Children's Literature

Histories of Childhood and Medicine (21)

“Constellations of Coresistance”: Global Indigenous Youth Literature, Imagination, and Survivance” (136)

Pandemic Childhoods (211)

[Postponed from 2022] Streetwise: Children's Literature and Culture in the Modern City (330)

Working toward the Speculative Future (500)

Adapting for Children (736)

Cultural Studies, Folklore, and Popular Culture

Re-aestheticizing Labor (10)

Comics and the Making of Queer Communities (48)

[Postponed from 2022] Race and the Aesthetics of Refusal in Contemporary Latin America and Hemispheric Americas (101)

Religious Imaginaries and Detective Fiction (149)

Gothic Now: Gothic Forms (227)

The Labor of Laughter (247)

Plunder as Decolonization: Afghanistan as Fantasy, Différance, and Future (319)

Comics and Accessibility (332)

Transnational Approaches to Settler Ecologies (391)

Black (Auto)Biography (462)

Race, Gender, and Genre in Contemporary Pop Culture (506)

(Re)Covering Precarious Archives (549)

Sylvia Wynter's “No Humans Involved”: “Towards the Rewriting of Knowledge” and Undoing “Truths” (590)

Drama

Humor and Humorlessness before 1900 (45)

Novels on the Musical Stage: Exploring the Adaptation of Books into Operas and Musicals (285)

Humor and Humorlessness after 1900 (369)

The Duality of Eugene O'Neill on Race (559)

“Liveness” in a Remote World (759)

Electronic Technology (Teaching, Research, and Theory)

The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Artificial Intelligence (130)

Environmental Humanities: Digital Humanities (343)

Extended Reality for the Study of Language and Literature (361)

Electronic Literature and the Long Pandemic (442)

Film, Television, and Other Media

The Work of Adaptation (183)

Adaptation and the Metaverse (223)

Streaming Europe (423)

Comedy, Capitalism, and Hope (599)

[Postponed from 2022] Decolonial Approaches to Film and Media (657)

History of the Book, Reception Theory, Comparison with Other Media, and Performance

Twenty-First-Century Forms (197)

The Book Lab (228)

New Directions in Book History (264)

Reading Fiction across Cultures through Mapping (301)

“Working” Memes (325)

Data Performance (393)

Women and Book History (643)

Literary Criticism and Theory

Remaking and Rereading Poetry (12)

Reading with Care: Toward a Formalist Disability Studies (33)

Neurofutures: Autistic Blackness, Psychiatric Violence, #FreeBritney (62)

(Re)Producing the Optical Unconscious (64)

[Postponed from 2022] Criticism Out of Time (72)

Freedom and the Novel (81)

Ricoeur's Interpretation Theory and Our Work Now (95)

Prosthetics, Technology, Narrative Fiction (113)

[Postponed from 2022] Climate Writing: Multilingual Approaches for a Global Crisis (134)

Accents of the Anglophone (142)

Literary Urban Studies and Architecture (158)

What's Literary about Queer Studies Now? (185)

Narratives beyond Binaries (307)

Marx and Darwin: Crises in Conversation (318)

Peripheral Modernisms: In Theory (350)

Narratives of Sex: Rethinking Agency in Queer and Trans Literature and Theory (388)

Fabricating a Theory of the Culture of Climate Change (412)

Whose Universalism? (425)

Queer Pregnancies and Reproduction: Then and Now (434)

Against the Ecofascist Creep (441)

Global Carceral Literature (470)

Literature in the Laboratory (492)

Better State Forms (512)

Lauren Berlant's Affects (529)

Literary Criticism: New Platforms (538)

Disrupting Failure: Perspectives on Literary Aesthetics, Structure, and the Collapse of Intention (546)

New Disability Methodologies: Forms, Intersections, Disciplines (565)

Atmospheric Aesthetics “Under Pressure”: Race, Labor, Nation, Climate (570)

Animal Alterity: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Human in Twentieth-Century America (585)

[Postponed from 2022] Passion and Form (593)

Pleasures of Work and Antiwork in Contemporary Literature (624)

Critique and Translation: Literature, Art, and Theory in the Question of Critique (629)

Reading (from) the Postcolonial Archive (663)

Peripheral Marxism (672)

Air, Breath, Atmosphere: On Theory and Method (688)

The Infrastructures of Dystopia (707)

Queer and Trans Narratologies (725)

Race Comes to Mind (735)

Nostalgia, Space, and Ecocriticism in Twentieth-Century Literature (758)

Literary History

Cripping Labor (43)

Do We Need National Literatures? (712)

Literary Relations

Adaptation as Reworking (for) Crisis (32)

Literature and Other Arts, Humanities, Law, Psychology, Science, and Sociology

Extinction Studies beyond the Scholarship of Witness (25)

What Is a Person? (53)

Indigenous Ecologies and Environmental Justice (85)

Attention, Please (115)

The Work of Literature in the Age of Medical and Health Misinformation (148)

California in Science Fiction (173)

Sexing Race, Racing Sex (212)

Doing Justice: Law and Postcolonial Studies (281)

Environmental Justice Epistemologies (300)

At Work and at Play: Opera, Musical Performance and Reflections on (Creative) Labor (334)

Looking Like Property (376)

Postcolonial Cripness as Method (424)

Ethics, Politics, and Poetics of Multispecies Entanglements (437)

On Fossil Capital (448)

Untangling the Autos: In between Methods of Self-Writing (473)

Narrative Obfuscation in the Public Sphere (485)

Create Your Own Working Conditions: Transforming Boundaries (520A)

Rights and Responsibilities (539)

Artwork for the Future: Embedded Art in Contemporary Literature and Film (554)

[Postponed from 2022] Health, Medicine, and Literature: Critical Intersections (592)

The Aesthetic Sphere of the Pandemic (625)

[Postponed from 2022] In the Event of Women (656)

Cognition, Law, and Literature (692)

Common Study: Making Public Humanities (694)

Big Book Field Studio: Opening the Canon and the Borderlands through Design (724)

[Postponed from 2022] The Work of Mourning: Creativity, Reparation, Politics (751)

Queer and Trans Environmental Futures (754)

Nonfictional Prose

(Auto)Biographies of and as Work (609)

Planetary Lives (650)

Looking Backward, Working Forward: Contemporary Life Writing and the Queer or Trans Past (693)

Poetry

Race and Lyric Theory (278)

Poetry and the Commons (645)

Trans Poetics (684)

Contemporary Poetry and the Commons (710)

Forms of the Lyric Subject: Poetics, Syntax, and Autobiography (728)

Comics and Poetry (738)

Prose Fiction

Narrative Ethics, Form, and the Affordances of Authorial Agency (132)

Believable Narratives / Narrative Realism Today (242)

Rhetoric and Rhetorical Theory

The Memory of Hope (251)

Themes, Myths, and Archetypes

World Gothic (51)

Southeast Asian History in Literature: Contesting Nations in Fictional Pasts (80)

Proleptic Nostalgia: Navigating the Future of Future Pasts (131)

Translation

Artificial Translation (13)

Translating Austria (290)

[Postponed from 2022] Multilingualism and Translation (508)

Translation and Extraction (567)

[Postponed from 2022] Translating Intent, Authorship, Source (752)

Writing Studies

[Postponed from 2022] Demanding Civic Accountability through Critical Rhetorical Practices (20)

How Literacy Transforms Histories and Lives (349)

Composing in Crisis: Storytelling and Social Change (379)

General

Comparative Emancipation (9)

To Be and to Have Character(s) (73)

Teodor, Tawaddud, Ḥusnīyah: Cultural Transmission and Sharing through the Debating Maiden (93)

Figurations of Labor in the Global Early Modern (99)

Intercultural Translation across Early Modern Eurasia and Africa (157)

Interrogations of Interdisciplinarity in Ethnic Studies (233)

Repurposing Romanticism (239)

Travels into California's Ecological Pasts (256)

Translation as Citation (270)

Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Literatures of East Asia and North America (381)

The Literary Mediterranean (392)

[Postponed from 2022] 1920s/2020s: Another Modernism? Literature after the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 (395)

Global Christianities and Global Literatures (402)

More of a Comment than a Question (413)

[Postponed from 2022] Capitalism, Quarantine, and the Novel Form (477)

Disability Studies and Travel Writing (496)

The Media Are the Messages (533)

Public Scholarship in Premodern Studies (573)

Protest Visualities (579)

Nahda, Haskalah, Tanzimat: Enlightenment and Building National Literatures in West Asia (614)

Periodization in Cross-Cultural Literary History (615)

[Postponed from 2022] Susceptible Subjects: Toward a Psychology of Consent under Erasure (619)

Sexology in Trans(lation) (664)

National Traditions in a Transnational World (729)

[Postponed from 2022] Tactile Poetics (732)

Medieval and Renaissance

Women, Gender, and Plants in the Global Renaissance (105)

Pacific and Local Medievalisms (143)

Gender and Violence in the Global Middle Ages (327)

[Postponed from 2022] Different Endings—Happy and Otherwise (385)

Medieval North-South Connections (455)

The City in Early Modern Literature: Social, Historical, and Material Experiences of Urban Space (513)

Race, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern (611)

Race in Early Performance (675)

New Rules (713)

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Comparative Ecologies (259)

Anglo-Dutch Exchanges in the Seventeenth-to-Eighteenth-Century World (302)

Liberalism Unmoored (335)

Multilingual Romanticism(s) (411)

Race, Temporality, and Periodization: Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Studies (456)

Gender and Class Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (756)

Mining the Nation: Extractivism and Nation Building in Italy and Latin America (761)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Writing Work (23)

Problems of Form in Philosophy and Literature (63)

Codes of Palestine (127)

Women and the Everyday in Contemporary World Literature and Feminist Theory (133)

Literature and Environmental Rights (171)

Decolonizing Global Arab and Global South Labor Epistemologies (180)

Descaling Captivity (184)

Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity (193)

From Mystique to Politique: Scholarship, Mysticism, and Politics in the Twentieth Century I (203)

Global Surveillance Cultures: The Arts, Surveillance, and Disruptions I (204)

Reading Air (209)

Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South and the Caribbean (215)

Arab Futurity (238)

Financial Imperialism and the Economic Humanities (240)

Captivity and Creativity in Wartime I (244)

Utopia/Dystopia: World Making in Speculative Fictions of the Global South (254)

Infrastructures, Aesthetics, and Global Media (297)

Reconfiguring Tastes: Gastropolitics, Environmental Resilience, and Climate Futures (316)

[Postponed from 2022] Regenerating Graves: Media Adaptations of the Work and Thought of Robert Graves (320)

Asian/American Literary Engagement of Natural and Man-Made Disasters (348)

Intermediality and the Global South (351)

Working Mothers and Lost Daughters: Doris Lessing's Motherhood in Contemporary Context (404)

War and Sexual Violence in the Global South (433)

Captivity and Creativity in Wartime II (439)

Doing the Work: Figuring the Lumpen, Subaltern, Refugee, and Provincial (446)

Waters, Materialities, Mediterraneans (454)

From Mystique to Politique: Scholarship, Mysticism, and Politics in the Twentieth Century II (480)

Global Surveillance Cultures: The Arts, Surveillance, and Disruptions II (481)

Unfit: Pathologies of Biomodernism (498)

[Postponed from 2022] Global Socialisms and World Literature (507)

Literary Urban Studies and City Planning (519)

Comparative Racialization, Queerness, and Sinophone Studies (662)

From Mystique to Politique: Scholarship, Mysticism, and Politics in the Twentieth Century III (667)

Global Surveillance Cultures: The Arts, Surveillance, and Disruptions III (668)

Trauma in the Twenty-First Century: A Turning Point in Theoretical Discourse (700)

[Postponed from 2022] Code- Switching, Heteroglossia, and Handovers in Hong Kong Writing (701)

[Postponed from 2022] Queer Fiction in Translation (764)

General

Linguistic Justice in College Writing and Literature Classrooms (18)

Language in Public Crisis (54)

Multilingual and Multimodal Activism (121)

Language in Society: Issues of Equity and Access (269)

Where Do We Go from Here? (Re)Imagining Philological and Linguistic Futures (375)

Multilingualism in South Asia: Archives and Methods (697)

Foreign Languages

Theoretical Approaches to Variation in the Romance Languages (420)

General

Reacting to the Past: Transforming the Conditions of Teaching and Learning through Play (4)

Teaching Identity and Anti-Racism in Global Modern Languages Classrooms (11)

How the Pandemic Permanently Changed Teaching (76)

Public Humanities and Agents of Change in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies (103)

MLA Institute for the Teaching of Reading and Writing: Reflections on the Curriculum (123)

Innovative Approaches to Editions and Edition Building in the Classroom (124)

Writing Mental Health: A Contemporary Classroom Challenge (147)

Language and Literature Program Innovation Room (164)

Theory and Praxis: Digital Pedagogies in the (Virtual) Classroom I (202)

Returning to “Normal” University Life: Pandemic Pedagogies during Debilitating Times (222)

What Do We Want in a Learning Platform of the Future? (274)

Advancing the Humanities through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (313)

Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy (389)

Discussion Group on Career Pathways to K–12 (468)

Theory and Praxis: Digital Pedagogies in the (Virtual) Classroom II (482)

Entangling Career Education in Classes and the Curriculum (516)

Integrating Information Literacy in Writing, Literature, and Language Instruction (542)

Discussion Group on the Use of Inclusive Language in Our Classrooms and Programs (544)

Producing Knowledge in and of the Local Classroom or Site: Instruction Is Equal to Research (582)

Radical Pedagogy in Precarious Times (602)

Theory and Praxis: Digital Pedagogies in the (Virtual) Classroom III (669)

Experiential Education in the Humanities and Critical Citizenship (726)

Building Professional Dispositions for Undergraduate Humanities Majors (753)

Language

Methods of Incorporating Concepts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) across the Language and Culture Curriculum (125)

[Postponed from 2022] Challenging Monolingualism in Language Teaching and Learning: Methods, Materials, and Perspectives (162)

Language Teaching beyond the Curriculum: Transdisciplinary and Multilingual Perspectives (311)

Affect and Emotions in Language and Culture Teaching and Learning (342)

Homework Conditions: Uses of Translation in the Italian Language and Culture Classroom (378)

Accessibility all'Italiana: (New) Pedagogical Approaches and Methodologies in the Inclusive Italian L2 Classroom (405)

Transformative Learning in L2 Education (461)

Winning Spaces for Indigenous Languages and Cultures: Curricula and Instruction (466)

Working Conditions: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching, Retaining, and Staffing LOTE Programs (509)

Sensescapes in Language and Teaching (540)

Translation Revisited: New Priorities, New Technologies in Language Education (574)

Are Textbooks Dead? (596)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the German Classroom: Approaches and Materials (597)

Literature

Teaching Virginia Woolf in the Age of #MeToo (71)

What Should an English Degree Teach, Now? (195)

Teaching with Data (267)

Adapting Digital Resources for Comparative Studies (329)

Working Conditions of Women and Minorities in the South Asian Teaching Industry (550)

Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature: Working Conditions and Institutional Contexts (560)

[Postponed from 2022] Community-Engaged Pedagogies in the Literature Classroom (617)

Writing

Contingent Faculty Members, Labor Equity, and the Common Read in First-Year Writing (66)

Imagination as Work: Laboring over Educational Challenges through Literacy Narratives (436)

Decolonizing the Classroom: Why and How? (452)

Self-Placement into English Composition (491)

[Postponed from 2022] Multilingual Writers, Monolingual Work: Private and Public Student Identities in the Context of Writing Instruction (556)

Writing Program Challenges: The Next Three Years (562)

Bamboozled: Rhetorics and Writing of Disinformation (678)

General

Advocating for Your Department or Program (1)

Navigating COVID-19 as a Graduate Student (55)

Working Conditions in Access-Oriented Education with the Equity Collective (96)

Pandemic Labor (110)

Infrastructures of Professional Development (126)

Presidential Plenary: What Is Literary Knowledge? (134A)

Virtual Discussion Group on Continuing Conversations about Caregiving and the Academy (154)

Pandemic Contingent Working Conditions (186)

The MLA Convention and Your Career Quest (189)

[Postponed from 2022] Mental Health and Wellness in Graduate School (190)

A Presidential Panel on the Work of Writing under Political Repression: Institutions that Resist (205A)

Pandemic Domesticities (226)

Open Hearing on Resolutions (230)

Discussion Group on Continuing Conversations about Caregiving and the Academy (232)

New Theories of Academic Labor (255)

Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly (275)

Discussion Group on Leading When Leadership Does Not Look Like You (277)

Discussion Group on Career Exploration for Prospective Program Leaders and the Leadership-Curious (312)

Women at Work: Feminist Administration during Hard Times (328)

Discussion Group on When Leaving Academia Might Be the Right Move: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (345)

Graduate Union Organizing and Scholarship (352)

Political Threats to Academic Freedom; or, A Call for Anti-Racist Advocacy (359A)

Labor/Pandemic/Theory (360)

Discussion Group on Setting Midcareer Priorities (386)

Literature and Language Scholars and Institutional Administration (387)

MLA Awards Ceremony (396)

Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Literature Online (428)

Discussion Group on Using Twitter and LinkedIn to Advocate for Yourself and Your Program (429)

Public Humanities Incubator Showcase (430)

Working Conditions outside the United States (431)

From Pedagogy to Research and Back Again (432)

[Postponed from 2022] The New Humanities (440A)

The Ecology of the Community College Classroom (458)

Addressing Women's Invisible Labor in the Academy (467)

Identity, Power, and Long-Term Transformations in Academic Labor (511)

What Can Faculty Governance Do? (515)

MLA Delegate Assembly (520)

Pathways to the Deanship (524)

Career Diversity Allies: Supporting Graduate Students in Humanities Career Development (545)

Intergenerational Environmental Humanities (547)

Debt, Surplus Value, and the Conditions of Intellectual Work (587)

A Presidential Panel on the Working Conditions of Writers, Artists, Scholars, and Critics (595)

Folklorists at Work (598)

Academic Labor Justice: How Adjunctification Hurts Us All and How to Advocate for Change (622)

Changing the Terms of Service: Rethinking What Counts as Intellectual Labor (623)

The Presidential Address (632)

The Political Economy of the University Today (661)

[Postponed from 2022] Literary Studies and the Secular-Religious Institutional Divide (665)

Representations of Business and Professional Communication in Popular Culture (673)

Racial Justice Work in the Humanities: Public-Facing Scholars’ Projects, Lessons, Limitations, and Hope (685)

Joining Forces to Fill the Talent Pipeline: The American Translators Association and ALC Bridge (705)

General Business Meeting: GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale (719)

Social Media, Harassment, and Institutional Responses (720)

[Postponed from 2022] Scholars of Color Decentering Whiteness in the Academy (721)

[Postponed from 2022] White Scholars Decentering Whiteness in the Academy (722)

Public Art as Resistance: A Model for Working at the “Speed of Trust” (731)

Moving to Libraryland: Working Conditions for Literary Scholars in Academic Libraries (750)

English and American

Become a Certified External Reviewer for the ADE (3)

Career Pathways for PhDs in English: A Preconvention Conversation (7)

Working toward Inclusivity: Teaching English in Minority-Serving Institutions (37)

How the Liberal Arts Work (61)

Careers in English at Community Colleges and the Job Search (153)

Contingent Faculty Matters and the Future of English Studies (231)

Beyond Silos: The Future of Ethnic Literatures (272)

The Claim to Indigeneity (299)

Romantic and Victorian Crossovers (394)

Big-Tent English and Coalition Building (583)

African American Criticism Now (588)

Professional Resources for International PhD Teaching Assistants and Candidates in English Programs (698)

Foreign Languages

Become a Certified External Reviewer for the ADFL (2)

Beyond the Professoriat: Career Pathways for Job Seekers in Languages (6)

Critical Reflections on Second-Language Study Abroad Research (182)

Pandemics and Academics: Gendered and Disciplinary Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic (460)

Working Conditions in Foreign Languages Departments in the Age of Neoliberal Institutions (489)

Working Conditions and Language Education at Early College (543)

Gender Neutrality and Gender Diversity in Modern Languages (561)

Cocreating DEI Initiatives to Retain Students (621)

Publishing and Editing

How to Get Published (22)

Working in Slow Collapse: Production in the Posthistorical University (56)

Thinking through the Collection (229)

Scholarly Book Publishing with a Disability-Centered Approach (276)

How the Money Works (287)

What to Do with Reviewer 2? (326)

New Evidence for Recovering Histories and Texts (366)

How to Get Your Book Published (406)

PMLA: How Members Shape the Journal (465)

LEAF-Writer: Low-Barrier Text Encoding for Teaching and Editing (552)

[Postponed from 2022] Editing Single-Author Archives for Critical Reconsideration (591)

What Do We Want in a Research Platform of the Future? (620)

Scholarly Journal Publishing with a Disability-Centered Approach (691)

Research and Bibliography

The American Trust for the British Library Transatlantic Fellows (57)

MLA Handbook Plus: A New Resource (188)

Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing (218)

Advocating for Library Resources (273)

General

[Postponed from 2022] Defeat (19)

Representing Grief in American Literature (26)

Work in James (40)

American Literature and the Body (58)

Disability and Public Health in the United States South (75)

Black Bodies 2.0: Survival Work (91)

On Black Being (120)

Indigenous Workspace (122)

Defining and Defying Southern Labor (135)

[Postponed from 2022] Sound, Race, and Linguistic Diversity (152)

Editing African American Literature (169)

Blackness and the Conditions of Being (179)

Boom and Bust Cycles in American Literature (221)

Indigenous Literatures of the Boarding and Residential Schools in the United States and Canada (280)

Planetary Emergency as Working Condition (284)

Women and Frames of Violence (305)

The Camp and the Colony (310)

American Literary Studies as Empire Studies (358)

Conditions of Exile in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond (487)

Literature and Reparations (503)

[Postponed from 2022] Print Culture Studies and Modern American Culture (510)

Working Conditions: Empathy, Sympathy, Invisible Work, and the Forms and Resistance of Midwestern Literature (521)

The Social Life and Collective Work of Serial Form(s) (627)

Quit Lit: Literature of Resignation from Bartleby to the Present (660)

Edith Wharton and History (670)

New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies (677)

Dangerous Undertakings: Black Immigrant Artists at Work (723)

Indigenous Literary Geographies of California (737)

Codes and Characters: Building Black Digital Worlds (747)

Before 1900

Infrastructures in, of, and for Nineteenth-Century America (16)

Melville's Styles: Conspiracy, Masquerade, Allegory, Portrait (39)

Emily Dickinson's Media Shifts (68)

Melville and His Critics (102)

Gold Rush!? Poe and 1849 (165)

Transcendentalism, Spirituality, and Social Justice (170)

Mark Twain and Our Times (249)

Regionalism, Naturalism, Climate (309)

Rethinking Rationalism in the American Nineteenth Century (314)

Phillis Wheatley (Peters) Futures (331)

Rollin Ridge Revisited (341)

The Gilded Age at 150 (380)

Emily Dickinson in Her Time and Ours (401)

Editorship and Black Print Cultures (426)

Nineteenth-Century Asian American Literature and the “West” (457)

White Supremacist Terror and Narratives of Origin (502)

[Postponed from 2022] Early American Monuments (541)

“The Province of Woman”: Mary Ann Shadd Cary at Two Hundred (575)

Global Hawthorne: Readership, Reception, Adaptation (600)

Fictionality and Genre (680)

Rites of Citizenship in Early America (711)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

[Postponed from 2022] Transgenerational Trauma in Italian American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts I (5)

The Future of Voice (31)

[Postponed from 2022] Multilingual Monuments in the Americas (35)

[Postponed from 2022] Tigers, Scales, and Sexy Sutures: The Embodied Futures of Larissa Lai (36)

Italian American Blackness and Whiteness (49)

Social Media and Literary Studies: Frameworks for an Emerging Field (60)

[Postponed from 2022] Future Grammar: Blackness and the Art of Speculation (67)

City Lights at Seventy: 1953–2023 (89)

New Criticism in Practice (94)

“Where One Has No Song, the Other Is Only”: Poetry after 9/11 (97)

Black Feminist Thought: How and Where Is It Now? (106)

Evidentiary Forms (118)

Affect and Embodiment at the Margins in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature and Culture (128)

Shared Suffering: The Suffering of Self and World in Modern Poetry (129)

Back to the Origin: A Critical Consideration of Adoption Scholarship on Reproductive Difference (137)

Robert Frost's New Hampshire at One Hundred (138)

Psychoanalysis and Literatures of the United States (145)

Gardening in African American Literature (160)

Moving-Image Cultures of the San Francisco Bay Area: Queer, Black, and Radical Film and Television (175)

Octavia E. Butler at Seventy-Five (191)

Rethinking Latinx Modernism (199)

Courage beyond COVID: Stories and Spaces for Healing (225)

Author Interviews and Postwar African American Literature (236)

The Future of Language in Asian American Literature (241)

[Postponed from 2022] Transgenerational Trauma in Italian American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts II (245)

Passing and Neo-Passing (253)

Creation, Criticism, Critique (268)

Labor by Design: Working Conditions, Labor, and Equity in Theater Making and Teaching (286)

A Cinema of Black Quiet (304)

Afterlives in Racialized Art and Literatures (317)

The History of Black Writing at Forty and Beyond: Literary Recovery, Archives, and Digital Communities (322)

Reading Ezra Pound's The Cantos; or, How Work Is Manifested in the Poem and to What Ends (324)

San Francisco and the Beat Generation (347)

New Working Conditions in Asian American Studies (353)

The Way We Read Now: Reading Contemporary Black Life and Aesthetics (354)

Disability and Trauma in the Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway (365)

Honoring an American Innovation in Education: Historical Black Studies in Colleges and Universities (383)

Joan Didion as Memoirist (384)

Modernist Forms: Langston Hughes and His Contemporaries (403)

New Hampshire at One Hundred: Reflections on Working Conditions (409)

Chicanx YA Literature in the Twenty-First Century (417)

[Postponed from 2022] Transgenerational Trauma in Italian American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts III (438)

Stevens and Germany, Stevens in Germany (443)

Reframing the Global Border Regime (445)

American Adaptations of Italian and Italian American Narratives: Adaptations (447)

Black Feminist Literatures and the Maintenance of Opacity (476)

Jean Toomer's Cane at One Hundred: The Centennial of Black Modernism's Wonderful Year (483)

Revealing Names and Shifting Identities in Contemporary Literature of the United States (488)

Latinx Fanatics, Latinx Extremists: Radical Ideology in Latina/o/x Literature (505)

The Diné Reader: A Reading and Discussion about the Making of an Anthology of Navajo Literature (526)

California Futures and Ecologies (530)

The Divided States: Unraveling National Identities in the Twenty-First Century (551)

Adolph Reed's South (555)

Bay Area Poetry Today (581)

[Postponed from 2022] Rethinking World Literature through Literary Dubbing (594)

Spring and All at One Hundred Meets “The Academy in Peril” at Forty (601)

[Postponed from 2022] Multilingual Poetry between Theory and Practice (618)

Feeling Minor: Affect and Asian America (626)

[Postponed from 2022] Strange Careers of Cold Warriors: Agency of Literary Figures (631)

[Postponed from 2022] Psychoanalysis and the Language of the Other: Subjects, Objects, Animals, and Enemies (644)

Anti-Racist Reading and After (699)

Interwar Infrastructure and American Literature (702)

Working Conditions, Labor, and Equity in Theater and Performance Studies (703)

Transpacific and Asian American Ecocriticisms (708)

Exploring the American Interwar Magazine Market (757)

General

English Professors and Academic Union Leadership: The Canadian Experience (28)

Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Class and Space in British Literature (59)

Voices from the Road: Emulation of the “Gypsy” by British and Irish Authors (100)

In the Shadow of the Rock: The Literature of Gibraltar (421)

Old and Middle English

Secrets and Secret Writing in Early England (84)

Death, Disease, and Decay in Early Medieval England (116)

Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Culture (178)

Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism (217)

The Information Premodern (415)

Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies (450)

Chaucer's Ornamentalism and Gimmickry (528)

Renaissance and Elizabethan

Early Modern Trans Drama (30)

Early Modern Affective Ecologies: Air and Atmosphere (155)

Spenser and Visual Culture (208)

Spenserian Ecologies (367)

Maps, Borders, and Marlowe (444)

Celebrating William Shakespeare's First Folio (553)

The Aims of Translation in Early Modern England (651)

Literature's Cures: Health and Healing in Early Modern Texts (740)

Shakespeare

Infinite Variety? Antony and Cleopatra, Then and Now (260)

Shakespeare and Slavery (382)

Shakespeare and Early Modern Poetics (453)

Titanic Optimism: Teaching Shakespeare at Non-Elite Institutions (514)

Seventeenth Century

Developing Genres in and from Milton's Works (168)

Race, Sex, and English Performance Culture, 1600–1700 (235)

Race in Nondramatic Seventeenth-Century British Literature: Nature, Botany, and Kinship (262)

[Postponed from 2022] Donne Traveling (292)

Race in Nondramatic Seventeenth-Century British Literature: New Texts and Methodologies (303)

Early Modern Tricks, Scams, Cheats (357)

New Work in Seventeenth-Century British Literature: Origins and Representations (370)

Milton without Miltonists (486)

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century

Historical Fields in Transition: Crisis or Opportunity? A Workshop (220)

The Couplet Now (416)

Late Eighteenth Century

Romantic Babel (15)

Wheatley in London (83)

Aesthetics and Democracy (117)

New Directions in Long- Eighteenth-Century Disability Studies (356)

Nineteenth Century

Workers and Working Conditions in the Nineteenth-Century Press (27)

TransRomantic: Trans and Nonbinary Romantic Writers, Texts, Figures (50)

Ecology, Empire, and the Victorian Geographical Imaginary (70)

Caribbean Studies and Victorian Studies (86)

Reworking Race and Empire: Class, Labor, Decolonization (265)

Rereading Wordsworth, Revisiting Winander (499)

Romanticism and Phase Change: Alchemy, Abortion, and the Ends of Empire (523)

[Postponed from 2022] Rethinking Victorian Memory: Remembered Futures in Poetry and Prose (557)

Uncommon Wants, Common Things, Undercommons: Byron in 2023 (563)

Walter Pater's “Open Places of the World” (577)

Writing Aslant: Cross-Gender Voicing in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (586)

Romanticism and Sexuality (603)

[Postponed from 2022] Polyphonic Dickens (605)

Queering the Pre-Raphaelites: Intersexuality and Female Sexualities (638)

Romanticism, Colonial Ecology, Race (671)

Refuge and Refugees (686)

John Clare: Now and Then (704)

Anne Lister, Reading (755)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Lawrence, Work, and the Working Class (166)

Conrad, the Public, and the Police (206)

[Postponed from 2022] Virginia Woolf, Hope, and Wonder (606)

Woolf and Illness: Pandemics Then and Now (639)

Obsession in Twentieth-Century Poetry (730)

Eliot Now or Never (733)

General

Representations of Migrant Work in French (98)

Magical Realism in French and Francophone Literature (390)

Malady and Coloniality in the Francophone World (459)

Représentations littéraires francophones de la folie (522)

Recording Sounds of Mobility (748)

Medieval and Renaissance

Fictions of the Sacred (88)

New Directions in Feminist and Queer Readings of Medieval French Literature: A Session in Honor of Simon Gaunt (263)

French Humanism and Politico-Religious Conflict (371)

Writing and Precarity in Sixteenth-Century France (519A)

Translations, Exchanges, and Afterlives: Early Modern French and English Drama (566)

New Work in Sixteenth-Century French Studies (681)

Seventeenth Century

Global Climates in the Early Modern World (504)

Neoclassical “Aesthetics”? (717)

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Traces of the Other in Literary and Archival Sources (52)

Diversifying the Nineteenth-Century French Canon (419)

Sade and Materialism (472)

Reckonings of Universalism (535)

Insurrections en représentation: Les discours politiques de la fiction chez George Sand (604)

Murderesses, Femmes Fatales, and Sex Workers of the Eighteenth Century (653)

Insurrections (744)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Démission/Resignation (14)

Femmes de couleur et d'écriture en France contemporaine (108)

Fin de Siècle Proust: Aestheticism, Decadence, Sexuality (159)

[Postponed from 2022] Perec: Je me souviens. Je me souviens de Perec / Perec: I Remember. I Remember Perec (200)

Gide and the Equivocal Dynamics of Justice (207)

[Postponed from 2022] Claudel and the Humanities / Claudel et les humanités (291)

[Postponed from 2022] Critiques of Neoliberalism in the Contemporary French Novel (359)

French Eyes on California (569)

Words on Food (714)

Before 1700

Topics in Premodern German Literature and Culture (44)

Medieval Travel Narratives and the Notion of Experience (194)

Cultural Responses to Global Connections (495)

Nostalgia: (False) Memories of a Better Past (525)

Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

From Anthropocene to Zeitgeist: Time and Timelines in Eighteenth- to Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Culture (82)

From Anthropocene to Zeitgeist: Politics of Temporality in German Literature and Culture around 1800 (219)

Goethe by the Numbers (642)

From Anthropocene to Zeitgeist: Time and Timelines in the Works of Schiller and Goethe (716)

Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Plants in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (146)

Nonhuman Animals in Nineteenth- Century German Literature (340)

Heine and the Diasporic Experience (364)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Brecht and Democracy (288)

[Postponed from 2022] Ilse Aichinger's Poetics of Distrust (410)

Mutual Aid, Allyship, and Reciprocity in German Studies: Literary Entanglements (449)

Kafka's Drawings (695)

Mutual Aid, Allyship, and Reciprocity in German Studies: Historical Entanglements (734)

General

The Portrayal of Hostile Work Environments for Black People in the Literature and Film of the African Diaspora (250)

Medieval and Renaissance

The Failed Hero in Iberian Epic Literature (408)

The Labor of Care in Medieval Iberian Literature and Literary Studies (715)

Before 1700

Menos conocidas sendas: Transformative Approaches to Early Modern Texts (139)

Cervantes, the Body, and Disability (167)

Between Urgency and Necessity: Teaching Early Modern Literature in Today's Classrooms (294)

Classical Theater in Today's Higher Education (608)

Comedia Poetics and Performance (646)

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Engaging Galdós in Twenty-First-Century Classrooms (69)

The Power of Ridicule in Spanish and Iberian Political Satire of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (295)

[Postponed from 2022] Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity: Multiculturalism in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán (368)

Making Sacred, Making Holy: The Canonization of People and Texts (377)

Dissent and Dissension in Spanish and Iberian Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Texts (451)

Eterno Provocador: Reading Spain with Goya (571)

[Postponed from 2022] New Approaches to Motherhood in Benito Perez Galdos (676)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Ecothinking in Twentieth-Century Spain: Gender and National Construction (29)

Medical Humanities in Contemporary Iberian Studies (112)

Recent Trends and Approaches to LGBTQ+ Cinema in Spain (192)

Maghrebian and Sub-Saharan Colonial Tensions in the Global Hispanophone (214)

The Place of Africa in Contemporary Spain and the Global Hispanophone (336)

Law's Violence in Contemporary Iberian Studies (739)

General

Confinement, Mental Health, and Creativity in Pandemic Times (47)

Writing Postcolonial Englishes in Global Anglophone Literature (176)

Distant Labor: Telecommunication and Its Attunements (315)

World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights (355)

[Postponed from 2022] Infrastructures of Care (690)

The Postcolonial Pacific (742)

Australian

Working Conditions in Australian Writing and Publishing (38)

Canadian

Working in Canadian Literary Archives (109)

Not Quite Human: Crakers, Pigoons, and Other Others in Margaret Atwood's Works (248)

Indigenous Literatures of the Boarding and Residential Schools in the United States and Canada (280)

Caribbean

Caribbean Women Writers and the Literary Landscape (279)

Working Conditions in Caribbean Studies (654)

Indian

Disability in South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora (306)

Irish

Irish Studies across the English Curriculum (289)

Millennial Fiction in the Era of Sally Rooney (532)

Beckett and the Work of Care (641)

Scottish

Voices Raised in Opposition: Scottish Radicals and the Counterculture (77)

Translating Scotland: Past, Present, and (Digital) Futures (649)