in Japanophone Literature: Queering Norms of Coloniality, Language, and Whiteness

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Starboard

• A special session. Presiding: Andre Haag, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

• 1. “Penetrating the Passing Colonial Subject as Text: Race and Sexual Surveillance in Japan-Korea Unions,” Andre Haag

• 2. “Queer Orthographies; or, How to Visualize Resistance in Japanophonic Literature,” Christopher Lowy, Carnegie Mellon U

• 3. “Levy Hideo’s (In)Visible Knapsack: Reading Whiteness in Japan,” Cindi Textor, U of Utah

• 39. Rendering Public Needs Visible: New Directions for Scholarship and Pedagogy at Access Universities

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Quarterdeck A

• A special session. Presiding: Shelly Jarenski, U of Michigan, Dearborn

• 1. “Fusing Creative and Scholarly Genres of Writing: A Response to Wisconsin’s Abortion Ban,” Ann Mattis, U of Wisconsin, Green Bay

• 2. “Applied Rhetoric, Accessible Scholarship, and Beating Tinder: Social Media Spaces as OER Classrooms,” Jennifer Young, U of Wisconsin, Green Bay

• 3. “Will We Continue to Answer the Challenges That COVID-19 Teaching Laid Bare?,” Shelly Jarenski

• 40. Representations of (In)Visibility: Human Rights across Genres

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 9

• A special session. Presiding: Iqra Raza, U of Houston

• 1. “Recuperating Hauntology for the Human Rights Novel,” Iqra Raza

• 2. “Narrating the Invisible Economic Refugee,” Arielle Stambler, U of California, Los Angeles

• 3. “Unsilencing with Silence: Deafening Invisibility in El Filibusterismo and The Zone of Interest,” Ryan Rodriguez, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• 4. “Caves, Ghosts, and Mirrors: Atmospheric History in South Korean Memorial Museums,” Melissa Karp, Duke U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/representations-of-in-visibility-human-rights-across-genres/.

• 41. Gullah Narratives in American Literature and Music

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Royal

• A special session. Presiding: Feroza Jussawalla, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• Speakers: Kyle Fox, C of Coastal Georgia; Sharon Fuller, Sonoma State U; Vladimir Lucien, New York U; Xavier Luffin, U Libre de Bruxelles; Lynne Morrow, Sonoma State U; Isaac Robertson, New York U; Joyce White, Georgia Southern U

• Panelists bring to visibility the often overlooked influence of Gullah Geechee narratives in African American and American literature and music, particularly that of Toni Morrison and Zora Neal Hurston, addressing an important decolonial approach to African American literary analysis and practice.

• For related material, write to fjussawa@unm.edu after 15 Nov.

Thursday, 9 January 1:45 p.m.

• 42. Quelle autorité pour quelle auctorialité? Mise en fiction de l’écrivain(e) dans les romans francophones

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the Conseil International d’Études Francophones. Presiding: Marie Bulte, U de Lille

• 1. “Les failles de l’auctorialité francophone, ou le droit à la légèreté,” Yolaine Parisot, U Paris-Est Créteil

• 2. “De l’autorité visible à la visibilité auctoriale dans les littératures en français,” Oana Panaïté, Indiana U, Bloomington

• 3. “Vacillements de l’ethos auctorial dans l’œuvre d’Assia Djebar: Entre pratique et théorie,” Chloe Chaudet, U Clermont Auvergne

• 4. “‘[T]our à tour déchaîné et ligoté’: L’écrivain dans tous ses états dans l’œuvre de Williams Sassine,” Marie Bulte

• 43. New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories: The Next Forty Years

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Magazine

• Program arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Presiding: Everett Hamner, Western Illinois U

• Speakers: Iván-Daniel Espinosa, U of Colorado, Boulder; Benjamin Mangrum, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.; Anne McConnell, West Virginia State U; Caitlin McIntyre, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• Respondent: Donna Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz

• In 2025, Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” turns forty. Many find “Situated Knowledges” and other interventions equally crucial; finding muses among dogs, Haraway has inspired queer theory, disability studies, and hybridity in many forms. Applying her work to pressing near-term problems, panelists address such provocations as naturalization, fake news, asking the wrong question, and a Mycelium manifesto for kin-making choreographies.

• 44. Lectura Boccaccii, Day Two

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the American Boccaccio Association. Presiding: Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt U

• 1. “Decameron II.4: A Maritime Morality Tale,” Simone Marchesi, Princeton U

• 2. “Decameron II.2,” Anna Wainwright, U of New Hampshire, Durham

• Respondent: Elsa Filosa

• 45. Foundwork, Plagiarism, and Creative Use

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the Society for Textual Scholarship. Presiding: Gabrielle Dean, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• 1. “Walt Whitman’s Scissors,” Stefan Schöberlein, Texas A&M U, Central Texas

• 2. “Plagiarism, Creative Reuse, and the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt and Harry Stillwell Edwards,” Kenneth M. Price, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

• 3. “Conglomerates of Voices: Rethinking D’Annunzio’s Practices of Creative Reuse and Plagiarism,” Caterina Bernardini, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

• 46. Targeting Student Success: Success Initiatives in English for Black Students at the Community College of Baltimore County

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association. Presiding: Gregory Campbell, Community C of Baltimore County, MD

• 1. “The Female Student Success Initiative at CCBC,” Jewel Kerr Jackson, Community C of Baltimore County, MD; Denise Parker, Community C of Baltimore County, MD

• 47. Mountaintops and Marshlands: Making Southern Ecolenses Visible

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Royal

• Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Presiding: Allison Harris, U of North Carolina, Wilmington

• 1. “Appalachia in the Anthropocene,” Rachel Bates, independent scholar

• 2. “Necropower, Dispossession, and the Tennessee Valley Authority,” Allison Harris

• 3. “Consider the Crayfish: Indigenous Earth-Building Narratives against Erosion,” Gina Caison, Georgia State U

• 4. “Archiving a Disappearing Landscape: Exploring South Louisiana through Countermaps,” Stacey Balkun, U of New Orleans

• 48. Sounding Melville

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the Melville Society. Presiding: Pilar Martinez Benedi, U of L’Aquila

• Speakers: Michael Jonik, U of Sussex; Edouard Marsoin, U Paris Cité; Tony Papanikolas, San José State U; Christopher Rice, McGill U; Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall U; Justina Torrance, Santa Clara U; Brian Yothers, Saint Louis U

• Panelists seek to fathom the aesthetic and interpretive potential of sound and to foster a conversation about the aural dimension of Melville’s works. How does Melville reconceptualize difference in auditory terms? How do his works negotiate the relation of musicality, sound, and noise? Do they perpetuate or challenge “colonial listening” practices? Is unparsed noise a site of resistance, of social and racial contestation?

• For related material, visit www.melvillesociety.org/ after 20 Dec.

• 49. Solidarity

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Anglophone. Presiding: Brenna M. Munro, U of Miami

• Speakers: Eylaf Bader Eddin, Forum Transregionale Studien; Anna Bernard, King’s C London; Paul Nadal, Princeton U; Tiana Reid, York U

• Solidarity: political fellowship, structure of feeling, form of relation, or particular aesthetic? How have solidarities been written historically? What solidarities are being written, or practiced, by communities of writers now? What connections have been forged, and what calls for solidarity have failed to register?

• 50. Bodies in Motion

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding: Katherine Fusco, U of Nevada, Reno

• 1. “Bad Bodies: Kinetic Ornaments in Leni Riefenstahl,” John Hoffmann, Chapman U

• 2. “Ambulatory Gothic: House Tours in the Horror Film,” Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin C

• 3. “Collaborative, Intermedial Journeying in Diana Markosian’s Santa Barbara,” Beth Pyner, Cardiff U

• 4. “Bodies in Transit: Black Ghosts in Taiwan’s Video Art,” Junting Huang, Harvard U

• 51. Sites under Siege: Querying and Queering the Terms of Resistance and Refusal

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Quarterdeck B

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Puerto Rican. Presiding: Sandra Ruiz, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 1. “Reverberations of Defiance: Activating Lolita Lebrón’s Memory in Anticolonial Activism,” Karrieann Soto Vega, U of Kentucky

• 2. “The Queer Transfiguration of Reggaeton in Bad Bunny and Beyond,” Carlos Rivera-Santana, William and Mary

• 3. “Against Resilience: Laziness as Refusal,” Zorimar Rivera Montes, Tulane U

• 4. “Sequestered Islands? Imperfect Language of Resistance across Territories,” Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American U

• Respondent: Karen Jaime, Cornell U

• 52. Mediation and Aesthetics of Violence in Korean Visual Media

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Korean. Presiding: Jooyeon Rhee, Penn State U, University Park

• 1. “Tortures, Images, and Places: The National Museum of Democracy and Human Rights,” Hong Kal, York U

• 2. “Laughing Matter: The Affirmation of Violence in Twenty-First-Century South Korean Cinema,” Adam DeCaulp, Penn State U, University Park

• 3. “Bodies and (PC) Bangs: The Physical and the Material in Korean Gaming Culture,” Keung Yoon Bae, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

• 4. “Memories of (In)Visible Violence: Exploring Social Justice in South Korean Cinema,” Hyun Seon Park, George Mason U

• 53. Interepistemic Translation: How We Make Sense of the World

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Marlborough A

• Program arranged by the forum TM Language Theory. Presiding: Douglas Robinson, Chinese U of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

• 1. “Popular Science as Interepistemic Translation: A Case Study,” Karen Bennett, U Nova de Lisboa

• 2. “On Discovering Aristotle Was Not an Idiot,” Douglas Robinson

• 3. “Metaphysical Conceits and the Double Empathy Gap,” Bridget Bartlett, U of Mississippi, Oxford

• 4. “The Interepistemic Translating of the Jesuits in China, with Matteo Ricci as the Example,” Xiaorui Sun, Chinese U of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

• 54. Ugly Chaucer

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Chaucer. Presiding: Adin E. Lears, Virginia Commonwealth U

• 1. “Chaucer’s ‘Ugly,’” Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State U

• 2. “Rough and Smooth in Chaucer’s Verse: The Curious Case of BL, Harley 7334,” Christopher Cannon, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• 3. “The Summoner’s Apotheosis of Repulsion,” Paul Megna, State U of New York, Purchase

• 4. “The Manciple’s Tale’s Mocking Echoes and the Noisiness of Language,” Nathan Phelps, U of Notre Dame

• 55. Easts in the German Imagination: Figurations of the Orient

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German. Presiding: Julie Koser, U of Maryland, College Park

• 1. “Orientations in the German Enlightenment: Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem,” Dafna Shetreet, New York U

• 2. “Reason and Revelation in East and West: Mendelssohn’s Reception of Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān,” Emir Faruk Kayahan, U of Chicago

• 3. “Wilhelm Hauff’s Fairytale Almanacs (Märchen-Almanache): Escapism or Ironic Criticism?,” Stefania Acciaioli, U Bonn

• 56. Jewish Literature and Its Transnational Tensions

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Jewish. Presiding: L. Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall C

• 1. “Jewish Literature as World Literature: Why, Where, and How Does It Matter?,” Naomi Taub, U of California, Los Angeles

• 2. “Transnational Gertrude Stein: Portraying the Americans from France,” Alice Balestrino, U of Roma Tre

• 3. “Jewish Italian Characters on the World Stage,” Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke U

• 57. New Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-Century French. Presiding: Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, U of Vermont

• 1. “Enseigner le théâtre français de la Renaissance aujourd’hui: Réflexions sur les outils numériques,” Nina Hugot, U de Lorraine

• 2. “Paper Pacifism: Humanist Self-Promotion in Rabelais’s Guerre Picrocholine,” Hannah Katznelson, U of California, Berkeley

• 3. “The Encounter with the Female Other in the ‘Débat des lavendières de Paris,’” Kathleen A. Loysen, Montclair State U

• 4. “Composing Poetry, Navigating Oceans: Jean Parmentier’s Blue Poetics,” Jack Nunn, U of Oxford, Exeter C

• 58. Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 19

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic. Presiding: Maybel Mesa Morales, Lycoming C

• 1. “‘Todos han muerto’: El fantasma de la historia en la pentagonía de Reinaldo Arenas,” Ingrid Robyn, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

• 2. “El diario en tiempo revolucionario: Rostros del reverso, de Lorenzo García Vega,” Rodney Lebrón-Rivera, Princeton U

• 3. “Temporalidades del archivo: Generación y Tundra,” Walfrido Dorta, Susquehanna U

• 4. “Exploring New Cuban Cinema in a Postsocialist Context,” Reynaldo Lastre, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/ after 1 Dec.

• 59. The Radical Queer South

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern United States. Presiding: Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi, Oxford

• 1. “Reclaiming a Radical RuPaul? Subversive Drag and Queer Atlanta between SNCC and Supermodel,” Michael Paul Bibler, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 2. “Healing the Mind-Body Split: Lillian Smith as Cultural Worker,” Amanda Mixon, U of Texas, Austin

• 3. “The Southern Queer Kids Are Alright: LGBTQ+ YA in the South,” Phillip Gordon, U of Mississippi, Oxford

• 4. “Multispecies Attachment as ‘Wild Possibility’ in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy,” Kacee McKinney, Oklahoma City Community C

• For related material, write to jlharker@olemiss.edu.

• 60. More New Methods in Eighteenth-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS 18th-Century. Presiding: David Alff, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• 1. “Between Enlightenment: Arabic Travel Writing in the Global Eighteenth Century,” Allison Gibeily, Northwestern U

• 2. “On (and against) Arithmetic Style,” Ryan Sheldon, Middlebury C

• 3. “Obscure Affinities: Beholding and Taste in Sa‘di and Addison,” Taymaz Pour Mohammad, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 61. Crip Genealogies in Conversation

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum TC Disability Studies. Presiding: Sony Coráñez Bolton, Amherst C

• Speakers: Mel Chen, U of California, Berkeley; Anna Hinton, U of North Texas; Julie Minich, U of Texas, Austin

• Contributors to Disability Studies Quarterly’s special issue Origins, Objects, Orientations: New Histories and Theories of Race and Disability and the anthology Crip Genealogies (Duke UP) discuss the status of the integration of critical ethnic and race studies and disability and crip studies as signposted by the publication of these works.

• 62. Advocating for World Languages: A Cheat Sheet for Difficult Conversations with Administrators

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the ALD Executive Committee. Presiding: Martha Daas, Old Dominion U

• Speakers: John Baskerville, Jr., United States Military Acad.; Maggie Broner, Saint Olaf C; Karen de Bruin, U of Rhode Island; John B. Lyon, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Alwiya Omar, Indiana U, Bloomington; Jennifer M. William, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• Panelists focus on methods of advocating for world languages with administrators. Topics include illustrating the relevance and importance of language learning in a STEM-focused world, the benefits of both basic language learning and striving toward proficiency, the necessity of language diversity, and the challenges and opportunities of AI.

• 63. The Harlem Renaissance: A Centennial Celebration

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 18

• A special session. Presiding: Yolanda Mackey-Barkers, Penn State U, University Park

• Speakers: Eve Dunbar, Rice U; Carla Kaplan, Northeastern U; William J. Maxwell, Washington U in St. Louis; Ernest Mitchell, Yale U; Miriam Thaggert, U at Buffalo, State U of New York; Richard Yarborough, U of California, Los Angeles

• Celebrating the Harlem Renaissance centennial and the fall 2025 special issue of American Literary History, panelists revisit the central themes of the cultural movement and speak to its continued significance for understanding Black life and culture.

• 65. Hypergraphia and Hypographia: Literary Maximalism and the Literature of Writer’s Block

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill A2

• A special session. Presiding: Benjamin Bergholtz, Louisiana Tech U; Aaron Colton, Emory U

• 1. “‘No!—But I Must’: The Blocked Writer in Maximalist Fiction,” Benjamin Bergholtz

• 2. “The Craft of Writer’s Block: Autofiction, Process, and Pedagogy,” Aaron Colton

• 3. “Megatextual Kinaesthetics: The Wanderer above the Sea of Elden Ring,” Bradley Fest, Hartwick C

• 4. “Wallace’s Maximalism: Other-Flood and Self-Blockage,” Yonina Hoffman, United States Merchant Marine Acad.

• For related material, write to benjaminbergholtz@gmail.com after 6 Jan.

• 66. (In)Visibilities during Francoism

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Canal

• A special session. Presiding: Enrique Muñoz-Mantas, U of North Dakota

• 1. “El proyecto colonial español en África: Laboratorio de experimentación franquista,” Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Hofstra U

• 2. “Peripheral Visions: Cine Quinqui and Franco’s ‘Economic Miracle,’” Jacqueline Sheean, U of Utah

• 3. “Palpable (In)Visibilities: Addressing Cernuda’s Time and Poetics in Exile,” Francisco Cantero Soriano, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 4. “‘Ni vagos ni maleantes’: Memories and Aftereffects from Tefía,” Enrique Muñoz-Mantas

• 67. The Violence of Genre

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Parish

• A special session. Presiding: Melissa Parrish, Smith C

• Speakers: Rebecca Ballard, Florida State U; Isaac Cowell, American U of Iraq, Sulaimani; Michael Dango, Beloit C; Tess Grogan, Yale U; Jennifer Park, U of Glasgow; Jeremy Rosen, U of Utah; Lindsay Thomas, Cornell U

• What kinds of violent tensions arise when genres enforce normative positions, destabilize or erase voices and histories, or heighten existing inequities? Panelists from early modern studies to contemporary literature discuss thematic, formal, cultural, and institutional relationships between literary genres and violence.

• 68. The Book Club as Pedagogy and Practice

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Starboard

• A special session. Presiding: Carolyn Fornoff, Cornell U

• Speakers: Carolyn Fornoff; Ilana Luna, Arizona State U, West; Amanda Petersen, U of San Diego; Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington U in St. Louis

• Exploring the book club as a pedagogical practice in higher education and as a joyful practice of community building among academics, panelists discuss how they have incorporated the book club as an activity in undergraduate courses to enhance student engagement, as well as their experiences with book clubs in and out of academia, as a means of centering pleasure, prioritizing informal discussion, and building community.

• 69. Defoe and Narrative Form

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 4

• A special session. Presiding: Leah Orr, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• Speakers: Ikram Arfi, U Paris-Sorbonne; Paula R. Backscheider, Auburn U; Aparna Gollapudi, Colorado State U; Stephanie Hershinow, Baruch C, City U of New York; Maximillian E. Novak, U of California, Los Angeles; Michael B. Prince, Boston U; Rivka Swenson, Virginia Commonwealth U

• Panelists examine Daniel Defoe’s contributions and experiments in narrative form. Topics include narrative form in non-novel works, comparisons with contemporary writers, Defoe’s creation of character, the interplay between plot and story, and the influences of Defoe’s writing on narrative form.

• 70. The Art of the Book Review

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 16

• A special session. Presiding: Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine Acad.

• 1. “Merve Emre and the Form of Contemporary Criticism,” Robert Metaxatos, Indiana U, Bloomington

• 2. “Goodreads and the Evolution of Reader Reviews,” Diana Filar

• 3. “Apotheoses of the Book Review: Walter Benjamin on Karl Gröber, Ralph Ellison on LeRoi Jones,” Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Acad.

• Respondent: Douglas G. Dowland, Ohio Northern U

• 71. The Internet of Everything: Africa and Digital Visibility

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill A1

• A special session. Presiding: Olorunshola Adenekan, Ghent U

• 1. “Digital Orality,” Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Amherst C

• 2. “Pidgin and Digital Angst in Ghanaian Social Media Narratives,” Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, U of Ghana

• 3. “Authorial Self-Fashioning and Emotional Labor in the Digital Age: The Case of Contemporary Nigerian Literature,” Hannah Pardey, Heinrich-Heine-U Düsseldorf

• 72. Reenvisioning Adaptation Studies: Recent Trends

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill C1

• A special session. Presiding: Katherine Gillen, Texas A&M U, San Antonio

• Speakers: Colin Bishoff, U of Georgia; Yvette Chairez, Texas A&M U, San Antonio; Meg Dobbins, Eastern Michigan U; Lisa Jennings, U of Houston, Downtown Campus; Kathryn Vomero Santos, Trinity U; Nayoung Seo, George Washington U

• Panelists explore recent trends in adaptation studies, addressing young adult adaptations; language, tradaptation, performance, and media; and the value of engaging with Black, Chicanx, feminist, and trans studies. Discussion focuses on the growing presence of adaptation in conversations about language, literature, and pedagogy and on the future of adaptation studies both as a discrete field and in its many interdisciplinary permutations.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/adaptation-studies-1124901332/ after 1 Dec.

• 73. Not about Them without Them: Including the Public in the Process of Cultural Heritage Descriptions

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 3

• A special session. Presiding: Jessica BrodeFrank, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 1. “Collective Intelligence: Cultural Heritage Description in an AI World,” Jessica BrodeFrank

• 2. “Expanding Voices, Expanding Access: Social- and Community-Centered Metadata,” Isabel Brador, Library of Congress

• 3. “Metadata Best Practices for Trans- and Gender-Diverse Resources,” Bri Watson, U of British Columbia

• 74. (Re)Thinking Academic Forms: A Conversation

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill B2

• A special session. Presiding: Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-U Munchen

• Speakers: James Dowthwaite, Friedrich-Schiller-U Jena; Daniel Fried, U of Alberta; Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe U, Frankfurt am Main; Skye Shannon Savage, Columbia U; Alice Tsay, The Huntington

• Panelists, building on the efforts of the Working Group on Academic Forms, aim for a critical and constructive (re)negotiation of the role of conventionalized and institutionalized academic form(at)s. Discussion focuses on how academic forms define, shape, foster, or, perhaps, stifle the intellectual work we do as scholars in the humanities.

• 75. Black Maternal Labor

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Eglinton Winton

• A special session. Presiding: Raquel Kennon, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 1. “Nella Larsen’s Maternal Instincts,” Amadi Ozier, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 2. “Form and Transform: Writing the Body in Claudia Rankine’s Plot,” Kathy Lou Schultz, U of Memphis

• 3. “‘What Else Would Peoples Use Like They Used Us?’: Exhaustion and Black Feminist Sustainability in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose,” Bria Paige, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 76. Commerce, Control, and Lyrical Tradition: Exploring Cultural Dynamics in the Late Ming Novel Jin Ping Mei

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Quarterdeck A

• A special session. Presiding: Tina Lu, Yale U

• 1. “Playing with Losing Control: The Game of Pitch Pot and Confucian Cybernetics in Jin Ping Mei,” Paize Keulemans, Princeton U

• 2. “From the ‘Man of Forest’ to the ‘Man of Market’: Marriage, Commerce, and Confucianism in Jin Ping Mei,” Leihua Weng, Kalamazoo C

• 3. “Harmonies Unraveled: The Grotesque Metamorphosis of Chinese Lyrical Tradition in Jin Ping Mei,” Zhenxing Zhao, Singapore U of Tech. and Design

• For related material, write to zhenxing_zhao@sutd.edu.sg.

• 77. Poetry’s Genres and Publics: Making and Contesting the Contemporary

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Commerce

• A special session

• 1. “Creolizing Elegy,” Jahan Ramazani, U of Virginia

• 2. “Witnessing Violence: Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Insurrectionary Dub,” Anthony Reed, Vanderbilt U

• 3. “History and Contemporary Poetics,” Evie Shockley, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 78. Prompt Engineering as Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, and Creative Writing

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Camp

• A special session. Presiding: Jong-Keyong Kim, Texas Christian U

• 1. “Reinterpreting Intertextuality through Prompt Engineering,” Celia Xu, U of Chicago

• 2. “Persuading AI to Persuade You—of Anything: Theorizing Prompt Engineering as Rhetorical Persuasion,” Fatima Zohra, U of Waterloo

• 3. “Babylon Redux: The Oulipo Group and Prompt Engineering for Uncreative Writing,” Zach Muhlbauer, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/10tbfXxhV-8bL5NiiyDkL2nCr2HYPZEW2jfCGxsnLHaM/edit?usp=sharing after 26 Dec.

Thursday, 9 January 3:30 p.m.

• 79. Invisible Mark Twain: Meanings between the Lines

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Royal

• Program arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of America. Presiding: Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio U, Athens

• 1. “‘Wholly in the Jingle’: Mark Twain’s Humorous Translations,” Brian Shields, Temple U, Philadelphia

• 2. “Invisible Workers and the ‘Commerce of Disease’ in Twain’s ‘Three Thousand Years among the Microbes,’” Jess Libow, Haverford C

• 3. “James and Jim: Percival Everett on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Darryl Dickson-Carr, Southern Methodist U

• Respondent: Matt Seybold, Elmira C

• 80. Victorian Invisibilities

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the Dickens Society. Presiding: Renee Fox, U of California, Santa Cruz

• 1. “Black Playwrights on the Victorian Stage,” Sharon Weltman, Texas Christian U

• 2. “Victoria’s Invisible Race: The Cagots, Whiteness, and Racialization,” Daniel Akiva Novak, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 3. “Invisible Hand, Invisible Threat: Marx’s Critique of Capital and Victorian Irish Radicalism,” Amy E. Martin, Mount Holyoke C

• 81. African American Literary Study in the 2020s

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

• Speakers: Margo Natalie Crawford, U of Pennsylvania; Julius Fleming, Jr., U of Maryland, College Park; Rolland Murray, Brown U; Hayley O’Malley, U of Iowa; Sonya Posmentier, New York U; Cherene Monique Sherrard-Johnson, Pomona C

• Respondent: Herman Beavers, U of Pennsylvania

• Accomplished scholars address the state of African American literary study, inviting deep reflection on where we find ourselves now and to approach this reflection and conversation with a great sense of purpose and urgency. Panelists reflect on critical methods and approaches, graduate student training, pedagogy, and the development of programs and departments.

• 82. Tourism and Travel Narratives in Latin America

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the forum TC Popular Culture

• 1. “Planning a Mexican Road Trip in Mexico: The Land of Charm,” Julia Brown, Florida Atlantic U

• 2. “Colonial Desire and Women’s Tourism: A Reading of Lucia Berlin’s Short Stories about Mexico,” Leila G. Gomez, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 3. “Travels in Tulum/Zamá: In Search of María Uicab,” Maria Ines Canto Carrillo, Colorado State U

• Respondent: Amanda Petersen, U of San Diego

• For related material, write to juliaruthbrown@fau.edu.

• 83. Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the forum RCWS Creative Writing. Presiding: Catherine Gander, Maynooth U; Stefania Heim, Western Washington U

• Speakers: Daniel Borzutzky, U of Illinois, Chicago; Jena Osman, Temple U, Philadelphia; Khadijah Queen, Virginia Tech

• Harnessing the cross-disciplinary energy that characterized Muriel Rukeyser’s work and career, this session gathers distinguished poet-scholars contributing to a hybrid anthology on her legacies. In explorations at the intersection of the creative and critical, panelists offer radical new perspectives on Rukeyser’s work, testing her models for our own politically and poetically entangled lives.

• 84. The Sinthome Today: In Commemoration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Lacan’s Sinthome Seminar

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Magazine

• Program arranged by the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature. Presiding: Sheldon George, Simmons U

• 1. “The Sinthome after Mari Ruti,” Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser U

• 2. “The Colonizer’s Nightmare: Lacan’s Sinthome,” Sinan Richards, U of Oxford

• 3. “Voice as Sinthome in Fanon’s A Dying Colonialism,” Derek Hook, Duquesne U

• 4. “Rhythm, Pulsation, and the Drive: The Sinthome in African American Music,” Sheldon George

• 85. The African Historical Novel

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the forum TC History and Literature. Presiding: Lily Saint, Wesleyan U

• Speakers: Ashwin Bajaj, U of California, Irvine; Eleni Eva Coundouriotis, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Anne W. Gulick, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Bafana Radebe, U of Johannesburg; Nicole Rizzuto, Georgetown U; Brady Ryan, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Aditi Shenoy, Cornell U

• In the light of the resurgence of interest in the historical novel, panelists reflect on, periodize, or contextualize the genre’s dominance in African literary production, past and present.

• 86. Unaccountably Queer: Giving an Account of Oneself Now

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Camp

• Program arranged by the forum TC Sexuality Studies. Presiding: Teagan Bradway, State U of New York, Cortland

• Speakers: Cassius Adair, New School; Judith Butler, U of California, Berkeley; Jules Gill-Peterson, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Leigh Gilmore, Ohio State U, Columbus; Lynne Huffer, Emory U; Amber Musser, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Megan Cole Paustian, North Central C

• This session brings together the editor of and contributors to Unaccountably Queer, a special issue of differences that commemorates the twentieth anniversary of Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself.

• For related material, write to teagan.bradway@gmail.com.

• 87. From Hip-Hop to Slam Poetry, Hoje and Beyond

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 16

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian. Presiding: Paulo Dutra, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• 1. “Imaginative Visions of Tomorrow in Rap: Kendrick Lamar and Djonga,” Thayza Matos, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• 2. “Performing Literature: From Slam to the Page,” Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton U

• 3. “Slam Poetry: Race, Gender, and Class Translated into Speech and Performance,” Ma A Salgueiro, U do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

• 4. “Racionais MC’s and the Poetics of Spatiality,” Paulo Dutra

• 88. Mentoring Practices in Precarious Times

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession. Presiding: Regis Fox, Florida Atlantic U

• Speakers: Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall U; Toby Beauchamp, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Joshua Bernstein, U of Southern Mississippi; Carla Albert Calarge, Florida Atlantic U; Keenan Norris, San José State U; Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York; Talia Schaffer, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• Participants consider constraints and horizons of possibility for mentoring in precarious times. What models of mentorship have we inherited? Do normative mentorship practices perpetuate gatekeeping or leave certain populations unmentored? Can one mentor and enact (self-)care? What strategies disrupt uneven labor associated with mentorship?

• 89. Slavery and the Visibility of Race in Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italy

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian. Presiding: Rachel A. Walsh, U of Denver

• 1. “‘Deformed, Beastly, Ugly’: Visualizing the African Body in Italian Missionary Narratives,” Myriam Carmen Iuorio, U of Toronto

• 2. “Slavery, Disability, and Human Difference in Early Modern Italy,” Lucia Dacome, U of Toronto

• 3. “Translating Slavery and Racial Concepts in Fairy Tales from the 1700s,” Viola Ardeni, California State U, Sacramento

• 4. “Antislavery Movements and Early Italian Colonialism in the Horn of Africa,” Emma Bond, U of Oxford

• 90. Labor Conditions in Caribbean Studies

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Caribbean. Presiding: Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• Speakers: Natalie Belisle, U of Southern California; Natalie Léger, Temple U, Philadelphia; John Ribó, Florida State U; Faith L. Smith, Brandeis U; Diego Ubiera, Fitchburg State U; Ramon Victoriano, U of British Columbia

• Panelists continue a conversation begun at the 2023 MLA convention about Caribbeanist scholars’ labor and job market conditions, exploring the expectations and vulnerabilities Caribbeanists face when working across borders of nation, language, and discipline.

• 91. Underworlds and Undergrounds: Poetic Extractions

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German. Presiding: Matthew Birkhold, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 1. “Subterranean Entanglements and the Anthropocene in Hölderlin’s The Death of Empedocles,” Meryem Deniz, Dartmouth C

• 2. “Emmy Hennings’s Underground Utopias,” Shoshana Schwebel, U of British Columbia

• 3. “Subtraction and Extraction: Bernhard Kellermann’s Der Tunnel as Mine and Tunnel,” Ross Etherton, Denison U

• 92. Spooky Spain: Haunting in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Iberian Literature and Art

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill C1

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Sara Munoz-Muriana, Dartmouth C

• Speakers: Elena Deanda, Washington C; Leigh Mercer, U of Washington, Seattle; Gabrielle Miller, Baylor U; Victor Sierra Matute, Baruch C, City U of New York; Wan Sonya Tang, Boston C

• Panelists explore forms of haunting in Iberian artistic representations, including haunted spaces, death, the sacred and profane, ghosts and monsters, traditional and scientific modes of thinking, and social and political anxieties.

• 93. On the Stakes of Yiddish Translation

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Yiddish. Presiding: Matthew Johnson, Lund U

• Speakers: Madeleine Cohen, Yiddish Book Center; Jacqueline Krass, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Anita Norich, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Saul Noam Zaritt, Harvard U

• Established and emerging scholars and translators think anew about how translation has mattered (and continues to matter) in particular ways in the history of Yiddish culture, as well as how Yiddish translation might inform larger debates in the theory and practice of translation. Particular attention will be devoted to (in)visibility, translingualism, and the relationship between theory and practice, among other issues.

• 94. (In)Visible Rules for Teaching Literature

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Quarterdeck B

• Program arranged by the forum TM The Teaching of Literature. Presiding: Brandi Locke, U of Delaware, Newark

• Speakers: KM Clemens, Lees-McRae C; Caroline Gelmi, U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Lizzy LeRud, Minot State U; Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo, U of Wisconsin, La Crosse; Danica Savonick, State U of New York, Cortland

• Panelists present a range of approaches and case studies of how we can break and bend the many (in)visible rules of teaching literature to prioritize student engagement, learning, and community. Topics include syllabi, departments, curricula, and pedagogy.

• 95. Geographies of the Precarious In-Between: Navigating Spaces of Young Adulthood and the Gothic

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Paige Gray, Savannah C of Art and Design; Kiedra B. Taylor, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• 1. “Spirits and the Mind: Liminality as Subversive Discourse in The Icarus Girl and Freshwater,” Casandra Aigbogun, U of Georgia

• 2. “Dark Academia: Radical Potential or Empty Aesthetic?,” Mckenzie Bergan, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• 3. “Catherine at the Window: Nature Driving the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Wuthering Heights,” Sydney Lauer, Central Connecticut State U

• 96. Locating Palestine in Medieval Studies

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Medieval. Presiding: Adam E. Miyashiro, Stockton U

• Speakers: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Inst. for Advanced Study; Shamma Boyarin, U of Victoria; Seeta Chaganti, U of California, Davis; Robert Clines, Western Carolina U; Misho Ishikawa, New York U

• How does the question of Palestine intersect with medieval studies? In lightning or “ignite” presentations, panelists ask how Palestine figures into our field, professions, teaching, and research.

• 97. Digital Labor and Cultural Production in East Asia

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian. Presiding: Carlos Rojas, Duke U

• 1. “Digital Labor, Technology, and Visions of Postcapitalist Society in Japan?,” Viren Murthy, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 2. “Avatar: The Last Airbender: An ‘Asian’ Animation?,” Zachary Gottesman, U of California, Irvine

• 3. “Resisting the Rush? Notes on the Labor of Slowness in Creating Chinese Web Novels,” Renren Yang, U of British Columbia

• 4. “The Funeral of Big Data: Labor and Amnesia,” Zina Wang, U of California, Berkeley

• Respondent: Carlos Rojas

• 98. Collaboration as Method

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Culture. Presiding: Marci Kwon, Stanford U

• Speakers: Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Brown U; Yomaira Figueroa, Hunter C, City U of New York; Beatrice Glow, New York Historical Soc.; Chris Lopez, artist

• Folks involved in inventive collaborations across fields discuss what it means to create and think together. How does collaboration allow our praxes to morph with others to produce more sustainable, responsible, attuned modes of work? What are the productive frictions and inevitable power imbalances and instructive challenges that arise from collaboration?

• 99. Generative AI: Creativity and Harm

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Humanities

• 1. “Queerness, Creativity, and Failure: Against an AI Ethos of Invincibility,” Daniella Gáti, U of Salford

• 2. “Algorithm and Archival Absence: Critical Fabulation and Generative AI,” Nia Judelson, Emory U

• 3. “Reading, Data Science, and AI,” Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C

• 4. “Prompting the Image: The Ethics of Multimodality,” Avery Slater, U of Toronto

• 100. Ursula K. Le Guin: A Conversation with Charlie Jane Anders and Arwen Curry

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 18

• Program arranged by the forum TC Science and Literature

• Speakers: Charlie Jane Anders, author; Arwen Curry, filmmaker; Everett Hamner, Western Illinois U

• The author Charlie Jane Anders and the filmmaker Arwen Curry join the critic Everett Hamner for a discussion about science fiction, science fictionality today, and the unruly legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin.

• 101. Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 7

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Miguel Caballero, Northwestern U

• Speakers: Miguel Caballero; Maria Hernandez-Etura, U of Arizona, Tucson; Ana León-Távora, Salem C; Shanna Lino, York U

• Speakers offer theoretical contributions to and intersectional analyses of Iberian cultural productions on the relationship between disability and power.

• 102. MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy at Access-Oriented Institutions: Building Networks for Collaboration

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill A2

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of Academic Program Services. Presiding: Mai Hunt, MLA

• 1. “The Core Curriculum for the MLA Teaching Institutes: A Published Resource for Program Leaders,” Mai Hunt

• 2. “From Pedagogy to Inquiry: Fostering Classroom-Based Research in Reading and Writing,” Nicole B. Wallack, Columbia U

• 3. “On Facilitating Two Models of the MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy,” Jessica Edwards, U of Delaware, Newark

• 4. “Institute 2.0: Reflections on Two Years of Hosting Teaching Institutes in Salt Lake City,” Christie Toth, U of Utah

• For related material, visit pedagogyinstitutes.mla.hcommons.org/.

• 103. Diversity and Inclusion in Metadata and Citation Creation

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 3

• Program arranged by the Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography

• 1. “Diversifying Access Points in the MLA International Bibliography,” Barbara Alvarez, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Library; Ali Bolcakan, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Christi Merrill, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 2. “Citational Justice as Embodied Practice: Piloting Critical Cross-Campus Conversations,” Elaje López, Columbia U; Sydni Meyer, Columbia U

• 3. “Media Diversity Scores: Challenges and Opportunities in Metadata Tagging,” Abigail De Kosnik, U of California, Berkeley; Matthew Jamison, independent scholar; Jaclyn Zhou, U of California, Berkeley

• 4. “Visibility and Recognition for the Literature of ‘New’ Nations Subsequent to Division and Partition,” Sayan Bhattacharyya, Yale U

• 104. Leading in the Humanities in Challenging Times

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the ADE Executive Committee. Presiding: Christine A. Wooley, Eckerd C

• Speakers: Lisa Berglund, Buffalo State C, State U of New York; Alanna Frost, U of Alabama, Huntsville; Jené Schoenfeld, Kenyon C; Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C

• This session is for new, experienced, and prospective leaders in English seeking strategies to navigate the power dynamics that can constrain attempts at vision and leadership. Participants learn from experienced leaders about how to advocate for their programs, respond to restructuring and retrenchment, and use data that matter.

• For related material, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tx8vUnTMxFXlQbnFB4Fv_nH8uOOk7vWs?usp=drive_link after 2 Jan.

• 105. Health and the Environment in the Nineteenth-Century United States

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Steering

• A special session. Presiding: Thomas Constantinesco, Sorbonne U

• Speakers: Thomas Constantinesco; Jamie Fenton, Sorbonne U; Edouard Marsoin, U Paris Cité; Stephen Rachman, Michigan State U; Cecile Roudeau, U Paris Cité

• Respondent: Sari Altschuler, Northeastern U

• Members of Project AmHealth (Sorbonne Université and Université Paris Cité) discuss the challenges and opportunities of reading for health and the environment as intertwined pressures in nineteenth-century American literature.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/docs/health-and-the-environment-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states-mla-2025/ after 6 Jan.

• 106. Making Public Humanities Visible: A Cross-Institutional Project on Phillis Wheatley Peters

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill B2

• A special session. Presiding: Mona Narain, Texas Christian U

• 1. “Overview of The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters Initiative,” Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Texas Christian U

• 2. “Phillis Wheatley Peters and Material Legacy,” Nan Wolverton, American Antiquarian Soc.

• 3. “Haunting Legacies of Phillis Wheatley,” Drea Brown, Texas State U

• 4. “Phillis Wheatley and Children’s Literature,” Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 5. “Writing and Publishing about Wheatley Peters Pedagogy,” Mona Narain

• 6. “Phillis Wheatley Peters and Communities of Care,” Barbara McCaskill, U of Georgia

• Presenters describe their engagement with The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters and how that collaboration has enhanced the visibility of Wheatley; their own scholarly, creative, and pedagogical work in the profession; and approaches for making public humanities initiatives more visible and participatory.

• 107. Comparative Aesthetics of Extractivism: A Cross-Language Approach

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Canal

• A special session. Presiding: Francisco Tijerina, Washington U in St. Louis

• 1. “The Fruit Company: ‘Shaking Out’ Extractivism in Paul Hlava Ceballos’s Banana [ ],” Olivia Lott, Yale U

• 2. “Trash Mountain on Garbage Island: The Ragpicker in Postwar Taiwanese Visual Culture,” Yvonne Lin, U of California, Berkeley

• 3. “Extract Tourism: The Morbid Emissions of the Sacrifice Zones in ‘The White Hell’ of Canari, Corsica,” Rike Bolte, independent scholar

• Respondent: Victor Putinier, Washington U in St. Louis

• 108. Public Women and Female Agency in Premodern China

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Quarterdeck C

• A special session. Presiding: Wenbo Chang, U of Georgia

• 1. “Courtesans, Concubines, and Sisters: Comedies of Female Ambition and Male Desire,” Wenbo Chang

• 2. “Speaking for Power: Linguistic Strategies for Female Dominance in A Ming Court Play,” Mi Liu, Wofford C

• 3. “Between Secular and Religious: Jiangnan Buddhist Nuns in Late Qing and Early Republican China,” Jinhui Wu, Rollins C

• Respondent: Patricia A. Sieber, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 109. Gothic Now: Monstrous Souths

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Parish

• A special session. Presiding: Maisha Wester, British Acad.

• Speakers: Jacob DeBrock, U of Mississippi, Oxford; Rebecca Holcomb, U of Louisiana, Lafayette; Sofia Masdeu, Yale U; Ana Maria Tudela Martinez, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

• Respondent: Maisha Wester

• Panelists engage works of fiction from the Global South and the American South to argue how they revise the Gothic to make visible what has historically been erased or deemed monstrous. While the texts originate from a range of locations, each mobilizes the Gothic as radical resistance to political disenfranchisement on the domestic and the global scale.

• 110. Back and Forth: Questioning Social Class and Mobility in Contemporary Fiction in French

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Fulton

• A special session. Presiding: Sonja Stojanovic, Texas Tech U

• 1. “The Obsolescence of Memory in Pascal Manoukian’s Le paradoxe d’Anderson,” Matthew Trumbo-Tual, Hollins U

• 2. “Retour à Hallencourt: Sauver la classe populaire de l’oubli dans Qui a tué mon père, d’Édouard Louis,” Martine Wagner, U of South Florida, Tampa

• 3. “Unveiling Resistance in Kevin Lambert’s Querelle de Roberval and Que notre joie demeure,” John Ashburn, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• 111. Contemporary Mā’ohi Literature: Creating Visibility in Pacific Studies and Francophone Studies

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 7

• A special session

• Speakers: Eric Disbro, Duke U; Julia Frengs, U of Nebraska, Lincoln; Manuia Heinrich, Victoria U of Wellington; Anais Maurer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Titaua Porcher, U of French Polynesia

• Contributors to New Directions in Contemporary Mā’ohi Literature, a special issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies, address the gap between the explosion of Mā’ohi literature in French and Indigenous languages and the relative lack of literary translations and critical scholarship available to academic audiences outside Polynesia.

• For related material, write to anais.maurer@rutgers.edu.

• 112. Dragging It Straight: Visibility and Camouflage in Contemporary Mexican Cultural Production

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Quarterdeck A

• A special session. Presiding: Alejandra Marquez, Michigan State U

• 1. “Quebranto: El quiebre de la identidad de género,” Elizabeth Villalobos, U of Nevada, Reno

• 2. “Performing Angélica María and Gloria Trevi: Queer Mediations of Mexican Stardom,” Olivia Cosentino, U of South Florida

• 3. “‘Casa, carro y chofer’: Michelle Maciel’s Conservative Camouflage,” Angel Diaz Miranda, Hollins U

• 4. “Mexican Comedy as Resistance: Ana Julia Yeye and the Visibilization of Lencha Masculinities,” Alejandra Marquez

• 113. The Poetry Workshop: Alternative Histories, Alternative Futures

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 4

• A special session. Presiding: Claire Farley, U of Ottawa

• 1. “Contemporary Labor's Cultural Front,” Claire Farley

• 2. “Onward! On Twenty Years of Reading-Centric, Generative, Community-Based Poetry Workshops,” Hoa Nguyen, Toronto Metropolitan U

• 3. “Harlem's Workshops,” Matthew Kilbane, U of Notre Dame

• 114. Reading Asexually

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Jackson

• A special session

• Speakers: Liza Blake, U of Toronto; Catherine Clifford, Hastings C; Lee Emrich, U of Toronto; Vivian Huang, San Francisco State U; Ianna Hawkins Owen, Boston U

• Panelists explore both theorizations and models of what it means to read asexually—to apply the insights of asexuality studies as a queer reading practice—offering preliminary readings of literary texts and other media, cultural objects, social character types, and institutions, as well as metacritical methodological reflections on possible modes of asexual reading.

• 115. COVID-19's Disability Dialectic: Narratives of Structural Violence and Expertise in Disabled New York

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 19

• A special session. Presiding: Harris Kornstein, U of Arizona, Tucson

• Speakers: Yan Grenier, New York U; Aiyuba Thomas, Columbia U

• Discussing challenges and opportunities in theorizing disabled people's experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and making visible underrecognized narratives from this mass disabling event in the face of uncertain viral futures, panelists focus on a disability dialectic in which multiply marginalized disabled people suffered negative impacts rooted in eugenic logics and neglectful policies, while also sharing disability expertise and creativity.

• For related material, visit disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu.

Thursday, 9 January 5:15 p.m.

• 116. Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time at One Hundred: Brevity, Adaptation, Evolution

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chart A

• Program arranged by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society. Presiding: J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 1. “The Aura of In Our Time: Ten Decades of Cover Art Design,” Patrick Bonds, Troy U

• 2. “Hemingway at the Speed of Sound: In Our Time, Podcasting, and Pedagogy,” Michael Von Cannon, Florida Gulf Coast U

• 3. “Graphic Language, Graphic Art: In Our Time and the Frontiers of New Minimalism in Adaptation,” Kirk Curnutt, Troy U

• 117. Dickinson and Visibility/Invisibility

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the Emily Dickinson International Society. Presiding: Vivian R. Pollak, Washington U in St. Louis

• 1. “Invisibility as Other,” Shira Wolosky, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

• 2. “Dickinson's Geological Imaginaries,” Patrick Morgan, U of Louisiana, Monroe

• 3. “Dickinson's Misery 2.0: Dickinson Gone Viral,” Micah Bateman, U of Iowa

• 118. Plagiarism

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Camp

• Program arranged by the Society for Critical Exchange. Presiding: Jeffrey R. Di Leo, U of Houston, Victoria

• Speakers: Jeffrey R. Di Leo; Peter Hitchcock, Baruch C, City U of New York; Adriana Johnson, U of California, Irvine; Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State U, University Park; Paul Allen Miller, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Nicole J. Simek, Whitman C

• What are the social, political, economic, and intellectual dimensions of plagiarism in the contemporary academy? What are its critical and philosophical dimensions?

• For related material, visit societyforcriticalexchange.org/ after 31 Dec.

• 119. Book History and Digital Humanities

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 19

• Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities

• Speakers: Ryan Cordell, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Natalie McGartland, U of Maryland, College Park; Élika Ortega, U of Colorado, Boulder; Whitney Trettien, U of Pennsylvania; Alexandra Wingate, Indiana U, Bloomington

• How have developments in digital humanities informed the study of the history of the book? How do digital humanities scholars draw upon book history methods, tools, and ways of thinking in their work to advance the study of technology?

• For related material, visit ach.org/news/ after 1 Dec.

• 120. Imperfect Women Writers

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Royal

• Program arranged by the Margaret Fuller Society. Presiding: Jana L. Argersinger, Washington State U, Pullman

• Speakers: Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia Tech; Jeslyn Pool, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Susannah Sharpless, Cornell U; Kerri Slatus, Arizona State U, Phoenix; Katie Williams, Brooklyn C, City U of New York

• Respondent: Mollie Barnes, U of South Carolina, Beaufort

• Fuller was once described as looking at herself as “a living statue” on “a polished pedestal.” What responsibilities do critics have to remove women writers from pedestals predecessors imagined? How should we write and teach women writers to document their flaws, failures, or perceived imperfections? How do women writers and their readers contend with criticism or pressures not to speak up or speak out? How should critics handle such violence in women writers' views and voices?

• For related material, write to mbarnes2@uscb.edu.

• 121. The Theory and Practice of Public Scholarship and Academic Civic Engagement in the Spanish Humanities

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the ALCESXXI: Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI. Presiding: Steven Torres, U of Nebraska, Omaha

• Speakers: Txetxu Aguado, Dartmouth C; Jose Antonio Aguirre Pombo, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Annabel Martín, Dartmouth C; Bécquer Seguín, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• Panelists interrogate the role in the humanities of Spanish faculty members today, particularly when it comes to the theory and praxis of academic civic engagement, public scholarship, and public humanities, including the medical humanities, with an eye toward finding ways to make academic knowledge a public good.

• 122. The Jewish Cold War

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Jewish American. Presiding: Karolina Krasuska, U of Warsaw

• Speakers: Brian Goodman, Arizona State U, Tempe; Benjamin Ratskoff, Hebrew Union C, CA; Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt U; Benjamin Schreier, Penn State U, University Park

• Panelists take on the question of how a Cold War logic continues to tacitly shape historical and cultural narratives of Jewish American literature, including literary canons. This perspective not only reveals the imbrications of Cold War discourses and the shaping of the Ashkenormative American Jewishness but also explores the function of Jewishness as constitutive for Cold War liberalism.

• For related material, write to karolinakrasuska@uw.edu.pl after 1 Nov.

• 123. Black Speculations

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 12

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American. Presiding: DeLisa Hawkes, U of Tennessee, Knoxville

• 1. “Sutton Griggs's Speculative Endings,” DeLisa Hawkes

• 2. “The Claustrophobic Horror of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Danielle Jones, U of Chicago

• 3. “‘Wife, Don't You Know Me?': Racism, Intimacy, and Interiority in Black No More and ‘Lex Talionis,'” Makeba Lavan, Grinnell C

• 124. Teaching Coloniality: From Medieval Iberia to Colonial Latin America

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Quarterdeck C

• Program arranged by the forums LLC Medieval Iberian and LLC Colonial Latin American. Presiding: Heather Bamford, George Washington U; Amber Brian, U of Iowa

• Speakers: Emily Colbert Cairns, Salve Regina U; Ruth Hill, Vanderbilt U; Amelia R. Mañas, Colby C; Juan Manuel Ramirez Velazquez, Colgate U; Ruben Sanchez-Godoy, Southern Methodist U; Núria Silleras-Fernández, U of Colorado, Boulder

• Participants share their teaching experiences to explore how coloniality studied across geographies and temporalities can resonate with student interest.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/ after 16 Dec.

• 125. Competing Concerns in Language Education Discourse

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Quarterdeck A

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning. Presiding: Janice McGregor, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 1. “‘That's Not How You Say It': Discursive Constructions of Heritage Learners in US Higher Education,” Katharine Burns, Carnegie Mellon U

• 2. “Reclaiming Tradition: The Making and Breaking of an Antislogan,” Barbara Schmenk, U of Waterloo

• 126. Envisioning Reality: Adapting Nonfiction Texts to the Screen

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum TC Adaptation Studies. Presiding: Leah M. Anderst, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York

• 1. “Transplanting Nonfiction into Fiction: On Claire Denis's Adaptation of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Intruder,” Ian Balfour, York U

• 2. “Palimpsexts and Body Doubles,” Iliana Cuellar, U of California, Riverside

• 3. “The Autobiographical Voice and Vision from Words to Screen: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” Leah M. Anderst

• 127. Plants and Book History

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the forum TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography. Presiding: Rebecca Schneider, New Mexico Highlands U

• 1. “‘Upon Thy Word I Rest': Flowers and Floral Ornaments in Nineteenth-Century Books,” Andrew M. Stauffer, U of Virginia

• 2. “Printed for Manuscript: How Thomas Gray Tabulated His Plants,” Ruth Abbott, U of Cambridge

• 3. “Emily Dickinson and the Herbarium Workshop,” Jeannette Schollaert, U of Delaware, Newark

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/book-history-print-cultures-lexicography/ after 2 Jan.

• 128. Peer Review: The Inside Scoop

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Exhibit Hall, Grand Ballroom

• Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: Brenda Machosky, U of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

• Speakers: Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter C, City U of New York; Justin A. Joyce, Washington U in St. Louis; Andrew Osborn, U of Dallas; Carlos Riobo, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• Editors and experienced peer reviewers, in an effort to make transparent the often mysterious processes of peer review, discuss becoming a peer reviewer; understanding the responsibility of peer review, including its nurturing function; creating a quality review; and receiving peer reviews with a better understanding of their process and purpose.

• 129. Open Session in Premodern German Literature and Culture

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the forum LLC German to 1700. Presiding: Sara Suzanne Poor, Princeton U

• 1. “The Giant's Deforestation: Dietrich, Hildebrand, Siegenot, and the Fight for the Forest,” Annegret Oehme, U of Washington, Seattle

• 2. “Who Would Win in a Fight? The Battles of Dietrich von Bern and Siegfried in Germanic Heroic Legend,” Jonathan Seelye Martin, Illinois State U

• 3. “Echo as Poet: Klangmalerei's Sonic Senses,” Evan Strouss, U of California, Berkeley

• 4. “Sermon Literature as a Social Mirror: Johannes Pauli's Schimpf und Ernst (1522),” Albrecht Classen, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 130. Invisible Peripheries: Place, Race, and Subjectivity in Lusophone Cultures

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Global Portuguese. Presiding: Patrícia H. Baialuna de Andrade, Brigham Young U, UT

• 1. “Reflections on Recording in Carolina Maria de Jesus's Manuscripts,” William Mullaney, Princeton U

• 2. “O rap ainda é dedo na ferida: Brazilian Rap and Political Protest in the Early 2010s,” Ligia Bezerra, Arizona State U, Tempe

• 3. “The Loneliness of the Black Woman in Neighbours, by Lília Momplé,” Letícia Barbosa, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 4. “Cordões umbilicais enterrados: Animism and Ecofeminism in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche,” Sophie Hirtle, Brigham Young U, UT

• 131. Translation, Visibility, and Style: Accommodating Audiences

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Eglinton Winton

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature. Presiding: Roshawnda Derrick, Pepperdine U

• 1. “From AAVE to ‘Petit-nègre': How French Colonial Imagination Shaped Autant en emporte le vent,” Jeanne Sauvage, Yale U

• 2. “An (Un)Translatable Abortion: Rosamond Lehmann's The Weather in the Streets,” Sophie Levin, Washington U in St. Louis

• 3. “Layered (In)Visibility: Translating Multilingualism in Indonesian Fiction,” Lara Norgaard, Harvard U

• 4. “On the Translator's Invisibility in Gu Hongming's English Version of The Analects,” Yuan Deng, Chinese U of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

• For related material, visit https://doi.org/10.17613/pge0-vj89.

• 132. Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Utopia, Futurity

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the forum TC Science and Literature. Presiding: Rebecca Ballard, Florida State U

• Speakers: Mona Ashour, U of Florida; Jason Bartles, West Chester U; Melody Jue, U of California, Santa Barbara; Seohyon Jung, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Tech.; Susana Morris, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Alison Sperling, Florida State U

• A half century after the publication of The Dispossessed, panelists probe how Le Guin's work brings visibility to structures of power and to other possibilities, emphasizing global perspectives on capitalism, environment, gender and sexuality, patriarchy, politics, race, and science and technology today.

• 133. Gothic Hypervisibilities

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill C1

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Gothic Studies. Presiding: Eloise Sureau, Butler U

• 1. “Slashers and Final Girls: Obvious Intertexts in the Novels of Stephen Graham Jones,” Joshua Gooch, D'Youville U

• 2. “Unmistakably Alive: The Hypervisual Body of Emilia Pardo Bazán's ‘La resusitada',” Linda M. Willem, Butler U

• 3. “Unboxing Dracula: Conspicuous Consumption and Gothic Economies of Pleasure,” Manuel Herrero-Puertas, National Taiwan U

• 4. “Gothic Hypervisibility in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” Calvin Olsen, Ohio State U, Columbus

• For related material, visit www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies.

• 134. Conspiracy Theories in Law and Literature: Rhetoric and Genre

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Quarterdeck B

• Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities. Presiding: Lisa Siraganian, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Nicole Mansfield Wright, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 1. “‘Already Uncertain': Conspiracy Theories and Literary Resolution,” Laura Whitebell, U of Rochester

• 2. “Conspirators, Confidence Men, and Conjurers: Trickery and Short Form in Melville and Chesnutt,” Laurena Tsudama, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 3. “The Rhetoric of Conspiracy: From American Pragmatism to DeSantis in Drag,” Kevin Artiga, U of Florida

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/.

• 135. Central American Subjectivities: Resignifying and Reimagining the (Global) South

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Latina and Latino. Presiding: Maritza Cardenas, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 1. “Extractivism, Disaster Capitalism, and Internal Displacement in ‘The Honduran Boy,'” John Kennedy, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 2. “Contesting Visual Narratives of Picturesque Panama: Colonial Constructions of Race and Nature,” Cristina E. Pardo Porto, Syracuse U

• 3. “‘Guat Hunting': Maya (Social) Death in the Diaspora,” Alicia Ivonne Estrada, California State U, Northridge

• 4. “The Comforts of Home: Salvador(e)an Possibility and Belonging in Northwest Arkansas,” Yajaira M. Padilla, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• 136. The (In)Visibility of Memory in Pre-Fourteenth-Century Chinese Literature

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Starboard

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese. Presiding: Benjamin Ridgway, Swarthmore C

• 1. “Echoes from Mount Beimang: Poetry, Memory, and Sacred Space in Ancient and Medieval China,” Yiyi Luo, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

• 2. “Flavors of Time: Food and Historical Memory in Medieval Chinese Literature,” Huijun Mai, U of California, Los Angeles

• 3. “The Future of Postmemory in the Song Lyrics of Xin Qiji,” Benjamin Ridgway

• 4. “Echoes of the Fallen Dynasty: Ci-Poetry and Collective Memory in Song-Yuan Transition,” Hanqi Zhou, Stanford U

• Respondent: Sarah Allen, Williams C

• For related material, write to bridgwa1@swarthmore.edu after 15 Dec.

• 137. Italianità and Music: From Resistance to Assimilation

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian. Presiding: Giulia Riccò, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke U

• 1. “Pino Daniele and the Deconstruction of Italianness in Neapolitan Music of the Late 1970s,” Ciro Incoronato, Duke U

• 2. “Tales of ‘Emilia Paranoica': CCCP and the Italian Political Imaginary,” Luca Naponiello, U of Massachusetts, Lowell

• 3. “Songs of Money, Labor, and Mobility: Giovanna Daffini (1965) and Epoque (2021),” Rachel Love, U of Pittsburgh

• 4. “‘Senza radici non crescono fiori': The ‘Afro-Italian Vibes' of Ghali, Abby 6ix, and Epoque,” Lisa Dolasinski, U of Georgia

• 138. Reading What's There: Readers, Writers, and Visibility in Old Norse Textual Culture

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Old Norse. Presiding: Eric Bryan, Missouri U of Science and Tech.

• 1. “Messages from Marginal Space,” Sarah M. Anderson, Princeton U

• 2. “Cryptic Alphabets in Some Early Modern Icelandic Manuscripts in the Houghton Library at Harvard University,” Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• 3. “The Invisibility of Egill Skallagrímsson's Words,” Judy Quinn, U of Cambridge, Newnham C

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/old-norse/ after 1 Jan.

• 139. Humanities Funding, Visibility, and the Future of Research

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill B2

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of the Executive Director. Presiding: Paula M. Krebs, MLA

• Speakers: Joy Connolly, American Council of Learned Societies; Phillip Brian Harper, Mellon Foundation; Christopher John Newfield, Independent Social Research Foundation; Christopher Thornton, National Endowment for the Humanities

• Humanities research gets a shockingly small percentage of the United States' investment in academic research, yet support for humanities research and expertise is increasingly important in the face of increasing threats to both democracy and higher education. Panelists discuss the need for a national strategy for making the value of humanities research and expertise more visible and for developing a framework for measuring the impact of the humanities, working with the audience to identify steps for building a national ecosystem for humanities research funding and demonstrating to the American public the value of humanities research.

• 140. Black Crip Temporalities

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 7

• A special session. Presiding: Dennis Tyler, Jr., Fordham U

• Speakers: Anna Hinton, U of North Texas; Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman C; Maren T. Linett, Purdue U, West Lafayette; Camille Owens, McGill U; Delia Steverson, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Jess Waggoner, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• Panelists consider Black temporalities and their relationships to disability, bringing together questions of futurity, crip time, “Colored People's time,” coming-of-age narratives, paranormal temporalities, eugenics, transhumanism, and the archive to think about ways that African American authors worked through ideas about Black futures in a society and a time that attempted to foreclose those futures.

• 141. Decolonizing Maghrebi Historiography

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 18

• A special session. Presiding: Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Tulane U

• Speakers: Maya Boutaghou, U of Virginia; Brahim El Guabli, Williams C; Valérie I. Loichot, Emory U; Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Stanford U

• How do we disentangle a historical reality from its fictions? How does artistic space allow us to question the historical markers imposed by colonial historiography? What forms of decolonial historiography, including fictional writing and art, emerge outside the strictures of institutional history? Can emotions partake of the writing of history? Are emotions archivable?

• For related material, write to etamalet@tulane.edu after 1 Dec.

• 142. Latinx Archival Forms

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill A2

• A special session. Presiding: Olivia Lott, Yale U

• 1. “Archival Problems in Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive,” Michael Dowdy, Villanova U

• 2. “Scavenger Texts: A Latinx Genealogy of Writing with Scraps,” Mariajosé Rodríguez Pliego, Northwestern U

• 3. “Documenting ‘Filipinicity': Hemispheric Borderlands in Catalina Cariaga's Cultural Evidence,” Whitney DeVos, independent scholar

• 4. “PharmacoCuir: Cuir Archives and the AIDS Crisis at the United States–Mexico Border,” Francesca Dennstedt, U of Kentucky

• 143. Literary Aesthetics against the Grain of Empire

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Prince of Wales

• A special session

• 1. “Egyptian Aesthetics: Latinx American Politics,” Sarah Quesada, Duke U

• 2. “Slow Flow and Dark: Gothic, Baroque, and Empire in the Caribbean,” Luis Othoniel Rosa, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

• 3. “Binational Aesthetics: Poetry toward Border Abolition,” Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington U in St. Louis

• 4. “Horror and the Anti-Imperialist Feminist Strike Form,” Patricia Stuelke, Dartmouth C

• For related material, write to isanchez@wustl.edu after 15 Dec.

• 144. Blueprint, Model, Building: Architecture and the Novel

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Parish

• A special session. Presiding: Adelmar Ramirez, Hood C

• Speakers: Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech U; Petra Burianova, U of Southampton; Alfonso Fierro, Northwestern U; Olivia Ho, University C London; Lauren Horst, Columbia U; Simon Lee, Texas State U; Laura Tscherry, Indiana U, Bloomington

• How do literary and built forms model sociality and make visible patterns of social composition? Participants explore affinities between architecture and the novel across a wide range of historical and geographic positions, from the intimate to the global, to consider how literary spatiality scales principles of political structuration and how the building and the novel act as condensations of social relationships.

• For related material, visit architectureandthenovel.mla.hcommons.org/ after 2 Dec.

• 145. Victorian Plants: Imperial Networks and the Affordances of Care

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chart C

• A special session. Presiding: Amy M. King, Saint John's U, NY

• Speakers: Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U; Sarah Bilston, Trinity C, CT; Amy M. King; Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C; Lindsay Wells, independent scholar

• The Victorian period's near-obsessive taxonomizing has legacies in human terms and was a necessary precondition for instrumentalizing the land. Within the context of extractive imperial practices, panelists wonder: might the deep attention to the natural world that was necessary to establish global plant collections or classify and celebrate the natural world in art and literature also mark a kind of care that could lead to outcomes that are not merely exploitative?

• 146. Teaching Indigenous Languages: Fostering Multilingual Classrooms and Decolonial Methodologies across Abiayala

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Marlborough A

• A special session. Presiding: Leila G. Gomez, U of Colorado, Boulder

• Speakers: Adam Coon, U of Minnesota, Morris; Wilma Doris Loayza, U of Colorado, Boulder; Javier Muñoz-Diaz, Farmingdale State C, State U of New York

• Respondent: Tiffany D. Creegan Miller, Colby C

• Drawing from experiences within higher education institutions and nongovernmental organizations in Latin America, participants discuss developing academic programming for Indigenous languages and cultures in order to offer diverse perspectives on how scholars and activists can support more spaces for the representation and visibility of Indigenous cultures, literatures, and scholars in connection with curricular goals.

• For related material, write to tmiller@colby.edu.

• 147. Transcultural South Asia: A Futuristic Visibility

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 3

• A special session. Presiding: Mary Louise Pratt, New York U

• Speakers: John Charles Hawley, Santa Clara U; Maryse Jayasuriya, Saint Louis U; Cynthia Leenerts, East Stroudsburg U; Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Graceland U

• Respondent: Waseem Anwar, Kinnaird C for Women

• Participants explore various complex critical intersections toward transculturation and its negotiable facilitation. In many ways, it holds a futuristic implication to unveil multiple local-global possibilities for liberating us from our assumed sociopolitical and nationalistic constraints. Discussion focuses on how the ideas in transcultural humanities may open avenues for furthering the transculturation process in South Asia.

• 148. Seeing Faulkner in the Gulf South

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 12

• Program arranged by the William Faulkner Society. Presiding: Rebecca Nisetich, U of Southern Maine, Portland

• 1. “‘That Airport Wasn’t Quite the Airport’: Reading Pylon through a Lost Airfield,” D. Matthew Ramsey, Salve Regina U

• 2. “Faulkner, Atchafalaya,” Ryan Heryford, California State U, East Bay

• 3. “Multilingual Absalom, Monolingual Absalom: William Faulkner’s Empire of Language,” Harilaos Stecopoulos, U of Iowa

• 4. “William Faulkner’s Sketches of New Orleans: Showing through Sensorial Experience,” Frederique Spill, U of Picardie Jules Verne

• 149. Visibility and Defiance in Black Public Rhetoric

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Jackson

• A special session. Presiding: Laura L. Mielke, U of Kansas

• 1. “‘I Wish I Could Find Words to Tell You . . .': Black Women's Politics of Deviance and the Failure of Civic Discourse,” Sonya Donaldson, Colby C

• 2. “The (In)Visibility of Claudia Rankine's and Donald Glovers's Public Responses to the 2015 Charleston Shooting,” Nicole Lowman, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• 3. “'To Be Entrapped in Other People's Fictions': Editing and Defiance in Jessie R. Fauset's 'Emmy,'” Demetra McBrayer, U of Delaware, Newark

• 150. Intermediality and Digital World Literature

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Canal

• A special session. Presiding: Youngmin Kim, Dongguk U

• Speakers: Michael Allan, U of Oregon; Dima Ayoub, Middlebury C; Youngmin Kim; Sirsha Nandi, Texas A&M U, College Station; Robert Tally, Texas State U; Dhanashree Thorat, Mississippi State U

• A new interface between literature, media, and digital technology has brought about rapid changes in the transformation process of digital technology, creating an ecosystem of ecotechnology of the Internet. Electronic literature transforms itself into “digital world literature” as a digital archive, the databases of computerized algorithms: hashtags, blogs, social media, YouTube, paratext, and Wikipedia. Different types of reading are demanded now.

• For related material, write to yk4147@gmail.com after 15 Dec.

• 151. Celebrating the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of John Fletcher and His Drama

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Fulton

• A special session. Presiding: Celia Caputi, Florida State U; William Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State U

• 1. “More Roman Than Roman: Fletcher's Rewriting of Coriolanus in Bonduca,” Meredith Beales, U of British Columbia

• 2. “Making the Reformation Visible: The Function of Masques in Fletcher and Shakespeare's Henry VIII,” Jennifer Kraemer, Texas Christian U

• 3. “Fletcher in Company,” Lucy Munro, King's C London

• 4. “Performing Fletcher's Genders,” Michael Wagoner, Florida State U

• For related material, write to regrampone@yahoo.com.

Thursday, 9 January 7:00 p.m.

• 152. Twice-Sung Theatrical Tales: Reviving, Revising, Recovering, and Resisting Musical Texts

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations. Presiding: Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia Tech

• 1. “Thrice-Altered Tale within Tale: Reimagining the Flower Spirits' Dance Routine in The Peony Pavilion,” Liana Chen, George Washington U

• 2. “Decadent Senses: The Dissemination of Oscar Wilde's Salomé across the Arts,” Polina Dimova, U of Denver

• 3. “No Trouble in River City: When Broadway Revisals ‘Fix' the Wrong Things,” Zelda Knapp, independent scholar

• 4. “Rehearing Irving Berlin's ‘White Christmas': Unlike the Ones We Used to Know,” Alex Tischer, Fordham U

• For related material, write to dashiell@vt.edu after 24 Dec.

• 153. Poe and the Archives

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the Poe Studies Association. Presiding: Emron Esplin, Brigham Young U, UT

• Speakers: Adam Bradford, Idaho State U; J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Richard Kopley, Penn State U, University Park; John Edward Martin, U of North Texas; Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State U; Kelly Ross, Rider U; Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, C of the Holy Cross

• What can we learn about Poe and his global advocates from the archives? How have archival visits helped shape important work on Poe in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? Panelists share information about public and private collections that will spur new archival studies of Poe and other authors whose works are closely connected to his.

• 154. Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Royal

• Program arranged by the Henry James Society. Presiding: Jane F. Thrailkill, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 1. “‘A Supersubtle Sixth Sense': Operations of Atmospheric Feeling in the Fiction of Henry James,” Max Kaisler, U of California, Berkeley

• 2. “Picture and Perception in The Golden Bowl,” F. Philip Horne, University C London

• 155. Visibility and Power in Midwestern Literature

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Quarterdeck C

• Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Presiding: Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio U, Athens

• 1. “A Foucauldian Analysis of Visibility, Power, and Knowledge in Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith,” Shaun Richards, Finger Lakes Community C, NY

• 2. “Making the Invisible Visible: From Nella Larsen's Quicksand to Gwendolyn Brooks's Emmett Till Poems,” Marilyn Judith Atlas

• 3. “The Invisible Dark Dangers of Urban Design in Adrienne Kennedy's Ohio State Murders,” Jared Hackworth, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 4. “Making the Unspoken Visible in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls,” Michele Willman, U of Minnesota, Crookston

• 156. Invisible Reading

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the Reception Study Society. Presiding: Erin Ann Smith, U of Texas, Dallas

• Speakers: Amy L. Blair, Marquette U; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi, Oxford; Cecilia Konchar Farr, West Liberty U; Kristin L. Matthews, Brigham Young U, UT; Yung-Hsing Wu, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• Each panelist speaks on a specific instance of reception that has occluded, obscured, displaced, or otherwise made less than visible the work of women writers.

• For related material, write to yhwu@mac.com.

• 157. The Forgotten and Marginalized in Italian Cinema

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 16

• Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Italian

• 1. “Recovering the Memory of Giacomo Matteotti in Italian Historical Cinema,” Annemarie Lisko, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 2. “An Avant-Garde Feminist Take on a Founding Father's Fling: Lina Mangiacapre's Didone non è morta,” Hilary Emerson, U of Rhode Island

• 158. Literary Biography

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Marlborough A

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS European Regions. Presiding: Julia Elsky, Loyola U, Chicago

• 1. “Biographies of an Artists' Community in World War II Europe,” Sara Kippur, Trinity C, CT

• 2. “Budd Schulberg's World War,” Gordon N. Hutner, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 3. “‘The Elusive Man': Biographical Variations in Lo stadio di Wimbledon and Bobi,” Anna Borgarello, Columbia U

• 159. Visibility of Hope as the Response to the Representation of Crises in South Asia and Its Diasporic Literatures

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic. Presiding: Umme Al-wazedi, Augustana C

• 1. “Documenting Demons: Finding Hope for a Just Reconciliation in Sri Lankan and Diasporic Fiction and Film,” Maryse Jayasuriya, Saint Louis U

• 2. “Model Mourners and the Crisis of Canadian Multiculturalism,” Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster U

• 3. “Self-Reflexivity and Joy in Creative Expression,” Asiya Zahoor, Cornell U

• 160. Narrative Theory, Historically Speaking

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English. Presiding: Sukanya Banerjee, U of California, Berkeley

• Speakers: Elaine Auyoung, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tina Young Choi, York U; Cornelia Pearsall, Smith C; Kent Puckett, U of California, Berkeley; Daniel Stout, U of Mississippi, Oxford; Robyn Warhol, Ohio State U, Columbus; Alex Woloch, Stanford U

• What has it meant for Victorianists and modernists to engage with narrative theory? What does it mean for how they might engage with it now? To what extent is the idea of a historical narratology useful? In addressing these questions, panelists take up a range of topics, including theories of the novel, the relation of literature and science, and the relation of narrative theory and poetics.

• 161. What Does Bad Education Teach Us?

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Commerce

• A special session. Presiding: Madhavi Menon, Ashoka U

• Speakers: Stephen Best, U of California, Berkeley; Jack Halberstam, Columbia U; Ranjana Khanna, Duke U; Grace Lavery, U of California, Berkeley; Heather K. Love, U of Pennsylvania

• Respondent: Lee Edelman, Tufts U

• Scholars from the fields of Afropessimism, trans*, queer, and postcolonial theory assess the political and theoretical impact of Lee Edelman’s controversial book Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing.

• 162. Issues of Agency with AI

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Language and Society. Presiding: Shakil Rabbi, Virginia Tech

• 1. “Ungrading in the Age of Generative AI,” Shannon Mooney, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

• 2. “Cocreating with Generative AI,” Collier Nogues, Chinese U of Hong Kong

• 3. “Poetry, AI, and Meaning-Making Machines,” Andrew Nance, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/.

• 163. Queer Studies and Infrastructure

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Magazine

• Program arranged by the forum TC Sexuality Studies. Presiding: Davy Knittle, U of Delaware, Newark

• Speakers: Jack Jen Gieseking, Mount Holyoke C; Matthew Kateb Goldman, Brown U; Koby Hansen, U of California, Riverside; Z'étoile Imma, Tulane U; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Sean Matharoo, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Bringing together conversations in queer studies and the environmental humanities, participants ask how infrastructural systems shape life chances.

• For related material, write to dknittle@udel.edu after 1 Dec.

• 164. Envisioning Imagined Communities: Introducing Special Collections to General Education Literature

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Churchill A1

• A special session. Presiding: Qiao Yang Chen, U of Iowa

• 1. “Teaching Intertextuality in the Archives: Tracking Down Texts in The Underground Railroad,” Qiao Yang Chen

• 2. “Making the Book: Curating Textual Communities in the General Education Classroom,” Philip Zaborowski, U of Iowa

• 3. “Access and Equity: Practical Applications of the Digital Archive in the General Education Literature Classroom,” Maria Capecchi, Elmhurst U

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/groups/envisioning-imagined-communities-introducing-special-collections-to-general-education literature/.

• 165. Negative Feeling and Contemporary Chinese Art

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Chart A

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese. Presiding: Liang Luo, U of Kentucky

• 1. “Wu Wenguang's Treatment: Documentary Avenues of Grief,” Charles Laughlin, U of Virginia

• 2. “Cinematic Articulation of Gendered Negativity in Li Shaohong's Baober in Love,” Lingzhen Wang, Brown U

• 3. “Postsocialist Chinese Love and Pain in Teeth of Love,” Sijia Yao, Soka U of America

• 4. “Ecological Feelings as Anthropocentric Responses,” Ting Zheng, Stanford U

• 166. Resilience across the “Spanish” Philippines

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Hispanophone. Presiding: Mahan Ellison, Furman U

• 1. “Linguistic Diversity, Translation, and Heterodoxy in the Early Spanish Philippines,” Marlon James Sales, U of the Philippines

• 2. “Unacknowledged Resistance: Chinese Authorships and Aesthetics in the Spanish Philippines,” Yangyou Fang, Princeton U

• 3. “Voices of Resistance in the Penal Colonies in Mindanao (the Philippines),” Aurélie Vialette, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

• 4. “Ansiedades imperiales: Representaciones de Filipinas en la obra ensayística de Benito Pérez Galdós,” Olga Guadalupe, U of Pennsylvania

• 167. Unauthoring Middle English

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Middle English. Presiding: Claire Waters, U of California, Davis

• Speakers: Kathleen Burt, Middle Georgia State U; Megan Cook, Colby C; Holly Crocker, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Thomas Sawyer, U of Chicago; Maggie Solberg, Bowdoin C

• Respondent: Myra Seaman, C of Charleston

• What new perspectives and interpretive possibilities emerge if we embrace the anonymity of most Middle English manuscripts? What might be the critical utility of deferring recourse to an author? Panelists consider drama, lyric, narrative poetry, manuscript compilations, and their critical receptions.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/info-for-mla-2025-middle-english-forum-session-unauthoring-middle-english/#post-1038380.

• 168. Revision

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing. Presiding: Sarah Neville, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 1. “Margaret the First, Second, and Third: Revision and Authorship in Cavendish's Poetry and Philosophy,” Lara A. Dodds, Mississippi State U

• 2. “Revising the Poems of Sylvia Plath,” Amanda Golden, New York Inst. of Tech.

• 3. “Revising the Body, Revising the Book: Whitman, Phrenology, and the Transmateriality of Leaves of Grass,” Kadin Henningsen, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 4. “Dealing with Deletion: ‘Poetry' and ‘Poets' in Percy Shelley's ‘On Life' (1819),” Ross Wilson, U of Cambridge

• Respondent: Marissa Nicosia, Penn State U, Abington

• 169. Shakespeare, Libraries, and the Alfred Knight Collection

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 19

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Shakespeare. Presiding: Brandi Adams, Arizona State U, Tempe

• Speakers: Jonathan Hope, Arizona State U, Tempe; Alex Mada, Phoenix Public Library

• Panelists address the ways that public library collections such as the Alfred Knight Collection at the Burton Barr Library in Phoenix provide important resources for understanding the nature of twentieth-century rare book collectors other than the most famous, including H. Folger and H. Huntington. Discussion focuses on material Knight curated in order to underscore the importance of learning about Shakespeare through smaller collections.

• 170. The (In)Visibility of Minoritized Speakers: Case Studies in Literature and Translation

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change. Presiding: Laura Francis, Maynooth U

• 1. “Translating African Traditional Beliefs in Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl and Emezi's Freshwater,” Casandra Aigbogun, U of Georgia

• 2. “Hyper- and Hypovisible ‘Orientals': The Case of Sadakichi Hartmann,” Sanghoon Oh, Cornell U

• 3. “‘What, Then, Is the Question?': Contemporary American Poetics of Response,” Katherine Preston, Brown U

• 4. “Reflections on Recording in Carolina Maria de Jesus's Manuscripts,” William Mullaney, Princeton U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/ after 1 Dec.

• 171. Multilingualism and Visibility in Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology. Presiding: Eduard Arriaga, Clark U

• 1. “Vernacular DH in Resistance to Technonationalism,” Sharanya Ghosh, Indian Inst. of Tech, Jodhpur; Setsuko Yokoyama, Singapore U of Tech and Design

• 2. “Making the Multilinguality of DH More Visible through User Profiles,” Aliz Horvath, Eötvös Loránd U; David Joseph Wrisley, New York U, Abu Dhabi

• 3. “Digital Multilingualism: How Digital Scholarship Renders English-Centrism of Academia Visible,” Merve Tekgürler, Stanford U

• 4. “From Multilingualism to Translinguaging in the Digital Humanities at Hispanic Serving Institutions,” Sylvia Fernandez, U of Texas, San Antonio; Stephanie Gonzalez, U of Texas, San Antonio

• 172. Advocating for World Languages: Outreach to Prospective Students and Their Parents

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the ALD Executive Committee. Presiding: John Baskerville, Jr., United States Military Acad.

• Speakers: Lisa Connell, U of West Georgia, Carrollton; Erin E. Edgington, U of Nevada, Reno; Charlotte Gifford, Greenfield Community C, MA; Scott Muir, National Humanities Alliance; Fernando Rubio, Yale U; Natalia Santamaria Laorden, Ramapo C of New Jersey

• Panelists explore recruitment and retention strategies to make world languages more accessible to all learners. Speakers address K–12, two-year, and four-year pathways; best practices for engaging heritage language learners; the differences between app-based language learning and formal language study; and approaches for addressing parent and student concerns about the career outcomes of humanities majors.

• 173. Literary Border Studies: New Directions

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 3

• A special session

• 1. “Crossing the Border of the Literary: Asylum Narrative as Genre,” Graham Liddell, Hope C

• 2. “Philology's Borderscape and the Making of Refugee Literatures,” William Stroebel, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 3. “Comparing the Literatures of the Global South,” Waïl S. Hassan, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Respondent: Karen Emmerich, Princeton U

• 174. Beyond Ethical Reading: How Fiction Thinks about Motive, Will, and Desire

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Camp

• A special session. Presiding: Marianna Torgovnick, Duke U

• 1. “Poe's Aesthetics of the Effect,” Emily Ogden, U of Virginia

• 2. “‘Jealousy, Revenge, and Disappointment,'” Caleb Smith, Yale U

• 3. “Three Paths for the Novel,” Jennifer L. Fleissner, U of Chicago

• For related material, write to caleb.smith@yale.edu.

• 175. Asian American Writings on Trauma and Disaster in Conversation with the Anthropocene

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Virtual

• A special session. Presiding: Eliko Kosaka, Hosei U

• 1. “Living in the Anthropocene: Cats, Crows, Oceans, and Trees in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being,” Gayle Sato, Meiji U

• 2. “Confronting the Other Ecohorror in Vietnam: Guan Barry's Poems,” Xiaojing Zhou, U of the Pacific

• 3. “Apocalypse Now, Again? Reading Ling Ma's Severance in the Postpandemic Era,” Yasuko Kase, U of the Ryukyus

• 4. “Kibei Hibakusha Traumas in Naomi Hirahara's Big Bachi and Yamazaki Toyoko's Two Homelands,” Eliko Kosaka

• For related material, write to ekosaka22@gmail.com.

• 176. Strategic Approaches to Reimagining Recruitment through Talent Spotting, Career Alignment, and Data Analysis

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Churchill B2

• A special session. Presiding: Tania Leal, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 1. “Recruitment Reimagined: Enhancing Humanities Enrollment through Talent Spotting,” Tania Leal; Stephanie Springer, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 2. “A Powerful French Recruitment Tool: The High Value of Français Professionnel de la Santé at Washington University in St. Louis,” Lionel Cuillé, Washington U in St. Louis

• 3. “Making the Case for Humanities Degrees and Career Success,” Robert Townsend, American Acad. of Arts and Sciences

• 177. Women in the Early History of Comics (1800s–1950s)

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Quarterdeck B

• A special session. Presiding: Qiana Whitted, U of South Carolina, Columbia

• 1. “The Rise and Fall of the Cascading Layout in Women's Comics,” Camila Gutiérrez, Pontificia U Católica de Chile

• 2. “Playing with Paper: How Women's Magazines and Paper Dolls Shaped Comics,” Morgan Podraza, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 3. “Superwomen Fighting for and against Justice: The Golden Age of Female Representation in Comics,” Elisabetta Di Minico, Complutense U of Madrid

• For related material, visit womenincomics.hcommons.org/.

• 178. Rural as Periphery in Latin American Literature

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Churchill C1

• A special session. Presiding: Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech U

• Speakers: Mieko Anders, Columbia U; Adriana Estrada Álvarez, U Autónoma del Estado de Morelos; Emilio Irigoyen, U de la Republica; Wyatt Leaf, Princeton U; Lenin Lozano-Guzman, Bryn Mawr C; Juan G. Ramos, C of the Holy Cross; Hugo Salas, U of Pennsylvania

• Panelists reflect on how art forms articulate different approaches on the insertion of Latin American rural areas in global capitalism. To what extent do focuses on rural modernization challenge conventional representations of peripheries? What aesthetics are invested in transitions in the countryside?

• 179. “The Palestinians Still in Question”: Francophone Palestinian Voices

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Bridge

• A special session. Presiding: Carine Bourget, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 1. “‘A Terrible Closeness': Elias Sanbar's Writings about Palestinians and American Indians,” Olivia C. Harrison, U of Southern California

• 2. “Cinematographic Journey of a Return and Narratives of Reclamation in Carol Mansour's Aida Returns,” Marilyn Matar, U of Maryland, College Park

• 3. “Writing Une enfance à Gaza, 1942–1958,” Carine Bourget

• 180. Ishiguro's Peripheries: (Re)Seeing Historical Perspective and Literary Practice

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 4

• A special session. Presiding: Ryan James McGuckin, Appalachian State U

• 1. “Haunted Halls: Relics of the English Estate in Irving's Bracebridge Hall and Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day,” Joshua Myers, Ball State U

• 2. “The Restructuring of Relationships in The Unconsoled,” Anjalee Nadarajan, York U

• 3. “On the Edge of the English Novel: Granta's Rebirth and the Making of An Artist of the Floating World,” Ben Fried, U of London

• 4. “The Brief Intimacy of Song in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts,” Ryan James McGuckin

• For related material, write to jmyers3@bsu.edu.

• 181. Literary Scholars Writing Collective Biographies

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 6

• A special session. Presiding: Hillary Hope Herzog, U of Kentucky

• 1. “A Collective Biography of the Scriblerus Club,” Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway, U of London

• 2. “Letting the Spirits Move You: The Who, What, and How of Collective Biography,” Katheryn Laborde, Xavier U, LA

• 3. “A Collective Biography of Jewish-Austrian Classmates,” Jacqueline Vansant, U of Michigan, Dearborn

• For related material, write to jvansant@umich.edu.

• 182. Narrating Spectacle around 1800

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 12

• A special session. Presiding: Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr., U of Washington, Seattle

• Speakers: Baharak Beizaei, Princeton U; Tove Holmes, McGill U; Ingrid Lassek, McGill U; Pauline Preisler, U of St Andrews; Alan Rauch, U of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr.

• Panelists explore the narrative production of visuality and spectacular effect in novels, philosophy, and other media in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. What can narrated scenes of acting teach us about the nature of performance? What does the novel's drive to re-create theatrical experience say about the nature of narration? How does the reproduction of copresence impact the claims of texts in philosophy, politics, and aesthetics?

• 183. Is Nation-State a Passage to Autonomy or an Erasure of Intersectionalities? Case Studies from South Asia

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 9

• A special session. Presiding: Dinalo Chakma, U of Florida

• 1. “Indigenous Chakma Songs: Cultural Resistance and Emerging Collective Consciousness,” Dinalo Chakma

• 2. “Bangladesh Liberation War and Women Survivors' Trauma,” Paulomi Sharma, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• 3. “Scrutinizing the Modern: Sri Lankan State-Building Attempts,” Deepthi Siriwardena, U of Texas, Permian Basin

• 184. Theorizing Contemporary Hospitality

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Starboard

• A special session

• 1. “Empathy and the Conditions of Hospitality in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore,” Saumya Lal, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 2. “Hosting the Enemy,” Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, Vanderbilt U

• 3. “Seeking Asylum: The Conditions of State Hospitality in By the Sea,” Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate U

• 4. “‘Something Bad Could Have Happened': A Derridean Reading of Hospitality in HBO's The White Lotus,” Pelin Kivrak, Emerson C

• 185. The Archive as Unheimlich: Latinx Inhabitances of the Archival House

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Eglinton Winton

• A special session. Presiding: Ben V. Olguín, U of California, Santa Barbara

• 1. “‘The Gaping Mouth Slit Heart from Mind': Reading Body Horror in Gloria Anzaldúa's Coatlicue State,” Magda Garcia, U of California, Riverside

• 2. “YAP: Sandra Cisneros and the Politics of Archiving Latino Youth,” Sara A. Ramírez, Texas State U

• 3. “‘Temperance Was for Fools': Archiving the Spiritual in Felicia Luna Lemus's Like Son,” Roberto Macias, Jr., U of California, Santa Barbara

• 186. Palimpsests: Traces of Memory and Oblivion

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., Salon 18

• A special session. Presiding: Peter Schulman, Old Dominion U

• Speakers: Alexa Barger, U of California, Los Angeles; Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade U; Richard E. Hishmeh, Palomar C; Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, Palomar C; Stanley D. Orr, U of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu; Peter Schulman; Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State U of Denver

• Members of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association engage the 2025 PAMLA conference theme, Palimpsests: Traces of Memory and Oblivion, exploring literary, media, professional, and pedagogic topics related to themes of remembering, forgetting, history, and echoes, erasures, and lingering presences from the past.

• 187. Celebrating the Poetic Legacy of the University of New Orleans

• 7:00–8:15 p.m., St. James Ballroom

• Presiding: Samuel Gladden, U of New Orleans

• Participants: Stacey Balkun, U of New Orleans; Jericho Brown, Emory U; Gina Ferrara, Delgado Community C, LA; John Roy Octavius Gery, U of New Orleans; Jeff Grieneisen, State C of Florida; Carolyn Hembree, U of New Orleans; Jade Hurter, U of New Orleans; Skye Jackson, poet; Bill Lavender, Lavender Ink / Diálogos; Kay Murphy, U of New Orleans

• Poets from the University of New Orleans have long engaged with social, political, and cultural dimensions of visibility, including but not limited to environmental concerns that threaten surrounding cultures. What power does an archive hold when it can be lost to flood waters at any moment? How does the constant threat of loss and displacement disrupt common practices of accepting the status quo? Engaging with themes of identity, erasure, resistance, and displacement, poets echo and challenge the literary history of the region, even as they rethink their own creative, critical, and pedagogical practices in a larger global context.

Friday, 10 January 8:30 a.m.

• 189. Cervantes and Visibility

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Starboard

• Program arranged by the Cervantes Society of America. Presiding: Christine Garst-Santos, South Dakota State U

• 1. “Visibility and Misperception in the Episode of the Windmills,” Alexander Brock, Princeton U

• 2. “Cervantes and the Poetics of Opacity in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda,” Sonia Velazquez, Indiana U, Bloomington

• 3. “Seeing Guiomar: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Cervantes's El celoso extremeño,” Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez, U of British Columbia

• 190. William Carlos Williams and the Question of “America”: One Hundred Years of In the American Grain

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the William Carlos Williams Society. Presiding: Mark C. Long, Keene State C

• 1. “Williams and the ‘Remapping' of American Literature and Cultural Studies: In the American Grain at One Hundred,” Stephen Hahn, William Paterson U

• 2. “William Carlos Williams, Daniel Boone, and the Shadow of American Colonization,” Florian Gargaillo, Austin Peay State U

• 3. “Irredeemable Beauty: An American Counterplot,” Zachary Tavlin, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago

• 191. Visuality in the Eighteenth Century

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the G. E. Lessing Society. Presiding: Mary Bricker, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

• 1. “Night Visions: A Survey of Nightmares in Lessing's Plays,” Mary Bricker

• 2. “Iconoclastic Images: Destruction Made Visible,” Christopher Chiasson, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

• 3. “Visual Poetics: The Dynamics of Word and Image in Lessing,” Beate Allert, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• 192. How to Get Published in a Scholarly Journal

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: Susan Tomlinson, U of Massachusetts, Boston

• Speakers: Amy L. Blair, Marquette U; Katherine L. Chiles, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter C, City U of New York; Nathan Grant, Saint Louis U

• Editors address various aspects of the journal article: drafting, revising, submitting, and the publishing process. Topics include selecting a journal (“fit”), decoding submission guidelines, processing and acting on reader reports, and navigating the revise-and-resubmit process.

• 193. Native American Literary Speculations in Horror and History

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 3

• Program arranged by the Western Literature Association

• Speakers: David Jeffrey Carlson, California State U, San Bernardino; Nicole R. Rikard, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Andrea Rogers, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Billy J. Stratton, U of Denver; Ted Van Alst, Portland State U

• Panelists explore recent trends in the development of Native American literary discourse and poetics focused on the intersections and interplay between history, resistance to the narrative of colonial vanishing, and the utilization of horror as a reflection of settler realities.

• For related material, write to billy.stratton@du.edu after 30 Nov.

• 194. African Materialities

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 4

• Program arranged by the forum LLC African since 1990. Presiding: Olabode Ibironke, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 1. “Call Me by My Name: Queer (In)Visibility in the Works of Trifonia Melibea Obono,” Caroline Colquhoun, U of Alaska, Fairbanks

• 2. “Outward Mobility and (Truncated) Futurity of Youthful Bodies in Nigerian Literature,” Oluwafunmilayo Akinpelu, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 3. “Becoming Afropolitan: Embodiments in Unigwe's Better Never than Late and Adichie's Americanah,” Elizabeth Olaoye, Midwestern State U

• 195. Queer and Trans French and Francophone Cultures

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French. Presiding: Denis M. Provencher, North Carolina State U

• Speakers: Eric Disbro, Duke U; Kévin Drif, U of California, Berkeley; Emilie Hautemont, Tulane U; Ryan Joyce, Ohio State U, Columbus; Blase A. Provitola, Trinity C, CT; Todd W. Reeser, U of Pittsburgh

• Speakers explore a range of contemporary topics related to queer and trans subjectivities, drawing from social-activist, literary, political, cultural, cinematic, and artistic productions.

• 196. The Axolotl in Mexican Literature and Culture

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Mexican. Presiding: Sophie Esch, Rice U

• 1. “Axolotl: Pre-Hispanic Delicacy, Rejected Monster, and Reclaimed Wonder of Science and Literature,” Fernando Valerio-Holguín, Colorado State U

• 2. “Experiments on Fantastic Biology: Salvador Elizondo's Axolotls and the Colonial Trace,” Arturo Ruiz-Mautino, Cornell U

• 3. “Strangle Angels: Axolotls, Extinction, and LiterNatura in Contemporary Culture,” Cheyla Samuelson, San José State U

• 197. Postcolonial Capitalism: Southeast Asia and Its Diaspora

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Camp

• Program arranged by the forums CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic and TC Marxism, Literature, and Society

• 1. “Ports of Art: Postcolonial Capitalism's Perpetual Transits,” Shaoling Ma, Cornell U

• 2. “Trans Subterfuge: Toward an Antinational History of the Philippines,” Ava Kim, U of California, Davis

• 3. “Conditional Loss: Life Magazine, Racial Capitalism, and Commodity Forms of the Southeast Asian Image,” Trung Nguyen, U of California, Merced

• 4. “Endangered and Dangerous OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker) Bodies in Southeast Asian Anglophone Literature,” Kathleen Escarcha, U of Washington, Seattle

• Respondent: Cheryl Narumi Naruse, Tulane U

• 198. Reproducing Chaucer

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Chaucer. Presiding: Megan Cook, Colby C

• 1. “Fragmented Recollections: Global Memory in Chaucer's House of Fame,” Jonathan Correa Reyes, Clemson U

• 2. “Stephen Scrope's Criseyde: Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, John Lydgate, and the Misogynist Muse,” R. D. Perry, U of Tennessee, Knoxville

• 3. “Father Chaucer and the Mother Tongue: Gendered Images of Language Change in Early Modern Chaucerianism,” Sarah A. Kelen, Nebraska Wesleyan U

• 4. “Father Chaucer's Century: Paternity, Popularity, and Racial Exclusion in Victoria's England,” Samantha Katz Seal, U of New Hampshire, Durham

• For related material, visit chaucerllc2025.mla.hcommons.org after 1 Jan.

• 199. Souths: Encounters, Environments, Myths

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English. Presiding: Janet Hendrickson, New York U

• 1. “Cultivating Climate Justice and Language Access: Participatory Change Strategies from the South,” Isabel Gómez, U of Massachusetts, Boston

• 2. “Solidarity and Internationalism in Cold War Periodicals in Bengal,” Jigisha Bhattacharya, U of Cambridge

• 3. “Remapping Arabness and Africanness through the Literary Sudans,” Dina Mahmoud, Penn State U, University Park

• 4. “A Monument to the Confederacy? South-South Affinities in José Martí's Portrait of Judah Benjamin,” Marilyn Miller, Tulane U

• Respondent: Janet Hendrickson

• For related material, visit loteforum2025panel.mla.hcommons.org after 1 Nov.

• 200. The Future Library, Invisible Archive?

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Nordic. Presiding: Liina-Ly Roos, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 1. “‘Only the Future Revisits the Past': The Precarity of Text in Ocean Vuong and Katie Paterson's Future Library,” Natalya Nielsen, U of California, Berkeley

• 2. “The Future Library as Critical Limit,” Robert Colson, Brigham Young U, UT

• 3. “Sjónian Ecopolitics, (In)Visibility, and the Material Turn,” Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/ after 9 Jan.

• 201. Learning from What Doesn't Work

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum TM Language Theory. Presiding: C. P. Haun Saussy, U of Chicago

• 1. “Echo: More Than One Voice but Less Than Two,” Amit Pinchevsky, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

• 2. “Enriching Simulation Models: The Nuances of Touch,” Ellen J. Esrock, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.

• 3. “Failures of Metacognition and the Desire to Know,” Jessica Van Gilder, U of Kentucky

• 4. “Truth or Social Consensus,” Lisa Zunshine, U of Kentucky

• 202. Jewish Literature between the Local and the Transnational

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forums LLC Jewish American and CLCS Global Jewish. Presiding: Rachel Rubinstein, Springfield C

• 1. “Jewish Refugee Publishers and the Birth of Commonwealth Literature,” Ben Fried, School of Advanced Study Inst. of English Studies

• 2. “Global Yiddish and the Problem of Translation,” Rachelle Grossman, Harvard U

• 3. “Transnational Memory and Diasporic Identities in Maus and A Jewish Girl in Shanghai,” Wendy Sun, U of California, Santa Barbara

• 203. Hidden Figures and Secret Meanings: Visibility and Invisibility in Premodern Japanese Texts

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese to 1900. Presiding: Michael McCarty, Salisbury U

• 1. “Notes, Paratext, and the Quest for Hidden Meaning in Japanese Myths,” Matthieu Felt, U of Florida

• 2. “(In)Visible Bodies: Sexual Violence and Death as Embodied Experiences in Classical Japanese Literature,” Otilia Milutin, Middlebury C

• 3. “Obsessed Ghosts and Absentee Fathers: Male Madness in Noh,” Hana Lethen, Columbia U

• Respondent: Michael McCarty

• 204. NOL'italiano: Italian American New Orleans

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 18

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Italian American

• 1. “Italian Theater Set Designers in New Orleans between Freemasonry and Slavery: Antonio Mondelli and Giovan Battista Fogliardi,” Gianni Cicali, Georgetown U

• 2. “Questioning Creole Authenticity: Italian American Family-Owned Establishments in New Orleans,” Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain U of Health Professions

• 3. “‘What Side Are You Gonna Be On?': Italian and African American Childhood Friendships in Birmingham, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement,” Marcella Zulla, U of South Florida

• Respondent: Sarah Salter, Emory U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/italian-american/docs/.

• 205. Taiwan Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Taking Stock

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Marlborough A

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese. Presiding: Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang, U of Texas, Austin

• Speakers: Kate Costello, U of Oxford; Wen-chi Li, U of Oxford; E. K. Tan, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Nicolai Volland, Penn State U, University Park; Chialan Sharon Wang, Middlebury C; Wendy Wang, U of California, Berkeley; Chia-rong Wu, U of Canterbury

• Surveying trends and developments in literary production from Taiwan since the turn of the millennium, contributors address experimental poetry, women's writers, queer literature, environmental fiction, Indigenous literature, Taiwanese literature as world literature, Taiwan's literary relations with Southeast Asia, and Taiwan literature and its others.

• 206. Sound and Literature Now

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 16

• Program arranged by the forum MS Sound. Presiding: John Melillo, U of Arizona, Tucson

• Speakers: Daimys García, C of Wooster; Sara Marcus, U of Notre Dame; Tamara Mitchell, U of British Columbia; Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt U; Setsuko Yokoyama, Singapore U of Tech. and Design; Alex Valin, Columbia U

• Panelists describe and discuss new academic and creative interventions that connect sound and literary studies. What does it mean to attend to the sound of literary works? What new directions does the recent interdisciplinary scholarship across these fields and media forms chart in the study of sound? How do literary studies respecify sound as an object of analysis?

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/sound/ after 30 Dec.

• 207. Palestine and Postcolonial Studies

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Jackson

• Program arranged by the forums TC Postcolonial Studies and LLC Arabic

• 1. “Missing Palestine in Postcolonial Theory,” Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia U

• 2. “Palestinian Absence and the Specter of Capital,” Kevin Potter, U Wien

• 3. “Postcolonialism by Proxy in the Arab-Israeli Classroom,” Andrew Gorin, New York U; Rima Khavekina, U of Haifa

• Respondent: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community C, City U of New York

• 208. Early Modern Human Rights

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern. Presiding: Penelope Anderson, Indiana U, Bloomington

• Speakers: Sherif Abdelkarim, Grinnell C; Kimberly Anne Coles, U of Maryland, College Park; Penelope H. Geng, Macalester C; Anna Klosowska, Miami U, Oxford; Tonhi Lee, Tufts U

• Can we trace a concept of human rights in early modern literature? How might rights shape our ideas of subjectivity, politics, and ethics? Scholars of critical race, disability, gender, legal, and trans studies discuss literatures in Arabic, English, and French.

• 209. Internationalist versus World Literature in Interwar Central and Southeastern Europe

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the forums LLC Slavic and East European and LLC Hungarian. Presiding: Csaba Horváth, Károli Gáspár U of the Reformed Church in Hungary

• 1. “Bruno Jasieński and the Problem of Internationalism,” Daniel W. Pratt, McGill U

• 2. “The Visual Textuality of Lajos Kassák as an Internationalist Paradigm,” Jessie M. Labov, Corvinus U

• 3. “Between World Revolution and World Literature: Miroslav Krleža and the Supranational Form,” Djordje Popovic, U of California, Berkeley

• For related material, write to jessiemargaret.labov@uni-corvinus.hu.

• 210. Memory, Reliability, Authority, and History

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 22

• Program arranged by the forum GS Nonfiction Prose. Presiding: Anish Dave, Georgia Southwestern State U

• 1. “Rising Narratives: Orphanhood and Memory in Postconflict Peru,” Santiago Perez-Wicht, Tulane U

• 2. “Registers of Nonfictionality: Toward a History of a Term,” Dana Glaser, U of Chicago

• 3. “Climate Manifestos and the Anthropocene,” Gabi Keane, Stanford U

• 4. “‘None of These Things Exist': (Un)Mediating Experience in The Dream House,” Sam Norcross, Tufts U

• 211. Visualizing Carceral Environments: Creative, Critical, and Pedagogical Approaches

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Presiding: Jane Robbins Mize, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago

• 1. “Ecologies of Incarceration: A Longue Durée Perspective,” Jennifer Lieberman, U of North Florida

• 2. “Nongrievable: Disabled Archives from Cook County Jail,” Harley Pomper, U of Chicago

• 3. “Responding to Angela Davis’s Call for ‘Genuine Solidarity’: Abolition Pedagogy at Parchman,” Patrick Alexander, U of Mississippi, Oxford

• 4. “Products of Our Environment: An Abolitionist Approach to Collaboration,” Isabel Lane, Harvard U; Jane Robbins Mize

• 212. Black Visibility: Swift, Smart, and Sharp

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada. Presiding: Dorothy Randall Tsuruta, San Francisco State U

• 1. “Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya and Queer Black Visibility,” Laura Vrana, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 2. “Intimacies Caught in . . . Pauses: Determining the Immaterial of Richard Bruce Nugent's ‘Smoke, Lilies, and Jade,'” Ariel Estrella, Cornell U

• 3. “Branding Pain: Racializing Surveillance Capitalism in Colson Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt,” Timothy Lem-Smith, Saint Michael's C

• 4. “Marie Stewart's Prophetic Imagination: The Emergence of a Heterodox Black Prophetic Tradition,” Jarvis Young, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• 213. What Now? (Re)Defining Ourselves after Tenure

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Alison Langdon, Western Kentucky U; Amy Woodbury Tease, Norwich U

• Speakers: Tisha Brooks, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville; Meredith Lynn Goldsmith, Ursinus C; Michelle Leigh Gompf, Concord U; Susan Ryan, U of Louisville

• Achieving tenure can trigger an existential crisis, leading us to ask, What now? This session connects tenured faculty members with opportunities to reinvigorate their professional lives and find fulfillment. Panelists share a variety of experiences with the goal of learning how to navigate change and imbue new energy and enthusiasm into the work we do.

• For related material, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tx8vUnTMxFXlQbnFB4Fv_nH8uOOk7vWs?usp=drive_link after 2 Jan.

• 214. Innovation Room

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Churchill B2

• Program arranged by the Association of Language Departments and the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Lydia Tang, MLA

• 1. “Using Automated Assessment Tools in the Classroom for Engagement in Writing Tasks and Discussion of Value,” Tiffany Barney, U of Utah

• 2. “Innovation in HBCU Humanities Education: New Initiatives in Graduate Curricula and Professional Development at Howard University,” Jimisha Relerford, Howard U

• 3. “Poetry on the Holodeck, Targeted Tutoring in the Lab: AI and Student Engagement,” Meta Henty, Stephen F. Austin State U; Steve Marsden, Stephen F. Austin State U; Jason McIntosh, Stephen F. Austin State U

• 4. “Leading with Cultures: Focusing on Diversity and Communication in Lower-Level French Classes,” Anne Violin-Wigent, Michigan State U

• 5. “Reimagining the French Major: Innovation Pays Off,” Elizabeth Tuttle, Michigan State U

• 6. “Innovation in Graduate Career Development for Humanities Doctoral Students: What Worked, What Didn't, and Lessons Learned,” Julie Rojewski, Michigan State U

• 7. “Transforming Traditions: Harnessing the Power of Slow Education in Freshman Writing Courses,” Young-Kyung Min, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 8. “Detroit River Story Lab,” David L. Porter, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 9. “Decolonizing the Curriculum by Promoting Learner Autonomy in Spanish Language Courses in City College and Private University Settings,” Denise Bouras, Northwestern U; Anna Proffit, Wilbur Wright C

• 10. “Attending to ADHD: On Learning Languages with Neurodiversity,” David A. Brenner, Texas A&M U, College Station

• 11. “Worldmaking for Linguistic Diversity: French and Spanish Service Learning in Central Arkansas,” K. Adele Okoli, U of Central Arkansas; Jennifer Patterson Parrack, U of Central Arkansas

• 12. “Internalizing Antiracism,” Trisha Rezende, Xavier U, LA

• 13. “Inclusive Open Educational Resources in Spanish: Nonbinary Spanish and Voseo,” Maria Mercedes Fages Agudo, U of Southern California, Dornsife; Liana Stepanyan, U of Southern California, Dornsife

• 14. “Mississippi State University's Humanities Camp: Understanding Mississippi to Write the Future,” Leslie Voller, Mississippi State U

• 15. “Conocimiento y Corazon,” Mandy Geddes, Community C of Aurora, CO; Robley Welliver, Community C of Aurora, CO

• 16. “Siglo Latinx: Pedagogy in Practice,” Erin Cowling, MacEwan U; Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan U

• 17. “Diversifying the Language Curriculum: A Modular Approach,” Andre Schuetze, U of Washington, Seattle; S. Kye Terrasi, U of Washington, Seattle

• 18. “Diversity and Inclusion in Literature Class: Personal Narratives Matter,” Atousa Kaviani, Binghamton U, State U of New York

• 19. “Mentoring for Success: Dalton State College's English Teaching Assistant Program,” Kerri Lynn Allen, Dalton State C; Jenny Crisp, Dalton State C; Calley Hornbuckle, Dalton State C; Kelley Mahoney, Dalton State C; Lydia Postell, Dalton State C

• 20. “Career Readiness for English and Humanities Students,” Doni Wilson, Houston Christian U

• 21. “Introducing ‘Jane Austen's Desk,’ an NEH Digital Project for the Public,” Inger Sigrun B. Brodey, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sarah Walton, Marshall U

• 22. “Lessons from the MLA Workshop on Reimagining Humanities Coursework for Career Readiness,” Maria Seger, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• 23. “Implementing a Successful Corequisite English Program in Rural Louisiana,” Thomas Reynolds, Jr., Northwestern State U of Louisiana

• 24. “Diversifying Chinese Language and Literature Curriculum in the Age of AI,” Eileen J. Cheng, Pomona C; Jun Lang, Pomona C; Feng Xiao, Pomona C; Yanshuo Zhang, Pomona C

• 25. “What (All) Do Students Really Get from Language Classes, and Why Do They (Not) Stay Enrolled?,” Matt Coss, Michigan State U

• 26. “Study Abroad by Staying Home: Exploring Cultures through International Board Games,” David Moody, Flagler C

• 27. “Spanish Language Studies: Teaching Spanish as an American Language,” Elena Foulis, Texas A&M U, San Antonio; Alexandra Rodriguez Sabogal, Texas A&M U, San Antonio

• 28. “Creating an Open Educational Tool Kit to Create an Inclusive Pedagogy Fellows Program,” Denise Acevedo, Michigan State U; Sonja Rae Fritzsche, Michigan State U; Kathryn McEwen, Michigan State U; Kayla Wikaryasz, Michigan State U

• 29. “Northern Kentucky University's STAR Program: Inspiring Students for Real-World Success,” Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky U; Tamara F. O'Callaghan, Northern Kentucky U

• 30. “Cultivating the Cinematic Imagination: Storyboarding in the Writing Classroom,” Jodie Childers, U of Virginia

• 31. “Rhetorics of the Rust Belt: Framing Cleveland through Transformative Texts,” Katharine G. Trostel, Ursuline C; Valentino Zullo, Ursuline C

• Showcase presenters share models of curriculum reform—including new programs, credentials, courses, and initiatives—in areas such as experiential learning, digital humanities, public humanities, AI, and career diversity. The event, a poster-style session with each presenter at an individual station, allows audience members to drop by anytime while the Innovation Room is in session and spend as much time as desired exploring the showcase.

• 215. Life after Life: Visualizing Life and Death Worlds

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill C1

• A special session. Presiding: Orchid Tierney, Kenyon C

• 1. “Daniel Lie's Aesthetics of Rottenness: Toward a Recomposition of Life,” Carolina Diaz, Wesleyan U

• 2. “Necropolitical Apocalypse and the World's Last Tree in Forest 404,” Stefanie Dunning, U of Rochester

• 3. “Viruses, Specters, and the Making of Afrocubanidad,” Juan Esteban Plaza, Wesleyan U

• 4. “Retribution in the Wake: The Corpse Poems of Langston Hughes,” Sumita Chakraborty, U of Virginia

• For related material, write to tierney1@kenyon.edu after 31 Dec.

• 216. Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Literatures in Portuguese

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Bridge

• A special session. Presiding: Benjamin Legg, Vanderbilt U

• 1. “Rainha Ginga in Transatlantic Circulation,” Lanie Millar, U of Oregon

• 2. “Reclaiming Agency: The Protagonism of Women in Eliana Alves Cruz's Historical Novels,” Patrícia H. Baialuna de Andrade, Brigham Young U, UT

• 3. “Chasing Queer Utopias in the Decadent City,” Benjamin Legg

• 4. “‘Flor, flores, ferro retorcido': Lesbianismo e doença desde a perspectiva infantil,” Carolina Bonansea, Temple U, Philadelphia

• 217. Deadly Intricacies: Reading Value under Finance Capitalism

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Cambridge

• A special session. Presiding: Angel Garduno, U of Washington, Seattle

• 1. “Detritus, Dispossession, and the ‘Slow Reading' of Collapsed Domestic Scenes,” Angel Garduno

• 2. “The Bailout and the Complaint: On the Politics of Bankruptcy,” Shirl Yang, Washington U in St. Louis

• 3. “Auditing Poetics: Debt in Contemporary Puerto Rican Poetry,” Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz, U of Kentucky

• For related material, write to shirl@wustl.edu after 29 Dec.

• 218. Concrete Jungles: Hip-Hop and the Global City

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 19

• A special session. Presiding: Akshara Dafre, Texas A&M U, College Station

• 1. “‘Just a Young Boy in the Hood': Imaginative Cartographies of the Ends in UK Rap's Live Performances,” Lizzie Bowes, U of Bristol

• 2. “Hip-Hop Performances in Southeast Asia: The Rose That Grew from Concrete, the Lotus That Grew from Mud,” Paige Chung, Cornell U

• 3. “The Subaltern Urbanism of Dalit Rap: The Choreopolitics of Cultural Assertion,” Jomal Jose, National Inst. of Science Education and Research

• 219. Beyond the Pale of Reason: Writing Black Genders and Sexualities

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 12

• A special session. Presiding: Carmel Ohman, Brandeis U

• 1. “Speculative Spectators: Side-Eyeing Western Empiricism from Nella Larsen to Raven Leilani,” Carmel Ohman

• 2. “The ‘I' Is Not Satisfied with Being,” Emerson Zora Hamsa, Auburn U

• 3. “A Defiance of Mirrors: Letting Go of Reflections with G. Winston James,” Brandon Callender, Brandeis U

• 4. “Who Cares? Black Feminist Nonpossessive Ethics of Maternal Care,” Megan Finch, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• 220. Archives and Possibility

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Marlborough B

• A special session. Presiding: Dennis Denisoff, U of Tulsa

• Speakers: Carolyn M. Dever, Dartmouth C; Yomaira Figueroa, Hunter C, City U of New York; Briona Simone Jones, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Cherrie Kwok, U of Virginia; Joseph Pierce, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

• Respondent: Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State U

• Scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.

• 221. The Poetics of Wetlands in Latin American Cultural Production

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill A2

• A special session. Presiding: Aroldo Nery Mora, Washington and Lee U

• 1. “From Wetlands to Water Features: Balbuena's Grandeza Mexicana and the Rewriting of Mexico City's Lakes,” Hillary Eklund, Loyola U, New Orleans

• 2. “A Minor River: Mapocho, by Nona Fernández,” Roberto Ibanez Ricouz, Cornell U

• 3. “Los muertos y Las aventuras de la China Iron entre el Estado y el Paraná,” Barbara Xavier Franca, Tulane U

• 4. “Ranching and Enchantment in the Frontier Wetlands,” Thomaz Amâncio, U of Chicago

• For related material, write to anerymora@wlu.edu after 22 Nov.

• 222. How to Decolonize the Classroom

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession. Presiding: Atia Sattar, U of Southern California

• Speakers: Lennie Amores, Albright C; Yari Cruz, independent scholar; Vanessa Marie Fernández, San José State U; Emad Hakim, Illinois State U; Srimati Mukherjee, Temple U, Philadelphia

• BIPOC teacher-scholars discuss experiences and efforts to decolonize language and literature classrooms, sharing stories, strategies, and teaching materials.

• For related material, write to asattar@usc.edu.

• 223. Old Texts, New Questions: Critical Approaches to Medieval Italian Literature I

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Magazine

• A working group. Presiding: Alejandro Cuadrado, Bowdoin C; Alberto Gelmi, Vassar C; Akash Kumar, U of California, Berkeley

• Participants: Laura Banella, U of Notre Dame; Catherine Bloomer, Brandeis U; Danielle Callegari, Dartmouth C; Grace Delmolino, U of California, Davis; Alyssa Granacki, U of Kentucky; Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown U; Ori Kinberg, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

• This working group features emerging scholars in medieval Italian studies whose work showcases new approaches and trends in the field, drawing on critical methodologies such as disability theory, feminist philosophy, and transnational orientations to ask new questions of texts by both canonical and noncanonical authors, from Dante to Ahitub of Palermo. The results of this working group will be published in the 2026 Italian issue of MLN.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-2025-old-texts-new-questions-critical-approaches-to-medieval-italian-literature/.

• For the other meetings of the working group, see 510 and 707.

• 224. The Future of Nineteenth-Century Author-Based Societies I

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Commerce

• A working group. Presiding: Kate Singer, Mount Holyoke C

• Participants: Stephanie P. Browner, New School; Mary A. Carney, U of Georgia; Dawn D. Coleman, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Melissa Gniadek, U of Toronto; Sean Grass, Rochester Inst. of Tech.; John Gruesser, Sam Houston State U; Keri Holt, Utah State U; Charles W. Mahoney, U of Connecticut, Storrs; James McKusick, U of Missouri, Kansas City; Kaila Rose, Byron Soc. of America

• What challenges, best practices, and projects can help create broad communities of readers for nineteenth-century authors within the academy and the wider public? Members and leaders of author societies consider which new infrastructures and collaborations can best support scholarship, fundraising, public humanities, DEI, and future lives of small humanities organizations.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-british-and-us-author-societies/ after 1 Jan.

• For the other meetings of the working group, see 511 and 708.

• 225. Monuments

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Quarterdeck B

• A seminar

• Speakers: Erin Costello Wecker, U of Montana; Emily Fedoruk, U of British Columbia; Chaney Hill, Rice U; Stephanie Larson, Carnegie Mellon U; Melissa Lingle-Martin, International School Carinthia; Lauren Rule Maxwell, The Citadel; D. Quentin Miller, Suffolk U; Courtney Novosat, Carnegie Mellon U; Eva Ulrike Pirker, Vrije U Brussel; Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Texas Christian U; Patricia A. Wilde, Washington State U, Tri-Cities

• This closed seminar gives participants an opportunity to develop writing that critically examines their commemorative landscapes, architectures, and infrastructures. Seminar participants are working toward the production of a specific project that takes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to commemoration, reparation, practices and objects of monumentalizing, and so on.

  The session is open only to seminar participants.

• 226. Climate Humanities

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Quarterdeck C

• A seminar. Presiding: Margaret M. Koehler, Otterbein U; Molly Volanth Hall, Rhode Island School of Design

• Speakers: Stacey Balkun, U of New Orleans; Elizabeth Barrios, Albion C; Tori Bush, Colorado C; Megan Cole, U of California, Irvine; Bailey Flannery, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton U; Rajender Kaur, William Paterson U; Davy Knittle, U of Delaware, Newark; John Linstrom, Centenary C of Louisiana; Katrina Newson, Tennessee State U; Nancy J. Peterson, Purdue U, West Lafayette; Christa Vogelius, U of Southern Denmark; Paola Yuli, Howard U

• This closed seminar gives participants an opportunity to develop writing grounded in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches of climate humanities. Seminar participants are working toward the production of a specific project that engages with ecocritical methodologies, themes of the Anthropocene, climate change and crisis, climate and the built world, and more.

  The session is open only to seminar participants.

• 227. AI and World Languages

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Quarterdeck A

• A seminar. Presiding: Kevin Michael Gaugler, Marist C

• Speakers: Nicky Agate, Carnegie Mellon U; Nicole Bonino, U of Virginia; Yuhan Huang, Rochester Inst. of Tech.; Tianyi Kou-Herrema, Michigan State U; Anne Lambright, Carnegie Mellon U; Priscilla Dionne Layne, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Fatima Zohra, U of Waterloo

• This closed seminar explores how developments in AI, natural language processing, and computational linguistics influence language study. Participants are from every career stage and include educators who represent a range of world languages. Contributions focus on current research and future implications of AI on the profession, strategies for using AI in the classroom, reflections on policies, and questions of equity and access.

  The session is open only to seminar participants.

Friday, 10 January 10:15 a.m.

• 228. Presidential Plenary: Visibility, Place, and Displacement: Louisiana's Expressive Culture and the Changing Same

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., St. James Ballroom

• Presiding: Dana A. Williams, Howard U

• Speakers: Jericho Brown, Emory U; Jesmyn Ward, Tulane U

• Expressive culture is a part of everyday life in many parts of the world, including New Orleans, where lifelong residents of the city embody culture and express it publicly through language, literature, and performance, visual, and culinary arts. More than an outward expression of tradition and values, Louisiana (and Mississippi) expressive culture shape-shifts to constitute movements that build community, craft agency, and reorient the politics of place and power.

• For linked sessions, see meetings 386 and 512.

• 229. Blake in the Twenty-First Century

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Presiding: Kathryn Sue Freeman, U of Miami

• 1. “Disorientation and Dysphoria: Blake's Infernal Falls,” Smith Yarberry, Northwestern U

• 2. “Blake's Lambeth Books and the Trauma of the Sciences,” Tilottama Rajan, U of Western Ontario

• 3. “Biodiverse Blake: Ecologies of Being from Songs of Innocence to Milton,” Kurt Fosso, Lewis and Clark C

• 4. “Silence and Secrecy in Blake's Europe,” Jennifer Davis Michael, U of the South

• 230. Performing Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Medieval and Renaissance Drama

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Port

• Program arranged by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. Presiding: Kirsten Mendoza, U of Dayton

• 1. “Pardon My English: Franglish and Transnational Exchange on the Restoration Stage,” Alexander Brock, Princeton U

• 2. “Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Shakespeare's Plays,” Daniela D'Eugenio, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• 3. “Staging the Court: Performing Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Sixteenth-Century Valencia,” Núria Silleras-Fernández, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 4. “Anglo-Asian Diplomacy as Cultural Mixing in Court and Civic Entertainments,” Su Fang Ng, Virginia Tech

• 231. Literary Agents and Book Publishing

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Marlborough B

• Program arranged by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

• 1. “Carlos Frías ‘Tr[ies] a Little Harder': How Borges's Editor Shaped His Global Presence,” Emron Esplin, Brigham Young U, UT

• 2. “Ad Schulberg and the Making of the Literary Agent,” Gordon N. Hutner, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 3. “The Two Agents of J. M. Coetzee,” Elisa Sotgiu, independent scholar

• 232. (Re)Marking the Invisible in the Work of Robert Graves

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 12

• Program arranged by the Robert Graves Society. Presiding: Anett Jessop, U of Texas, Tyler; Michael Joseph, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 1. “Envisioning the Invisible: The Child within and without Robert Graves's The Penny Fiddle,” Joseph Thomas, San Diego State U

• 2. “Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Hidden Anxieties of Postwar Homoerotic Revelation,” Richard Allen Kaye, Hunter C, City U of New York

• 3. “Crafting Female Characters in I, Claudius: Robert Graves and the Ancient Historians,” Adriana Marinelli, U of Naples

• 4. “The Islands of Unwisdom and the Male Gaze,” Jonahs Kneitly, Texas A&M U, College Station

• For related material, visit robertgravesreview.org/essay.php?essay=6&tab=8.

• 233. Ethnic Geographies: Roots and Routes of Resistance and Resilience

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Royal

• Program arranged by the MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

• 1. “Tell Me about Traction: Coming Home to Little Tokyo, Los Angeles,” Ana Iwataki, U of Southern California

• 2. “Ties That Bind: Across the Canada-US Border in Lawrence Hill's Any Known Blood,” Sherry Johnson, Grand Valley State U

• 3. “Hidden Geographies: Estela Portillo Trambley's Concept of the Biosphere,” Melina Vizcaino-Alemán, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• 4. “Ariana Benson's Resistant (Anti)Pastoral Poetics of Place,” Laura Vrana, U of South Alabama

• 234. Samuel Beckett and Persistent Impoverishment

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the Samuel Beckett Society

• 1. “Subtraction in Beckett: Neoliberalism, Social Justice, and Conspiracy,” James McNaughton, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 2. “Beckett's Modernist Thermodynamics: Entropy and Exhaustion in the Trilogy,” Britton Edelen, Duke U

• 3. “Deskilling in Comment c'est / How It Is,” Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan U

• 4. “Samuel Beckett and the Impoverishment of the Stage Image,” Felipe de Souza Santos, U de Sao Paulo

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/groups/samuel-beckett-society/ after 1 Dec.

• 235. Literature, Art, and Science in the Early Modern Period

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature. Presiding: Aleksandra Prica, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 1. “Inventing Professions: At the Intersection of Early Modern Literature and Science,” Dori Coblentz, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

• 2. “Microscope Technology and the Infinitesimal in the Poetry of Margaret Cavendish and Andrew Marvell,” Tyler Dunston, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 3. “Maria Sibylla Merian: Art and Science and the Popularization of Knowledge,” Karin Wurst, Michigan State U

• 236. Queer Melville and Beyond

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the Melville Society. Presiding: Dana Seitler, U of Toronto

• 1. “‘Bartleby,’ a Love Story,” Peter M. Coviello, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 2. “Video Killed the Literary Star: Queer Melville and the Video Essay,” Dalia Davoudi, Pratt Inst.

• 3. “Herman Melville, Peeping Tom (of Finland),” Peter Brown, U of California, Berkeley

• 4. “Bartleby, Cross-Dressed and Transmigratory,” Alyson Brickey, U of Winnipeg; Dana Medoro, U of Manitoba

• 237. Visibility and Beyond: Multisensory Engagements in Indigenous Texts

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 18

• Program arranged by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures

• 1. “Hitting Her Mark: Indigenous Women Staging Aesthetic Interventions in Film,” Shannon Toll, U of Dayton

• 2. “Theater in the Time of Termination: Teaching Menominee Culture in the Public Sphere,” Ryan Winn, C of Menominee Nation

• 3. “Looking at and Listening to Place: Ethics of a Settler Engagement with Stó:lō Sxwõxwiyám,” Olivia Abram, U of Saskatchewan

• 4. “Erotic Anomalies: Queer Indigenous Spaces, Identities, and Intimacies in Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed,” Jon Olsen, U of Southern Mississippi

• 238. Trigger Warnings and Teaching East Asian Literature

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 22

• Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian. Presiding: Suyoung Son, Cornell U

• Speakers: Yangjung Lee, Seattle U; Newell Ann Van Auken, U of Iowa; Xiaowen Xu, U of British Columbia; Ivanna Yi, Cornell U; Jing Zhang, New C of Florida

• Teaching East Asian literature with potentially triggering content can present a challenge for teachers. Speakers offer instructors guidance for navigating the teaching of controversial topics and events and share their experiences and effective strategies for teaching East Asian literature.

• 239. Slowdown, Sick-Out, Work Stoppage, Strike

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 7

• Program arranged by the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society. Presiding: Laura Elizabeth Lyons, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

• Speakers: Steven Carr, Purdue U, Fort Wayne; James Daniel, Seton Hall U; Maureen A. Moynagh, Saint Francis Xavier U; Subramanian Shankar, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

• In a climate where workplaces and governments increasingly regulate and police different forms of dissent, ranging from bureaucratic rules governing assembly to outright dismissal, how do workers organize for better and safer workplace conditions, health benefits, and fair compensation? What are effective methods for workers—including academic workers—to resist exploitation and disrupt the operations of the workplace?

• 240. W(h)ither the Individual?

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Jackson

• Program arranged by the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies. Presiding: Laura Christine Otis, Emory U

• 1. “Individual Selves: How They're Formed, How Destroyed,” Nancy Lincoln Easterlin, U of New Orleans

• 2. “Narratorial Agency in Narrating the Ineffable,” Ellen Stenstrom, Indiana U, Bloomington

• 3. “Reader Reflux,” Joseph Glinbizzi, Penn State U, University Park

• 4. “Sylvia Wynter, the ‘Cognitive Charter,’ and the Ancestors,” Deborah Jenson, Duke U

• For related material, write to lotis@emory.edu after 20 Dec.

• 241. Forms of Water, Forms of Life

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Chart A

• Program arranged by the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Presiding: Melody Jue, U of California, Santa Barbara

• 1. “Temporary Waters in Literature and Sonic Archives,” Nadia Ahmed, U of California, Santa Barbara

• 2. “‘This Whole Place Is a Fish'; or, Keri Hulme Maps the Moeraki Foreshore,” Kaitlin Moore, Wake Forest U

• 3. “One Water, One Nước across Vietnamese Anglophone Cultural Production,” Karen Siu, Rice U

• 4. “Queer Seal People and Transoceanic Solidarities: The Fiction of Kirsty Logan and Cathie Dunsford,” Alison Glassie, Northeastern U

• 242. The Arboreal Turn in South Asian Anglophone Literature

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic. Presiding: Jill Didur, Concordia U, Sir George Williams Campus

• Speakers: Deepika Bahri, Emory U; Amit Baishya, U of Oklahoma; Maria Job, U of California, Santa Barbara; Dhrijyoti Kalita, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Barirah Nazir, U of Sarghoda; Sreejata Paul, Shiv Nadar U; Thakshala Tissera, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Speakers explore the recent turn toward arboreality in contemporary South Asian anglophone literature, connecting with new discussions on the arboreal in the humanities globally to discuss the centrality of literature on trees to the Anthropocene in general and to South Asian anglophone ecocentric literature in particular.

• 243. Gothic Invisibilities

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Gothic Studies. Presiding: Joshua Tuttle, Penn State U, University Park

• 1. “‘Remarks on the Peculiar Position of Blind Women': Uncanny Eyes and the Gothic (Un)Visible,” Christian Lewis, Vassar C

• 2. “Spectral Science: I Will Believe It When I See It,” Aileen Farrar, Nova Southeastern U

• 3. “Solid, Viscous, Dissipating,” Maia Gil'Adí, Boston U

• 4. “Gothic Optics: Camera-Being and Perception in Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man,” Gregory Brophy, Bishop's U

• For related material, visit www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies.

• 244. Age and Disability, Age as Disability

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 3

• Program arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and TC Disability Studies. Presiding: Sharon Tran, U of Maryland Baltimore County

• 1. “Disability Aesthetics, Older Voices, and Virtuosity in Sky on Swings,” Michael Kinney, Stanford U

• 2. “Cripistemologies of Memory: Dementia, Disappearance, and Mourning,” Clare Mullaney, Clemson U

• 3. “Disability, Childhood, and Narrative Temporality in American Postwar Writing,” Evan Chaloupka, Franklin U

• 4. “The Futurity of Disabled Girlhood,” Anastasia Todd, U of Kentucky

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/ or mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/ after 9 Jan.

• 245. Unbuilding Colonial and Carceral Infrastructures in Asian Diasporic Literature and Media

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian American

• 1. “Beyond a ‘Lawless' Frontier: Reading Afghan Landscape and Afghan Futurity in Jamil Jan Kochai's Work,” Zainab Abdali, Rice U

• 2. “Learning with Bamboo: Filipinx Meditations on Collectivity and Care,” HL Doruelo, U of California, Riverside

• 3. “(De)Colonial Intimacies and Fantasies in Dream Jungle and America Is in the Heart,” Steven Beardsley, U of California, San Diego

• Respondent: Trisha Remetir, U of California, Riverside

• 246. Hebrew's Invisible Ink

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Hebrew

• 1. “The Invisible Prose of Yehuda Amichai: Wild Metaphors at Work,” Yael Segalovitz, U of California, Berkeley

• 2. “Where Is the ‘Goy'? The Invisible Presence of a Diasporic Motif in Dorit Rabinyan's Gader Chaya,” Jagoda Budzik, U of Wroclaw

• 3. “Dahlia Ravikovitsh's Poetics of (In)Visibility,” Ethan Pack, U of California, Los Angeles

• 4. “Queer (In)Visibility: Haim Ben-Dor's ‘Foundling' Texts,” Guy Ehrlich, Northwestern U

• 247. Conspiracy Theories in Law and Literature: Circulation and Reception

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities. Presiding: Peter Leman, Brigham Young U, UT; Elise Wang, California State U, Fullerton

• 1. “‘Continual Terror of Their Secret Conspiracies': On the Norman Yoke Theory,” Jordan Skinner, Princeton U

• 2. “State Terror, Neoliberal Subjection, and Paranoid Narration in Horacio Castellanos Moya,” Katherine Sugg, Central Connecticut State U

• 3. “Raspail's The Camp of the Saints, Camus's Great Replacement, and the Soteriological Politics of MAGA,” James McBride, New York U

• 4. “The Queer Conspiracy of Illegibility,” Namrata Verghese, Stanford U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/.

• 248. The Pedagogy of Translation and the Methods of Machine Translation, Generative AI, and DH

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the forums LLC Ming and Qing Chinese and TC Translation Studies. Presiding: Remy Attig, Bowling Green State U

• 1. “Exploring Opportunities for AI Collaboration in Language Learning Through Translation Exercises,” Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C

• 2. “The Application of AI to Translating Culture-Specific Expressions,” Ai Zhong, Fudan U

• 3. “Teaching Bad Translation,” Michael Shea, U of Pennsylvania

• 4. “Research as Pedagogy in Teaching Digital Methods for Translation Studies,” Xuezhao Li, Ohio State U, Columbus

• For related material, write to sieber.6@osu.edu.

• 249. Italy's Archipelagic Imaginaries

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian. Presiding: Lina N. Insana, U of Pittsburgh; Rhiannon N. Welch, U of California, Berkeley

• Speakers: Chiara Caradonna, Hebrew U of Jerusalem; Evelyn Ferraro, Santa Clara U; Qian Liu, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Valerie McGuire, U of Texas, Austin; Giancarlo Tursi, U of California, Santa Barbara

• Reflecting on Italy conceived not as a bounded territorial, political, or cultural entity but as a porous and tenuous archipelagic assemblage with myriad routes of connection to other islands and diasporas—from New Orleans to Manhattan, from Jamaica to Japan—participants consider the possibilities and limits of foregoing what Glissant called pensée continentale in favor of the relational fragmentation of pensée archipelagique.

• 250. Socialism in the Magazines: Transnational Periodicals between World Revolution and Cold War Geopolitics

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Russian and Eurasian

• 1. “The Russian Avant-Garde Journal 2.0: [Translit],” Marijeta Bozovic, Yale U

• 2. “The Last Sputniks in Havana: Soviet Magazines in Revolutionary Cuba,” Antonio Cardentey, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

• 3. “Mayakovsky Memorials: SSSR na stroike and the Propagandizing of Grief,” María Matilde Morales, Harvard U

• 4. “(Resisting) Socialist Internationalism in Czechoslovak Literature: The Case of Světová literatura,” Philip Gleissner, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 251. The (In)Visibility of Minoritized Speakers: Digital and Corpus-Based Approaches

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change. Presiding: Laura Francis, Maynooth U

• 1. “Beyond the Peel: Analyzing Transgender Writing with Project MapLemon,” Theodore Manning, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• 2. “The Intervention of Artificial Intelligence on Language Change: A Case Study on ChatGPT and Gender,” Haley Patterson, Saint Mary's C, MD

• 3. “Effects of Tibetan (In)Visibility in Jackson Heights on Perceived Ethnolinguistic Vitality,” Olivia Mignone, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• 4. “Subverting Oppressive Policy through Chinese Fan Fiction,” Yiming Li, Wenzhou-Kean U; Jennifer Marquardt, Wenzhou-Kean U; Yue Wu, Wenzhou-Kean U; Yueyang Zhu, Wenzhou-Kean U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-change/ after 1 Dec.

• 252. Transformative Texts: Ancient and Modern

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Classical and Modern. Presiding: Caroline Stark, Howard U

• Speakers: Rhonda Collier, Tuskegee U; Kenneth Morrell, Rhodes C; Jackie Murray, U at Buffalo, State U of New York; David van Schoor, Emory U

• This roundtable brings together scholars whose research and teaching pair transformative texts from antiquity and from the African diaspora. To stimulate conversation, each panelist will discuss a pair of texts that figure in their teaching or research (e.g., Wole Soyinka's adaptation and translation of Euripides' Bacchae or Rita Dove's Mother Love and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter).

• 253. Diversifying Scholarly Editions

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Exhibit Hall, Grand Ballroom

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. Presiding: Rhondda Thomas, Clemson U

• Speakers: Kimberly Blockett, U of Delaware, Newark; Mayra Bottaro, independent scholar; John Ernest, U of Delaware, Newark; Barbara McCaskill, U of Georgia; Joycelyn K. Moody, U of Texas, San Antonio; Kenneth Warren, U of Chicago

• In an effort to diversify scholarly editions and publications that receive the seal of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions, participants discuss researching, editing, and publishing scholarly editions; encouraging the creation of diverse scholarly editions; and devising innovative methodologies the MLA could implement.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/diversifying-scholarly-editions/ after 6 Jan.

• 254. Open Hearing on Resolutions

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Prince of Wales

• Presiding: Members of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee

• This meeting is only open to MLA members.

  During the open hearing, MLA members and delegates may discuss the regular resolutions that are on the Delegate Assembly's agenda. For information on these resolutions (i.e., those submitted by 1 September), visit www.mla.org/DA-Agenda-2025 after 11 December.

• 255. Adjunct by Any Other Name

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession. Presiding: Clark Barwick, Indiana U, Bloomington

• Speakers: Zita Hüsing, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Kandace Lillian Lombart, independent scholar; Nathan Nikolic, Baruch C, City U of New York; Carl Peters, U of the Fraser Valley

• University administrators often refer to contingent faculty members in nameless, generic terms. Participants share stories from contingency (about, among other topics, resourcefulness, creativity, and perseverance) to demonstrate the complexity of the people delivering university instruction.

• 256. Discussion Group on the MLA Report on 2021 Enrollments: Meeting Enrollment Challenges in Languages and Literatures

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Churchill D

• Program arranged by the MLA Professional Development. Presiding: Natalia Lusin, MLA; Suwako Watanabe, Portland State U

• After a concise presentation of the key findings from the most recent MLA enrollments report, participants explore the extent to which the national data mirror their experiences on their own campuses, share the challenges they are facing, and highlight examples of successful initiatives and effective advocacy strategies.

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/14GWL_qu-lFUEWAqORmJ4NSE6SMTMxWdLLbTxHAWN9G0/edit?usp=drive_link.

• 257. Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Marlborough A

• A special session

• 1. “Ad Hominem: Identitarian Culture and Critical Discourse,” Justin Cosner, U of Iowa

• 2. “NFT as a Digital Rhetorical Decolonializing Pla(r)tform for Black Female Digital Artists,” Oluwafunmilayo Akinpelu, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 3. “Meme as Social Media ‘Whatever Singularity': Citationality, Politics, and the Visual in Meme Culture,” Zara Richter, George Washington U

• 4. “Shaping Public Perception: Risk Communication in the Digital Age,” Kevin Artiga, U of Florida

• 258. Political Biofiction's Contested (In)Visibilities

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 19

• A special session. Presiding: Laura Cernat, KU Leuven

• 1. “The Cunning Metaphors of Political Biofiction,” Michael Lackey, U of Minnesota, Morris

• 2. “The Politics of Equality,” Alexandre Gefen, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

• 3. “Troubled Exemplarity in Contemporary Biofictions,” Alison S. James, U of Chicago

• 4. “Biofictional Doubles and Political Doppelgangers,” Virginia Rademacher, Babson C

• 259. Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Starboard

• A special session. Presiding: Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington U in St. Louis

• 1. “Memorialized Blackness: The Case of the Museo Atlántico,” Jeffrey Coleman, Northwestern U

• 2. “Searching for Cayetana's Daughter: From Goya to Carmen Posadas,” Rosalía Victoria Cornejo-Parriego, U of Ottawa

• 3. “From Slavery to Anti-Black Racism in the Atlantic World: Racial Ideas from Cuba and Catalonia,” Juliana Nalerio, Stanford U

• Respondent: Aurélie Vialette, Yale U

• For related material, write to tsuchiya@wustl.edu after 1 Jan.

• 260. Children and Young Adult Literature: Visibility, Diversity, Dialogue

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Churchill C1

• A special session. Presiding: Liza Bolen, U of New Brunswick; Pooja Booluck-Mille, U of New Brunswick

• 1. “Images of Children's Literature Beset by Chattel Slavery, Residential Schooling, and Reconstruction,” Wesley Jacques, Wheaton C, MA

• 2. “Embedding Antiracist Pedagogies in a Children's and YA Literature Course,” Sarah Minslow, California State U, Los Angeles

• 3. “‘You Can't Just Lie Here and Get Murdered by Books': Adapting (to) Jane Eyre,” Meg Dobbins, Eastern Michigan U

• 4. “Fugitive Lives: Young, Black, and Becoming Visible,” Sean Golden, Western Washington U

• 261. Is Visibility a Trap? Rethinking Visibility in Queer and Trans Studies

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Cambridge

• A special session. Presiding: Ben Nichols, U of Manchester

• 1. “Chained Girls Coming into Hiding,” Guy Davidson, U of Wollongong

• 2. “Portal and Portal 2; or, Revisiting Opacity through the Epistemologies of the Closet and the Black Site,” Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield, Colgate U

• 3. “Eyes/I's: Documenting the Visible Field of the Trans Subject,” Todd W. Reeser, U of Pittsburgh

• 262. What Remains of the Common? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Kabacoff

• A special session. Presiding: Tom Roach, Bryant U

• 1. “Shattered Remains: Richard Wright on the Destiny of ‘the Common,'” Mikko Tuhkanen, Texas A&M U, College Station

• 2. “Being a Type, Being in Common: The Case of Asian American Literature,” Dora Zhang, U of California, Berkeley

• 3. “Seriality, Typicality, Fungibility: Juan Pablo Echeverri's Impersonal Common,” Tom Roach

• 4. “An Incongruous Common: On Being Alone with Dean Sameshima,” John Paul Ricco, U of Toronto

• 263. Asian(ness) and Racialized Visuals in Latin American Cultural Production: Race Making, Diasporas, and Survival

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Eglinton Winton

• A special session. Presiding: Oscar Zapata Garcia, U of Pittsburgh

• 1. “The Golden Belt and the Railroad: Chinese Migration in Mexico and Its Transpacific Networks,” Greta Alvarado Lugo, U Autónoma de San Luis Potosí; Arturo Humberto Gutiérrez del Ángel, C de San Luis

• 2. “Visualizing Asia: National Identity Formations and Chinese Communities in Mexican Cinema,” Oscar Zapata Garcia

• 3. “(Dis)Orienting the West: Trans Bodies and Space in LGBTQ+ Peruvian Fanzines,” Maria Alexandra Arana Blas, U of Pittsburgh

• 4. “Latin America Techno-Orientalist Imaginaires,” Nelson Castañeda, U Sergio Arboleda

• 264. Climate Change and the Global Relevance of North African Literature

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 16

• A special session. Presiding: Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Kent State U, Kent

• Speakers: Matthew Brauer, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Brahim El Guabli, Williams C; Jill Jarvis, Yale U; Anna Levett, Oberlin C; Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Tulane U; Teresa Villa-Ignacio

• Specialists of North African literature connect with scholars working on environmental literature and climate change in any region or historical period to explore how and why North African literature must be made more visible in narratives of local and global climate change struggles and in global efforts to mitigate or adapt to climate change.

• 265. James Joyce's Legacies: Old News, New Readings

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Camp

• Program arranged by the International James Joyce Foundation. Presiding: Ellen M. Scheible, Bridgewater State U

• 1. “Joyce the Opposer,” Jonathan Goldman, New York Inst. of Tech.

• 2. “‘This Guileful Thing': Ulysses, Penelope, and the Craft of Private Life,” Zoë Henry, Columbia U

• 3. “Joycean Genre Fiction, ‘with None of Joyce's Wit,'” Cathryn Piwinski, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 265A. Navigating Visibility: Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Inclusive Pedagogies

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies

• 1. “Creative Companions: Generative AI Models and Liberatory Access in Writing Pedagogy,” Elizabeth Wayson, U of Georgia

• 2. “Reaching, Supporting, and Protecting Undocumented Students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” Addison Palacios, Mount San Jacinto C, CA

• 3. “Extracurricular Visibilities: What We Can Learn from Writers in Writing Centers across the Country,” Rebecca Hallman Martini, U of Georgia

• 266. Building Critical AI Literacies I

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Commerce

• A working group

• Speakers: Leslie Allison, Rowan U; Kathryn A. Conrad, U of Kansas; Tiffany DeRewal, Rowan U; Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Marit J. MacArthur, U of California, Davis; Teresa Ramoni, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• This working group shares knowledge, strategies, and best practices in response to the ongoing challenge of generative AI and in dialogue with the MLA-CCCC’s Joint Task Force on Writing and AI and with Critical AI’s recent special issue on the topic. Speakers address a broad range of questions, from how generative AI works to strategies for teaching writing and language acquisition with an emphasis on critical AI and design justice perspectives.

• For related material, write to lauren.goodlad@rutgers.edu.

• For the other meeting of the working group, see 474.

• 267. To Mine or Not to Mine: Questioning Extractivism I

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Magazine

• A working group

• Participants: Luke Bowe, New York U; Lisa Burner, U of the South; Huw Edwardes-Evans, Rice U; Eduardo Febres Munoz, U of Notre Dame; Tatjana Gajic, U of Illinois, Chicago; Pedro García-Caro, U of Oregon; Jack Martinez Arias, Hamilton C; Isabelle Rogers, U of Oregon

• This working group looks at debates and cultural opposition to extractivism in the realm of literary, photographic, and filmic production, predominantly in the Americas and Southern Europe but open to a wider set of comparisons and cultural interactions. Participants consider the notion of colonial brutalization of the planet and the drive to create sacrifice zones, areas slated for ruination through toxic extractive practices.

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/groups/culture-questions-extractivism-to-mine-or-not-to-mine/.

• For the other meetings of the working group, see 473 and 737.

Friday, 10 January 11:00 a.m.

• 267A. Chat with an Editor I

• 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Churchill C2

• Presiding: Susan Tomlinson, U of Massachusetts, Boston

• This one-on-one mentoring session offers practical advice for early career scholars who are interested in publishing in scholarly journals. Members of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals serve as table moderators for authors who sign up in advance or attend on a walk-in basis. Topics of discussion include understanding author guidelines, submission processes, and queries.

• For related material, visit celj.org/chat after 1 Dec.

Friday, 10 January 12:00 noon

• 268. Claudel et la femme / Claudel's Representations of Women

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the Paul Claudel Society. Presiding: Eric Touya de Marenne, Clemson U

• Speakers: Agnese Bezzera, U di Parma; Chantal Clouard, Société Paul Claudel; Chiara Guillot, Sorbonne U; Nathalie Mace-Barbier, Avignon U; Jean-François Poisson-Gueffier, U de Franche-Comte

• Panelists explore the importance of women in Paul Claudel's theater, poetry, criticism, and exegesis.

• 269. Visibility and Humor: Seen and Unseen Meaning and Methods in American Humor

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Royal

• Program arranged by the American Humor Studies Association. Presiding: Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, Empire State U, State U of New York

• 1. “Barbed Wit and Empowerment: William Wells Brown's ‘My Southern Home,'” Jericho Williams, U of Alaska, Fairbanks

• 2. “The Humor of Intelligent Agents,” Benjamin Mangrum, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

• 3. “‘I Shouldn't Laugh . . .': Destabilizing (In)Sights in Cinematic Dark Comedy,” Emma Ridder, U of California, Los Angeles

• 270. Invisible Genres of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chart A

• Program arranged by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Presiding: Amelia Worsley, Amherst C

• Speakers: Alexis Chema, U of Chicago; Spencer Dodd, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; David Faflik, U of Rhode Island; Judith Pascoe, Florida State U; Jacob Risinger, Ohio State U, Columbus; Jonathan Sachs, Concordia U, Montreal; Fuson Wang, U of California, Riverside

• Panelists consider how invisible, incipient, or overlooked genres take form and expression in the work of John Keats, Mary and Percy Shelley, and their contemporaries. What are the conditions under which a genre becomes visible? How does genre function as a tool of evaluation? What implicit hierarchies govern the thresholds for distinguishing or studying a genre?

• 271. Bespoke Platforms and Algorithmic Resistance: Electronic Literary Futures

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the Electronic Literature Organization. Presiding: Lai-Tze Fan, U of Waterloo

• Speakers: Caitlin Fisher, York U; Leonardo Flores, Appalachian State U; Dene M. Grigar, Washington State U, Vancouver; Sarah Laiola, Coastal Carolina U; Chloe Milligan, U of Pennsylvania; Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Zach Whalen, U of Mary Washington

• Dramatic changes such as the slow death of Twitter and the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence are fundamentally reshaping the platforms on which we create, communicate, and publish. Panelists imagine possible futures of born-digital literature, considering tools of resistance, including feminist and queer approaches to code; “small” language models; mixed and virtual reality; and alternatives to corporate-owned platforms.

• For related material, visit anastasiasalter.net/bespokeplatforms/.

• 272. Rewriting Dominant Narratives in Italian Culture

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Italian

• 1. “The ‘Maggioranza Vile' at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Notes on Periodical Culture,” Silvia Valisa, Florida State U

• 2. “Anna Maria Ortese's Plea for the Dispossessed in Her Milanese Narratives,” Andrea Baldi, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 3. “From National to Transnational Views on Prostitution in Italian Cinema,” Patricia Lyn Richards, Kenyon C

• 4. “Rediscovering African American Actor Dots Johnson, the Long-Forgotten Star of Roberto Rossellini's Paisan,” Claudia Romanelli, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 273. Stranger Encounters: D. H. Lawrence and the Foreign

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Camp

• Program arranged by the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America. Presiding: Benjamin Hagen, U of South Dakota

• 1. “Encountering Strangers in D. H. Lawrence's ‘The Virgin and the Gipsy,'” Sijia Yao, Soka U of America

• 2. “‘Strange and Powerful': The Gipsy as Foreigner in D. H. Lawrence,” Bret Keeling, Northeastern U

• 3. “Playing Indian: D. H. Lawrence and Native Americans,” Jonathan Ivry, U of Wisconsin, Whitewater

• 4. “Meeting the Stranger, and the Stranger Is Himself: Lawrence in Oaxaca,” Feroza Jussawalla, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• 274. Heinrich Heine and Literary Identity

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 4

• Program arranged by the North American Heine Society. Presiding: Alicia E. Ellis, Colby C

• 1. “Literary History as Critical Practice,” Willi Goetschel, U of Toronto

• 2. “Jewish Lexical Items in Heine's Late Poems and Writings and His Place in Jewish Literary History,” Mark H. Gelber, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev

• 3. “Poetry and Deintegration: The Temporality of Jewish Difference in Heinrich Heine and Max Czollek,” Adi Nester, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 275. Teaching Japanese Tales from Times When Feminism Was Not a Thing (Just Yet)

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese to 1900. Presiding: Sachi Schmidt-Hori, Dartmouth C

• Speakers: Marjorie Burge, U of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Kern, Auburn U; Angelika Koch-Low, Leiden U; Matthew Mewhinney, Florida State U

• Scholars of premodern Japanese literature discuss their experiences and pointers on teaching texts that involve gender dynamics and sexual encounters that strike many college students in North America as problematic, aiming to reaffirm the value of teaching such texts at universities in North America and beyond.

• For related material, write to sachi.schmidt-hori@dartmouth.edu.

• 276. Religious Dissent and Literature

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Starboard

• Program arranged by the forum TC Religion and Literature. Presiding: Ken Seigneurie, Simon Fraser U

• 1. “Anticlericalism and Dissent: The Case of Inquisitorial Spain, Satire, and Power,” Mark J. Mascia, Sacred Heart U

• 2. “Subversion by Tradition: Orthodox Christianity in Greek Marxist Literature,” Andrew Ntapalis, Harvard U

• 3. “Genocide and the Armenian Christian Picaresque,” Ken Seigneurie

• For related material, write to kseigneu@sfu.ca.

• 277. World Republics of Letters: Nineteenth-Century Literary Capitals beyond the Anglosphere

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Eglinton Winton

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. Presiding: David S. Kurnick, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• Speakers: Sony Coráñez Bolton, Amherst C; Anirudh Karnick, U of Pennsylvania; Xiaolu Ma, Hong Kong U of Science and Tech.; Mónica Ramírez Bernal, Columbia U

• Participants consider comparative work in nineteenth-century studies that does not center English and French (or London and Paris as world capitals, à la Pascale Casanova's Paris-centered vision of literary networks), focusing on literary networks connecting South Asia to the Middle East, the Philippines to Latin America, and Northeast Asia to Russia.

• 278. Arabs in World Culture

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marlborough B

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American. Presiding: Anna Ziajka Stanton, Penn State U, University Park

• 1. “‘Switching Sand on the Telltale Trace': Unseeing Arabic Poetry in Images from the Arab World,” Daniel Behar, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

• 2. “Photographs in Egyptian Women's Political Memoirs,” Nada Ayad, Cooper Union

• 3. “Ladders of Reform: The Female Writers of the Twentieth-Century Syrian Diaspora,” Zaina Ujayli, U of Southern California

• 4. “‘Something about Palestine by a Palestinian?': Invisible Fiction and Nonfiction from 1930s Palestine,” Pasquale Macaluso, U of Cape Town

• 279. Queer Infrastructures of and in Early America

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Early American. Presiding: Sam Sommers, U of Connecticut, Waterbury

• 1. “Stephen Calvert’s Queer Infrastructure,” Christopher Looby, U of California, Los Angeles

• 2. “Sex in the Post Office,” Christy Pottroff, Boston C

• 3. “All in the Family: Infrastructures of Race and Sexuality,” Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham U, Lincoln Center

• 4. “Studying Trans, Studying Gender: What Are the Ends and Objects of Trans Studies in Early America?,” Eagan Dean, Stanford U

• Respondent: Sam Sommers

• 280. Underworlds and Undergrounds: Subterranean Tactics

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German. Presiding: Ilinca Iurascu, U of British Columbia

• 1. “Lettering from the Underground in Adalbert Stifter's ‘Turmalin,'” Ulrike Baur, U of Oregon

• 2. “Submerging into the Shadows: Joseph Roth's Travelogues from Postrevolutionary Russia,” Olesya Ivantsova, Oberlin C

• 3. “The Underground Man and Hans Fallada's Little Man, What Now?,” Michael Tavel Clarke, U of Calgary

• 281. Translating Black (In)Visibility from Portuguese

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 22

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian and the American Portuguese Studies Association. Presiding: Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues, U do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

• 1. “Black Women Poets in the Cadernos Negros of Today: Challenges in Writing and Translation,” Eliza Araújo, U Federal Fluminense

• 2. “Translating Cristiane Sobral: Voice, Black (In)Visibility, and the Translator's Impostor Syndrome,” Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey, independent scholar

• 3. “Retranslating Blackness at the Crossroads of Language,” Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues

• 4. “Writing as Translation in Short Stories by Lília Momplé and Paulina Chiziane,” Joyce Silva Fernandes, Brown U

• 282. Mass Violence and New Genres of Witnessing

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the forum LLC West Asian. Presiding: Shir Alon, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• 1. “Framing Gaza: Intent and the Source of Authority,” Liron Mor, U of California, Irvine

• 2. “Seeing Genocide and Witnessing Resistance: The Afterlives of Guerilla Filmmaking,” Karim Elhaies, New York U

• 3. “TikTok, Time's Up? Genocide, Global Witnessing, and US Censorship of Palestinian Testimonies,” Natalie El-Eid, Syracuse U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/west-asian/.

• 283. Rethinking the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-Century English. Presiding: Jane Hwang Degenhardt, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Speakers: Marissa Greenberg, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Melissa E. Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania; Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State U, Tempe; Henry S. Turner, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• Speakers address current challenges facing the humanities by drawing on early modern archives, methods, and questions; topics include administrative leadership, theater practice, culture and method wars, archival resources, and the future and limits of criticism.

• 284. Visibility, Language, Style: Authorship as Resistance

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature. Presiding: Mary Hayes, U of Mississippi, Oxford

• 1. “Callouts, Shout-Outs, and Shout-Backs: Presence, Visibility, and Resistance in The Western Recorder,” M'Balia Thomas, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 2. “What Could Have Been and What Might Yet Be: Narrative Refusals as Queer Narrative Forms,” Devon Anderson, U Innsbruck

• 3. “‘I Didn't Say Anything': Amplifying Voices through Silence in Jean Rhys's Novels,” Marianne Fish, U of Nottingham

• For related material, visit https://doi.org/10.17613/pge0-vj89.

• 285. Queer and Trans Forms of Black Study

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marlborough A

• Program arranged by the forum TC Women's and Gender Studies. Presiding: Cameron Awkward-Rich, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

• 1. “I Decided to Make Up a Story of My Own: The Absented Presence of Black Queer History in Audre Lorde's Zami,” Maandeeq Mohamed, U of Toronto

• 2. “Half Telling and Untelling: A Contemplation of Writing a Black Queer Ghostly Intimacy,” Haylee Harrell, U of Houston

• 3. “Side Conversations and Selves,” Ianna Hawkins Owen, Boston U

• 4. “Assembly and Anticipation: The Work of ‘We' from the Combahee River Collective to #BlackLivesMatter,” John Brooks, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 286. Envisioning Racial Futures: Race, Ethnicity, and Speculative Fiction Comics

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 3

• Program arranged by the forums GS Comics and Graphic Narratives and GS Speculative Fiction. Presiding: Derek Lee, Wake Forest U; William Orchard, Queens C, City U of New York

• Speakers: Chris Gavaler, Washington and Lee U; Matthew Goodwin, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Christian Hines, Texas State U; Javiera Irribarren, Columbia U; Aaron Kashtan, U of North Carolina, Charlotte; Adrienne Resha, U of Virginia

• Exploring how science fiction and fantasy graphic narratives have reimagined racial identity, conflict, and justice, speakers track the history and future of race in comics by way of the colonization of Latinx virtual realities, generational trauma in Black fantasy, Arab American space operas, the racialization of Marvel mutants, and multiculturalism from the Golden Age to the Blue Age.

• 287. Cite, Incite, Recite: Performing Citation

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the forum RCWS Creative Writing. Presiding: Vidhu Aggarwal, Rollins C; Michael Leong, Kenyon C

• 1. “Scientific Reference and Absence,” Kelly Krumrie, U of Denver

• 2. “Memory, Citation, Scene, Seen,” Ronaldo V. Wilson, U of California, Santa Cruz

• 3. “‘In Dreams We See but We Do Not Here': Represencing the Present,” Ami Xherro, U of Toronto

• For related material, write to vidhu@vidhuaggarwal.com.

• 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Language and Society. Presiding: Roshawnda Derrick, Pepperdine U; Inés Vañó García, Framingham State U

• 1. “The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts,” A. Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State U, University Park

• 2. “(Un)Natural Languages, (Un)Natural Identities: Decentering Spanish in Puerto Rican Studies,” Carmin Quijano Seda, Hunter C, City U of New York

• 3. “Deconstructing Masculine (Will)Power through French Medical Models of Trauma (1914–19),” Katherine Ellis, Westminster C

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/.

• 289. Keywords and the History of Ideas

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-18th-Century English. Presiding: Vivasvan Soni, Northwestern U; Abigail S. Zitin, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• 1. “Word and Idea: A Problem for Criticism,” Heather Keenleyside, U of Chicago

• 2. “Key Grammars,” David Alff, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• 3. “Not Res but Verba: Keywords, Exemplarity, and Representing the Character of an Age,” Supritha Rajan, U of Rochester

• 4. “Kultur and Society: Raymond Williams and the Specter of the German Mandarins,” Christian Thorne, Williams C

• 290. (In)Visibility and Marginality in the Global Middle Ages

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Medieval. Presiding: Nahir Otano Gracia, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• Speakers: Jonathan Correa Reyes, Clemson U; Alicen Davis, U of Texas, Austin; Dorothea Heitsch, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Chan Lee, U of Texas, Austin; Basil Price, U of California, Los Angeles

• Margins are the contours that create (in)visibility, and thus discussion of the visible and what must be unearthed to make something visible raises questions about margins and marginality: How do margins shape the contours of literary rhetorics? What is the role of margins in creating both visibility and invisibility? How does the study of the global Middle Ages as a theoretical model of scholarship help us explore the field's margins?

• 291. Gender in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Sephardic World

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Sephardic. Presiding: Hazel Gold, Emory U

• Speakers: Rustem Ertug Altinay, U of Milan; Rachel Baron-Bloch, Columbia U; Adam Cohn, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Rachel Kaufman, U of California, Los Angeles; Karen E. H. Skinazi, U of Bristol; Modiane Lior Zerdoun-Daniel, Central European U

• Focusing on gender in Sephardic culture of the Diaspora and Israel viewed through the lens of multilinguistic production in literature, film, television, and historical commemorations, panelists examine the construction of masculinity/femininity, feminist and queer cultural products and spaces, traditions and challenges to gender roles, gender and modernity in the Sephardic world, and alternative historiographies.

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/llc-sephardic-studies-mla-2025-gender-in-the-sephardic-world/#post-1038034.

• 292. New Directions and Emerging Voices in African American Literary Scholarship

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the forum LLC African American. Presiding: Magana Kabugi, Fisk U

• Speakers: Fredrick Cherry, Jr., U of Maryland, College Park; Tolonda Henderson, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Kenneth Johnson II, C of Charleston; Latoya Teague, Brown U; Nadejda Webb, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• Junior scholars in African American literary and cultural studies discuss a diverse range of works in progress that examine the narratives and inner lives of Black people rendered doubly invisible by American society: Black women creatives, Black gay male writers, the formerly enslaved, and the disabled. Here emerging voices has dual meaning, referring to both up-and-coming scholars and the emergence of still-marginalized voices.

• 293. Land as Pedagogy

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Commerce

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American. Presiding: Natalia Brizuela, U of California, Berkeley

• 1. “Dancing, Dreaming, Earthing, Mountaining, Rivering, Storytelling, Singing: Notes on Times without Time,” Natalia Brizuela

• 2. “La tierra da,” Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, writer

• 3. “Visualizing Land-Based Pedagogies in Amazonian Aesthetics,” Jamille Pinheiro Dias, U of London

• 4. “Historical Erosions: Gestures of Disintegration in Contemporary Puerto Rico,” Pedro Rolón, U of California, Irvine

• 294. PMLA: Getting Published as Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 18

• Program arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board. Presiding: Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia U

• Speakers: Alexandra Brown, Skidmore C; Rachael DeWitt, Washington U in St. Louis; Davy Knittle, U of Delaware, Newark; Alexander Sherman, Stanford U

• This session brings together graduate students and early career scholars who have recently had their work published in PMLA. The authors discuss their experience with the journal, addressing, among other topics, how they responded effectively to peer review and worked with the editorial board to further refine their submissions, all with an eye toward having their specialized work speak to the broad MLA membership.

• 295. Poetry, Translation, and the Afro-Caribbean Cultural Legacy of New Orleans

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of the Executive Director. Presiding: Luana Moreira Reis, U of Pittsburgh

• Speakers: Clint Bruce, U Sainte-Anne; Kelly Harris-DeBerry, Historic New Orleans Collection; Kalamu Salaam, Historic New Orleans Collection; Mona Lisa Saloy, Dillard U

• In 2020, the Historic New Orleans Collection published Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana's Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers, translated by Clint Bruce. It received the MLA's Roth Award for Literary Translation. Three New Orleans poets—Kelly Harris-DeBerry, Kalamu Ya Salaam, and Mona Lisa Saloy—share their twenty-first-century responses to these nineteenth-century poems and discuss this encounter across time.

• 296. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Presiding: Members of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee

• This meeting is only open to MLA members.

  During the open hearing, MLA members and delegates may discuss all items on the Delegate Assembly's agenda except resolutions. MLA members may also present new matters of concern to the assembly.

• For related material, visit www.mla.org/DA-Agenda-2025 after 11 Dec.

• 297. Discussion Group on Setting Mid-Career Priorities

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Churchill D

• Program arranged by the MLA Professional Development. Presiding: Martha Daas, Old Dominion U; Christine A. Wooley, Eckerd C

• The path to tenure is long and arduous, but it has a clear end with a definite marker of achievement. The post-tenure path can wiggle and branch, and many faculty members lose focus or direction. This discussion is a space for mid-career faculty members to share stories and advice and then to set a goal or two.

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/14GWL_qu-lFUEWAqORmJ4NSE6SMTMxWdLLbTxHAWN9G0/edit?usp=drive_link.

• 298. Deaf Performance, Language, and Art

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 7

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. Presiding: Jennifer Nelson, Gallaudet U

• 1. “Teaching Deaf Women's Comportment in Literature, Language, Film, History,” Brenda Brueggemann, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• 2. “Model of a Successful Theater Collaboration,” Pamela Wright, Gallaudet U

• 3. “Signed Music and Its Applications,” JB Begue, Towson U; Jody Cripps, Clemson U; Pamela Witcher, Vancouver Community C, BC

• For related material, write to jennifer.nelson@gallaudet.edu.

• 299. Advocating for World Languages: Structures That Work for the Students You Have

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Churchill A2

• Program arranged by the Association of Language Departments. Presiding: Michael Long, Baylor U

• Speakers: Muriel Cormican, Texas Christian U; Amanda Nagy, U of North Dakota; Danielle Pyun, Ohio State U, Columbus; Sonja Stephenson Watson, Texas Christian U; Faye Stewart, U of North Carolina, Greensboro; Suwako Watanabe, Portland State U

• Panelists focus on both tested and innovative ways to make language study more accessible and relevant to students. Topics include liaising with and educating advisers, reworking the curriculum, navigating scheduling concerns, leveraging credentials, countering negative discourses about language study and the humanities, creating an inclusive environment, and making study abroad accessible to all students.

• 300. The Humanities Grant-Making Landscape

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Churchill B1

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of the Executive Director. Presiding: Jason Rhody, MLA

• Speakers: Sean Buffington, Henry Luce Foundation; Carolyn Dinshaw, Mellon Foundation; Julia Lieber, Fulbright Scholar Program; Loni Bordoloi Pazich, Teagle Foundation; Christopher Thornton, National Endowment for the Humanities; Alice Tsay, The Huntington

• Leaders of the nation's foremost humanities grant-making bodies will discuss the current state of federal and foundation support for language, literature, and culture research and teaching.

• 301. Freud's Ecology

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Jackson

• A special session. Presiding: Steven Swarbrick, Baruch C, City U of New York

• 1. “Swallow/Spit,” Eugenie Brinkema, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

• 2. “Wild Ecologies, Lay Ecologies,” Ellen Lee McCallum, Michigan State U

• 3. “A Philosopher of the Flesh: Freud, Merleau-Ponty, and the Respiration Image,” McNeil Taylor, U of Cambridge

• 4. “The Colonized Snake: Sontag, the Oedipal Complex, and the Ecology of No Logos,” Mario Telo, U of California, Berkeley

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/members/sswarbrick/.

• 302. The Far North and the Global South

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Magazine

• A special session. Presiding: Jenna Sciuto, Massachusetts C of Liberal Arts

• Speaker: Shun Kiang, U of Central Oklahoma

• Respondent: Ryan Charlton, Georgia State U

• What are the ways in which the economically and spatially marginalized spaces of the Far North disrupt the geographies of the Global North and Global South? Far North spaces in some ways have more in common with the Global South, such as the exportation of raw materials, centrality of indigenous populations, and heightened impacts of climate change. How might attention to the Far North introduce new insights, complicating the binarism in formulations of space?

• For related material, write to j.sciuto@mcla.edu.

• 303. Indigenous Artivism in Contemporary Latin America

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

• A special session. Presiding: Nicole Bonino, U of Virginia

• 1. “Dispossession, Monstrosity, and Indigeneity in Lisandro Alonso's Experimental Cinematic Aesthetics,” Maria Paola Monteros-Freeman, U of Virginia

• 2. “Identity Reconstructions and Artistic Creations in the Afro-Indigenous Pacific,” Cesar Salgado Portillo, Georgetown U

• 3. “Sacrificial Rituals of Queer Motherhood: Cherríe Moraga's Chicana Mothers,” Jisun Kim, Yale U

• 4. “Live Indigenous Artivism in Belem: Traversing Spaces and Constructing Knowledges,” Tom Kissock-Mamede, U of Cambridge

• For related material, write to nb3hf@virginia.edu after 1 Dec.

• 304. Motherhood Disorders: Childless, Nonconformist, and Hysterical Women Facing Gender Expectations

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Churchill C1

• A special session

• 1. “The Archetype of Pain: The ‘Crazy Mother' Character in a Bolivian Contemporary Play,” Natalia Chavez, Georgetown U

• 2. “Disenchanted Motherhood in I've Forgotten Your Name, by Martha Riviera,” Elena Valdez, Christopher Newport U

• 3. “Embodying Mothering in Casas Vacías, by Brenda Navarro, and La hija única, by Guadalupe Nettel,” Katelyn Smith, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 4. “‘Ante todo . . . soy madre': Celebrity Motherhood in Spain's ‘Decade of Change' (1982–92),” Ana Marques Garcia, U of California, Santa Barbara

• For related material, write to nc722@georgetown.edu.

• 305. The World after Jubilee: Margaret Walker, Black Aesthetics, and Slavery's Twentieth-Century Renaissance

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Salon 12

• A special session. Presiding: Erica Edwards, Yale U

• 1. “History in the Sound of Walker's Jubilee,” Christopher Freeburg, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 2. “Jubilee's Life and Legacy,” Maryemma Graham, U of Kansas

• 3. “Jubilee and the Black Arts Movement,” Margo Natalie Crawford, U of Pennsylvania

• Respondent: Ivy Wilson, Northwestern U

• For related material, write to ccf@illinois.edu after 2 Jan.

• 306. Resisting In(Visibility): Violence, Trauma, and the Representation of Marginalized Voices

• 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Quarterdeck C

• Program arranged by the South Asian Literary Association. Presiding: Nalini Iyer, Seattle U

• 1. “Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Tarana Burke: (In)Visibility, Intertextuality, and Intergenerational Trauma,” Ruma Sinha, Rider U

• 2. “#MeTooIndia, Visibility, and the Role of Bystander Witness: Bilkis Bano Case and Darlings,” Nidhi Shrivastava, Sacred Heart U

• 3. “The Politics of (In)Visibility and Disinformation: ‘National’ Media and the Manipur Crisis,” Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm C

Friday, 10 January 1:45 p.m.

• 307. Reading the Classical in the Modern, Reading the Modern in the Classical

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Presiding: Sarah R. bin Tyeer, Columbia U

• 1. “The Reenchantment of World Literature: Arabic Modernism’s Aestheticized Sufism,” Yaseen Noorani, U of Arizona, Tucson

• 2. “Seeing What Cannot Be Seen: Muḥammad Bannīs’s Concept of Kitāba and Its Lineages,” Lubna Safi, U of California, Riverside

• 3. “The Poetic Functions of ʿAǧamī Impostors in Nāṣīf al-Yāziǧī’s Majmaʿ al-baḥrayn,” Rama Alhabian, Hamilton C

• 4. “Synaethesia in Bashshsār b. Burd Love Poetry,” Ula Aweida, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

• 309. Transnational Byron

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chart A

• Program arranged by the Byron Society of America. Presiding: Piya Pal-Lapinski, Bowling Green State U

• 1. “Byron's ‘Infant World,'” Mark E. Canuel, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 2. “Byron's Global Celebrity,” Omar F. Miranda, U of San Francisco

• 3. “Don Juan's Migrant Children,” Jonathan Sachs, Concordia U, Montreal

• 4. “Byron as Translator,” Maria Schoina, Aristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes

• 310. Reclaiming Joy as Political Visibility

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the Women in French. Presiding: Adrienne M. Angelo, Auburn U; Michele Schaal, Iowa State U

• 1. “Reclaiming Joy as Resistance to Mainstream Narratives: Grassroots Art Activism in Paris's Banlieues,” Ashley Harris, Trinity C Dublin

• 2. “Decolonizing Hair, Beauty, and Clothing: Joyful Digital Feminist Activism from the Francophone World,” Maria Tomlinson, U of Sheffield

• 3. “Reading Joy and Feminist Killjoy in Nina Bouraoui's Autofiction,” Kiki Kosnick, Augustana C

• 4. “Joy as an Assertion of Political Presence in Franco-Vietnamese Visual Media,” Warisara Emily Sawin, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• 311. Gendered Landscapes: Identity, Power, and Politics in German Visual Culture

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the Women in German. Presiding: Christine R. Rinne, U of South Alabama

• 1. “Intersectional Analysis of DOMiD Museum's Archival Images: Vietnamese Women Workers in East Germany,” Ahlam Hassan, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• 2. “‘Es ist kein Platz für uns': Space and Inconvenience in Heiner Carow's Verfehlung,” Muriel Cormican, Texas Christian U

• 3. “The Power of Comedy: Leveraging Queer Space in Heteronormative German Cinema,” Anne Wooten, U of Texas, Austin

• 4. “From East German Provinz to Uterine Universe: Anke Feuchtenberger's Gendered Land- and Bodyscapes,” Elizabeth R. Mittman, Michigan State U

• For related material, write to crinne@southalabama.edu.

• 312. Career Collaborations: Working Together to Develop Career Pathways for World and Heritage Language Learners

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 12

• Program arranged by the American Translators Association. Presiding: Kathleen Stein-Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Metropolitan Campus

• 1. “Career Collaborations and Language Advocacy,” Kathleen Stein-Smith

• 2. “The Work of Educators and the ATA Education and Pedagogy Committee,” Annelise Finegan, New York U

• 313. Visible Modernism: The Work of Eugene O'Neill

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the Eugene O'Neill Society. Presiding: Patrick James Chura, U of Akron

• 1. “The Emperor Jones and General Gabriel: Visible Modernism in Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder,” Patrick James Chura

• 2. “Scratching the Surface: Theatrical Drug Use after Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night,” Melissa Sturges, U of Maryland, College Park

• 3. “Rending Veils: Tragic Pathos and Social Consciousness in O'Neill's Climaxes,” Ryder Thornton, Tulane U

• 314. Transforming Space: Migration and Migrants in Austrian Literature and Ego-Documents

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the Austrian Studies Association. Presiding: Jacqueline Vansant, U of Michigan, Dearborn

• 1. “Julya Rabinowich: Dazwischen: Ich, Wir, and In-Between,” Hillary Hope Herzog, U of Kentucky

• 2. “‘You Are Entering a Border Area': Refugees and Space in Elena Messner's In die Transitzone,” Helga Schreckenberger, U of Vermont

• 3. “Home and Homelessness in the Diaries of Austrian Refugees Ruth Maier and Oskar Jellinek, 1938–45,” Kathryn Sederberg, Kalamazoo C

• For related material, write to jvansant@umich.edu.

• 315. Comics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and Graphic Medicine

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Presiding: Vera Camden, Kent State U, Kent

• Speakers: Suzy Becker, independent scholar; Jiyun Kim, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Andrew Slade, U of Dayton; Valentino Zullo, Ursuline C

• Respondent: Naomi E. Morgenstern, U of Toronto

• Rita Charon, founder of narrative medicine, brought a fuller recognition to stories as a source of medical insight. Panelists explore psychoanalysis as an originating model of narrative medicine while turning to graphic medicine as an outgrowth of the field. Reframing for patients, practitioners, and critics a question that Charon once posed, panelists ask, What are the dividends of placing psychoanalysis, narrative medicine, and now comics in conversation?

• 316. Visible (Un)Realities: Reconsidering Truth and Appearance in Pirandello and Beyond

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the Pirandello Society of America. Presiding: Lisa Sarti, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York

• 1. “Pirandello's Tailor: Carlyle's Influence on Pirandello's Philosophy of Appearances,” Lorenzo Mecozzi, Columbia U

• 2. “D'Annunzio's Long Avant-Garde and Pirandello's Exemplary Modernism,” Daniele Meregalli, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 3. “Visuality between Truth and Deception in Luigi Pirandello and Orson Welles,” Tommaso Verga, University C Cork

• 4. “Pirandellian Reflections and Refractions in Giuliana Musso's Dentro: Una storia vera, se volete,” Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State U

• 316A. Psychoanalytic Criticism Today

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Parish

• Program arranged by the forum TM Literary Criticism. Presiding: Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 1. “Nature’s Not Dead, It’s Unconscious: Claire Denis and New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Climate Change,” Matthew Mersky, Boston C

• 2. “A Palestinian Is Being Beaten,” Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser U

• 3. “‘Owning Your Narrative’: Online Therapy Discourse and the Sociology of Literature,” Lily Scherlis, U of Chicago

• 4. “Pranks, Redux,” Tess McNulty, Harvard U

• 317. Dussel, the Colonial Foundation of Latin American Thought, and Decolonial Ethics (In Memoriam)

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Commerce

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin American. Presiding: Santa Arias, U of Arizona, Tucson; Luis Fernando Restrepo, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• 1. “Decolonizing Philosophy: Latin America and World History,” Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State U, University Park

• 2. “Political Theology from the Global South: Enrique Dussel and the Poetics of Liberation,” Javier Padilla, Colgate U

• 3. “La conquista de México en clave colonial: La mirada de Enrique Dussel,” Valeria Añón, U de Buenos Aires

• 4. “Uncovering Eurocentrism: Las Casas, Dussel, and the Coloniality of Knowledge in the Apologética,” René Carrasco, California Polytechnic State U, San Luis Obispo

• 318. The Unseen in Catalan Studies

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Catalan Studies. Presiding: Anna Casas Aguilar, U of British Columbia

• 1. “Creating and Destroying the Unseen: Catalonia's Conejo Bleach,” Bob Davidson, U of Toronto

• 2. “One Single Flavor: Making Food Culture Visible in Catalonia after the Dictatorship,” Eloi Grasset, U of California, Santa Barbara

• 3. “Under the Rocks: Visibility and Invisibility in and of Catalan Photography,” Olga Sendra Ferrer, Wesleyan U

• 4. “Unseen in Plain Sight: Tracing the Infrastructural Turn in Recent Catalan Cultural Production,” William Viestenz, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• 319. Soundscapes of Travel and Resistance in Latin America's Long Nineteenth Century

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill A2

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century Latin American and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Presiding: Vanesa Miseres, U of Notre Dame

• 1. “Mexican Soundscapes through the Ears of US Travel Writers in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Sara Hernández Angulo, Washington U in St. Louis

• 2. “Early Phonographic Culture and the Sonic Staging of Blackness in Argentina,” Rodrigo Viqueira, Washington U in St. Louis

• 3. “Soundscapes in Porfirian Mexican Serial Novels,” Julio Enríquez-Ornelas, Wabash C

• 4. “Sonic Panorama of Water Workers in Mexican Costumbrismo,” Sandrine Madouas, independent scholar

• 320. New Perspectives on “New France” and the Colonial Caribbean

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the forums LLC 18th-Century French and LLC 17th-Century French. Presiding: Logan Connors, U of Miami; David R. Harrison, Grinnell C

• Speakers: Matthew Barfield, Harvard U; Nathan Brown, Furman U; Andrew Curran, Wesleyan U; Robert Decker, U of Southern California; Michael Mulryan, Christopher Newport U; Robert Twiss, U of Toronto

• Respondent: Brian Hawkins, U of Kansas

• Speakers seek to unearth new directions and perspectives for analyzing the early modern French-speaking Atlantic, including Saint-Domingue, Martinique, Missouri, Quebec, and Louisiana, focusing on issues of coloniality, race, and power, as well as on religious, cultural, and literary history.

• 321. Remapping the Post-Katrina Gulf South

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern United States. Presiding: Frank Cha, Virginia Commonwealth U

• Speakers: Julie Buckner Armstrong, U of South Florida, Saint Petersburg; Joanmarie Banez, U of California, San Diego; Jessica Bass, Jefferson State Community C, AL; Benjamin Compton, Kennesaw State U; Emily Fontenot, Illinois State U; Thomas Hallock, U of South Florida, Saint Petersburg; Katherine Henninger, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• Speakers consider how the Gulf South—a geographic border zone region with overlapping histories of colonizations and one of the most culturally diverse regions in the United States—has changed in the twenty years since Hurricane Katrina, exploring the ways in which environmental degradation and recovery, changing political landscapes, and economic turmoil have shaped a region undergoing a constant cycle of tragedy and rebirth.

• 322. Black Femme Visible Literatures and Histories: Traditions, Lineages, Traces, and Roots

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies. Presiding: Courtney Murray, Penn State U, University Park

• Speakers: Cora Anthony, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; I. Augustus Durham, U of Toronto; Habiba Ibrahim, U of Washington, Seattle; Veronica Popp, U of Saint Francis; Jehan Roberson, Cornell U; Jorden Sanders, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• Aiming to complicate how we make visible the roots, sites, and lineages of Black women's literary and historical production, traditions, and figures, speakers present three major through lines to encourage discussion: Black women's oral and religious genealogies, Black feminist literary traditions, and Black feminist theory and history.

• 323. Masking and Unmasking: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Art

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Starboard

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Yvonne Fuentes, U of West Georgia

• 1. “Masking, Gender, and Translation in Petra Pedregal's Pelayo,” Catherine Marie Jaffe, Texas State U

• 2. “Naming the Pornographic: Fictional Authorship in Sexually Explicit Nineteenth-Century Iberian Literature,” Sergio Martinez Rey, Stanford U

• 3. “The Many Faces of Don Juan: Masking Shame and Revealing Truth in El diablo está en todas partes,” Oscar Ruiz Hernandez, U of Massachusetts, Lowell

• 4. “Masks of Death: Sartorial Spectrality in Illustrations of Espronceda,” Rhi Johnson, Indiana U, Bloomington

• 324. Iberian Exteriorities

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Hofstra U

• Speakers: Nadiyah Aamer, U of Miami; Eric Calderwood, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mahan Ellison, Furman U; Robert Patrick Newcomb, U of California, Davis; Rhodri Lloyd Sheldrake Davies, U of Durham

• What are the dynamics at play in the historical, political, and theoretical configurations of Spain vis-à-vis “external” territories such as Gibraltar, Ceuta, Melilla, the Balearic Islands, and the Canary Islands?

• 325. Code Switch: Digital Humanities of Peoples and Languages on Occupied Lands

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 22

• Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Humanities. Presiding: Gabriela Baeza Ventura, U of Houston

• 1. “Lived Experience: Ethical Descriptions in Latinx DH, Metadata, and Archives,” Lorena Gauthereau, U of Houston

• 2. “Digital translenguaje: Latinx DH en la lengua de la gente,” Elena Foulis, Texas A&M U, San Antonio

• 3. “I Wish I Knew How to Say ‘I Made a Short Film with My Mom' in Iñupiatun,” Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Virginia Tech

• 326. Ecologies of Resistance: Spaces and Embodiments in Medieval Texts

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval French. Presiding: Megan Moore, U of Missouri, Columbia

• 1. “Materiality and Embodiment in Medieval Bestiaries,” Emma Campbell, U of Warwick

• 2. “Eliminating Desturbance: Panoptic and Profitable Gazes in Walter de Henley's Le dite de hosebondrie,” Jacob Abell, Baylor U; Eleanor Miller, independent scholar

• 3. “Old Paris and the City of Ladies: Building a Better Past,” Julie E. Singer, Washington U in St. Louis

• 327. Coriolanus: “Our Virtues / Lie in th’Interpretation of the Time”

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Commerce

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Shakespeare

• 1. “The Form of the Anecdote in Coriolanus,” David Nee, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 2. “‘Lonely Dragons’: The Futures of Misanthropy in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus,” Huw Griffiths, U of Sydney

• 3. “Bearing Voice and Baring Voice: Coriolanus and the Unrepresentable,” Katie Adkison, Bates C

• Respondent: Miles Grier, Queens C, City U of New York

• 328. Keywords, Questions, Concepts: Postcolonial Genres and Strategies

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial Studies. Presiding: Najnin Islam, U of Connecticut, Waterbury

• Speakers: Christina Marie León, Duke U; Alden Sajor Marte-Wood, Rice U; Juan Meneses, U of North Carolina, Charlotte; Angela Naimou, Clemson U; Mitia Nath, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Christine Okoth, King's C London; Grega Ulen, Princeton U

• Speakers address concepts that have not yet found purchase in postcolonial studies and commonly circulated keywords transposed into different aesthetic, political, and historical contexts: planning, critical irrealism, catachresis, unself, filth, protection, and nonalignment.

• 329. The Question of Palestine Now

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Marlborough A

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Presiding: Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Freie U

• 1. “‘An Affirmation and a Denial': Reading Palestinian Women's Writing after Said,” Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan, Duke U

• 2. “Between Ecopostcolonial and Entanglement: Palestinian Literary Engagement with Land,” Johanna Sellman, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 3. “Palestinian Cultural Production at the End of the World,” Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv U

• 4. “Synthesizing Edward Said's Tracks of Intellectual Inquiry: Comparative Literature, Settler Colonialism,” Helen Makhdoumian, Vanderbilt U

• 330. Making Visible Gender Justice in Asia

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee. Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard U

• Speakers: Amrita DasGupta, SOAS, U of London; Bruce Fulton, U of British Columbia; Junting Huang, Harvard U; Hui Faye Xiao, U of Kansas

• Participants discuss teaching, translating, and researching narratives on gender inequity and gender-based violence in Asia and how to facilitate the transition from reading and learning to activism.

• 331. Jazz and the Problem of Genre

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., St. James Ballroom

• Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council. Presiding: Erin D. Graff Zivin, U of Southern California

• Speakers: Herman Beavers, U of Pennsylvania; Courtney Bryan, Tulane U; Maya Kronfeld, Duke U; Carter Mathes, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• Artists and scholars in and of New Orleans will join specialists in music and sound studies, literature, and Black thought to discuss the problem of the category jazz as a far-reaching issue that allows us to think through the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of genre.

• 332. Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 18

• Program arranged by the forum TC Disability Studies. Presiding: Cynthia Port, Coastal Carolina U

• 1. “Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of Shakespeare’s King Lear,” Chris Gabbard, U of North Florida

• 2. “Listening without the Ears, Seeing without the Eyes: Old Age and Disability in Perec and Carrington,” Sophia Millman, Princeton U

• 3. “Reorienting Realities: Gender, Aging, and Care in Emma Healey’s and Jo Walton’s Fictions of Dementia,” Crystal Lie, California State U, Long Beach

• Respondent: Maren T. Linett, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/age-studies/or mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/.

• 333. Discussion Group on Leading in Times of Consolidations, Mergers, and Restructuring

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill D

• Program arranged by the MLA Professional Development. Presiding: Erin Templeton, Converse U

• This discussion group offers a space to share lessons learned and useful strategies to work through opportunities that can arise in the upheaval of restructurings and mergings of programs.

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/14GWL_qu-lFUEWAqORmJ4NSE6SMTMxWdLLbTxHAWN9G0/edit?usp=drive_link.

• 334. Designing and Advocating for Undergraduate Research Programs in the Humanities

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of Academic Program Services. Presiding: Leah Misemer, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

• Speakers: Jacquelyn Ardam, U of California, Los Angeles; Sue Lorenson, Georgetown U; Alison Mackey, Georgetown U; Andrew Squitiro, Tulane U; Amy Woodbury Tease, Norwich U

• Participants share stories and outcomes of successful undergraduate research programs, strategies for developing and advocating for humanities undergraduate research, and ways undergraduate research can promote the value of the humanities on campuses and beyond.

• For related material, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tx8vUnTMxFXlQbnFB4Fv_nH8uOOk7vWs?usp=drive_link after 2 Jan.

• 335. Literatures of Incarceration

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Quarterdeck A

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of Convention and Events. Presiding: Sarah Higinbotham, Emory U, Oxford C; Kevin Windhauser, Washington U in St. Louis

• Speakers: Cameron Flynn, U of California, Berkeley; Allison Serraes, Creighton U; Jennie Snow, Fitchburg State U; Whitney Trettien, U of Pennsylvania; Benjamin Williams, Carnegie Mellon U

• This roundtable explores literatures of incarceration and the theories that guide our interpretation. Participants will share work in progress about the history of printing and publishing inside prisons, memoirs of detainment, the literature of probation and parole, redaction and ellipses in prison writing, anti-carceral feminism, abolition theory, and the ethics of queer care in carceral spaces.

• 336. Mentoring New Journal Editors

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Exhibit Hall, Grand Ballroom

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of Scholarly Communication

• Speakers: Cheryl E. Ball, Council of Editors of Learned Journals; Tina Yih-Ting Chen, Penn State U, University Park; Bruce Holsinger, U of Virginia; Amanda Licastro, Swarthmore C; Kelly Ritter, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Karin E. Westman, Kansas State U

• Interested in taking on editorial responsibilities with a journal? Looking to learn how to onboard a new editor? to build community within a journal's board? Join this interactive session as experienced scholarly journal editors offer training, mentoring, and tips for becoming and training an editor. The session concludes with small-group breakout discussions. Scholars of all ranks are welcome.

• 337. Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop

• 1:45–3:45 p.m., Churchill B2

• Program arranged by the MLA Professional Development. Presiding: Patrick Fleming, National Endowment for the Humanities

• Speakers: Molly Hardy, National Endowment for the Humanities; Madison Hendren, National Endowment for the Humanities

• Representatives from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Division of Education Programs and Division of Research Programs outline current funding opportunities and highlight recent awards. In addition to emphasizing programs that support educational, scholarly research, and digital opportunities, this workshop offers applicants strategies for submitting competitive grant proposals. NEH staff members will also be available for individual meetings throughout the conference.

• 338. Toward a Negative Performance Studies

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Jackson

• A special session. Presiding: Lauren Bakst, U of Pennsylvania

• 1. “Scammers and Welfare Queens: Reading East African Women's Misperformance across the Long Twentieth Century,” Maandeeq Mohamed, U of Toronto

• 2. “Relational Illegibility: Another Beautiful Country, Scratching at the Moon, and an Asian American Aesthetics of Opacity,” Vanessa Holyoak, U of Southern California

• 3. “Black Vernacularity, Racial Orthography, and Nonperformative Utterance: On Will Rawls's Uncle Rebus,” Andrew Smyth, U of Pennsylvania

• Respondent: Summer Kim Lee, U of California, Los Angeles

• 339. Spoiling This Wonderful Falsehood: Japanese Video Games and Critiques of Western Worlding

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 3

• A special session. Presiding: David Hall, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 1. “‘We Are Thinking on the Basest of Planes': Bloodborne as Critique of Global Racialization and Capitalistic Expansion,” Austin Anderson, Howard U

• 2. “They Played Us Like a Damn Fiddle: Noble Suffering and the Spectacle of Torture in Metal Gear Solid,” Evan Manzanetti, U of California, Davis

• 3. “Working Title: Remediating Disney Myth,” Luna Loganayagam, U of California, Davis

• 4. “The Vampire Prince(ss): Escaping the Reincarnated Cycle of Gender Binary in SaGa Frontier,” Jakapat Koohapremkit, U of Texas, Austin

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/groups/spoiling-this-wonderful-falsehood-japanese-video-games-and-critiques-of-western-worlding/ after 5 Jan.

• 340. Feeling Bad: Democracy, Vengeance, and the Politics of Recognition in Nineteenth-Century US Literature

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 4

• A special session. Presiding: Omari Weekes, Queens C, City U of New York

• 1. “The Revenge of Justice: Vengeance and Balance in The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta,” Carrie Hyde, U of California, Los Angeles

• 2. “Insurrectionary Violence and Sheppard Lee's ‘Confusion of Characters,'” Daniel Couch, United States Air Force Acad.

• 3. “‘To Hear the Voice of the Red Man?': The Right to Be Heard in William Apess,” Jene Pledger, U of California, Los Angeles

• 4. “White Feelings, Bad Feelings: Counternarratives to Racial Domination in Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition,” Will Clark, San Francisco State U

• 341. Black Fantasy World-Building

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Magazine

• A special session. Presiding: Ian MacDonald, Florida Atlantic U

• 1. “A Materialist Reading of Nnedi Okorafor's Nsibidi Scripts Trilogy,” Theo Joy Campbell, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 2. “‘Into the Ocean Again': Black Feminist Underwater Epistemologies,” Adena Rivera-Dundas, Utah State U

• 3. “Apocalyptic Relativity: Catastrophe and the Fault Lines of History in the Work of N. K. Jemisin,” Kiana Murphy, Brown U

• 342. Necropolitical Violence and Visibility

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Churchill C1

• A special session. Presiding: Muhammad Farooq, Seton Hall U

• 1. “A Community of the Dead: Igor Barreto's Invisible Violence,” Carlos Colmenares Gil, Indiana U, Bloomington

• 2. “Synecdochic Bodies in Latin American Activism,” Madison Felman-Panagotacos, Middlebury C

• 3. “Literary Sumud: Rebuilding ‘Home' in Atef Abu Saif's The Drone Eats with Me,” Daniel O'Gorman, U of Leeds

• 4. “Multiplicity of the ‘Muslim' Concept in Colonial Algeria,” Tasnîm Tirkawi, Tulane U

• 343. After Feminism: Early Modern Lyric

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Fulton

• A special session

• 1. “Reading Early Modern Women after Women's Studies,” Melissa E. Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania

• 2. “Against the Erotic Sublime: Lyric Sexuality in Aphra Behn,” David Simon, U of Maryland, College Park

• 3. “Carew's Mannered Force,” Connie Scozzaro, Brown U

• 344. Contested Environmentalisms in Modern China

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 7

• A special session. Presiding: Dingru Huang, Tufts U

• 1. “Contested Environmentalisms: The Rhetoric of Afforestation in Socialist China, 1949–61,” Cheng Li, Carnegie Mellon U

• 2. “Pulling the Harrow: Desert Plants and Dark Ecology in Guo Xuebo's Sand Burial,” Robin Visser, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 3. “Labor and Ecology: A Critique of the Anthropocene,” Ban Wang, Stanford U

• For related material, write to rvisser@email.unc.edu after 2 Jan.

• 345. Can You See Now? Black American Writers and the English Renaissance

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Salon 10

• A special session. Presiding: Brandi Adams, Arizona State U, Tempe

• 1. “Slavery, Literary History, and the History of Feeling: Twelve Years a Slave and The Tempest,” Dennis Britton, U of British Columbia

• 2. “Shakespeare, Shadrack, and Black Women's Invisible Dreams,” Arthur Little, Jr., U of California, Los Angeles

• 3. “Passing for White with Milton's (In)Visible Influence in Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars,” Reginald A. Wilburn, Texas Christian U

• 346. Poetry as Object of Literary Studies

• 1:45–3:00 p.m., Commerce

• Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and Poetics. Presiding: Kamran Javadizadeh, Villanova U

• Speakers: Sarah Dowling, U of Toronto; Brian Glavey, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Virginia Jackson, U of California, Irvine; Katie Kadue, Binghamton U, State U of New York; Meredith Martin, Princeton U; Gillian C. White, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• During certain critical movements (e.g., New Criticism, deconstruction), poems seemed the default objects of literary study. But poetry has been marginal to recent method wars. How has the place of poetry in intradisciplinary debates changed—and with what consequences?

• For related material, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LD5xB6p6HRsWZO0ZOPmbYHw6C1UMzW4e?usp=sharing after 8 Jan.

Friday, 10 January 3:30 p.m.

• 347. Students' Right to Their Own Language, Disciplinary Histories, and Equitable Futures

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill A2

• Program arranged by the Conference on College Composition and Communication

• 1. “CCCC in 1968: The Abundant History of Ernece B. Kelly and the Origins of the NCTE Taskforce on Racism and Bias,” Megan McIntyre, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• 2. “SRTOL and SRTOW: Abundant Resources for Giving Feedback on Black Students' Writing,” Michelle Petty, U of California, Santa Barbara

• 3. “They Say, I Say, No SAE: Teaching Students to Harness the Rhetorical Tools They Came With,” Xochilt Trujillo Flores, California State U, San Bernardino

• 4. “Abundant Virtues: How Assignment Guidelines Encourage and Negotiate Personal, Disciplinary, and Bureaucratic Values,” Kasen Christensen, East Carolina U

• For related material, visit cccc.ncte.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2025CCCCMLASession.pdf.

• 348. Dostoevsky and Disability

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the International Dostoevsky Society. Presiding: Melanie Jones, independent scholar

• 1. “Pregnancy and Chronic Illness in Dostoevsky,” Melissa Miller, Colby C

• 2. “‘Who Sinned? This Woman or Her Husband?': Maria Timofeevna Lebyadkina and Disability as Penance,” Ruth Levai, U of Miskolc

• 3. “‘I Can't Work Forever': Disability, Dependence, and Labor in Dostoevsky's Novels,” Chloe Papadopoulos, Dalhousie U

• 349. Health, Well-Being, and Illness in Lusophone and Hispanophone Contexts

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 9

• Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Presiding: Jennifer Brady, U of Minnesota, Duluth

• 1. “Bereavement, Affiliation, Rejection, and Compensation: Illness in El invierno de los jilgueros,” Victoria Louise Ketz, La Salle U

• 2. “Exploring Health in the Intermediate Portuguese Classroom with Project-Based Assessment,” Boris Yelin, Northeastern U

• 3. “Sanity or Sickness in Soaps: Representation of Mental ‘Illness' as Superpower Mexico's Diana Salazar,” Amy Wright, Saint Louis U

• 4. “Writing about Diseases in Peru: A Search for Identity,” Alejandro E. Latinez, Bristol Community C, MA

• 350. Issues: The Challenge of Periodical Studies

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Presiding: James Mussell, U of Leeds

• Speakers: Maria Damkjær, U of Copenhagen; Fionnuala Dillane, University C Dublin; Priti Joshi, U of Puget Sound; Katherine Malone, South Dakota State U; James Mussell

• Participants focus on transnationalism, transmediality, and the cultural work of periodicals, examining movement as publications absorb and transmit content from diverse sources and across borders; periodical form, looking at parts from which periodicals are constituted and move through time; and ways the format and rhythms of the press structure the cultural work it performs.

• For related material, write to j.e.p.mussell@leeds.ac.uk after 29 Dec.

• 351. Report on Editors' and Journal Contributions and Universities' Responsibility to Foster Academic Communication

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Exhibit Hall, Grand Ballroom

• Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster U

• Speakers: Cheryl E. Ball, Council of Editors of Learned Journals; Brenda Machosky, U of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu; Susan Tomlinson, U of Massachusetts, Boston

• The CELJ Board of Directors describes results of a collaborative effort to update its document “The Contributions of Journals and Editors to the Scholarly Community and the Responsibility of Universities to Foster Academic Communication through Scholarly and Creative Journals.” This report grounds discussion of the current state of journal editing within universities with a focus on institutional support as a key component to scholarly success.

• 352. Latin American Performance

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Compass

• Program arranged by the forum TC Popular Culture

• 1. “Caring Bodies: Performance and Healing in the Venezuelan Diaspora,” Irina Troconis, Cornell U

• 2. “Embodying (Un)Documentation in Claudio Mir's Mondongo Scam,” Rebeca Hey-Colon, Temple U, Philadelphia

• 3. “Choreographies of Friction: Latinx Contemporary Dance in the Americas,” Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Cornell U

• Respondent: Maria Ines Canto Carrillo, Colorado State U

• For related material, write to micanto@colostate.edu.

• 353. Reimagining Tradition in Galicia/Iberia

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Galician. Presiding: Laura Lesta Garcia, Middlebury C

• Speakers: Eva Alvarez Vazquez, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Silvia Bermúdez, U of California, Santa Barbara; Luke Bishop, U of Texas, Austin; Renee Congdon, Princeton U; Sofia Fernandez Gonzalez, Yale U; José M Rodríguez García, Duke U; Alba Rodríguez-Saavedra, U de Vigo

• Panelists explore traditional music, dance, and cultural-social practices in Galicia/Iberia, from perspectives spanning gender, queer studies, cultural studies, ethnography, and sociolinguistics.

• 354. Travel Writing and Go-Betweens

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the forum GS Travel Writing. Presiding: Jessica Howell, Texas A&M U, College Station

• Speakers: Nicole Eitzen Delgado, Hunter C, City U of New York; Sayanti Mondal, Ithaca C; Carmen Nocentelli, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Pablo Pastore, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Wan Sonya Tang, Boston C

• Panelists address how go-betweens mediate cross-cultural encounters, challenge colonialist narratives, and engage in world-making, considering various forms of writing from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries in English, Italian, and Spanish and examining travelers from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Topics include archival erasure, temporal and geographic dislocation, and the ethical responsibilities of intermediaries.

• 355. Creolizing Connections across the Americas: Louisiana and the Greater Caribbean

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Francophone. Presiding: Maya Angela Smith, U of Washington, Seattle

• 1. “Some Interimperial Contexts of Cecilia Valdés,” Leslie Bary, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• 2. “Ciguapas in NOLA: Empowering Quadroon Women in The Grandissimes,” Alyssa Anders, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 3. “Exploring Blackness, Creolization, and Resistance: New Orleans and French West Indian Music,” Coraline Kandassamy, Florida Atlantic U

• 4. “Sybil Kein's Louisiana Creole: Archipelagic Bridges, Fractures, and Rasanblaj,” Rachel Kirk, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 356. TV and New Media

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Starboard

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS European Regions. Presiding: Joanne Britland, Framingham State University

• 1. “What Is Educational? German Public Broadcasting in the Era of Streaming,” Christine R. Rinne, U of South Alabama

• 2. “Terrorism and Communication: Nonexistent Organizations in Spanish Media,” Francesc Morales, The Citadel

• 3. “Queer as Folk as a Global Brand,” Maria Giovanna Fusco, U of L'Aquila

• 357. Disablement and Disability in Palestine and the Global South

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 7

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American. Presiding: Nesrine Chahine, Texas Tech U

• 1. “‘Occupation, the Closures . . . Have Made Amputees of All of Us': Debility in Palestinian Literature,” Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech

• 2. “Do Gazan Women Need Saving? Genocide, Disablement, and Palestinian Feminism,” Asma Al-Naser, Vanier C

• 3. “Menstrual Justice and Disability in Palestine,” Ela Przybylo, Illinois State U

• 358. Global Englishes in the Public Sphere

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Global English. Presiding: Zhaozhe Wang, U of Toronto

• 1. “Educating about the Diversity of English and English Speakers: Documentary Film Making,” Ryosuke Aoyama, U of British Columbia; Ryan Deschambault, U of British Columbia; Takeshi Kajigaya, U of British Columbia; Ryuko Kubota, U of British Columbia

• 2. “Blending Voices Online: The Role of English in the Translanguaging Practices of Italian Gen-Z Social Media Users,” Lucia Casiraghi, Harvard U

• 3. “Navigating and Negotiating Gender Neutrality and Linguistic Justice in Germany, North America, and Australia,” Maureen O. Gallagher, Australian National U

• 359. The Limits of Vision in Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italy

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian. Presiding: Clorinda Donato, California State U, Long Beach

• 1. “Emplotting Galileo: Vision, Poetry, and the Astronomical Imagination,” Beatrice Fazio, U of Chicago

• 2. “Europe 1606: What Bernardo Bizoni Saw,” Nathalie Hester, U of Oregon

• 3. “The Black Italian Renaissance: History and Countermemories of Resistance,” Angelica Pesarini, U of Toronto

• 360. Reaching and Becoming: Social Dynamics of Early Modern Chinese Texts

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese. Presiding: Maria Franca Sibau, Emory U

• 1. “Rethinking Erotic Novellas,” Xiaoqiao Ling, Arizona State U, Tempe

• 2. “The Image of the Book and the Performance of Reading in The Drunken Man's Talk,” Canaan Morse, Boston U

• 3. “The Tradition of Poetic Interpretations of The Peach Blossom Fan,” Rainier Lanselle, École Pratique des Hautes Études

• Respondent: Maria Franca Sibau

• 361. Solidarities and Schisms: Uses and Limitations of Irish Analogies

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Irish. Presiding: Liam Lanigan, Governors State U

• Speakers: Andrew Henderson, U of California, Santa Barbara; Mindi McMann, C of New Jersey; Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown U; Sarah L. Townsend, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• Participants consider scholarship and debates in Irish studies, frequently defined and contested through comparisons with other cultures, nations, and peoples, from historical situations as disparate as those in Palestine, South Africa, Poland, India, and the Caribbean.

• 362. Black Parenting on the Stage and Written Page

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 4

• Program arranged by the forum LLC African American. Presiding: Dorothy Randall Tsuruta, San Francisco State U

• 1. “Motherhood as a Site of Resistance in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction,” Cristovao Nwachukwu, U of Florida

• 2. “Black Parents in Contemporary Black American Memoir,” Christina Marie Tourino, C of Saint Benedict

• 3. “‘Bad' Black Parenthood in the US Novel,” Brandy Reeves, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• 4. “Nellia Larsen's Maternal Instincts,” Amadi Ozier, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• 363. Out of the Box: Rethinking Southeast Asia through Comics

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Quarterdeck C

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic. Presiding: Nazry Bahrawi, U of Washington, Seattle

• 1. “Noir Aesthetics and the Nation in Southeast Asian Comics,” Weihsin Gui, U of California, Riverside

• 2. “Wayang ‘Out of the Box': Women and Superhero Comics in Indonesia,” Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana U, Bloomington

• 3. “‘Getting the Joke': Preserving Cultural Context in the Translation of Comics,” Michael N. Garcia, Clarkson U

• 4. “Historical Denial and Identity-Based Melancholia in Chinese Whispers,” Sarah Garrod, U of Southern California

• For related material, write to weihsing@ucr.edu after 15 Dec.

• 364. Visibility and the Visual in Medieval and Early Modern German Culture

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 12

• Program arranged by the forum LLC German to 1700. Presiding: Jonathan Seelye Martin, Illinois State U

• 1. “Renaissance and RenAIssances: Perspectives on Dürer and Panofsky Today,” Hannah Hunter-Parker, Amherst C

• 2. “Visualization, Attention, Knowledge: Two Optical Tools in Athanasius Kircher's Ars magna lucis et umbrae,” Aleksandra Prica, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 365. Seeing, Watching, and Looking in Sixteenth-Century France (1480–1630)

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 16

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-Century French. Presiding: Corinne Noirot, Virginia Tech

• 1. “Discerning Appearances in Early Modern Fictional Works,” Cynthia Vialle-Giancotti, Stanford U

• 2. “Witnessing a Massacre in Goulart's Histoire des martyrs,” Sophia Buehrer, New York U

• 3. “Cette ‘lumière qui est en nous' selon Descartes,” François-Xavier De Peretti, Aix-Marseille U

• 366. Histories and Legacies of Hurricane Katrina

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Magazine

• Program arranged by the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Presiding: Allison Carruth, Princeton U

• 1. “Reordering Disaster in Francis Lo's A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters,” Melissa Parrish, Smith C

• 2. “Tracing a Disaster: Flood Lines and the Artifactual History of Hurricane Katrina,” Michele White, Tulane U

• 3. “Hurricane Katrina and the Rise of Postcolonial Disaster Studies,” Ishanika Sharma, Emory U

• 4. “Slow Catastrophe: My Louisiana Love and Life under Necropower,” Weston Twardowski, Rice U

• For related material, write to acarruth@princeton.edu after 6 Jan.

• 367. Theoretical Approaches to Decolonization in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literatures

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century. Presiding: Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• Speakers: Jigisha Bhattacharya, U of Cambridge; Rose Casey, West Virginia U, Morgantown; Arnab Dutta Roy, Florida Gulf Coast U; Katherine Hallemeier, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater; Kang Kang, Northwestern U; Kaushik Tekur, Binghamton U, State U of New York; Ali Eren Yanik, U of Texas, Austin

• Understanding decolonization as an undoing of colonial logic, panelists explore and interrogate the persistent formations of colonial modernity, including of nation and private property, as well as the identity categories—including of indigeneity, race, religion, culture, and caste—that buttress colonial and postcolonial hierarchies. How do colonial and postcolonial literatures reflect and disrupt these to think through decolonization?

• For related material, write to mukti.l.m@rutgers.edu.

• 368. Humor, Laughter, and African Texts

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the forum LLC African to 1990. Presiding: Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang, Ashesi U

• 1. “Scatological Humor in African Literatures,” Ato Quayson, Stanford U

• 2. “Humor and African Digital Literature,” Olorunshola Adenekan, Ghent U

• 3. “Laughing through Tears: African Humor in and against the World,” Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• 369. Immunity and Debility, Immunity as Debility: New Directions

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies. Presiding: Travis Alexander, Rice U

• Speakers: Travis Alexander; Amanda Caleb, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; Vivian Delchamps, Dominican U of California; Elizabeth Forsythe, Washington State U, Pullman; Justine Trinh, Washington State U, Pullman

• Speakers seek to explore the possibilities at the intersection of disability and (auto)immunity, addressing the ramifications of long COVID on art and politics, the risks and potentials of including autoimmune conditions under disability and debility, and the resonances between theorizations of debility as alterity, on the one hand, and embraces of anti- or nonimmunity on the other, where the latter refers to an exposed and ecological way of being in the world.

• For related material, write to ta33@rice.edu after 1 Jan.

• 370. Visibility in Romance Linguistics

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Romance Linguistics. Presiding: Amàlia Llombart, California State Polytechnic U, Pomona

• 1. “Visibility of Romance-Lexified Creoles in the Field of Romance Linguistics,” Kevin Reynolds, York U

• 2. “Disputing Diglossia: When a Sociolinguist Doesn't See Language,” Oliver Whitmore, U of California, Berkeley

• 3. “The Noun Ome (‘Man') and Multistage Grammaticalization in Abruzzese,” Raymond LaVerghetta, Howard Community C, MD

• 4. “Paths and Logical Relations: Case-Marked Adverbial Clauses in Romance Languages,” Martina Rizzello, U of Geneva

• For related material, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lLOgr0e4b3XA5dOUJVSfoAGgNhtlxIfm?usp=drive_link.

• 371. Revisioning Gender in Adaptations

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the forum TC Adaptation Studies

• Speakers: Rustem Ertug Altinay, U of Milan; Amber Jurgensen, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Janelle Poe, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Mary Ruth Robinson, U of Virginia

• Speakers interrogate how diverse forms of adaptations engage with issues of representation and gender inclusion, particularly trans and feminist perspectives, attempting to decode how feminist and trans perspectives alter the perceptions of narrative and storytelling in different forms of adaptations. How do feminist and trans modes of storytelling reframe adaptations? How do these adaptations affect contemporary debates about trans rights?

• 372. Next-Generation Research in English: A Graduate Student Showcase

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Ayanni Cooper, MLA; Alanna Frost, U of Alabama, Huntsville

• Speakers: Mosunmola Adeojo, U of Florida; Gracie Bain, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Amber Kinui, U of Texas, Austin; Samya Brata Roy, Indian Inst. of Tech., Jodhpur; Halle Trang, Georgetown U; Trent Wintermeier, U of Texas, Austin

• Across English and related fields, graduate students are developing engaging, inventive, and transformative projects that envision their disciplines in new ways. In an effort to highlight “next-generation scholarship,” this session features lightning-round presentations that offer a snapshot of where these fields are headed.

• For related material, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Orb1vi-2_xvDaLO4WiK-AnGJuolv-ub-?usp=sharing after 1 Jan.

• 373. Discussion Group on Advocating for LCTLs at Your Institution and in the Profession

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill D

• Program arranged by the MLA Professional Development. Presiding: Wilma Doris Loayza, U of Colorado, Boulder; Danielle Pyun, Ohio State U, Columbus

• This group welcomes educators who teach less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to African languages, Asian languages, and Indigenous languages. Participants discuss advocating for LCTLs on campus and beyond, building sustainable programs and tapping into available resources, and study away and community engagement, as well as how professional meetings like the MLA convention can create a welcoming and supportive space for LCTL educators.

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/14GWL_qu-lFUEWAqORmJ4NSE6SMTMxWdLLbTxHAWN9G0/edit?usp=drive_link.

• 374. Sentimental Politics after Doomerism

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Jackson

• A special session. Presiding: Matt Tierney, Penn State U, University Park

• 1. “From Apocalyptic Romanticism to Apocalyptic Disappointment,” Zachary Loeb, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• 2. “From Outrageous Emptiness to Shared Grace,” Matt Tierney

• 3. “Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling,” Melanie Abeygunawardana, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• 4. “Aesthetic Abandonment,” Sheila Liming, Champlain C

• 375. Teaching Medical Humanities

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Port

• A special session. Presiding: Pamela K. Gilbert, U of Florida

• Speakers: Pamela K. Gilbert; Yonsoo Kim, Purdue U, West Lafayette; Lorenzo Servitje, Lehigh U; Bassam Sidiki, U of Texas, Austin; Emily Waples, Hiram C; Kym Weed, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Scholars of medical humanities in a variety of departmental settings, working in a variety of courses and programs and across periods, explore a range of institutional and pedagogical issues with this emerging and popular field.

• 376. Material Matters: Representations of Working-Class Life in Recent Fiction

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Camp

• A special session

• 1. “Double Invisibility: Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender in Contemporary German Literature,” Jan Behrs, Tulane U

• 2. “Irvine Welsh and Determinism,” Ben Clarke, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

• 3. “Now You See Us: The (In)Visibility of Filipino Migrant Workers in Singapore and Beyond,” Luka Lei Zhang, U of Macau

• 4. “Broader Allegories: Twenty-First-Century Political Struggle in Beasts of England,” Simon Lee, Texas State U

• 377. Deep Time Aesthetics in Latin America

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Quarterdeck A

• A special session

• 1. “Environmental Bricolage: Latin American Literature in the Wasteocene,” Nicolas Campisi, Georgetown U

• 2. “Becoming ‘Pampa': Bones and Necro-Writing in the Atacama Desert,” Sebastián Figueroa, U of New Orleans

• 3. “Mining and Desedimentation in Pedro Castera's Geological Writings,” Jorge Quintana Navarrete, Dartmouth C

• 4. “River Temporalities in Times of Transitional Justice: Ongoing Fluvial Care along the Magdalena,” Amanda M. Smith, U of California, Santa Cruz

• 378. Indigenous Literatures Now! Land and Politics

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 18

• A special session. Presiding: Mishuana Goeman, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• 1. “Gadugi, Then and Now: Cherokee Community Values and the 1839 Act of Union,” Bradley Dubos, Ohio State U, Columbus

• 2. “Cane Fire and the Dreamworlds of the Pacific,” Keoni Correa, U of California, Berkeley

• 3. “Rhetoric and Reciprocity: East Carolina University's Neyuheruke Wampum,” Christopher Rodning, Tulane U; Kirstin L. Squint, East Carolina U

• 4. “Land's Agency and Native Sovereignties in Mohegan and US Literature and Law,” Kyle Keeler, Lafayette C

• 379. Multicultural Resonances in Early Modern England

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Commerce

• A special session. Presiding: Maggie Solberg, Bowdoin C

• 1. “Crafting Difference: The Meanings of Violence and Justice in Rowley's All's Lost by Lust,” Kirsten Mendoza, U of Dayton

• 2. “Cleopatra's Occult Knowledge: Epistemological Difference in Shakespeare's Egypt,” Roya Biggie, Knox C

• 3. “Making (In)Visible: The Racial Anxieties of Shakespearean Skincrafts,” Jennifer Park, U of Glasgow

• For related material, write to kmendoza1@udayton.edu.

• 380. Literary and Visual Memorials: Postcards, Prose, Poems

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Chart A

• A special session. Presiding: Ben Railton, Fitchburg State U

• 1. “Between History and Memory: African Americans and the Postcard,” Michael Hall, Virginia Commonwealth U

• 2. “Literary Memorials: Names and Lists in Contemporary Black Literature,” Miriam Thaggert, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• 3. “An American Poetics: Claudia Rankine and Visual Art's Memorial Modes,” Sarah Nance, United States Air Force Acad.

• 381. Affective Economies of the (Greater) Caribbean

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill C1

• A special session. Presiding: Cristina E. Pardo Porto, Syracuse U

• 1. “The Novel as Repoliticizing Machine: Tourism, Development, and Affect in The Chosen Place,” Lauren Horst, Columbia U

• 2. “‘The Island of Her Body': Extractivism and Consumption in Nicole Dennis Benn's Here Comes the Sun,” Agnes Sastre-Rivera, Emory U

• 3. “Puzzled Vampires: Pleasure, Labor, and Tourism in Caribbean Film,” Justo Planas, Le Moyne C

• 4. “Abjecting the Beautiful: Food and Affect in Ediciones Vigía,” Ali Kulez, Boston C

• Respondent: Zorimar Rivera Montes, Tulane U

• 382. The Wild City

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Royal

• A special session. Presiding: Matthew Lambert, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 1. “Defending the Citizen Trees: Francis Hopkinson's Revolutionary Plant-Mindedness,” Judith Richardson, Stanford U

• 2. “Wildness, Aesthetics, and Reform in Antebellum New York City,” Evan Neely, Pratt Inst.

• 3. “Quarantine: Hidden Wildness in Elia Kazan's New Orleans,” Matthew Lambert

• 4. “‘No Life without Wildlife': Wilderness and Changing Cityscapes in Romesh Gunesekera's Suncatcher,” Thakshala Tissera, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

• 383. Migrant Narratives: Aesthetic, Literary, and Political Interventions

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Kabacoff

• A special session

• 1. “(Un)Documentedness in Black Feminist Political Autobiographies,” Esmeralda Arrizon-Palomera, U of Illinois, Chicago

• 2. “Queer Migrant Memorials: Queer Latinx Life Writing beyond Memoir and Testimonio,” José de la Garza Valenzuela, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 3. “Pirated Rivers: Twenty-First-Century Undocumented (Im)Migrant Poetry,” Eun Jin Kim, Rutgers U, Newark

• 4. “TransLatina Power: Life Narrative, Survival, and the Glamour of It All,” Ruben Zecena, U of California, Davis

• 384. Looking Black / Looking Back: African American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Salon 3

• A special session. Presiding: Casarae Abdul-Ghani, Temple U; Marlo D. David, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• Speakers: Philathia Bolton, U of Akron; Joycelyn K. Moody, U of Texas, San Antonio; Cassander Smith, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• Panelists discuss the volume in the African American Literature in Transition series dedicated to the 1970s, engaging the postmodern legacies of the Black Arts Movement in contemporary Black literary study. The volume editors detail the intellectual journey and practical challenges of bringing this collection to the light of day.

• 385. Educating at the Intersection of Data Science and Humanities through Ethical and Responsible Contexts

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Humanities. Presiding: Sylvia Fernandez, U of Texas, San Antonio

• Speakers: Katherine Hennessey, Lehigh U; Paulina Hernandez-Trejo, Notre Dame U; Anna Preus, U of Washington, Seattle; Aashna Sheth, independent scholar; Amardeep Singh, Lehigh U; Melanie Walsh, U of Washington, Seattle

• Scholars discuss their work in the project “Responsible Datasets in Context: Collaboratively Designing for Ethical Humanities Data Education,” which seeks to strengthen students’ literacy and capacity to work with data and responsibly address humanities inquiries.

• For related material, write to sferna109@gmail.com after 1 Jan.

• 386. Making Our Work Visible: Humanities Values and the “Anti” Impulse

• 3:30–4:45 p.m., St. James Ballroom

• A linked session arranged in conjunction with the Presidential Plenary: Visibility, Place, and Displacement: Louisiana’s Expressive Culture and the Changing Same (228).

• Presiding: Dana A. Williams, Howard U

• Speakers: La Marr Jurelle Bruce, U of Maryland, College Park; Kevin Quashie, Brown U; Howard Rambsy, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville

• Antiracism, anticolonialism, anti-imperialism, and antifascism campaigns in higher education and beyond abound and rightly so. Among their many strengths, humanities practices—cultivated through disciplinary study—provide ways of exploring multivocal identities and of elevating the varied perspectives of these identities. In so doing, the humanities equip us with the tools needed to resist forces of racism, colonialism, imperialism, and fascism and to develop, instead, a more just society. Making the distinctive practices, aims, and methodologies of humanities study visible, especially in fields of study motivated by liberation impulses, is a challenge we must accept if we are to create meaning this fraught sociohistorical, cultural moment makes necessary.

Friday, 10 January 5:15 p.m.

• 387. Telling (on) Literacies

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the forum RCWS Literacy Studies. Presiding: Charissa Che, John Jay C of Criminal Justice, City U of New York

• 1. “Medieval Meaning Machines: Conceptualizing Literacy of Machines between Middle Ages and Alan Turing,” Aled Roberts, Columbia U

• 2. “‘It’s Just Like Everywhere Else’: Telling as Placemaking in a Community Writing Group,” Stacie Klinowski, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

• 3. “Extracurricular Tellings: What We Can Learn from Writers in Writing Centers across the Country,” Rebecca Hallman Martini, U of Georgia

• 4. “Professional Expertise versus Student Literacies: Inventing Counterstorying in Composition Classrooms,” Purna Chandra Bhusal, U of Texas, El Paso

Respondent: Romeo Garcia, U of Utah

For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/.

• 388. Poe Lives on Netflix

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the Poe Studies Association. Presiding: Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State U

• Speakers: Scott Caddy, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Scott Peeples, C of Charleston; Annie Persons, U of Virginia; Carl Peters, U of the Fraser Valley; Sandra Tomc, U of British Columbia, Vancouver; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U

• Poe is alive and well—on Netflix. Filmmakers and TV directors have long tapped into Poe's creative vein, and the era of streaming services has only increased his on screen(s) presence. Speakers explore the versions of Poe on Netflix.

• 389. Milton and Visibility

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 12

• Program arranged by the Milton Society of America. Presiding: Marissa Greenberg, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• 1. “The Paper Messenger,” Tom Clayton, Colgate U

• 2. “Seeing the Body's Prison in Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes,” Frances Ringwood, U of Zululand

• 3. “‘The World Was All before Them': The End of Paradise Lost in Nineteenth-Century Visual Art,” Joseph Torres, U of California, Los Angeles

• 390. Making Climate Change Issues Visible in Eastern European and Romanian Culture, Media, and Politics

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the Romanian Studies Association of America. Presiding: Oana Popescu-Sandu, U of Southern Indiana

• 1. “The Visibility of Nonhuman Species: Simona Popescu's Philosophical Animism,” Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, U of Bucharest

• 2. “Rosia Montana: Mobilizing Action for Environmental Justice with the Help of Documentary Films,” Madalina Meirosu, Arizona State U, Tempe

• 3. “Film Movements and Environmental Policies in Romania and Eastern Europe,” Jarvis Curry, U of the Cumberlands

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/.

• 391. Dickensian Cultures and Communities

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the Dickens Society. Presiding: Chris Louttit, Radboud U

• 1. “How Did Slums Become Dickensian?,” Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi U

• 2. “Scrooge Goes to Seoul,” Richard Bonfiglio, Sogang U

• 3. “Dickens's Christmas in the Twenty-First Century,” Jen Cadwallader, Randolph-Macon C

• 4. “Dickensian Silliness: Serialization, Pastiche, and Parody in the Twenty-First-Century Sister Arts,” Elizabeth Bridgham, Providence C

• For related material, visit dickensianculturesandcommunities.hcommons.org/.

• 392. Performing Pirandello at the MLA: Visible (Un)Realities and Truth versus Appearance

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the Pirandello Society of America. Presiding: Michael Subialka, U of California, Davis

• 1. “Unlimited Reality in Six Characters in Search of an Author: The Visibility of Truth Onstage,” Nick Gabriel, Chapman U

• 2. “Staging Henry IV as Solo Show: Playing Visible and Invisible with an Audience,” Laura Caparrotti, Kairos Italy Theater

• This session features performances of scenes from adaptations of Pirandello's plays Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV, presented by the directors of the adaptations and followed by conversation with the directors, actors, and audience members.

• 393. Joy, Resistance, and the Sounds of New Orleans: Black Music and Culture

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the College Language Association. Presiding: Constance Bailey, Georgia State U

• Speakers: Constance Bailey; Madison Hunter, U of Memphis; Jennifer Morrison, Xavier U, LA

• From music to Mardi Gras to funk and storytelling, speakers examine twentieth- and twenty-first-century narratives and narrators of New Orleans, considering how they led the way and how others have come within their tradition.

• 394. Uses of the Erotic in Chicanx Literary and Cultural Production

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Marlborough A

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and Chicano. Presiding: Sara A. Ramírez, Texas State U

• 1. “Chicana (S)Excess in the Archive,” Bernadine Hernandez, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• 2. “The (Un)Caged Voice in Octavio Solis's Lydia,” Riley Thomas, Temple U, Philadelphia

• 3. “‘From the Thorn Emerges the Flower': Peter Bratt's La Mission, Chicano Masculinity, and Desire,” Jose Navarro, California Polytechnic State U, San Luis Obispo

• 395. Depicting Violence in East Asia across Time and Space

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 3

• Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian. Presiding: Jina Kim, U of Oregon

• 1. “Pregnant with Meaninglessness: Eroticizing Violence in the Japanese Onibaba Legend,” Laura Nuffer, Colby C

• 2. “Gendered Violence: Portrayal of an Outlaw in Drama and Film,” Jing Shen, Eckerd C

• 3. “Vignettes of Violence,” Theodore Hughes, Columbia U

• 4. “Gendered Violence and the Production of the Narratives of North Korean Refugee Women,” Eun Ah Cho, U of Kansas

• For related material, write to jinak@uoregon.edu.

• 396. Visualizing Medieval Iberia

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Starboard

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval Iberian. Presiding: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State U, San Marcos

• 1. “Queens at the Movies: Images of Isabel the Catholic and Medieval History,” Maria Elena Soliño, U of Houston

• 2. “Reimagining Melibea: Contemporary Interpretations in Visual Narratives,” Jen Fernandez, independent scholar

• 397. Easts in the German Imagination: Figurations of the “Demi-Orient”

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German. Presiding: Forrest Finch, Penn State U, University Park

• 1. “German Moldavian History: The Translation of National History from German into Romanian around 1800,” Alexandra Chiriac, Alexandru Ioan Cuza U

• 2. “German Notions of Place and Self in Benedikte Naubert's Later Crusade Novels,” Julie Koser, U of Maryland, College Park

• 3. “‘Man muß nur in die Fremde gehen, um zu Hause zu sein!': Carmen Sylva's West-Eastern Divan,” Beth Ann Muellner, C of Wooster

• 398. Historical Visibility in the Contemporary Hungarian Novel

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 22

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Hungarian. Presiding: Jessie M. Labov, Corvinus U

• 1. “Camera Obscura: Sándor Márai's Indirect Inspection of Contemporary History,” Peter Czipott, independent scholar

• 2. “‘For Now We See in a Mirror, Darkly': Visibility and Visualization in the Contemporary Hungarian Novel,” Csaba Horváth, Károli Gáspár U

• For related material, write to pczipott@gmail.com.

• 399. Literature Not Literature

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Bridge

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese. Presiding: Christopher Nugent, Williams C

• Speakers: Edward B. Kamens, Yale U; Christopher Nugent; Yunshuang Zhang, Wayne State U

• Literature, beyond its intrinsic value as art and storytelling, often transcends its boundaries and serves various nonliterary purposes in different cultural landscapes. Panelists delve into the multifaceted ways that literature is utilized as an object, as a visual material, and as a medium of information management and knowledge transmission in diverse geographic and cultural contexts, shedding light on its significance beyond mere literary appreciation.

• 399A. Teaching with the MLA Guides

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee. Presiding: Mario Ortiz-Robles, U of Wisconsin, Madison

• Speakers: Elizabeth Brookbank, Western Oregon U; Hilda Chacón, Nazareth U; Nalini Iyer, Seattle U; Charles Snodgrass, Grambling State U

• This session offers practical approaches to using the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature in the classroom.

• 400. Topsy-Turvy: The Persistence of Historical Stereotypes of Black Girlhood

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 6

• Program arranged by the forum GS Children's and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Jaïra Placide, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• 1. “Magical and Misunderstood: Examining Portrayals of Black Girlhood in YA Novels and Pop Culture,” Christian Hines, Texas State U

• 2. “Topsy's Revenge: Considering Dee as a Black Girl Out of Character in Lovecraft Country,” Kiedra B. Taylor, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• 3. “Terrifyingly Topsy-Turvy: Examining Topsy and Her Legacy through the Lens of Horror,” Hebah Uddin, U of Pittsburgh

• 4. “The Terrible Twos: Doubling Topsy's Terror in Lovecraft Country,” Janelle Poe, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• 401. Cuban Time Scales: Exploring Postmodern and Postrevolutionary Cultural Forms

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Commerce

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic. Presiding: Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• 1. “Antonio Benítez Rojo: Utopía, afecto y fracaso histórico en El mar de las lentejas,” Antonio Cardentey, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

• 2. “Temporalidades contrapuestas de la Revolución cubana: Landrián, del director Ernesto Daranas,” Maria Cumana, Tulane U

• 3. “El cine de los nietos: Revolución, agotamiento y posmemoria en El último país,” Isdanny Morales Sosa, Tulane U

• 4. “Heterotopias y la mise en abyme en el El rodeo y Gloria Eterna,” Ivonne Cotorruelo Perez, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/ after 1 Dec.

• 402. Masks and Masquerades

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill A1

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century French. Presiding: Cary Hollinshead-Strick, American U of Paris

• 1. “The Transformative Power of Laughter: Unveiling Social Masks in Victor Hugo's L'homme qui rit,” Marie Dufay-Verbié, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• 2. “White Skin, Brown Masks: Isabelle Eberhardt's Literary Performance in Rakhil and Yasmina,” Valentin Duquet, Rice U

• 3. “‘Nous avons la passion fiévreuse d'arracher ce masque': Masking and Unmasking Queer Desire in Letters between 1869 and 1873,” Michael Rosenfeld, Vrije U Brussel

• 4. “To Look or Not to Look: Ballet and the Female Gaze at the Paris Opera,” Madison Mainwaring, U of Notre Dame

• 403. Comparative Abolitionisms

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Eglinton Winton

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. Presiding: Emily Sun, Barnard C

• 1. “Sisterhood, Affect, and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Women's Transnational Antislavery Networks,” Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington U in St. Louis

• 2. “Reenvisioning Abolitionism as Emancipatory Reconciliation,” Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• 3. “Juan Francisco Manzano, Richard Robert Madden, and the Limits of Abolitionist Empiricism,” Ryan Carroll, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 4. “Caste, Global Abolition, and the Assemblages of Slavery,” Shruti Jain, Binghamton U, State U of New York

• 404. Culture of Palestine

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., River

• Program arranged by the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory. Presiding: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia U

• 1. “Culture, Coloniality, and Violence,” Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn C, City U of New York

• 2. “The Right to Imagine,” Gil Z. Hochberg, Columbia U

• 3. “Culture in Palestine,” Hanan Ashrawi, Birzeit U

• 4. “Rebuilding from the Rubble: A Palestinian Odyssey,” Beshara Doumani, Birzeit U

• 405. Making Visible New Books in Indigenous Studies

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 18

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada. Presiding: Angela Calcaterra, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Speakers: Ryan Carr, Columbia U; Amy Gore, North Dakota State U; Matt Hooley, Dartmouth C; Maureen Konkle, U of Missouri, Columbia

• Authors of new books in Indigenous literary studies discuss their books' subjects, methodologies, and contributions to the field, engaging in conversation about archives, authorship, community engagement, texts, theories, and Indigenous studies approaches.

• 406. Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill C1

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Italian American. Presiding: Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

• 1. “Exploring Italian Identity through Memory and Politics in Zélia Gattai's ‘Anarchists, Thanks to God,'” Chiara Caputi, Graduate Center, City U of New York

• 2. “Carcamanos to Comendadores: Illegality and the Making of Italians in São Paulo,” Giulia Riccò, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 3. “‘Charmingly and Unfashionably on the Side of Substance': Ani DiFranco's Aesthetic Disruptions,” Cristina Di Maio, U degli Studi di Torino

• 4. “Dagli Appennini alle Ande in Film: Representation and Collective Imagination of the Great Migrations,” Chiara De Santi, Farmingdale State C, State U of New York

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/italian-american/docs/.

• 407. Critical Appositions: What We Do Beside(s) Critique

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American. Presiding: Erica Edwards, Yale U

• 1. “Evidence in Things Not Seen: Faith, Law, and the Unlikely Defense of Sovereignty,” Hannah Manshel, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

• 2. “Abolitionist Literary Criticism: Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and the Autobiographies of Reading,” John Rufo, Kenyon C

• 3. “The Work of Being Art: Black Criticism in the Age of Institutionality,” Casey Patterson, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 408. Citing and Sighting Coresistance in Canadian Literature

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Canadian. Presiding: L. Camille van der Marel, MacEwan U

• 1. “Settler Translation of Indigenous Literatures: What Possibilities, What Limits?,” Arianne Des Rochers, U de Moncton

• 409. Witnessing War and Genocide

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Port

• Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Culture. Presiding: Ruby Tapia, U of Virginia

• 1. “Palestine, Resurgent Violence, and Disaffected Witnessing,” Haya Alfarhan, Kuwait U; Domenic Davies, City U of London

• 2. “Photographing Lingerie in a Genocide: Palestinian Women and Intimate Dehumanization,” Aliyah Khan, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 3. “Racial Justice and the Art of the Antiwar Newsletter in the 1980s,” Andrew Lanham, Yale U

• 4. “Witnessing the Repressed: The Ethics of Memory in Ari Polman's Waltz with Bashir,” Ido Moses, U of Toronto

• 410. Theorizing Practices: Research on and for Language Program Administration Work

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Quarterdeck A

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning and the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators. Presiding: Cori Crane, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 1. “People at the Core: A Panoply of Approaches to Language Program Leadership,” Denise Bouras, Northwestern U; María Jesús Barros Garcia, Northwestern U

• 2. “Taking a Data-Driven Approach to Textbook Evaluation: An Exploration of a Practical Framework,” Steven Flanagan, Arizona State U, Tempe

• 3. “Decisions, Decisions: Student and Instructor Buy-In on Textbook Choices,” Rachel Floyd, U of Georgia

• 411. Disability and Hiring: Access, Accommodation, Belonging, and Retention

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Salon 7

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. Presiding: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta U

• 1. “Disability and Hiring: What Comes After?,” E. Nicole Meyer

• 2. “Social Conventions and Institutional Practices as Obstacles for Disabled Applicants in the Academic,” Petra Watzke, Lawrence U

• 3. “Moving (Slowly) Forward: Reshaping Campus Accessibility for the ASL Community,” Stephen Fitzmaurice, Clemson U; Joseph Mai, Clemson U

• 4. “Placemaking as a Means for Belonging and a Thriving Deaf Cultural Scene,” Tabitha Jacques, Gallaudet U

• For related material, write to nimeyer@augusta.edu after 20 Dec.

• 412. New Directions for Asian American Literary Studies

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Magazine

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian American. Presiding: Jinah Kim, California State U, Northridge

• Speakers: Julianna Crame, Ohio State U, Columbus; Sarah Halabe, U of California, Berkeley; Libby Kao, U of California, Berkeley; Naomi Kim, Washington U in St. Louis; Maile Aihua Young, U of California, Santa Barbara

• Respondent: Chris A. Eng, Washington U in St. Louis

• Graduate scholars offer innovative approaches and research questions for Asian American literary studies.

• 413. Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill B2

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession. Presiding: Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• Speakers: Debra Rae Cohen, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Luis Fernando Restrepo, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Colleen M. Ryan, Indiana U, Bloomington; Kate Schnur, Queens C, City U of New York; William James Spurlin, Brunel U London

• This session is dedicated to mentoring graduate students and early faculty members to better navigate the academy. Scholar-mentors discuss diverse topics in ten-to-fifteen-minute slots simultaneously, and participants move around the room and network with the topics and mentors of their choice. Mentors provide advice aimed at graduate students, women, queer-identifying faculty members, contingent faculty members, and Black, Latinx, and Asian faculty members.

• 414. Next-Generation Research in World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: A Graduate Student Showcase

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the Association of Language Departments. Presiding: Daniel Fried, U of Alberta

• Speakers: Carlo Cinaglia, Michigan State U; Wenzhu Li, U of Alberta; Aleksandra Malinowska, U of Warsaw; Helena Stech, Michigan State U; Sokunthary Svay, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Carrie Anne Thomas, Ohio State U, Columbus

• Across world languages, literatures, and cultures, graduate students are developing engaging, inventive, and transformative projects that envision their disciplines in new and exciting ways. In an effort to highlight this “next-generation scholarship,” graduate students give short presentations about their research to offer a snapshot of where their fields are headed.

• 415. Crossing Borders, Crossing Genres

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Jefferson

• Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council. Presiding: Tina Lu, Yale U

• Speakers: Shahriar Mandanipour, writer; Viet Nguyen, U of Southern California; Sarah Schulman, Northwestern U

Campuses, classrooms, and books have always been politicized, but perhaps are more obviously so now than ever. Writers celebrated not just for their art but also for their social and political commitment discuss the intersection between formal innovation and politics, focusing on borders and border crossing, whether the borders are geographic, cultural, sexual, or political.

• 416. Do We Need the Posthuman?

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Virtual

• A special session

• 1. “Object-Disoriented Deontology: Toward an Ethics of Inhumanism,” Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall U

• 2. “The Human to Posthuman Pipeline (and Vice Versa),” Christopher Breu, Illinois State U

• 3. “The Human as the Weird,” Jennifer L. Fleissner, U of Chicago

• 4. “A Posthuman Fanon?,” Zahi Zalloua, Whitman C

• For related material, write to russell.sbriglia@shu.edu after 15 Dec.

• 417. Siglo Latinx: New Perspectives on Spanish Golden Age Theater Performance in the Americas

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Canal

• A special session

• Speakers: Erin Cowling, MacEwan U; Israel Franco Müller, U of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan U; Martha Lorena Rojas Castañeda, Western U of Ontario; Natalia Soracipa, U of Calgary

• Siglo Latinx is the study of Latino artists adapting early modern Hispanic plays. Focusing on how Latinx theater practitioners are adapting for contemporary audiences, panelists discuss outcomes of this collaborative project that spans academics, students, and artists, as well as its trajectory since the pandemic, with digital adaptations and postpandemic adaptations that incorporate Latinx questions of identity.

• 418. Situation Critical

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chart A

• A special session. Presiding: Marcie Frank, Concordia U

• 1. “Situational Imagination and the Dramatic Instinct,” Jason Camlot, Concordia U

• 2. “Situational Awareness: Stigma and the Dynamics of Identity,” Heather K. Love, U of Pennsylvania

• 3. “The Situation of the Professional Classes and the Employment Crisis in the Humanities,” John David Guillory, New York U

• Respondent: Ned Schantz, McGill U

• For related material, write to marcie.frank@concordia.ca after 5 Jan.

• 419. (Re)Writing the “New Woman”

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Royal

• A special session. Presiding: Gianna Bacchetta, Tufts U

• 1. “Feminism Is for Everybody: The Influence of Pandita Ramabai on American New Womanhood,” Jesse Cordes Selbin, Gettysburg C

• 2. “Creolizing the New Woman: The Subversion of Feminist Archetypes in Alice Dunbar-Nelson's Early Short Fiction,” Caroline Martin, U of Geneva

• 3. “‘A Witch Is a Cunjuh Man': Defining Conjuring, Witchcraft, and the New Woman in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Toni Morrison's Beloved,” Andy Bainbridge, Tufts U

• For related material, visit newwoman.mla.hcommons.org/.

• 420. New Citizenship Studies

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Camp

• A special session. Presiding: Carrie Hyde, U of California, Los Angeles; Derrick R. Spires, U of Delaware, Newark

• Speakers: Eve Eure, Lehman C, City U of New York; Florencia Lauria, Syracuse U; Sidonia Serafini, Georgia C and State U; Erin Suzuki, U of California, San Diego; Kathryn Walkiewicz, U of California, San Diego

• A special issue of American Literature defines and gives momentum to “new citizenship studies,” which approaches citizenship as a contested and malleable political and aesthetic form that writers and activists have used to critique the existing state of things and to imagine alternatives. Panelists rethink the premises of citizenship from the perspective of those who cannot presume the state's protections.

• 421. Decolonization and Genealogies of Neoliberalism

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Churchill A2

• A special session. Presiding: Paul Nadal, Princeton U

• Speakers: Arnav Adhikari, Brown U; Kaagni Harekal, Columbia U; Justin L. Mann, Northwestern U; Jerrine Tan, City U of Hong Kong; Mason Wong, New York U

• Respondent: Jini Kim Watson, U of Melbourne

• How might we reconsider the formation of neoliberalism by situating it within the histories of global decolonization? How do anticolonial and postcolonial texts grapple with neoliberal logics of race, capital, reproduction, governance, surveillance, automation, and knowledge production?

• 422. Old News: Twenty Years of Making Historical Newspapers Visible

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Compass

• A special session. Presiding: Molly Hardy, National Endowment for the Humanities

• 1. “From Nineteenth-Century Bibliography to Twenty-First-Century Metadata,” Daniel Evans, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• 2. “We've Got Issues,” Molly Hardy

• 3. “Unearthing Editorial Legacies: Reading Ethnic Newspapers through MARC Records, Title Essays, and Linked Data,” Joshua Ortiz Baco, U of Tennessee, Knoxville

• 4. “Chronicling America: Past, Present, and Future,” Robin Pike, Library of Congress

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/members/mollyohardy/.

• 423. Strange New Connections: Exploring the Relationship between Humans and Artificial Machines in the Age of AI

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Magazine

• A special session. Presiding: Lucia-Alexandra Tudor, Gheorghe Asachi Technical U of Iasi

• 1. “Befriending the Bot? Stanislav Belsky, (Iskustv)ennyi Intellekt*, and Russophone Robo-Poetic Conversations,” Anna Ivanov, Harvard U

• 2. “AI, Affect, and Sensorial Sympoeisis,” Hsuan L. Hsu, U of California, Davis

• 3. “Remembrance of the Bicameral Mind: Sensory Worlds at the Interface,” Andrew Kettler, U of South Carolina, Union

• Respondent: Alina Anton, Alexandru Ioan Cuza U

• For related material, visit panelhumansandai.mla.hcommons.org.

• 424. Edward Said's Legacy Today

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Jackson

• A special session. Presiding: Noelle Brada-Williams, San José State U

• 1. “Edward Said, Generation Z, and the Social Media Revolution,” Linda Mokdad, Saint Olaf C

• 2. “Said's St. Paul,” Samuel Catlin, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

• 3. “Said's Orientalism and Representations of China in Twentieth-Century French Letters,” Shijung Kim, Harvard U

• For related material, write to noelle.brada-williams@sjsu.edu after 9 Dec.

• 425. Post-Tanzimat Ottoman Literature Made Visible

• 5:15–6:30 p.m., Cambridge

• A special session. Presiding: Sezen Unluonen, Tel Aviv U

• 1. “Literary Discourse on Trans Existence in Ottoman-Turkish,” Ipek Sahinler, U of Texas, Austin

• 2. “Love in Peril: A Comparative Analysis of Halide Edib and Zabel Yaseyan,” Sennur Bakirtas, Ataturk U

• 3. “Two Ottoman Subjects Turning Orientalist Discourse Upside Down,” Emel Zorluoglu Akbey, Erzurum Technical U

• 4. “Race in the Ottoman Empire: A Game of Snakes and Ladders,” Sezen Unluonen

Friday, 10 January 7:00 p.m.

• 426. MLA Awards Ceremony

• 7:00–8:45 p.m., St. James Ballroom

Presiding: Dana A. Williams, Howard U, MLA President

• 1. Tina Lu, Yale U, MLA First Vice President, will present the William Riley Parker Prize; James Russell Lowell Prize; MLA Prize for a First Book; Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize; MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars; Howard R. Marraro Prize; Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; Morton N. Cohen Award; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies; Lois Roth Award; MLA Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship; William Sanders Scarborough Prize; Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies; MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; Matei Calinescu Prize; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for African Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies; and Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies.

• 2. Paula M. Krebs, MLA, will present certificates to or announce the recipients of the MLA International Bibliography Fellowship Awards, the seal of approval from the Committee on Scholarly Editions, the MLA Pathways Step Grants, the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship, the MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize and the MLA Public Humanities Incubator Fellows.

• 3. Maggie Broner, ALD President, will present the ALD Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession to Amy Thompson, Florida State U.

• 4. Remarks by Amy Thompson.

• 5. Margaret M. Koehler, ADE President, will present the ADE Francis Andrew March Award to Douglas Hesse, U of Denver.

• 6. Remarks by Douglas Hesse.

Friday, 10 January 7:15 p.m.

• 427. A Screening of Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead

• 7:15–8:30 p.m., Fulton

• Presiding: Anita Modak-Truran, Yoknapatawpha Productions

• Speakers: Jerry Wayne Carlson, City C, City U of New York; Michael Modak-Truran, Coffee House Films; Judson D. (Jay) Watson, U of Mississippi

• Narrated by and starring the Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts, Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead immerses viewers in Faulkner’s world by using innovative storytelling techniques that weave together his writing with archival film and photographs, animations, reenactments at Rowan Oak, and interviews with leading Faulkner scholars. A reception with the director follows the screening.

• For related material, write to anita.modaktruran@gmail.com.

• 428. A Screening of The Five Demands

• 7:15–8:30 p.m., Churchill C1

• Presiding: Jervette Ward, City C, City U of New York

• Speaker: Andrea Weiss, City C, City U of New York

• The Five Demands presents a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. Told through their point of view, the film follows the students’ struggle against institutional racism and proves that a handful of ordinary citizens can take action to effect meaningful change.

• 429. Reception Arranged by the Forums LLC Medieval Iberian, LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose, LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama, and LLC Colonial Latin American

• 7:15–8:30 p.m., Canal

• 430. Reception Arranged by the Forum LLC Irish, Glucksman Ireland House NYU, and the American Conference for Irish Studies

• 7:15–8:30 p.m., Camp

• 431. Reception and Cash Bar Arranged by the South Asian Literary Association

• 7:15–8:30 p.m., Commerce

• 432. Cash Bar Arranged by the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick

• 7:15–8:30 p.m., Jackson

Saturday, 11 January 8:30 a.m.

• 434. Faulkner's Visible Presence in Asia

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the William Faulkner Society. Presiding: Rebecca Nisetich, U of Southern Maine, Portland

• 1. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Faulkner, the Philippines, and Colonial Histories,” Jenna Sciuto, Massachusetts C of Liberal Arts

• 2. “Alternative Modernities in Continuum: Spatial and Sexual Otherness in Faulkner and Pai Hsien-yung,” Pei-Wen Kao, National Ilan U

• 3. “Faulkner's ‘Mississippi' and Its Cold War Afterlife,” Yuko Yamamoto, Chiba U

• 4. “Comparing William Faulkner and Mo Yan: A Study on Sexual Ethics,” Mengyu Li, Ocean U of China

• 435. Emergency? What Emergency? The 2024 MLA Emergency Motion on Academic Freedom

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Quarterdeck C

• Program arranged by the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages. Presiding: Dina Al-Kassim, U of British Columbia, Vancouver

• 1. “A Brief History of Attacks on Palestine Advocacy and Solidarity in the US University,” Karim Mattar, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 2. “From Palestine to South Texas: Violence, Repression, and Curtailing Academic Freedom,” Kamala Platt, Arizona State U, New C of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

• 3. “Making an Emergency: The Right-Wing Assault on Academic Freedom,” Heather Steffen, Georgetown U

• 436. Australasian Literature at the Crossroads: Visible and Invisible

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Prince of Wales

• Program arranged by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies. Presiding: Barbara Hoffmann, U of Miami

• 1. “The Political Life of Colonial Poetry,” Thomas Ford, LaTrobe U

• 2. “Against Bushbashing: Navigational Notes for a Discipline at a Crossroads,” Julieanne Lamond, Australian National U

• 3. “Reading for the Climate: Indigenous Fiction in Classrooms,” Sandra Phillips, U of Melbourne

• For related material, write to barbaramhoffmann@gmail.com.

• 437. Romanticism, the Shelley Circle, and the Spirit of the Age

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Chart C

• Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association and the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Presiding: Brian Rejack, Illinois State U

• 1. “Wollstonecraft's Spirit: A Contemporary Portrait,” Sonia Hofkosh, Tufts U

• 2. “‘Mirrors of the Gigantic Shadows': Spirited Away with the Shelleys,” Jennifer M. B. Wallace, U of Cambridge, Peterhouse C

• 3. “Things as They Are; or, The Spirits of the Age,” Margaret E. Russett, U of Southern California

• 4. “The ‘Legislator' and the ‘Spirit of the Age' in Shelley's Defence of Poetry,” Pablo San Martín Varela, U of Chile

• 438. The “Indigenous Critique”: Reverse Ethnography and Enlightenment Thought

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 18

• Program arranged by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Presiding: George Boulukos, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

• Speakers: Michael Tavel Clarke, U of Calgary; I. B. Hopkins, U of Texas, Austin; Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara; Brett D. Wilson, William and Mary

• Panelists explore how the concept of the “indigenous critique,” as developed by David Graeber and David Wengrow, can allow us to rethink what Srinivas Aravamudan calls pseudo-ethnographies or reverse ethnographies. Instead of gazing at the other from a centered position, these ethnographies look at the self through a slanted lens. What new perspectives can this rethinking open for eighteenth-century studies?

• 439. Vision and (In)Visibility in Dante and Medieval Culture

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the Dante Society of America. Presiding: Anne Leone, Syracuse U

• 1. “Dante's Tenzone with da Maiano: Visions of Love and Language,” Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Community C of Philadelphia, PA

• 2. “‘To Be Blind No Longer': Guinizzelli's Dolce Stil and Dante's Stil Novo,” Leonardo Chiarantini, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 3. “The Invisibility of the Present in Inferno 6 and 10,” Nassime Chida, Duke U

• 4. “Painting the Human Effigy: Dante's Artistic Transhumanization,” Rookshar Myram, U of Notre Dame

• 440. A Word after a Word after a Word Is Power

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the Margaret Atwood Society. Presiding: Lauren Rule Maxwell, The Citadel

• 1. “Fictional Reality or Real Fictionality? Crossing the (In)Visible Threshold,” Sandrine Rajaonarivony, U Pennsylvania

• 2. “All Too (In)Visible: Vulnerability, Precarity, and Resilience in Margaret Atwood's Life before Man,” Gouri Kapoor, Northcap U

• 3. “‘Don't Ask for the True Story': The Slippery Power Games in Margaret Atwood's Work,” Dunja M. Mohr, U of Erfurt

• 441. The Seen and the Unseen in the Medieval Romance Epic

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill C1

• Program arranged by the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch. Presiding: Norval Bard, North Central C

• 1. “The Problems of Visibility in Garin de Monglane,” Norval Bard

• 2. “Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Women in the Medieval French Epic,” Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt U

• 3. “The Seen and Unseen in the Saint Gabriel Episode of the Cidian Narrative,” Matthew J. Bailey, Washington and Lee U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ after 1 Dec.

• 442. Visions and Revisions of National Identity

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society

• 1. “Flatted Fifths: Issues of National Identity in Langston Hughes's Montage of a Dream Deferred,” Timothy Hering, Duquesne U

• 2. “‘Let America Be America Again' and Other Versions of Our Past,” Richard Hancuff, Misericordia U

• 3. “‘You Send My Son to Vietnam’: The African American Soldier in Langston Hughes’s Poetry,” Noreen O’Connor, King’s C

• 4. “Across the Air Waves: Public Memory, Race, and National Belonging in Langston Hughes’s Radio Play Booker T. Washington in Atlanta,” Keturah Nix, Xavier U

• 443. Avant-Garde Provincialism

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Fulton

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English. Presiding: Dennis Denisoff, U of Tulsa

• Speakers: Victoria Baena, Yale U; Jacob Crystal, U of Tulsa; Kate Flint, U of Southern California; Matthew Potolsky, U of Utah; Sam Tett, U of Utah

• Although often characterized as conservative and mired in tradition, provincialism disturbed many who identified with the vibrant urban centers associated with modernism. Discussing literature and art that leans into the uncanny, weird, queer, and other kinds of avant-garde estrangement buried in the outskirts, panelists engage the unrecognized and underappreciated innovations found in the seemingly sleepy provinces of modernist culture.

• For related material, write to dennis-denisoff@utulsa.edu after 1 Dec.

• 444. Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Literature before 1900

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese to 1900. Presiding: Edward B. Kamens, Yale U

• 1. “Double Standard: Reading Femininity in Medieval Japanese Poetic Criticism,” Eric Jose Esteban, Yale U

• 2. “Examining Queer Soundscapes in Wagami ni Tadoru Himegimi,” Katherine Whatley, Stanford U

• 3. “(In)Visible Truths: Uncovering Same-Sex Male Love in an Eighteenth-Century Japanese Manuscript,” Angelika Koch-Low, Leiden U

• For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ after 1 Nov.

• 445. Machine Translation and the (In)Visibility of the Translator

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Marlborough B

• Program arranged by the forum TC Translation Studies. Presiding: Arianne Des Rochers, U de Moncton

• 1. “The Translator's Game: A Ludic Approach to Machine Translation,” Anna Schewelew, U of California, Santa Barbara

• 2. “Translation, Imitation, Authorship: After Lorca, after ChatGPT,” Rhiannon Clarke, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• 3. “Recent Advances in Language-Centric AI and Their Impact on the Audiovisual Industry,” Audrey Canalès, U de Sherbrooke

• 4. “Bad Translation,” Michael Shea, U of Pennsylvania

• 446. How to Do Things with Fiction

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Camp

• Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction. Presiding: Autumn Womack, Princeton U

• Speakers: Nan Z. Da, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Erin Greer, U of Texas, Dallas; Sam Huber, Yale U; Monica Huerta, Princeton U; Jesse McCarthy, Harvard U

• Participants reflect upon the way that their relationship with fiction, as a reader or a writer, informs their practice of experimental criticism. Drawing on their own writing habits, projects, and horizons, they consider the following questions: What critical methods and creative modes can we mobilize beyond autocriticism? What is the relationship between literary style and critical writing? How do we “do” things with fiction?

• 447. Postcolonial Autotheories

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Marlborough A

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century. Presiding: Alex Brostoff, Kenyon C

• 1. “Decolonization in the First Person,” Vilashini Cooppan, U of California, Santa Cruz

• 2. “Handover, Voiceovers,” Cheng-Chai Chiang, U of California, Berkeley

• 3. “Memory, Narrative, and Caribbean Overlays,” Nadia Ellis, U of California, Berkeley

• 448. Theater's (In)Visible Geographies: Locations, Plays, Performances, and Themes in Contemporary World Theater

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the forum GS Drama and Performance. Presiding: Aparna Dharwadker, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Sarah J. Townsend, Penn State U, University Park

• 1. “Community Ends and Means: Pathways of Repair and Revolution in Yvette Nolan's Reasonable Doubt,” Kristen Holfeuer, New York U

• 2. “Bowels of the Earth: The Ecodramaturgy of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh Theater,” Iván-Daniel Espinosa, U of Colorado, Boulder

• 3. “Afro-Greek Geographies of Muteness in the Theater of Virgilio Piñera and Agostinho Olavo,” Gustavo Herrera Diaz, Brandeis U

• 4. “Isango Ensemble: Productions and Consumptions of Post-Post-Apartheid Performance,” Carla Neuss, Baylor U

• 449. Reframing the Canary Islands within the Humanities

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: María Hernández-Ojeda, Hunter C, City U of New York

• 1. “Canarian Entanglements in Enrique Nácher’s and José Antonio Rial’s Migration Novels,” José M. Rodríguez García, Duke U

• 2. “Decolonial Narratives in Canarian Punk: The Case of Guerrilla Urbana,” Alfonso Bartolomé, Virginia State U

• 3. “Reimagining the Nation: ‘The Voice of Free Canary Islands’ and the Amazigh Cultural Renaissance,” Nayra Ramirez, U of Pittsburgh

• 4. “From Indigeneity to Blackness: Diasporic Africa in Caribbean and Canary Islands Literature,” Laura García García, Creighton U

• 450. Édouard Glissant: Still a Caribbean Theorist?

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Canal

• Program arranged by the forum CLCS Caribbean. Presiding: Nathan H. Dize, Washington U in St. Louis

• 1. “Tracing the Island's Kin in La terre magnétique,” Erika Serrato, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• 2. “Relational Identity, Repatriation, and Caribbean Rootedness,” Crystal Payne, Washington U in St. Louis

• 3. “Lexical Ground: Annotating Édouard Glissant's One World (Tout-monde),” Matt Reeck, U of California, Los Angeles

• 4. “Les Roches and Tout-Monde in Glissant's Poetic Anthology,” Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State U

• 451. Recent Methods and Objects in Queering Early America

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Steering

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Early American. Presiding: Ben Bascom, Ball State U

• 1. “Third Space: Queering America in Early American Literature,” Leah Thomas, Virginia State U

• 2. “Of ‘Topeewallahs' and the Zenana: Queering Narrative Subjectivity in Bartholomew Burges's A Series of Indostan Letters,” Rajender Kaur, William Paterson U

• 3. “‘Arrayed in a White Robe Devoid of Ornament': Early American Virginity and Queer Theoretical Sex,” Nicholas Adler, Boston C

• 4. “Intimate Interruptions: Fragmentation, Withdrawal, and the Queerness of Privacy in Foster's The Coquette,” Maggie Muehleman, U of Mississippi, Oxford

• 452. Cognitive Approaches to Unnatural Narrative

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 22

• Program arranged by the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies. Presiding: Joshua Landy, Stanford U

• Speakers: Marco Caracciolo, U Gent; Divya Dwivedi, Indian Inst. of Tech., Delhi; James Phelan, Ohio State U, Columbus; Brian Richardson, U of Maryland, College Park

• Panelists discuss unnatural narratives (e.g., speculative fiction, science fiction, magic realism, afrofuturism, climate futurism) from a cognitive literary angle.

• 453. (In)Visibility of Writers in English as a Second Language

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 13

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Romanian. Presiding: Ileana Marin, U of Washington, Seattle

• 1. “Cultural Visibility and Translingual Strategies of Romanian Immigrant Authors,” Oana Popescu-Sandu, U of Southern Indiana

• 2. “(In)Visibility in the US Literary Field: Romanian-American Writers,” Ioana Luca, National Taiwan Normal U

• 3. “English as a Language of Cultural Negotiation in Alta Ifland's Prose,” Ileana Marin

• 454. New Rights and Responsibilities: Transparency and Shared Governance after COVID-19

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill C2

• Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. Presiding: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell, U of Oregon

• Speakers: Austin Anderson, Howard U; Brian Ballentine, West Virginia U, Morgantown; Eva Cherniavsky, U of Washington, Seattle; Thais Rutledge, U of Texas, Austin

• In response to legislative and administrative efforts to curtail shared governance since the wake of the pandemic (e.g., in terms of attempts to subvert tenure, dissolve faculty senates, reassess academic programs and curricula without faculty input, and the precarious management of labor), speakers attend to institutional transparency as a condition to model shared governance in acknowledgment of the plurality of stakeholders involved in university initiatives today.

• 455. Discussion Group for Graduate Students: Articulating Your Skill Sets to Different Audiences

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill D

• Program arranged by the MLA Professional Development. Presiding: Ayanni Cooper, MLA; Mai Hunt, MLA

• In this discussion group, graduate students will explore different ways to explain their skills to various stakeholders. Topics will include translating academic experiences in and for other professional environments; distilling a dissertation in an elevator pitch; and how professional values can impact a career journey. Students interested in a variety of careers, including the professoriat, are welcome.

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/14GWL_qu-lFUEWAqORmJ4NSE6SMTMxWdLLbTxHAWN9G0/edit?usp=sharing.

• 456. Collaborative Research: A Surefire Engagement Strategy for Language and Literature Students

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill A2

• Program arranged by the MLA Office of the Executive Director. Presiding: Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, U of Mary Washington

• 1. “Discover and ASPIRE Undergraduate Research Programs at LSU,” Carmela V. Mattza, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

• 2. “Collaborative Undergraduate Research and the Material Archive,” Jared S. Richman, Colorado C

• 3. “Research from Day 1: Using ArcGIS in the Beginner's German Classroom,” Marcel P. Rotter, U of Mary Washington

• 4. “Bridging STEM and Humanities in Russian Undergraduate Research,” Olga Lyanda-Geller, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• Faculty members in languages and literatures discuss their collaborative research projects with undergraduates and invite attendees to share their successes with undergraduate humanities research. Topics include working with research teams and designing effective course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). Sample syllabi and assignments and a list of resources will be provided.

• 457. Invisibilization of Black Children

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 12

• A special session. Presiding: Neal A. Lester, Arizona State U

• The adultification and erasure of Black children in literature and popular culture center Black children at the nexus of US adult race politics. Using children's picture books, games, toys, news stories, instances of “curriculum violence,” and other material and popular culture, participants demonstrate that the “invisibilization of Black children” mirrors the invisibility of Black adults, fundamentally connecting DEI efforts with humanity with justice.

• 458. The Cost of Reading

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Chart A

• A special session. Presiding: Rachel Arteaga, U of Washington, Seattle

• Speakers: Rachel Arteaga; Samuel Cohen, U of Missouri, Columbia; Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community C; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State U; Jené Schoenfeld, Kenyon C

• Panelists reflect on a range of professional reading practices undertaken in classrooms, in research, and in editorial and leadership roles. Reading, and the generosity of time and attention it demands, is the core of the profession. Its abdication, however, is often incentivized by institutional reward structures. Reading may not be visible labor, but it repays us far in excess of the cost incurred in time and effort.

• For related material, visit thecostofreading.mla.hcommons.org/ after 1 Jan.

• 459. Local/Global Scales: Provincializing the National

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Bridge

• A special session. Presiding: Federica Di Blasio, Hamilton C

• 1. “Sites of Entitlement: British Rural Realism and the Nimby,” Delphine Gatehouse, King's C London

• 2. “Between the Local and the Cosmopolitan: The Patriotism of Amelia Pincherle Rosselli,” Silvia Guslandi, Kenyon C

• 3. “Andrea Segre's Cinema: Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational?,” Federica Di Blasio

• 4. “National and Global Flows in Turco-Westerns,” İlyas Deniz Çınar, Yale U

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/docs/local-global-scales-provincializing-the-national-mla-2025/ after 1 Dec.

• 460. Behind the Obscure: Possessions, Position, and Memories in Orhan Pamuk's Writings

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Virtual

• A special session. Presiding: Funda Guven, Nazarbayev U

• 1. “Orhan Pamuk and His Father's Suitcase: Possession and Position,” Meryem Demir, Harvard U

• 2. “Irony Reproduced in Translations of Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk,” Gunvald Axner Ims, U of South-Eastern Norway

• 3. “Objects of Trauma and Collective Memory in Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence,” Kamilya Khamitova, Nazarbayev U

• 4. “The Voice of Invisible Women in Pamuk's Novel The Black Book,” Funda Guven

• For related material, write to funda.guven@nu.edu.kz.

• 461. Editing US Women's Nonliterary Writing

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 3

• A special session. Presiding: Laura Fisher, Toronto Metropolitan U

• Speakers: Kimberly Blockett, U of Delaware, Newark; Mary A. M. Chapman, U of British Columbia; Nneka D. Dennie, Washington and Lee U; Laura Fisher; Cristanne Miller, U at Buffalo, State U of New York; Claudia Stokes, Trinity U

• Examining the considerations and challenges of editing US women writers, particularly when editing nonliterary works such as letters, diaries, memoirs, and periodical writings, participants discuss the challenges nonliterary genres pose to editors seeking to reconstruct women's writings and the difficulty of making textual decisions without sufficient archival resources or reliable data.

• 462. Envisioning Spanish Louisiana

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 6

• A special session. Presiding: Leslie Bary, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• 1. “Diplomatic Dexterity in Spanish Louisiana: Balancing Miró's Strategies and Indigenous Acumen,” Song No, Purdue U, West Lafayette

• 2. “Transculturated Spiritual Performance in Eighteenth-Century Louisiana: New Iberia's First Ascension Day,” Ashford King, Princeton U

• 3. “Archival Identities of Race in Spanish Louisiana,” Benjamin Groth, Tulane U

• 4. “Spanish Surnames and Gallicized Spanish Surnames in French-Speaking Louisiana: Overlapping Usage,” Richard A. Winters, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

• For related material, write to leslie.bary@louisiana.edu.

• 463. The Impact of Generative AI Tools on Language Education

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Marlborough A

• A special session. Presiding: Teresa Lobalsamo, U of Toronto, Mississauga; Dellannia Segreti, U of Toronto

• Speakers: Amanda Dalola, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Craig A. Meyer, Jackson State U; Yu Min Chen Rodan, Defense Language Inst.

• Panelists discuss the impact of generative artificial intelligence tools on language teaching, learning, and assessment and, broadly, academic standards and practices, through pivotal scholarly contributions from across academe.

• For related material, visit theimpactofgenerativeaitoolsonlanguageeducation2095082520.mla.hcommons.org.

• 464. Reimagining Place and Displacement in Literary New Orleans across Three Centuries

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 16

• A special session

• 1. “A Legacy of Black Poetry in New Orleans, from the Antebellum to Katrina and Beyond,” T. R. Johnson, Tulane U

• 2. “Refugee Ecology in the Literature of Vietnamese New Orleans,” Marguerite B. Nguyen, Wesleyan U

• 3. “Dislocated New Orleans: Losing One's Place in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Matthew Smith, Tulane U

• 4. “Blackness, Racial Capital, and Atlantic Revolution in European Émigré Literature of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans,” Frederick Staidum, Jr., Loyola U, Chicago

• For related material, write to trj@tulane.edu after 15 Dec.

• 465. Rediscovering the Black Radical 1930s

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 7

• A special session

• 1. “Hugh Mulzac's Politics at Sea,” Nadia Nurhussein, Johns Hopkins U, MD

• 2. “Garvey's Lost Plays,” Yogita Goyal, U of California, Los Angeles

• 3. “Revolutionary ‘Hokum': Taking George Schuyler's Black Empire Seriously,” Brooks E. Hefner, James Madison U

• 4. “When Roosevelt Came to Lagos: Novelizing Modern African American History in the 1930s Lagos Press,” Marina Bilbija, Wesleyan U

• Respondent: Simon Gikandi, Princeton U

• 466. Landed Solidarity: The Medieval in Place

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Port

• A special session. Presiding: Basil Price, U of York

• 1. “Land Relation, Trans Techniques, and the Queer Matter of England,” Z. Dylan Jackson, U of British Columbia

• 2. “The Ocean, the Bird, and the Land: Subjectivity and Possession in the Exeter Lyrics,” Emma Hitchcock, Columbia U

• 3. “Land to Land: Weste-landing the Fens in Guthlac A,” Sarah LaVoy-Brunette, Cornell U

• 4. “Marbod of Rennes's Lapidary (on the Hill, above the Pond, in the Earth),” Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Inst. for Advanced Study

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/core/.

• 467. Black Feminist Excesses

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Jackson

• A special session. Presiding: Marlas Yvonne Whitley, New York U

• 1. “Revisiting ‘In the Mecca': Excessive Labor and the Diminishment of Black Life,” Robert Mendoza, California Lutheran U

• 2. “Black Feminine Aesthetics and Excess: Beauty and Brains, Grills and Bling,” Paige Chung, Cornell U

• 3. “Hold(ing) as Black Feminist Excessive Thought,” Courtney Murray, Penn State U, University Park

• 468. Poetics and Politics in the Early Modern Transatlantic World, 1500–1800

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Eglinton Winton

• A special session. Presiding: Luis Rodríguez-Rincón, Haverford C

• Speakers: Magdalena A. Altamirano, San Diego State U, Imperial Valley; Caroline Egan, Northwestern U; Leah Wood Middlebrook, U of Oregon; Nigel S. Smith, Princeton U; Isabel Torres, Queen's U, Belfast

• Respondent: Leonardo Velloso-Lyons, Emory U

• How did epic and lyric forms get adapted to political ideas and contexts in the early modern transatlantic world? How did political ideas or discourses, when expressed in verse, produce knowledge about the past and the present? Panelists discuss the historical and literary analysis of early modern poetics texts with the study of political discourses and ideologies past and present.

• 469. Videre/Veritas: On Visibility and Truth Today

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Salon 4

• A special session. Presiding: Patrick E. Dove, Indiana U, Bloomington

• Speakers: María del Rosario Acosta López, U of California, Riverside; Ashley Brock, U of Pennsylvania; Patrick E. Dove; Erin D. Graff Zivin, U of Southern California; Jacques Lezra, U of California, Riverside

• Respondent: Johannes Türk, Indiana U, Bloomington

• Participants reflect on the association of truth and visibility, both as it pertains to the history of the humanities and as it faces new challenges in the context of a world dominated by global capitalism, real-time technology, and crises of political representation.

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/ after 16 Dec.

• 470. African Women's Writing and (In)Visibility

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Churchill A1

• A special session. Presiding: Cheryl Toman, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

• 1. “On Opacity: Unsettling the Masculine Canon of Caribbean and African Theory,” Anny-Dominique Curtius, U of Iowa

• 2. “Women Who Eat Their Own Passports: Defying Invisibility in Warsan Shire's Work,” Joya Uraizee, Saint Louis U

• 3. “Nafissatou Dia Diouf: A Politics of Invisibility?,” Joëlle F. Vitiello, Macalester C

• For related material, write to catoman@ua.edu.

• 471. Audio Past and Future

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Quarterdeck B

• A seminar. Presiding: Elicia A. Clements, York U; Debra Rae Cohen, U of South Carolina, Columbia

• Speakers: Lauren Cox, U of Iowa; David Francis, Yale U; Sarah Jensen, U of Toronto, Scarborough; Vincent Kancans, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Karen Leick, U of Illinois, Chicago; Brooke McCallum, U of Southern California; Jake Wilder-Smith, U of California, Los Angeles; Trent Wintermeier, U of Texas, Austin; Xiaoxi Zhang, Habib U

• This closed seminar gives participants—working toward the production of a specific project—an opportunity to develop writing focused on audio media and sound studies, including topics such as musical influences in and on literature, translations of literature in and through sound (from music to audioplays), and the relationship of sound and print cultures.

  The session is open only to seminar participants.

• 472. Community-Engaged Pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

• 8:30–11:30 a.m., Quarterdeck A

• A seminar. Presiding: Jennifer Maloy, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York

• Speakers: Kevin Anzzolin, Christopher Newport U; Nicole Burgoyne, U of Chicago; Lauren Stacey Cardon, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Janae Corrado, Tarrant County C, TX; Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Jerrica Jordan, Tarrant County C, TX; Kelly Krumrie, U of Denver; Claudia Kunschak, Ritsumeikan U; Anna Maria Nogar, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Danielle Spratt, California State U, Northridge; Anne Stachura, Franklin and Marshall C; Birgit Strotmann, U Pontificia Comillas; Dali Tan, Northern Virginia Community C

• This closed seminar gives participants an opportunity to develop writing in the scholarship of teaching and learning, particularly grounded in community-engaged pedagogy. Seminar participants are working toward the production of a specific project in the scholarship of teaching and learning, with a focus on the practices and outcomes of community-engaged pedagogy.

  The session is open only to seminar participants.

• 473. To Mine or Not to Mine: Questioning Extractivism II

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Magazine

• A working group

• Participants: Luke Bowe, New York U; Lisa Burner, U of the South; Huw Edwardes-Evans, Rice U; Eduardo Febres Munoz, U of Notre Dame; Tatjana Gajic, U of Illinois, Chicago; Pedro García-Caro, U of Oregon; Jack Martinez Arias, Hamilton C; Isabelle Rogers, U of Oregon

• This working group looks at debates and cultural opposition to extractivism in the realm of literary, photographic, and filmic production, predominantly in the Americas and Southern Europe but open to a wider set of comparisons and cultural interactions. Participants consider the notion of colonial brutalization of the planet and the drive to create sacrifice zones, areas slated for ruination through toxic extractive practices.

• For related material, visit hcommons.org/groups/culture-questions-extractivism-to-mine-or-not-to-mine/.

• For the other meetings of the working group, see 267 and 737.

• 474. Building Critical AI Literacies II

• 8:30–9:45 a.m., Commerce

• A working group

Speakers: Leslie Allison, Rowan U; Kathryn A. Conrad, U of Kansas; Tiffany DeRewal, Rowan U; Chloe Kitzinger, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Marit J. MacArthur, U of California, Davis; Teresa Ramoni, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

This working group shares knowledge, strategies, and best practices in response to the ongoing challenge of generative AI and in dialogue with the MLA-CCCC’s Joint Task Force on Writing and AI and with Critical AI’s recent special issue on the topic. Speakers address a broad range of questions, from how generative AI works to strategies for teaching writing and language acquisition with an emphasis on critical AI and design justice perspectives.

For related material, write to lauren.goodlad@rutgers.edu.

For the other meeting of the working group, see 266.

Saturday, 11 January 10:15 a.m.

• 476. The Origin of Adoption Studies: Betty Jean Lifton Fifty Years Later

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Kabacoff

• Program arranged by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture. Presiding: Marina Fedosik, Princeton U

• 1. “Betty Jean Lifton's Twice Born: Making Adoptees More Visible,” Marianne L. Novy, U of Pittsburgh

• 2. “Machine in the Ghost: The Legacy of Lifton's Writing on Visible Silence,” Sayres Rudy, independent scholar

• 3. “Identity-Building Fantasy Narratives within the Adoptee Experience: A Shift in Adoption Discourse,” Deanna MacNeil, York U

• Respondent: Emily Hipchen, Brown U

• For related material, visit docs.google.com/document/d/138Ql4hVHpgEv-zZtJ-anob_pFHzgGZ1JY25oG-Af1vM/edit?usp=sharing after 1 Dec.

• 477. Celebrating the Transatlantic Feminist Legacy: African, American, Caribbean, Iberian, and Indigenous Expressions

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Cambridge

• Program arranged by the Feministas Unidas. Presiding: Angela Acosta, Davidson C

• Speakers: Evelyn Autry, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Ana Corbalán, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Tina Escaja, U of Vermont; Vanessa Marie Fernández, San José State U; Luz Ainaí Morales Pino, Pontificia U Catolica de Peru; Ana Simon Alegre, Adelphi U

• Panelists examine women's transatlantic contributions in feminism, past and present, focusing on representations, movement involvement, and diverse cultural-political impact.

• For related material, visit feministas-unidas.org/.

• 478. How to Publish Your Book: An Overview for Scholars

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Exhibit Hall, Grand Ballroom

• Program arranged by the Association of University Presses. Presiding: Angie Hogan, University of Virginia Press

• Speakers: Beth Bouloukos, Amherst University Press; James Long, Louisiana State University Press; Leah Pennywark, University of Minnesota Press

• University press editors discuss the book publishing process from proposal to publication, offering detailed, constructive advice on how to select the right press, when to contact an editor, how to write an effective proposal, peer review and revisions, copyediting and production, and audience and promotion. Participants also address current publishing trends, share insider tips, and answer questions to help demystify the life cycle of a university press book.

• 479. African Language, Literature, and Culture since 1990: Exploring the Dynamic Role of AAVE in Children's Literature

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Virtual

• Program arranged by the Children's Literature Association. Presiding: Shakeema Funchess, Southern New Hampshire U

• Speakers: Margaret Conn, independent scholar; Christina Dominique-Pierre, Buckingham Browne and Nichols Middle School, MA; Vashalice Kaaba, Florida State U

• Panelists delve into the evolving landscape of African language, literature, and culture since 1990, focusing on the use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in children's literature and highlighting the importance of AAVE as a distinct linguistic framework. Discussion centers on how the interplay of AAVE and African language provides insight into the unique development of African American linguistic culture.

• 480. Pathways to the Deanship

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 4

• Program arranged by the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Presiding: Kyoko Amano, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi

• 1. “Entry Strategy: How to Prepare for Your Deanship,” Kyoko Amano

• 2. “Succeeding outside Your College to Eventually Lead Your College,” Clay Motley, Florida Gulf Coast U

• 3. “The Discipline of Deaning,” Natalie Katerina Eschenbaum, U of Washington, Tacoma

• 481. Sense and Sensation

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Starboard

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Occitan. Presiding: Terrence Cullen, Vassar C

• 1. “Mnemonic Birds,” Eliza Zingesser, Columbia U

• 2. “Pain, Touch, and Reading in Old Occitan Lyric,” Katherine Travers, U of Oxford

• 3. “Pistoleta's Senses of Self and Sense of Selves,” Daniel E. O'Sullivan, U of Mississippi, Oxford

• 482. Thing, Text, Human

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Royal

• Program arranged by the forum LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese. Presiding: Heng Du, Wellesley C

• Speakers: Jack W. Chen, U of Virginia; Heng Du; Karl Steel, Brooklyn C, City U of New York; Megan Ward, Oregon State U

• Respondent: Leah DeVun, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

• In response to the AI revolution, panelists explore the role of literature in negotiating the boundary of humanity across regions (Europe and China) and time (ancient, medieval, modern).

• 483. A Path Forward: New Identity and Belonging in Bangladeshi Diasporic Literature

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 15

• Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic and the South Asian Literary Association

• 1. “Weirding National Architecture: Corners, Portals, and Rhizomes in Babu Bangladesh!,” Amit Baishya, U of Oklahoma

• 2. “‘We Go On, Sisters': Generational Trauma and Identity in Fariha Róisín's How to Cure a Ghost,” Untara Rayeesa, U of Oregon

• 3. “Border Crossings: Queerness, Freedom, and Race in Contemporary Bangladeshi Immigrant Writings,” Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, James Madison U

• 484. Building Programmatic Support for Linguistic Justice

• 10:15–11:30 a.m., Salon 10

• Program arranged by the forum LSL Global English. Presiding: Katherine S. Flowers, U of Massachusetts, Lowell

• 1. “Leading by Listening: Doing Linguistic Justice Work One Conversation at a Time,” Tara Coleman, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York

• 2. “To Dare or Not to Dare? Fostering Linguistic Justice through Community-Engagement Initiatives,” Inés Vañó García, Framingham State U

• 3. “Supporting Linguistic Justice through Collaborations with Indigenous Organizations,” Monica Good, U of British Columbia, Okanagan; Nora Rivera, Chapman U

• For related material, write to katherine_flowers@uml.edu after 9 Jan.