Saturday, 8 January 8:30 a.m.

390.  Language and Literature Program Innovation Room

8:30–11:30 a.m., Marquis 3, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages and the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Lydia Tang, MLA

Speakers: Basma Akhter, U of Calgary; Jean Amato, Fashion Inst. of Tech., State U of New York; Laura Bedwell, U of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Maria Beliaeva Solomon, U of Maryland, College Park; Clayton Benjamin, U of Texas, Tyler; Solvita Burr (Poseiko), U of Washington, Seattle; M. Denison-Furness, Central Oregon Community C; Joanne Diaz, Illinois Wesleyan U; Danette DiMarco, Slippery Rock U; Theavy Din, U of Maryland, College Park; Noel Dolan, Villanova U; Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community C; Jacky Dumas, U of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Eir-Anne Edgar, Norwegian U of Science and Tech.; Sandy Feinstein, Penn State Berks; Rachel Friedman, U of Calgary; Christina Gerhardt, Princeton U; Luca Giupponi, Michigan State U; Melissa L. Gjellstad, U of North Dakota; Linda Greenberg, California State U, Los Angeles; Kathleen Hanggi, Doane U; Emily Heidrich Uebel, Michigan State U; Bahiyyah Jones, Leesville Road High School, NC; Charlotte Joublot Ferré, U of Maryland, College Park; Matthew Kelly, U of Texas, Tyler; Thyra Emily Knapp, U of North Dakota; Jason Lester, U of Oregon; Gillian Lord, U of Florida; Benjamin Miele Miel, U of the Incarnate Word; Sarah Minslow, California State U, Los Angeles; Rebeca Moreno, Washington C; Mark O'Connor, Slippery Rock U; Taryn Okuma, Catholic U of America; Ebtissam Oraby, George Washington U; Kathryn Perry, California State U, Los Angeles; Tara Propper, U of Texas, Tyler; Lauren Reilly, Southern Connecticut State U; Denise Rodriguez, Washington International School, DC; Tony Russell, Central Oregon Community C; Fouzilla Saady, Washington International School, DC; Maritza Santana, IN-Tech Acad., NY; Andre Schuetze, Tulane U; Jenna Sheffield, U of New Haven; Julie Shoults, Muhlenberg C; J. C. Sibara, Colby C; Shelley Stoehr-McCarthy, Southern Connecticut State U; S. Kye Terrasi, U of Washington, Seattle; Abram Van Engen, Washington U; Koen Van Gorp, Michigan State U; Christopher Walker, Colby C; Bryan Wang, Penn State Berks; Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U; Lea M. Williams, Norwich U; Amy Woodbury Tease, Norwich U; Hui Wu, U of Texas, Tyler

Showcase presenters share models of curriculum reform, including new programs, credentials, courses, and initiatives in areas such as experiential learning, digital humanities, public humanities, and career diversity. The event, a poster-style session with each presenter at an individual station, allows audience members to drop by any time while the Innovation Room is in session and spend as much time as desired exploring the showcase.

391.  Transgenerational Trauma in Italian American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts II

8:30–9:45 a.m., Independence H, Marriott Marquis

A working group. Presiding: Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Participants: Eugene Arva, Leverkusen Adult Education Center; Claude Barbre, Chicago School of Professional Psychology; Rebecca Bauman, Fashion Inst. of Tech., State U of New York; Domenico Beneventi, U de Sherbrooke; Ryan Calabretta-Sajder; Francesco Ferrari, U of Illinois, Urbana; Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain U; Alan Hartman, Mercy C; Colleen M. Ryan, Indiana U, Bloomington; Jessica Whitehead, U of Toronto

This working group investigates how Italian American artists (re)present trauma in their writing, films, and sketch comedy by employing the theoretical lens of trauma theory. We situate Italian American and Italian Canadian literary, visual, and performative texts in debates about class, gender, race, and sexuality, taking into account more classical trauma theory, from Caruth and Hartman to LaCapra, and more recent theorists like Bond, Gibbs, and Luckhurst.

For the other meetings of the working group, see 226 and 618.

392.  Trans Studies and the Transnational II

8:30–9:45 a.m., Judiciary Square, Marriott Marquis

A working group. Presiding: K. Allison Hammer, Vanderbilt U; Jude Hayward-Jansen, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Participants: Tesla Cariani, Emory U; Aparajita Dutta, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; K. Allison Hammer; Aaron Hammes, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Jude Hayward-Jansen; Joy Ladin, Yeshiva U; Míša Stekl, Stanford U; Aaron Stone, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Azucena Trincado Murugarren, U of California, Santa Barbara

This working group aims to increase the presence of transgender studies at the MLA convention and to address how trans studies has not fully embraced a critique of racist and imperialist logics to the extent that other subdisciplines have.

For the other meeting of the working group, see 242.

393.  Age, Illness, and Indispensability

8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty I, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Age Studies

Speakers: Diana York Blaine, U of Southern California; Rachel Bowser, Georgia Gwinnett C; Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown U; Erin Lamb, Case Western Reserve U; Cynthia Port, Coastal Carolina U

As debates over safety protocols, vaccine distribution, and levels of risk during the coronavirus have reminded us, cultural attitudes toward age are expressed in the conditions of a pandemic. Through a discussion of pandemics fictional and factual, historical and contemporary, panelists consider what a pandemic climate does to reveal and reform considerations of age and aging.

394.  Avoiding the Plague from Boccaccio to Today

8:30–9:45 a.m., Magnolia, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Boccaccio Association and the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian. Presiding: Kristina Marie Olson, George Mason U

1. “‘Aver compassione’: Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and Life after the Pandemic,” Alyssa Granacki, Duke U

2. “Ten Love Songs for Ten Fictional Narrators: Considerations on the Decameron's Ballads,” Mattia Boccuti, U of Notre Dame

3. “Lifting the Yoke in Decameron Day 9: A Necessary Transgression of Government and Its Subjects?” Brenda Rosado, U of California, Berkeley

4. “A proposito del Decameron; ovvero, La dieta per prevenire la peste,” Carmela Panarello, independent scholar

395.  Where Do We Go from Here? Anti-Racism and the Future of the Profession

8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty N, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession

Speakers: Barbara Clare Foley, Rutgers U, Newark; William Germano, Cooper Union; Kit Nicholls, Cooper Union; Atia Sattar, U of Southern California; Heather Steffen, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Hadley Wood, Point Loma Nazarene U

Panelists explore the ways educators are engaging with anti-racist practices in their language and literature classrooms as we re-envision the future of our profession. Topics include practical pedagogical experiences and reflections, demonstrations and descriptions of teaching tactics, and theoretical frameworks.

396.  Academic Career Paths to the Deanship

8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty J, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences

1. “From English Chair and Professor to Dean: Things I Wish I Knew,” Kyoko Amano, Lock Haven U

2. “Reflections on Unplanned Career Shifts: From Faculty Member to Higher Education Leader,” Shawn Wahl, Missouri State U

3. “Windows of Opportunity and Roadblocks on the Decanal Path,” Vandana Kohli, California State U, Channel Islands

397.  Reading Climate: Ecology, Economy, Exhaustion

8:30–9:45 a.m., Silver Linden, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English. Presiding: Dennis Denisoff, U of Tulsa

1. “Climate Change, Oaks, and Englishness,” Kate Flint, U of Southern California

2. “Decadent Antinatural Ecocriticism,” Conner Moore, U of Tulsa

3. “Vegetal Climatology: Reading Climate in D. H. Lawrence's ‘Bavarian Gentians,’” Alicia J. Carroll, Auburn U

4. “Marx's Sky: Ecosocialism and the Atmospheric Rift,” Devin Griffiths, U of Southern California

For related material, write to dennis-denisoff@utulsa.edu after 1 Dec.

398V. Social Reproduction and World-Literary Production

8:30–9:45 a.m., Virtual

A special session

1. “Social Reproduction and the Ecology of ‘Women's Work’ in World Literature,” Sharae Deckard, University C Dublin

2. “Countertopographic Aesthetics,” Myka Tucker-Abramson, U of Warwick

3. “Domestic Servitude and Latin American Literature: Fictional Experiments in Narrating the Household,” Daniella Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania

4. “Unruly Magic and Narco-Witches: Resource Extraction and Toxicity in Global Speculative Fiction,” Treasa De Loughry, University C Dublin

5. “Narrative Reproduction: Rural Return and Colonial Enclosure in Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Owuor,” Christine Okoth, U of Warwick

6. “Peripheral Reproductive Fiction: Philippine Literature at the End of the American Century,” Alden Sajor Marte-Wood, Rice U

7. “Maltreated Stories: Familial Trauma as Social Reproduction Crisis,” Amy Rushton, Nottingham Trent U

8. “‘They Were Anxious to Get Home’: Pat Barker's Union St (1982) and the Social Reproductive Tensions of Neoliberal Advancement,” Kate Houlden, Brunel U

For related material, write to rusa@sas.upenn.edu after 1 Dec.

399.  Language, Space, Power

8:30–9:45 a.m., Mint, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Occitan. Presiding: Christopher Davis, Northwestern U

1. “An Occitan Untranslatable?” Terrence Cullen, New York U

2. “Voice and Gender in Occitan Lyric,” Maria Graciela Sanchez Reyes, New York U

3. “Where Do Books Belong? Empires of Cultural Heritage,” Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana U, Bloomington

400.  Mark Twain: Emerging and Diverging Approaches

8:30–9:45 a.m., Independence F, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of America

1. “Twain's Olfactory Gags,” Hsuan L. Hsu, U of California, Davis

2. “A Connecticut Yankee on King Arthur's Diamond: Mark Twain, Baseball, and the Making of a White Reunion,” Joseph Darda, Texas Christian U

3. “Twain in Circulation: The Reprinting of Mark Twain in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers,” Avery Blankenship, Northeastern U

401.  More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei as Poetic Strategy

8:30–9:45 a.m., Independence C, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German. Presiding: Vance LaVarr Byrd, Grinnell C

1. “Substituting Tin for Bronze: How Censorship Made Vormärz Authors Publish Longer Books,” Michael Swellander, U of Iowa

2. “Counterproductivity and Overflow: Gottfried Keller as Doodler,” Polly Dickson, Durham U

3. “A Vielschreiber's World: Leopold Katscher and Journalistic Practices at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” Hansjakob Ziemer, Max Planck Inst. for the History of Science

For related material, visit http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/dnjv-w886.

402.  Stevens and Short Literary Forms

8:30–9:45 a.m., Independence B, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Wallace Stevens Society. Presiding: Diana Leca, U of Oxford

1. “Extravagant Wishes: Wallace Stevens's Aphorisms,” Diana Leca

2. “The the: Stevens's Neighborly Articles,” Thomas Gould, U of East Anglia

3. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Poem,” Seth Perlow, Georgetown U

403.  Experimental Writing in the Anthropocene

8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty K, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Presiding: Eric Schmaltz, Brock U; Orchid Tierney, Kenyon C

1. “Ecopoetics in Rita Wong's Forage: A Creative-Critical Inquiry,” João Guimarães, U of Porto; Katharina Maria Kalinowski, U of Cologne

2. “(Dis)Locating the Oikos in Ecopoetics: Experimental Communities in Habitat Threshold and Decomp,” Jessica Stokes, Michigan State U

3. “Seeded Forms, Wasted Bodies: Hybrid Poetics and the Environmental Humanities,” Martin Schauss, University C Dublin

For related material, write to tierney1@kenyon.edu; eschaltz@brocku.ca after 30 Dec.

404.  (Mis)Perceptions in Medieval Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Cherry Blossom, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Alison Beringer, Montclair State U

1. “Developing Discrimination in Thirteenth-Century Old French Literature,” Brian Reilly, Fordham U

2. “Mapping the Medieval Mind: From Abstract to Concrete in the Roman d’Enéas,” Katherine A. Brown, independent scholar

3. “Reading Animals in Medieval Fables: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach,” Emily Mahan, U of Notre Dame

405.  The Aesthetics of Kinship

8:30–9:45 a.m., Marquis 12, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Elizabeth Freeman, U of California, Davis

1. “Introduction: The Aesthetics of Kinship,” Tyler Bradway, State U of New York, Cortland; Elizabeth Freeman

2. “The Mixed-Race Child Is Queer Father to the Man: Alice Dunbar-Nelson's Kinship Aesthetics,” Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin, Madison

3. “Star, Brother: Kinstillatory Praxis across Turtle Island,” Joseph Pierce, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

4. “Trans Rhythms of Ecstatic Kinship in Jackie Kay's Trumpet,” Aqdas Aftab, U of Maryland, College Park

406.  Text as Process in Some Twentieth-Century Argentine Manuscripts

8:30–9:45 a.m., Independence A, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Society for Textual Scholarship. Presiding: Daniel Balderston, U of Pittsburgh

1. “‘An Applause That Makes My Hands Hurt’: Gender and Feminism in Silvina Ocampo's Manuscripts,” Maria Julia Rossi, John Jay C of Criminal Justice, City U of New York

2. “Reconstructing Unfinished Poems by Borges from His Notebooks,” Daniel Balderston

3. “Borges's Reading of Hume: Looking into a Lifetime Devotion to Metaphysics,” Marina Martín, St. John's U, MN

4. “The Utilitarian Translations of Juan José Saer in His Unpublished Manuscripts,” Martín L. Gaspar, Bryn Mawr C

407.  Reading and Translating Comics in Two Directions

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gallaudet University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums GS Comics and Graphic Narratives and LLC Arabic. Presiding: Lan Dong, U of Illinois, Springfield

1. “Communicative Imagination in Metrolingual Artistic Expressions,” Dina Mahmoud, Penn State U, University Park

2. “The 99 in Arabic and English: Translating Language, Image, and Genre,” Adrienne Resha, William and Mary

3. “Nādiya Nash'at: A Pioneer in Adapting American Comic Books into Arabic,” Aram Shahin, James Madison U

Respondent: Yasmine Khayyat, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

408.  Theorizing Stateless Cultures

8:30–9:45 a.m., Marquis 5, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory. Presiding: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia U

1. “Statelessness, the Practice of Imprisonment, and the Analogy of Slavery,” Angela Davis, U of California, Santa Cruz

2. “United States Zip Code 96960,” Emlyn Hughes, Columbia U

3. “Statelessness in Extremis: Rohingyas and the Ethical,” Maria do Mar Castro Varela, Alice Salomon Hochschule

Can literary and cultural theory accommodate varieties of statelessness? Participants consider the largely unresearched Rohingya language, the many languages of the global incarcerated, and the interincomprehensibility of languages of the various victims of nuclear testing in the United States.

409.  Tigers, Scales, and Sexy Sutures: The Embodied Futures of Larissa Lai

8:30–9:45 a.m., Woodley Park, Marriott Marquis

A special session

1. “‘As Though through Mud’: Multispecies Futures in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu,” Alenda Chang, U of California, Santa Barbara

2. “Fish, Roses, and Sexy Sutures: Embodied Estrangement and the Technological Fix in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu,” Edmond Chang, Ohio U, Athens

3. “Fish, Roses, and Sexy Sutures: Disability and Radical Care in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu,” Stevi Costa, Cornish C of the Arts

410.  Bad Revivals: Dramas of Unruly Repetition

8:30–9:45 a.m., Marquis 13, Marriott Marquis

A special session

1. “Reviving Fake News,” Minou Arjomand, U of Texas, Austin

2. “Unfaithful Revivals: Resurrecting Sadakichi Hartmann's Passion Play,” Rebecca Kastleman, Columbia U

3. “Bad Revivals through Creative Anachronism,” Kelli Shermeyer, Wilma Theater

Respondent: Jennifer Buckley, U of Iowa

For related material, visit MLA Commons after 3 Jan.

411.  The Histories and Erasures of Afro-Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Thought

8:30–9:45 a.m., Eastern Market, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American and LLC African American. Presiding: Mariela Méndez, U of Richmond

Speakers: Alejandra Josiowicz, U do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte, Vanderbilt U; Ever Esther Osorio Ruiz, Yale U

Panelists engage the ways in which Latin American feminist thinkers of color's increasing presence on social media has generated counterpedagogies that, in turn, disrupt hegemonic academic production in the United States. Such pedagogical practices yield activism beyond traditional civic spaces to make room for alternative intellectual genealogies and feminist and anti-racist counterpublics.

412.  Revisiting the Potential of Language Diversity in the Community College Classroom

8:30–9:45 a.m., Marquis 16, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Community Colleges. Presiding: James Hart, County C of Morris, NJ

Speakers: Anne Damiecka, Lone Star C, TX; Janet Giannotti, Northern Virginia Community C; Rachele Lawton, Community C of Baltimore County, MD; Johnny Lew, Anne Arundel Community C, MD

Part of the wonderfully diverse nature of community colleges is the panoply of linguistic communities that they serve—and their robust ESL (English as a second language) programs. Panelists discuss the work that community colleges are doing to celebrate the linguistic heritage of their communities within their ESL programs and in other academic areas of the institution.

413.  Materializing Scottish Cultures

8:30–9:45 a.m., Howard University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Scottish. Presiding: Anne M. Stapleton, U of Iowa

1. “Material Memories of Darien and the Company of Scotland,” Leith Davis, Simon Fraser U

2. “Mediating the Scots Song Abroad,” Sarah Waltz, U of the Pacific

3. “Remembering Robert Louis Stevenson: The Cultural Memory of Stevenson and His Work,” Craig Lamont, U of Glasgow

4. “The Author in Person: Materializing Scotland on the Nineteenth-Century Literary Tour,” John Corbett, BNU-HKBU United International C

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

8:30–9:45 a.m., Treasury, Marriott Marquis

A working group. Presiding: Samuel Jaffee, U of Washington, Seattle

Participants: Mary-Beth Brophy, Ocean County C, NJ; Matthew Dischinger, Georgia State U; Anna Ioanes, U of St. Francis; Blondie Natacha L. N. E. Pawa, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Thania Muñoz D., U of Maryland Baltimore County; Tanya Perkins, Indiana U East; Inés Vañó García, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Sarah Welsh, U of Texas, Austin

This working group presents creative pedagogies beyond the textual—painting, mapping, music composition, acting, digital storytelling, sensory experiential learning—and discusses theory, praxis, learning outcomes, and logistics of best practices for engaging multilingual curricular expansion. We welcome collaborative efforts to develop open educational resources for digital culture and communication on MLA Commons.

For related material, visit https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/theory-and-praxis-visual-media-in-the-classroom/.

For the other meetings of the working group, see 4 and 236.

415.  Is Sex Passé?

8:30–9:45 a.m., Union Station, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Christopher Breu, Illinois State U

Speakers: Christopher Breu; Lee Edelman, Tufts U; Patricia Gherovici, U of Pennsylvania; Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall U; Kirin Wachter-Grene, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago; Alenka Zupančič, Slovenian Acad. of Sciences and Arts

Panelists challenge the regnant notion that sex is passé by responding to a number of developments regarding sex and critical theory, including the eclipse of sex by the category of gender, the replacement of desire with increasingly micrological and proliferating conceptions of identity, and the challenge represented by theories of asexuality to the assumption of sex as central and necessary to subjectivity.

416.  Using Our Power: The MLA, Advocacy, and Academic Labor

8:30–9:45 a.m., Independence G, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Amy Lynch-Biniek, Kutztown U

Speakers: Natalie Dorfeld, Florida Inst. of Tech.; Seth Kahn, West Chester U; Amy Lynch-Biniek; Robin Snead, U of North Carolina, Pembroke; Mimi Winick, Harvard U

Responding to the MLA's calls for advocacy efforts, panelists present varied experiences of and research on labor advocacy and address how we might use our roles as MLA members, delegates, and forum chairs to advocate for better academic labor conditions. Conversation centers on attendees’ concerns, aiming to provide tactics for labor advocacy within the MLA and on campus.

417.  Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity: Multiculturalism in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán

8:30–9:45 a.m., Marquis 14, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Association of Galdós Scholars

1. “The Work of the Sea Is Hers: Materiality in the Negotiation of Regional Identity,” Rhi Johnson, Indiana U, Bloomington

2. “‘La Cuestión Judía’ in Emilia Pardo Bazán,” Jennifer Lynn Smith, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

3. “No Longer Welcome: The Indiano as Problematic (Racial) Figure in the Short Fiction of Pardo Bazán,” Stacy Davis, Truman State U

4. “Cursed to Extinction: Imperialist Cultural Encounters in Emilia Pardo Bazán's ‘El brasileño’ (1911),” Wan Tang, Boston C

418.  Negotiating Culture, Conflict, and Controversy in a Global World: Multilingual Muslim Women's Writing

8:30–9:45 a.m., Monument, Marriott Marquis

A special session

Speakers: Umme Al-wazedi, Augustana C; Afroza Anwary, Minnesota State U; Nada Ayad, Cooper Union; Feroza Jussawalla, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Muddasir Ramzan, Aligarh Muslim U

Panelists discuss Muslim women's writingfrom across the world and its influence on multilingualism in the United States. Topics include writings by Muslim women that cover the following places and incidents: Rohingya refugees, the 1919 Egyptian revolution, Afghani and Pakistani women's writing, and the assimilation of Muslim women as depicted in the diasporic writings of the United Kingdom and the United States.

For related material, write to Domran@unm.edu after 15 Dec.

419.  John Milton: A General Session

8:30–9:45 a.m., Dogwood, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Milton Society of America

1. “Milton's Shakespearean Cloak and the Art of Readership in ‘L'Allegro’ / ‘Il Penseroso,’” V. M. Braganza, Harvard U

2. “Milton, Reformation, and Civility in the Early Modern Arctic,” Owen Kane, Queen's U

3. “‘Beauty Stands’: Physiological Beauty in Paradise Regained,” Jeremy Specland, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

4. “Milton's Crip Intervention in Ableist Epic,” Pasquale Toscano, Princeton U

420.  Romanticism and the Caribbean

8:30–9:45 a.m., Chinatown, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Presiding: Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern U

Speakers: Lily Gurton-Wachter, Smith C; Alexandra L. Milsom, Hostos Community C, City U of New York; Kiel Shaub, U of California, Los Angeles; Kerry Sinanan, U of Texas, San Antonio; Thomas Van Camp, U of Wisconsin, Madison

The Caribbean was the site of persistent revolution and rebellion during the Romantic period, most notably in Haiti and Jamaica. The ideals of liberty and equality associated with Romanticism were vigorously sought by enslaved and free Black people. Panelists consider how archives of Black resistance and more recent formulations of Black freedom put pressure on Romantic era writers, texts, and ideals as well as on Romantic studies in the current moment.

421.  Ritual and Representation in Chinese Thought, Religion, and Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Tulip, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature. Presiding: Michael Gibbs Hill, William and Mary

1. “Changes in Ritual Systems and the Rise of the Song Dynasty School of Principle: The Gao Mei Ritual,” Mengyi Xun, U of Edinburgh

2. “Pacing the Void Rites: Tang Dynasty Daoist Ritual, Soundscapes, and Poetry,” Tyler Feezell, Arizona State U, Tempe

3. “The Model Hero and the Liturgical Self: Rituals of Transformation in the Chinese Revolutionary Novel,” Lauren Parker, Colby C

4. “Mo Yan's Multivalent Ritual: Filiality, Karma, Reincarnation in ‘Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out,’” Christopher M. Lupke, U of Alberta

For related material, write to lupke@ualberta.ca after 15 Dec.

422.  Centering Race and Women in Early Modern Culture

8:30–9:45 a.m., Scarlet Oak, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

Speakers: Deena Al-halabieh, U of California, Santa Barbara; Nira Gupta-Casale, Kean U; Claudio Eduardo Moura de Oliveira, U of Texas, Austin; Patricia Phillippy, Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities; Danielle Sottosanti, Fordham U, Bronx; Elisa Tersigni, U of Toronto; Jennifer Linhart Wood, Folger Shakespeare Library

Panelists consider the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in the early modern world across a variety of genres, disciplines, and different national literatures, aiming to expand the archive of race and gender to recenter early modern thought for those in its periphery. What are the possibilities and limitations of this work as we consider the contemporary landscape of higher education?

423V. The Middle Passage and Caribbean Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Virtual

A special session. Presiding: Cassander Smith, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Speakers: Nienke Boer, Yale-NUS C; Emily Na, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Jude V. Nixon, Salem State U; Charlotte Sacks Sussman, Duke U

Calls to memorialize the Middle Passage (in, e.g., the Duke University Research Project “Remembering the Middle Passage”) are based on environmental and racial justice. As Cedric Robinson tells us, “the Atlantic Slave Trade and the slavery of the New World were integral to the modern world economy” (Black Marxism 4). Panelists discuss how Caribbean writing undertakes the work of remembering the Middle Passage and early modern Caribbean archives.

For related material, visit https://mla.hcommons.org/ after 27 Dec.

424.  Indigenous Literature and Democracy

8:30–9:45 a.m., Archives, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada

1. “Bad Faith and the American Indian: Against United States Democratic Inclusion,” Hannah Manshel, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

2. “Indigeneity and Representation in the Jurisgenerative Poetics of Layli Long Soldier,” Alex Young, Arizona State U, Phoenix

3. “Atlantic Ridge: John Rollin Ridge's ‘The Atlantic Cable’ and Democracy in Transit,” Justin C. Tackett, U of Warwick

Respondent: Christopher Pexa, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

425V. Multilingual Beckett: Between Self and Global Translation

8:30–9:45 a.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the Samuel Beckett Society

1. “‘Je est un autre’: Beckett, Not I, and Translingual Appropriation,” Juliette Taylor-Batty, Leeds Trinity U

2. “Nineteen Years of Multilingual Fragments: From the ‘The Gloaming’ to Rough for Theatre I,” Shane O'Neill, Mary Immaculate C

3. “Abstractifying Allusions for a Multilingual World,” Thirthankar Chakraborty, Indian Inst. of Tech., Bhilai

Saturday, 8 January 10:15 a.m.

426.  Joining Forces to Fill the Talent Pipeline: ALC Bridge

10:15–11:30 a.m., Eastern Market, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Translators Association

Speakers: Stephen Lank, U of Maryland, College Park; Bill Rivers, WP Rivers and Associates

Demand for qualified interpreters and translators is rising, and talent is in short supply. Too few language majors enter the marketplace with real-world skills; industry and association veterans seek to connect higher education and the workforce. ALC Bridge joins educators from the American Translators Association to highlight career pathways. Presenters identify ways we can support the needs of higher education as it prepares students for jobs in the business world.

427.  Insurrection, Tyranny, and Resistance: Formal, Gendered, and Theoretical Perspectives

10:15–11:30 a.m., Cherry Blossom, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose. Presiding: Leah Middlebrook, U of Oregon

1. “‘Appreciated but Not Understood’: The Poetic Politics of Lament in Cervantes and Ovid,” Sonia Velazquez, Indiana U, Bloomington

2. “Lieutenant Cutpurse: ‘A Very Dangerous Type and Problematic for Good Government,’” Juan Lamata, California State U, Los Angeles

3. “Tyranny and Resistance in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure,” Sachini Seneviratne, Open U of Sri Lanka

4. “Tyranny, Sovereignty, and the End(s) of War in Marlowe's Tamburlaine,” Katie Adkison, Bates C

428.  Challenging the (Italian) American Canon: Past to Present

10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty K, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Italian American Studies Association

1. “Humor as Challenge: Radical Postmodernism of Marc Binelli's Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!,” John Wharton Lowe, U of Georgia

2. “Playing in the Twenty-First Century: Don DeLillo's Underworld on Its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary,” Josephine Hendin, New York U

3. “Class Consequences: Working-Class Writers and the Italian American Canon,” Fred L. Gardaphe, Queens C, City U of New York

Respondent: Bryan Santin, Concordia U, CA

For related material, visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lUF0ilrdWSngFGj_eujKK9rMxq9U-F7-/view?usp=sharing.

429.  The Politics of Performance: Race in American Musical Theater and Opera

10:15–11:30 a.m., Independence A, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums GS Drama and Performance and MS Opera and Musical Performance. Presiding: Kate Driscoll, Freie U Berlin; R. Darren Gobert, Duke U

1. “In Voice, Face, and Body: Will Marion Cook's New Negro Renaissance Theater,” Paul Edwards, Southern Methodist U

2. “Can Showboat (or Peter Pan or West Side Story) Be Saved?” Bradley Rogers, Duke U

3. “Whose Story Is This? Indigenous Narratives and the Unsettling of North American Opera,” Rena Roussin, U of Toronto

430.  Multilingualism as Intervention

10:15–11:30 a.m., Marquis 10, Marriott Marquis

A linked session arranged in conjunction with the Presidential Plenary: Writing Multilingual Selves (214). Presiding: Esther Allen, Baruch C, City U of New York

1. “Everyone Listens to Everyone: Immigrant Children Translating and Performing Don Quixote,” Stephen Haff, Still Waters in a Storm

2. “Languages of New York City: From Visualization to Advocacy,” Daniel Kaufman, Queens C, City U of New York

3. “Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: The Politics, Preservation, and Cultural Translation of Lenguas,” Gabriela Baeza Ventura, U of Houston

4. “The Frontera Project: Theater and Collaboration on the English-Spanish Border,” Jessica Bauman, Frontera Project; Ramón Verdugo, Frontera Project

5. “Ginandagikendaamin Inwewinan ji-Maamiikwendamang: Learning Languages as Form of Appreciation,” Margaret A. Noodin, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

What is the place of multilingualism in our body politic? How do humanists work to preserve and promote languages within and beyond the academy? What exchanges and connections become possible in a multilingual space?

431.  Épidémie et maladie dans l’œuvre de George Sand

10:15–11:30 a.m., Marquis 14, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the George Sand Association. Presiding: Catherine Masson, Wellesley C

1. “La fièvre à Venise,” Sonia Assa-Rosenblum, State U of New York, Old Westbury

2. “Épidémie et maladie dans l’œuvre de George Sand,” Ikram Chemlali, U Abdelmalek Essaâdi

3. “Indiana's Melancholia,” Véronique Machelidon, Meredith C

4. “Suicide and George Sand: A Girardian Perspective,” Dantzel Cenatiempo, U of Washington, Seattle

432.  New Directions for the Dissertation

10:15–11:30 a.m., Independence H, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Office of Scholarly Communication

Speakers: Nicholas Brown, Texas Christian U; A. D. Carson, Clemson U; Kathie Gossett, U of California, Davis; Jason Helms, Texas Christian U; Kay Sohini Kumar, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Jen McConnel, Longwood U; Temptaous Mckoy, Bowie State U

This session focuses on the practical and theoretical underpinnings of dissertations that look like something other than a single-authored scholarly monograph, exploring both the process and product of the dissertation as it moves into new conceptualizations. Panelists discuss how dissertations can fulfill rigorous research requirements while also moving into new mediums or modes of writing.

433.  Disrupting the Binary: Transnational Approaches to Italian Studies II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Judiciary Square, Marriott Marquis

A working group. Presiding: Serena Bassi, Hamilton C; Giulia Riccò, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Participants: Serena Bassi; Emma Bond, U of St Andrews; Simone Brioni, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Francesco Chianese, California State U, Long Beach; Andrea Ciribuco, National U of Ireland, Galway; Clarissa Clo, San Diego State U; Claudio Fogu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Lina N. Insana, U of Pittsburgh; Valerie McGuire, U of St Andrews; Michele Monserrati, Williams C; Giulia Riccò; Rhiannon N. Welch, U of California, Berkeley

By putting pressure on the unwitting reification of the national that binary understandings of transnational mobility can produce, this working group challenges and expands what a transnational approach to Italian studies might entail. How do we fully unlock the potential of the prefix trans- in transnational and avoid falling into the trap of binarism? Can a transnational approach to Italian studies overcome the nation as a fixed point of reference?

For related material, write to gricco@umich.edu after 4 Jan.

For the other meetings of the working group, see 207 and 639.

434.  “Passing from Winter into Winter Again”: Ecocritical Approaches and Old English Poetry

10:15–11:30 a.m., Dogwood, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Old English. Presiding: Heide Estes, Monmouth U

1. “Monsters in the Marshland: Grendel-Kin and the Chthulucene,” Rawitawan Sophonpanich, Thammasat U

2. “Heroic Culture and Other-Than-Human Beings in the Exeter Riddle Collection,” Courtney Barajas, Whitworth U

3. “The Useful and the Entropic in the Exeter Riddles,” Emma Hitchcock, Columbia U

435.  Stories of Destierro

10:15–11:30 a.m., Farragut North, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums LLC Mexican and GS Life Writing. Presiding: Sergio Delgado Moya, Emory U

Speakers: Elise Arnold-Levene, Mercy C; Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, Reno; Yeongju Lee, Emory U; Gabriela Poma, Harvard U

Panelists explore frameworks crafted by artists and writers who tell the stories of those whose lives are marked by the threat, or the aftermath, of destierro, of exile and deportation, focusing on stories told through fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and memoir and on destierro as operator in the racialization of Latinx subjects in the United States.

436V. Multilingual Doris Lessing

10:15–11:30 a.m., Virtual

A special session

Speakers: Anne-Laure Brevet, U of Cambridge; Carmen García Navarro, U of Almeria; Swaty Mitra, Barasat Government C, Kolkota; Selcuk Senturk, Kafkas U; Manjun Yu, Chongqing U

In keeping with the presidential theme of translingual and transcultural interpretation, international scholars address the reception of Doris Lessing's work in their own countries, languages, and cultures. This session decenters the English-speaking academy, focusing on the role of translation in the dissemination and consumption of global literature.

For related material, write to rvisel@gmail.com after 1 Nov.

437.  Commemorating José Saramago's Centenary

10:15–11:30 a.m., Woodley Park, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: André Corrêa de Sá, U of California, Santa Barbara

Speakers: Kevin Ennis, Brown U; Patrícia Martinho Ferreira, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; José Martins, Catholic U of Portugal; Mark John Lawrence Sabine, U of Nottingham; Sérgio Sousa, U of Minho; Estela J. Vieira, Indiana U, Bloomington

The year 2022 marks the centennial of the birth of the Portuguese writer José Saramago (1922–2010), recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. Panelists consider Saramago's literary legacy, reassessing the literary, cultural, and sociopolitical bearing of his books and discussing new research perspectives and interests.

438.  Democracy and the American Novel

10:15–11:30 a.m., Mount Vernon Square, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Gordon N. Hutner, U of Illinois, Urbana

1. “The Tyrannical Backbone of the Democratic Novel,” Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg C

2. “The Metafiction of Democracy,” Russ Castronovo, U of Wisconsin, Madison

3. “‘Free without Power or Right’: Improvising Black Lives in Fiction,” Nancy Bentley, U of Pennsylvania

439.  Public Humanities in Practice II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Treasury, Marriott Marquis

A working group. Presiding: Michael Smith, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Participants: Tawnya Azar, George Mason U; Anne Fertig, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Douglas Higbee, U of South Carolina, Aiken; Judd Ruggill, U of Arizona, Tucson; Meredith Soeder, Allegheny Regional Asset District; David Squires, U of Louisiana, Lafayette; Katharine G. Trostel, Ursuline C

This working group considers the emergence of the public humanities as an academic discipline and nonacademic community practice. In conversation with participants whose projects are aspirational, in development, or in process, the group explores connections, identifies potential obstacles, and develops a set of best practices for the production of publicly facing humanities work.

For related material, visit https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/public-humanities-in-practice-working-group/.

For the other meeting of the working group, see 178.

440.  Doing Editing Differently

10:15–11:30 a.m., Chinatown, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. Presiding: Amy Earhart, Texas A&M U, College Station

1. “Recovering Indigenous Contributions to Philosophical Transactions Using SADFC (Semantic Analysis of Digital Forensic Cases),” J. P. Ascher, U of Virginia

2. “Editing Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literatures: Intervening in Canons in Print and Digital Anthologies,” Linda Kay Hughes, Texas Christian U; Sofia Prado Huggins, Texas Christian U; Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Texas Christian U

3. “‘Where There Is Merely Love, They Would See Something Evil’: Encoding Homoerotic Legibility in The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Filipa Calado, Graduate Center, City U of New York

4. “Turning ‘American’ into ‘Jazz’: An Edition of Wanda Coleman's Collected Sonnets,” Lizzy LeRud, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Jennifer Ryan-Bryant, Buffalo State C, State U of New York

441.  A (Post?)-Secular Genre: Religion, Secularization, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

10:15–11:30 a.m., Silver Linden, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Joseph McQueen, Northwest U

1. “Divine Glory in a ‘Dry, Shrivelled Kernel’? Ordinary Transcendence in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey,” Christine Amanda Colón, Wheaton C, IL

2. “Enfleshing the Ethical: Liturgy in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda,” Joseph McQueen

3. “Sermonizing Narrators: Liberalism, the Victorian Novel, and Mary Augusta Ward's Robert Elsmere,” Amy Cote, Samford U

For related material, write to joseph.mcqueen@northwestu.edu.

442V. Marxist Internationalism?

10:15–11:30 a.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society. Presiding: Purnima Bose, Indiana U, Bloomington

1. “Being on Brand: Neoliberalism and Its Forms of Subjectivation,” Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton U

2. “‘Stretching Marxism’ beyond the Global North,” Laura Chrisman, U of Washington, Seattle

3. “Una mafia de los pobres: Violence, Neoprimitive Accumulation, and the Question of Ideology Revisited,” Patrick E. Dove, Indiana U, Bloomington

4. “The Pathos of the Sinophone Left: Memory and Melancholia in the Postrevolutionary Era,” Hang Tu, National U of Singapore

443V. Multilingualism and World Literature

10:15–11:30 a.m., Virtual

A special session. Presiding: Elisa Segnini, U of Glasgow

1. “The Multilingual Novel: Traveling with Constraints,” Marianna Deganutti, Ludwig Maximilian U

2. “Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night as a ‘Born-Translated’ Novel,” Nishtha Pandey, Indian Inst. of Tech.

3. “‘The Taste of Creole Words’: Alba de Céspedes's Cuban Novel,” Elisa Segnini

4. “‘Born Untranslatable’? Pier Paolo Pasolini's Roman Novels,” Gigliola Sulis, U of Leeds

444.  Data and Social Media in Southeast Asia

10:15–11:30 a.m., Howard University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic. Presiding: Sheela Jane Menon, Dickinson C

1. “Enclosures of the Imagination: Scopic Regimes of Technoliberalism and the Filipino Uncanny,” Karlynne Ejercito, U of Southern California

2. “Demographic Collections, Population Aesthetics, and the Territorial Production of Singapore's Global,” Cheryl Narumi Naruse, Tulane U

3. “Facebook in Vietnam: Market-Oriented Socialist Social Media,” Ben Vu Tran, Vanderbilt U

Respondent: Jonathan Ong, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

For related material, write to menons@dickinson.edu after 20 Dec.

445.  Afro-Southern-Futurism and the Black Speculative Arts

10:15–11:30 a.m., Archives, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern United States. Presiding: Joanna Davis-McElligatt, U of North Texas

Speakers: Anthony Boynton, U of Kansas; Stephanie Jones, Syracuse U; Trevon Pegram, Howard U; Kristen Reynolds, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Samanda Robinson, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Sebastian Urbaniak, U of Szczecin; Ruth S. Wenske, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

Afrofuturism as an aesthetic movement contends directly with the horrors of Black life from slavery into those attending an uncertain future. By imagining Blackness beyond and within the boundaries of the human body, the United States South, and the planet, Afro-Southern-futurist texts are vital explorations of the (un)certainty of Black survival and the promise and potential of Black futures.

446.  Navigating the Changing Landscape of Scholarly Book Publishing in Literary and Cultural Studies

10:15–11:30 a.m., Mint, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee. Presiding: Julie E. Singer, Washington U in St. Louis; Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington U in St. Louis

Speakers: Courtney Berger, Duke University Press; Rebecca Colesworthy, SUNY Press; Jennifer Crewe, Columbia University Press; Zack Gresham, Vanderbilt University Press; Parneshia Jones, Northwestern University Press; Mahinder Kingra, Cornell University Press

Editors from major academic presses acquiring in literary and cultural studies reflect on strategies for navigating the conflicting pressures that authors (especially junior faculty members) and editors face—market pressures on one side, pressure to publish on the other—so that both groups can work together most effectively in the face of these challenges.

447.  The Black Mediterranean

10:15–11:30 a.m., Tulip, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Mediterranean. Presiding: N. Michelle Murray, Vanderbilt U

1. “Trans-Sahara in the Mediterranean: Black Africans in Sicily, 1550–1750,” Justine Walden, U of Wisconsin, Madison

2. “Black Mediterranean Forms at Mid-Century: Barbara Chase-Riboud's Futurist Aesthetics,” Melanie Masterton Sherazi, independent scholar

3. “Black Ghosts of the Mediterranean and the Limits of European Spain,” Lennie Amores, Albright C

4. “The Specular Experience of Migration,” Amanda Vredenburgh, Davidson C

448.  Digital Humanities and Multilingualism

10:15–11:30 a.m., Independence F, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC African since 1990. Presiding: Cajetan Iheka, Yale U

1. “Humanities Futures: Lessons from Latinx Studies for a Multilingual Digital Humanities,” Kelley Kreitz, Pace U, NY

2. “Global Poetics: Mapping, Networks, and Closely Distant Reading,” Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu, Cornell U

3. “Decolonizing Digital Humanities Tools,” Laila Hussein Moustafa, U of Illinois, Urbana

4. “Yorùbá Nollywood and African Digital Humanities,” James Yeku, U of Kansas

449.  Minoritized Learners and Instructors in Postsecondary Language Learning Contexts

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gallaudet University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning

1. “Best Practices for Teaching Modern Language Inclusively for Learning Differences,” Kathryn Dettmer, Drexel U

2. “What Does It Mean to Be Willkommen? Translanguaging Pedagogies as Affordances for Migrant Learners,” Glenn Levine, U of California, Irvine

3. “Contesting Regimes of Language: Reexperiencing Language Education for Minoritized Learners,” Robert Train, Sonoma State U

4. “Teaching French as a Foreign Language through Anti-Oppressive Literatures,” Hasheem Hakeem, U of Calgary

Participants address various approaches to scholarship on minoritized learners and instructors in postsecondary language-learning contexts, including empirical studies, theoretical reflections or manifestos, and practical approaches for the classroom and curriculum.

For related material, write to Ismenia.DeSouza@afacademy.af.edu after 3 Jan.

450.  Material Domesticity in Korea and Beyond

10:15–11:30 a.m., Magnolia, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums LLC Korean and LLC East Asian. Presiding: Ji-Eun Lee, Washington U in St. Louis

1. “The Empowered Addressee: Queens, Vernacular Korean Calligraphy, and Royal Decorum in Early Modern Korea,” Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton U

2. “The Phlegm Clearing Lady: Tobacco and the Female Body in Late Chosŏn Korea,” Hyeok Hweon Kang, Washington U in St. Louis

3. “What the Household Manuals of 1910s Korea Reveal about Modernization,” Janet Lee, Keimyung U

451.  The American Trust for the British Library Fellowships Program

10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty I, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Barbara Shailor, American Trust for the British Library

1. “Restaging Race: Victorian Spectators and Imperial Performance Narrative,” Lauren Eriks Cline, Hampden-Sydney C

2. “The Actual Sight of the Thing: Visualizing Blackness in Nineteenth-Century British Culture,” Atesede Makonnen, Johns Hopkins U, MD

3. “Henry ‘Box’ Brown in the United States and Britain,” Rachel Burke, Harvard U

4. “Fellowships for Research at the British Library and in Collections in the United States,” Barbara Shailor

452.  Archipelagic Languages of the Future Now: Performative, Graphic, Multimedia, Digital, Literary Visions of Justice

10:15–11:30 a.m., Scarlet Oak, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Puerto Rican. Presiding: Alai Reyes-Santos, U of Oregon

1. “Memorias de un icono: The Hard Work of Honoring Miguel Algarín,” Karen Jaime, Cornell U

2. “La Brega: The Power of Language and Historical Contradictions on a Boricuan Podcast,” Dania Abreu-Torres, Trinity U

3. “‘Somos un equipo’: Imagining Alternatives to Environmental Racism in Puerto Rico,” Catalina de Onís, U of Colorado, Denver

4. “Crafting Multispecies Caribbean Futures in Contemporary Puerto Rican Environmental Art,” Charlotte W. Rogers, U of Virginia

For related material, write to alai@uoregon.edu after 15 Oct.

454.  Embrace All Aliens: Melville and Migration

10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty L, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Melville Society. Presiding: Mary Grace Albanese, Binghamton U, State U of New York

1. “Black Feminist Futures,” Kayla Hardy-Butler, Binghamton U, State U of New York

2. “Bartleby, Refugee,” Alyson Brickey, U of Winnipeg; Dana Medoro, U of Manitoba

3. “Law and Legibility in Benito Cereno,” Rohan Ghatage, U of Toronto

4. “Israel Ramírez / Alonso Potter: Narrative Coincidence in Migrant Fiction of Sigüenza y Góngora and Melville,” Jaime Campomar, George Washington U

For related material, write to malbanes@binghamton.edu.

455V. Unorthodox Archives

10:15–11:30 a.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Presiding: Ann L. Komaromi, U of Toronto

1. “Bondy's Anti-Samizdat; or, What's Missing from the Archive?” Natascha Drubek, Freie U

2. “Joseph Brodsky: An Apolitical Poet or a Poète Engagé? Brodsky Papers Tell the Story,” Zakhar Ishov, Uppsala U

3. “(In)Substantial Holdings: Unofficial Archives,” Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth C

456.  Multilingual Asian American Newspaper Studies

10:15–11:30 a.m., Marquis 13, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian American. Presiding: Heidi Kim, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “The Korean American Left between Empires,” Jee Hyun Choi, U of California, Berkeley

2. “Reading the Particular Voices in the Archives of Manzanar Free Press,” Katsuya Izumi, Trinity C, CT

457.  Word Play: Nonstandard English and Multilingualism in Children's and Young Adult Literature

10:15–11:30 a.m., Independence C, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum GS Children's and Young Adult Literature

1. “Alice Childress's ‘Harlemese’: Race, Gender, and the Invention of Black YA Literature,” James Harris, Bronx Community C, City U of New York

2. “Linguistic Exuberance as Political Critique in Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life,” Rajender Kaur, William Paterson U

3. “Shifting Linguistic Power in Middle Grades: #OwnVoices Creators and Neurodiversity,” Jennifer Slagus, Brock U

For related material, write to blankpaige@gmail.com.

458.  Multilingual Spenser

10:15–11:30 a.m., Independence G, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Spenser Society

1. “Backgrounds to Spenser's Multilingualism,” Anne E. B. Coldiron, Florida State U

2. “Abortive Translation and Virgilian Obscurity in ‘September,’” Paul J. Hecht, Purdue U, Northwest

3. “Islamophobia and Critique in Tasso and Spenser,” Ross Lerner, Occidental C

4. “Korean Spenser: Reading Panic yet Timely Temperance in The Faerie Queene, Book II,” Kyungran Park, Korea U

459.  Race and the Aesthetics of Refusal in Contemporary Latin America and Hemispheric Americas

10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty N, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Marcelo Carosi, Hamilton C

1. “Resisting the United States–Mexico Border Wall: Mirroring in Activism by Chicanx and Latin American Artists,” Laura Belmonte, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2. “Illegible Lives: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Femme Bodies in Mexico,” Roxana Ariadne Curiel, U of Scranton

3. “Unpacking the Female Gaze: Race, Gender and Cinematic Representation in La sirena and Piel canela,” Lori B. Celaya, U of Idaho

4. “Dios, (Doña) Patria, Libertad: Black, Femme Resistance in Evaristo Angurria's Doña Patria Murals,” Gisabel Leonardo, U of Illinois, Urbana

For related material, write to mcarosi@hamilton.edu after 3 Jan.

459A.  Translingual Literacy Learning: Multimodal Reformulations, Faculty Transformation, and Community Building

10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty J, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum RCWS Literacy Studies. Presiding: Mya Poe, Northeastern U

1. “Multimodal Resemiotization: Examining One Multilingual Writer's Interactions with Equity Videos,” Emma Britton, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

2. “Translingual Realities as a Foundation for Writing Pedagogy and Assessment across the Curriculum,” Josh Lederman, Brandeis U

3. “Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences,” Jodi Berry, Jakarta Intercultural School

Saturday, 8 January 12:00 noon

460.  New Approaches to Motherhood in Benito Perez Galdos

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 16, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Association of Galdós Scholars. Presiding: Ana Mateos, Ludwig Maximilian U

1. “Playing at Motherhood: Desire, Maternity, and Performance in Fortunata y Jacinta,” Sarah Glenski, Yale U

2. “Mother as Pharmakon: Resisting the Dematerialized Maternal Ideal in Galdós's Novels,” Sarah Sierra, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U

3. “Inscribing the Imperial: An Ecocritical Reading of the Motherland and Maternity in El caballero encantado,” Lisa Nalbone, U of Central Florida

For related material, write to ana.mateos@romanistik.uni-muenchen.de after 1 Oct.

461.  Anthropology as Translation

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Cherry Blossom, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Anthropology and Literature. Presiding: Anke Birkenmaier, Indiana U, Bloomington

1. “Translation, Foreignization, and Respectability in the Global Cuban Context,” Jacqueline Loss, U of Connecticut, Storrs

2. “Amerindian and Popular Translation; or, Can There Be an Ontology of Relation?” Carlos Colmenares Gil, U of California, Irvine

3. “The ‘Atomic Age’ between the Translations of Bohemia and the Writing of Alejo Carpentier,” Reynaldo Lastre, U of Connecticut, Storrs

463.  Feeling in a New Language: Lingual Multiplicity and (Re)Mixed Identities in Poetics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Farragut North, Marriott Marquis

A special session

1. “Fragmented Identities in the Hypermodern: Poems,” Meghan Nolan, Rockland Community C, State U of New York

2. “Remix Poetix,” Daniel Dissinger, U of Southern California

3. “Poetic Memoir,” Aimee Herman-Durica, Bronx Community C, City U of New York

For related material, write to mnolan2@sunyrockland.edu after 1 Dec.

464.  Victorian Play, Delight, and Joy

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Dogwood, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C

1. “The New Geographies of Victorian Games,” Tina Young Choi, York U, Keele

2. “Nonsense, Play, and Hybridity in Colonial Indian Children's Literature,” Ashmita Mukherjee, U of Connecticut, Storrs

3. “Victorian Values: Collins and the Endless Joy of Reading Suspense,” Suzy Kim, Brown U

4. “Enjoying the Moment: Queer Delight in Victorian Fiction,” Jessica Campbell, McKendree U

5. “Floral Delights and Fun in the Fields,” Andrea Gazzaniga, Northern Kentucky U

6. “Beyond Biopolitics: Phenomenology, Pleasure, and Nineteenth-Century Habits,” Jill R. Ehnenn, Appalachian State U

Panelists present brief position papers that use playful examples to theorize the larger forces that drive understandings of geographic, sexual, or imperial Victorian identities. What is the relationship between the boundaries of joy and privacy? How might we use notions of play and delight to rethink our theoretical commonplaces about what constitutes limitation or opportunity in the period?

465.  Unexpected Bodies in Eighteenth-Century German Culture: Staging and Staring—the Politicized Body

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Independence C, Marriott Marquis

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

1. “Black Bodies and Questions of Humanity in German Abolitionist Theater,” Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni, U of Arizona, Tucson

2. “Stigma, Staring, and Celebrity in Karl Philipp Moritz's Anton Reiser,” Anna C. Spafford, Indiana U, Bloomington

3. “Defenseless, Docile, Democratic: Dramatic Bodies around 1800,” Susanne Fuchs, Wellesley C

4. “Staging the Free Seas: Kühleborn's Unexpected Body in Hoffmann's Opera Undine and Beyond,” Benjamin D. Schluter, New York U

466.  Virginia Woolf, Hope, and Wonder

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Archives, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Virginia Woolf Society. Presiding: Marlene Dirschauer, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich; Erin Kay Penner, Asbury U

1. “A Precarious Re-enchantment in Virginia Woolf's Post–World War I Fiction,” Amy C. Smith, Lamar U

2. “Terror and Ecstasy: Paradox in Virginia Woolf's Fiction,” Siân White, James Madison U

3. “Woolfian Moments of Being: To the Lighthouse and the Ethics of Epiphany,” Angela Harris, Durham U

For related material, write to angela.cat.harris@gmail.com after 1 Nov.

467V. Adaptation and Translation in Italian Culture, 1600–1900

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian. Presiding: Jonathan Hiller, Adelphi U

1. “Regeneration through Translation: Contrasting Decadence in Fin de Siècle Italian Culture,” Sara Boezio, U of Warwick

2. “Intraducibilità e omissioni della diaspora italiana: La traduzione di En la sangre di Cambaceres,” Teresiana Matarrese, California Polytechnic State U, San Luis Obispo

3. “The Copyright Revolution: Bilateral Treaties, the Berne Convention, and Nineteenth-Century Translation Rights,” Anna Lanfranchi, U of Manchester

4. “The Italian Translations of Casimir Delavigne's Marino Faliero: Reception, Ideology, and Translation,” Sergio Portelli, U of Malta

468V. Multilingual Rape Narratives: Surviving Genre

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the South Asian Literary Association. Presiding: Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M U, Kingsville

1. “‘Watch Me Reposition’ Jasmine as a Rape Novel,” Robin E. Field, King's C

2. “Priya’s Shakti: Recasting of Familiar Mythological Constructs to Criticize Rape Culture,” Nidhi Shrivastava, Western U

3. “Revisiting Bandit Queen, Fire, and Monsoon Wedding: Film and the Surviving-Rape Genre,” Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State U

469.  The Translation's Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Tulip, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese to 1900. Presiding: Glynne Walley, U of Oregon

1. “The Earliest Examples of Japanese Translation: Vernacular Glossing of Sinitic Buddhist Texts,” John Bundschuh, Swarthmore C

2. “The Ambivalent Connections between Milk and Milk Kinship in Premodern Japan,” Sachi Schmidt-Hori, Dartmouth C

3. “Transferable Merit and the Eulogizer as Translator: Vernacularization Strategies in the Kana Eulogy,” Eric Jose Esteban, Yale U

4. “The Translator's Visibility: Tanabe Seiko's Modern Japanese Translations of The Tale of Genji,” Naomi Fukumori, Ohio State U, Columbus

470.  French Drama in Context (1498–1610): Beyond Boundaries

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 14, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-Century French. Presiding: Corinne Noirot, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U

Speakers: Marcus Keller, U of Illinois, Urbana; Michael Meere, Wesleyan U; Natalia Wawrzyniak, U de Lausanne; Toby Wikström, U of Iceland

How and why are French sixteenth-century drama studies enjoying a revival while stretching traditional boundaries? Participants discuss how their research findings redefine or refine our definition of drama as a multifarious category and why there is a renewed interest in a corpus and practices that have been long disregarded.

471.  Reforming Grad School: Theories, Practices, and Goals

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 1, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Roopika Risam, Salem State U

Speakers: Leonard Cassuto, Fordham U; Benjamin Reiss, Emory U; Augusta Rohrbach, Tufts U; Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, Duke U

Respondent: Loy L. Azalia, Children's Defense Fund

Participants proceed from the twin imperatives that we must reform graduate education in the arts and sciences to meet the professional reality that our students face and that we need to assess the reforms that we attempt and share best practices (and cautionary tales) with one another.

472.  The Collaborative Turn: Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty J, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Johannes Burgers, Ashoka U

Speakers: Erica Gene Delsandro, Bucknell U; Benjamin Hagen, U of South Dakota; Laurel Harris, Rider U; Melanie Micir, Washington U in St. Louis; Jennifer Mitchell, Union C; Lauren M. Rosenblum, Adelphi U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester

Academics in 2020 and 2021 have engineered creative and generative ways to share ideas and work together: on journal articles, digital projects, or wholly new modalities of scholarly expression and interaction. Panelists explore forms of collaboration focused on the fostering of collaborative intimacy, to leverage the affordances of the pandemic moment to identify sustaining and sustainable collaborative professional practices.

473.  Handmaidens of the Patriarchy: Popular Women's Culture

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty N, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by Women in German. Presiding: Michele Chinitz, Graduate Center, City U of New York

1. “Blurring the Lines between Performance and Misogyny in Adriana Macías's Abrazar el éxito (2007),” Elizabeth Jones, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2. “Gender Ideology and Economic Reality in the Women's Magazines of Spain's First Postwar Decade,” C. J. Enloe, Duke U

3. “Reading the Exotic Woman and Feminist Advocate in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling and India Recalled,” Anwesha Kundu, Washington U in St. Louis

4. “What Vera Can Never Know,” Amy Hill, Vanderbilt U

For related material, write to didem.uca@emory.edu.

474.  Bridges: Forty Years of Queer Feminism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 12, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums TC Sexuality Studies and TC Women's and Gender Studies. Presiding: Melissa E. Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania

Speakers: Jules Gill-Peterson, Johns Hopkins U; Jennifer Nash, Duke U; Nozomi Saito, U of Pittsburgh; Simone White, U of Pennsylvania; Christine “Xine” Yao, University C London

BIPOC queer feminists reflect on the 1981 anthology This Bridge Called My Back, which offers a still timely paradigm for queer feminist theory that sees gender, race, class, and language as mutually constitutive categories, thwarting institutional divides of feminism from queer theory, literary from theoretical writing, and race from sexuality.

475.  Imagining Environmental Lineages: Swarming, Haunting, Kin

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 17, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Molly MacVeagh, Cornell U

1. “‘Ghosts of Kin’: Crip Time, Kinship, and Spectral Hauntings in Yoko Tawada's The Emissary,” Haley Eazor, U of Texas, Austin

2. “Containers of Life and Information: Bartram's Seeds and Swarms,” Sheila Byers, Columbia U

3. “‘You Are Now Hearing Recordings of a Ghost,’” Min Ji Choi, Harvard U

476.  No Justice / No Peace

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Monument, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Literature Society. Presiding: Bernadine Hernandez, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

1. “How White Liberals Learned to Read,” Joseph Darda, Texas Christian U

2. “Problematic Productivity: Reflections on Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Jungle,” Jessica Cantiello, U of Southern California

3. “Dispossession, Class Struggle, and the Early Ethnic American Novel,” Oliver Baker, Penn State U, University Park

477.  Black Resistance in the United States South

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Silver Linden, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern United States. Presiding: Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder, U of Iowa

1. “Prison Unions: Cross-Racial Resistance in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing,” Allison Harris, U of North Carolina, Wilmington

2. “‘You Don't Belie Your Name’: African American Maternity, Futurity, and Biblical Significance in Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel,” Laura Wilson, Fisk U

478.  Disability, Race, and the Politics of Care

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 15, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Davy Knittle, Princeton U

Speakers: Hyoseol Ha, U at Buffalo, State U of New York; Sona Kazemi, Mills C; Kirsten Lee, U of Pennsylvania; Sarah Orsak, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Libbie Rifkin, Georgetown U; Jess Waggoner, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Laura Westengard, New York City C of Tech., City U of New York

Panelists consider relational models of disability and histories of systemic racism to read quotidian practices of care and ask how, at the intersection of disability studies and critical race studies, care relationships between individuals are embedded in practices of identifying and resisting racialized harm.

479V. The Multilingualism of the Public Humanities

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: Araceli Hernández-Laroche, U of South Carolina Upstate

Speakers: Laura Barbas Rhoden, Wofford C; Begoña Caballero-Garcia, Wofford C; Elizabeth Coggeshall, Florida State U; Maria Francisco-Monteso, U of South Carolina Upstate; Stephanie Knouse, Furman U; Xinyi Tan, Coastal Carolina C

Explore the public humanities in our local and global multilingual communities through engagement in environmental and digital humanities, multiethnic and multiracial social-impact networks, anti-poverty activism, graduate and undergraduate mentoring for careers beyond higher education, translation, community interpreting, social justice education, K–12 outreach, and industry partnerships.

For related material, write to ahernandez-laroche@uscupstate.edu.

480.  The Auditory Diaspora: Listening to the Black and African Atlantic World

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Magnolia, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Mary Caton Lingold, Virginia Commonwealth U

1. “The Black Sounds of the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic,” Miguel Valerio, Washington U in St. Louis

2. “Experiencing Sound on African and Caribbean Shores,” Mary Caton Lingold

3. “Listening to Black Voices through Diasporic Echoes,” Sarah Finley, Christopher Newport U

Respondent: Sarah Eyerly, Florida State U

481.  Archipelagic Thinking in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Narratives

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Howard University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic and LLC Asian American. Presiding: Weihsin Gui, U of California, Riverside

Speakers: Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, U of Ottawa; Nazry Bahrawi, Singapore U of Tech. and Design; Kathleen DeGuzman, San Francisco State U; Trisha Federis Remetir, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana U, Bloomington; Cheryl Julia Lee, Nanyang Technological U; Niccolo Angelo Vitug, U of the Philippines

Panelists examine how archipelagoes and archipelagic thinking inform and create new interpretations of Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American literary and cultural narratives, discussing how archipelagic approaches complement, challenge, or depart from postcolonial, diasporic, and transpacific frameworks in their analyses of poetry, fiction, performance, and visual media.

For related material, write to weihsing@ucr.edu or harrod.suarez@oberlin.edu after 20 Dec.

482.  Afrodescendencia/Afro-descendência in Spanish and Portuguese Programs: Issues and Approaches

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Woodley Park, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Presiding: Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol, St. Olaf C

1. “Common Sense: The African Diaspora and Latinx America,” John Maddox IV, U of Alabama, Birmingham

2. “An Interculturalist, Antiracist Approach to Teaching Literature and Culture to Undergraduates,” Dawn F. Stinchcomb, Purdue U, West Lafayette

3. “Databases, Translation, and Digital Humanities: El Archivo Digital, Lugar de Memoria Afrodiaspórico,” Elena Deanda, Washington C

4. “Teaching the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean: Reconceptualizing Identity and Culture,” Jessie Dixon-Montgomery, Illinois Wesleyan U

483V. Languages of the Literary Internet

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the Electronic Literature Organization. Presiding: Alex Saum-Pascual, U of California, Berkeley

1. “Digitally Mediated Unpoetry: Augusto de Campos's Early Web Works and Beyond,” Cecily Raynor, McGill U

2. “Translating a Needful Message into One-Breath Poems,” Xtine Burrough, U of Texas, Dallas; Sabrina Starnaman, U of Texas, Dallas

3. “Code, Labor, and Poetry: A Case Study of Polish Electronic Literature,” Paulina Chorzewska, U of Warsaw

For related material, visit https://mla.hcommons.org/docs/mla-22-languages-of-the-literary-internet/ after 1 Nov.

484.  Intermediality, Identity, and Agency in Contemporary Literature of the United States

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 13, Marriott Marquis

A special session

1. “‘The Tension of Trying’: Joe Brainard's Queer Pleasures,” Jared O'Connor, U of Illinois, Chicago

2. “Contemporary Multimedia Poetry's Anti-Racist Ethics of Collaboration,” Sumita Chakraborty, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Drawing in Transition: Comics, Intermediality, and Trans Identity,” Emmy Waldman, Harvard U

Respondent: Cara Lewis, Indiana U Northwest

485.  Persian in Arabic and Vice Versa: Multilingualism in the Premodern Islamic World

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gallaudet University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Presiding: Lara Harb, Princeton U

1. “Arabic Grammar as Persianate Rhetoric of Seduction in Saʿdi's Gulistān,” Domenico Ingenito, U of California, Los Angeles

2. “Diglossia in the Eastern Muwashshaḥa,” David Larsen, New York U

3. “Persian Poetics in Arabic: The Case of Zayn al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. ca. 1297),” Avigail Noy, U of Texas, Austin

486.  Criticism Out of Time

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Marquis 9, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Marxist Literary Group and the forum TM Literary Criticism. Presiding: Melissa Macero, U of Illinois, Chicago

1. “Pandemic Untimeliness: Criticism and Its Rhythms beyond Homogenized Time,” Mathias Nilges, St. Francis Xavier U

2. “Criticism at the Ends of the Working Day,” Emily Steinlight, U of Pennsylvania

3. “Presence and Presentism: The Immediacy of Crisis Criticism,” Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago

487.  Feminisms and Social Media in the United States, Latin America, and Spain

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Mint, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Popular Culture

1. “Viral Activism against Gender Violence: From Guatemala to the World,” M. Emilia Barbosa, U of Kansas

2. “Twitter Story #TheStory by the Black Woman Writer Aziah Wells,” Daniella Gáti, Brandeis U

3. “TikTok, Feminism, and Violence: The Effect of Consuming Violence on Feminist Activism on TikTok,” Ana Cervantes, Arizona State U, Tempe

Respondent: Maria Ines Canto Carrillo, Colorado State U

For related material, write to micanto@colostate.edu.

488.  The Place of English in General Education

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Independence F, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Office of Programs. Presiding: Christine A. Wooley, St. Mary's C, MD

Speakers: David Green, Jr., Howard U; Yndalecio Hinojosa, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi; Mark Stewart Morrisson, Penn State U, University Park; Mary Shapiro, Truman State U

Panelists consider what we teach (and why and how) as part of general education programs and how we work within institutional missions and state mandates (and other external constraints) to create courses that do not just check off a box in a list of requirements or just generate credit hours or recruit majors to the humanities but that are vibrant and vital parts of students’ personal and professional development.

489V. Making Your Work Work for You: Publishing Your First Academic Article

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities. Presiding: Didem Uca, Emory U

Speakers: G. Edzordzi Agbozo, Michigan Tech U; Guangchen Chen, Emory U; Mario De Grandis, Ohio State U, Columbus; Camila Lívio, U of Georgia

Speakers share their experiences transforming graduate work into articles for publication and supporting graduate students in the publication process before joining audience members in breakout rooms for further discussion.

490.  Making Chicanx Anthologies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty K, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and Chicano. Presiding: Annemarie Perez, California State U, Dominguez Hills

Speakers: Frederick Luis Aldama, U of Texas, Austin; Hector Calderon, U of California, Los Angeles; Alicia Gaspar de Alba, U of California, Los Angeles; María Herrera-Sobek, U of California, Santa Barbara

Editors of Chicanx anthologies explore the significance of edited anthologies in developing discourse on Chicanx literature, discuss editorial processes, and share experiences of bringing anthology contributors together into a cohesive textual community.

491.  Archives and Colonial Studies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty I, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin American. Presiding: Amber Brian, U of Iowa

1. “Scattered Papers: Spanish and French Colonization of Florida (1513–66),” Romana Radlwimmer, U of Tübingen

2. “Archive, Identity, and Colonial History,” Jose Cardenas Bunsen, Vanderbilt U

3. “Embodied and Somatic Archives: The Diary of an Eighteenth-Century Mexican Nun Cook,” Daniela Gutierrez-Flores, U of Chicago

4. “Stories, Bones, Hills, and Stones: The Colonial Andean Cosmographical Archive and Nonwritten Sources,” Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla, Columbia U

492.  Thinking Catalan Culture in a Multilingual Context

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Independence A, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Catalan Studies. Presiding: Anna Casas Aguilar, U of British Columbia, Vancouver

1. “Is This Norma(l)? Linguistic Normalization Campaigns for the Preservation of Catalan,” Silvia Colás Cardona, U of Victoria

2. “The Sandals of Rosalia's Catalan Grandpa,” Eloi Grasset Morell, U of California, Santa Barbara

3. “From Rosalia to El càstig: Hybridity Catanyol in Contemporary Catalan Culture,” Isaias Fanlo, U of Cambridge

4. “Who Are Today's Other Catalans? Xarnegor and the New Transgender Space,” Ignasi Gozalo-Sallelas, Bryn Mawr C

493.  Nondualist Cosmologies of Reading

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Scarlet Oak, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Scott Maisano, U of Massachusetts, Boston

1. “Reading from the Future: Causality and the ‘Spacetimemattering’ of Shakespeare's Apparitions,” Christine Varnado, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

2. “Theorizing Fiction as a Portal to Other Worlds in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Jane Hwang Degenhardt, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

3. “Queering Causality, Temporality, Ontology, and Tradition in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials,” Lauren Shohet, Villanova U

Saturday, 8 January 12:30 p.m.

494.  MLA Delegate Assembly

12:30–5:30 p.m., Marquis 6, Marriott Marquis

Presiding: Christopher John Newfield, Independent Social Research Foundation

This meeting is only open to MLA members.

For related material, visit www.mla.org/DA-Agenda-2022 after 15 Dec.

Saturday, 8 January 1:45 p.m.

495.  New Directions in Porn Studies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Marquis 13, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American. Presiding: Mark Greif, Stanford U

1. “Dyke Aesthetics: The Politics of Style in Lesbian-Produced Pornography,” Desirae Embree, Texas A&M, College Station

2. “‘I Know It When I See It’: Looking for Ethical Production On-Screen,” Heather Berg, Washington U in Saint Louis

3. “High Fructose Sex: Race Play and Food Porn in cupcakKe's Lyrics,” Chad Frisbie, Graduate Center, City U of New York

4. “Porn as Discourse: Constructing Addiction and the New Crisis of Masculinity,” Aster Gilbert, independent scholar

496.  Multilingual Poets for a Multilingual Nation

1:45–3:00 p.m., Marquis 10, Marriott Marquis

A linked session arranged in conjunction with the Presidential Plenary: Writing Multilingual Selves (214). Presiding: Isabel Gómez, U of Massachusetts, Boston

1. “In a Word,” Dunya Mikhail, Oakland U

2. “Wrestling the Gender Monster in English and Spanish,” Achy Obejas, writer

3. “Writing in Three Dimensions: Poetry, Multilingualism, and Navigating Language's Labyrinth,” Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan U

How are poetic languages affected by multilingualism? What is the place of poetry in a multilingual commons? How does poetic form translate?

497.  Viral Memory: Digital, Global, Bodily

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence F, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Memory Studies. Presiding: Rosanne M. Kennedy, Australian National U

1. “Viral Camus: Assessing the Resurgence of The Plague in the COVID Era,” Vanessa Brutsche, U of Utah

2. “Radiant Matter: Mapping the Toxic Life of French Nuclear Imperialism,” Jill Jarvis, Yale U

3. “The Redacted Archive of Disease,” Anjuli Kolb, U of Toronto

4. “Interrupting Viral Spectatorship: Phototextual Memory and Black Insubordination in Columbian Art,” Mathilda Shepard, U of Virginia

Respondent: Vilashini Cooppan, U of California, Santa Cruz

498.  The Return to Sexology and the Futures of Queer Studies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Marquis 12, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

Speakers: Kadji Amin, Emory U; Natasha Hurley, U of Alberta; Benjamin Kahan; Joan Lubin, Cornell U; Rovel Sequeira, U of Pennsylvania

Taking stock of the recent turn in queer studies to sexology and exploring its affordances for queer theorizing both in the present and in the future, panelists assess the histories and legacies of sexology as some of the earliest historiographical research into sexuality while attending to the ways that these archives are haunted by the racist assumptions of eugenics, racial science, and histories of colonial violence.

499V. Let Your Intellectual Life Speak

1:45–3:00 p.m., Virtual

A special session. Presiding: Kieran Kennedy, independent scholar

Speakers: Angelika Bammer, Emory U; Sarah Goldberg, Columbia U; Christopher Lirette, Home Depot, Atlanta; John Murray, Trinity C, Dublin; Joey Orr, Spencer Art Museum, U of Kansas; Ian Smith, Lafayette C

This session invites a collective inquiry into the value and purpose of intellectual work, gathering together a diverse group of intellectuals, all of whom have earned a humanities PhD, to reflect on their intellectual formation. How has that formation influenced their professional lives? What kind of intellectual work gives them satisfaction today? The hope is that the resulting mosaic will illuminate the public value of our diverse labors.

500.  Some of Us Are Brave: The Editorial Theories and Practices of Contemporary Women of Color

1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty N, Marriott Marquis

A special session

1. “Intergenerational Witness as Praxis: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage and Chicana por mi raza,” Linda Garcia Merchant, U of Houston

2. “‘You Enact a Healing’: Toni Morrison and AnaLouise Keating as Editors of Posthumously Published Work,” Allison Fagan, James Madison U

3. “Editorial Humility as Inclusive Practice,” Jean Lee Cole, Loyola U Maryland

4. “Editing Chicanas: Sisterhood Is Powerful, El Grito del Norte, and Textual Community,” Annemarie Perez, California State U, Dominguez Hills

For related material, write to aperez@csudh.edu.

501.  How the French Seventeenth Century Invented (or Did Not) . . .

1:45–3:00 p.m., Marquis 14, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-Century French. Presiding: David R. Harrison, Grinnell C

1. “Old French Works in the Seventeenth Century: Discovery or Recovery?” Anton Bruder, U of Cambridge, King's C

2. “Invention and Reinvention of Sweetness (Douceur): From Guez de Balzac to La Rochefoucauld and Pascal,” Stephanie Fan, Princeton U

3. “Racine and the Reinvention of Old Testament Tragedy,” Sarah Fengler, U of Oxford

502.  Transnational-Transcultural Conrad

1:45–3:00 p.m., Howard University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Joseph Conrad Society of America. Presiding: Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser U

1. “‘Creatures of Mr Conrad’: Transcultural Being and the Art of Disruption,” Mark Deggan

2. “‘Ghostly Talk’: Joseph Conrad and the Global Plantation Complex,” Ryan Weberling, Boston U

3. “Decadent Sympathies: The Transnational Construction of Gothic Bodies in the ‘Narcissus’,” Jiwon Choi, Texas A&M U, College Station

4. “Joseph Conrad, José Rizal, and Singapore's World Literature,” Kevin Riordan, Nanyang Technological U

For related material, write to mark_deggan@sfu.ca.

503.  Truth, Trust, and Tall Tales

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence C, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature. Presiding: Christian Schneider, U Osnabrück

1. “Lies, Treason, and Crimes: The Dark Side of Premodern Literature,” Albrecht Classen, U of Arizona, Tucson

2. “Actions Speak Louder Than Words? Truthfulness of Oral and Written Communication in Mai und Beaflor,” Hannah Mieger, U Heidelberg

3. “Beyond Sexual Sin: Syphilis in Fifteenth-Century Literature,” Lea Reiff, Philipps-U Marburg

4. “‘Ein Spiel der Zeit’: On the Dialectic of Secularization in Lohenstein's Sophonisbe,” Andrew Blough, U of California, Berkeley

504.  Multilingual Folklore

1:45–3:00 p.m., Farragut North, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Folklore Society. Presiding: James Deutsch, Smithsonian Inst.

1. “From History to Lore, with Language: María de Jesús de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue,” Anna Maria Nogar, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2. “Activating Silenced Narratives of the United States Southwest in the Spanish-as-a-Heritage-Language Classroom,” Carmella Scorcia Pacheco, U of Arizona, Tucson

3. “Trilingual, Bilingual, American: Analysis of a Joke about the Multilingual United States,” James Deutsch

505.  Goethe's Forms: Whole

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gallaudet University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German and the Goethe Society of North America. Presiding: Patricia Anne Simpson, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

1. “Sounding Stones and Embodying Tones: Jean Paul's Inversion of Goethe's ‘Plastic Form’ around 1800,” Meryem Deniz, Stanford U

2. “Ritual Deformations: Goethe's ‘Roman Carnival’ and the Life of Social Practices,” Daniel Carranza, Harvard U

3. “Swamp Encounters: Epigrammatic Form in Goethe's Venetian Epigrams,” Karin Schutjer, U of Oklahoma

506.  Resistance Italy: Antiracism, Diversity, and Social Justice through Contemporary Italian Music

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence B, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Italian. Presiding: Marina Melita, Marist C

1. “Cara Italia: L'espressione dell'identità multiculturale nella musica rap e trap italiana,” Rachel Grasso, U of Toronto

2. “Black Italy: Female Empowerment in the Music of Karima 2G,” Sydney Conrad, Virginia Commonwealth U

3. “Second-Generation Italian Hip-Hop Culture and the Sounds of Social Justice,” Anthony Sargenti, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

4. “Black Italy: Creating a New Narrative through Identity,” Kwanza Musi Dos Santos, Associazione QuestaèRoma

507.  Affect and Multilingualism in the United States

1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty K, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Romanian Studies Association of America and the forum LLC Hungarian. Presiding: Martha Pereszlényi-Pinter, John Carroll U

1. “In Transit: Life on the Hyphen in Edwidge Danticat's Everything Inside,” Debarati Biswas, New C of Florida

2. “What Does the Law Make You Feel?” Szidonia Haragos, Zayed U

3. “Everyone Is a Citizen of Three Countries,” Arthur Vincie, Montclair State U

508.  Muntu Philosophy in the Multilingual Literature of the African Diaspora

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence A, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the College Language Association. Presiding: José Manuel Batista, U of North Carolina, Charlotte

1. “Cos Causse's Ontological Swerve into African Philosophical Traditions,” José Manuel Batista

2. “The New World Muntu: Rethinking the African Diaspora through Manuel Zapata Olivella's Aesthetic Work,” George Palacios, Clemson U

3. “Léopold Sédar Senghor's Black Ontology,” Guirdex Massé, Augusta U

509.  Early Capitalism and Later Formations

1:45–3:00 p.m., Cherry Blossom, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English. Presiding: Janet L. Sorensen, U of California, Berkeley

1. “Market Competition and a Covenant of Peace: Returning to Hobbes's Leviathan,” Wendy Anne Lee, New York U

2. “Ghost Metaphysics,” Scott R. MacKenzie, U of Mississippi

3. “Moving Abstractions: The Chain of Being, the Machine, and the System,” Betty Joseph, Rice U

510.  Decolonizing Collective Memory: Removal, Restitution, Repatriation

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence H, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Francophone. Presiding: Tobias Warner, U of California, Davis

1. “Decolonizing Collective Memory from Within: Rwandan Remembrance in Belgium and France,” Catherine Gilbert, Newcastle U

2. “Giving Back Colonial Films,” Rachel Gabara, U of Georgia

3. “Removing and Retelling: Representing Sciences and Collective Memory in Belgium's AfricaMuseum,” Sarah Arens, U of St Andrews

4. “‘Ni repentance ni excuses’: France's Symbolic Acts of Monumentalizing the Memory of the Algerian War,” Maria Vendetti, St. Olaf C

511.  Necessary Others, Reciprocities of Production: The Codependence of Romanticism and Realism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Mount Vernon Square, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. Presiding: Claudia Brodsky, Princeton U

1. “Shadow Realism: Chhāyāvād (‘Romanticism’) and Yathārthvād (‘Realism’) in Nirālā's Poetics,” Paresh Chandra, Princeton U

2. “The Romantic Realism of Jean Paul and Mary Shelley,” William Coker, Bilkent U

3. “Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne Revisited: Romance and Realism of German-Jewish Identity,” Susan Bernstein, Brown U

512.  (Un)Civil Humanities: The Possibilities of Public Engagement in Language and Literature

1:45–3:00 p.m., Monument, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Literature Society. Presiding: Cody Marrs, U of Georgia

Speakers: Annika Bjornson, Whitworth U; Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin C; D. Berton Emerson, Whitworth U; Holly Jackson, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Robert Levine, U of Maryland, College Park; Barbara McCaskill, U of Georgia; Annaclare Splettztoeszer, Whitworth U

Public engagement seems desirable and even necessary in the humanities. But how do language- or literature-focused humanists specifically engage the public? What is the relationship between scholarly and civic endeavors? How does pedagogy play a part? Panelists share concrete projects, reflect on the possibilities and problems of such work, and invite ideas from the audience.

513.  Teaching Latin American Hispanophone Works to Today's Students

1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty I, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Office of Scholarly Communication. Presiding: Melanie Nicholson, Bard C

Speakers: Odile Cisneros, U of Alberta; Isabel Dulfano, U of Utah; Juan G. Ramos, C of the Holy Cross; Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington U in St. Louis; Nhora Lucia Serrano, Hamilton C; Miguel Valerio, Washington U in St. Louis

What are the new ways you are teaching Hispanophone Latin American literatures and cultures to meet the needs of today's students?

514.  Democracy and Its Discontents

1:45–3:00 p.m., Archives, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-18th-Century English. Presiding: Crystal B. Lake, Wright State U; Courtney Weiss Smith, Wesleyan U

1. “On Police Ameliorationism: Eighteenth- and Twenty-First-Century Pitfalls of Reform,” Ryan Sheldon, Middlebury C

2. “Contradictory Egalitarianism in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Textual Communities,” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara

3. “Republicanism of Workers: The Democracy That Is Not Modern,” Spencer Jackson, American Federation of Teachers

4. “Vicarious Wills in Sir Charles Grandison,” Anastasia Eccles, Yale U

515.  The Special Issue and the Journal Mission

1:45–3:00 p.m., Marquis 1, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: John N. Duvall, Purdue U, West Lafayette

Speakers: Tina Yih-Ting Chen, Penn State U, University Park; Yogita Goyal, U of California, Los Angeles; Peter Lurie, U of Richmond; Carolyn J. Sorisio, West Chester U; Mari Yoshihara, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

Panelists focus on the role of the special issue in the environment of the academic journal. How do editors see the purpose and function of the special issue? What processes do editors use to determine that a special issue's topic is timely and important? How does the special issue support, enhance, or potentially reshape a journal's mission?

516V. Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English

1:45–3:00 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues. Presiding: Pamela A. Lim-McAlister, U of California, Berkeley

1. “Women of the World: Inclusive Approaches to Teaching Global Anglophone Literature,” Sara Faradji, U of Maryland, College Park

2. “Teaching Borges and Translation Studies,” Emron Esplin, Brigham Young U, UT

3. “Transfigured in Translation: Teaching Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis to a Community College Class in the United States,” Maria Shine Stewart, Notre Dame C

4. “From Greenhorns to Grown-Ups: Teaching Cortázar to AP Spanish, University, and Adult Education Students,” Pamela A. Lim-McAlister

517.  Victorians in Location

1:45–3:00 p.m., Dogwood, Marriott Marquis

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

Speakers: Alexander Bubb, U of Roehampton; Sutanuka Ghosh, Jadavpur U; Ji Eun Lee, Sungkyunkwan U; Josephine McDonagh, U of Chicago; Faith L. Smith, Brandeis U; Adrian S. Wisnicki, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

Panelists discuss Victorian studies in various locations across the globe. How might Victorian studies be differently interpreted and inflected by geospecific concerns and histories in locations such as the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, sub-Saharan Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States? How might we reconfigure Victorian studies from and through these and other locational perspectives?

518.  Border Crossings in Nabokov's Work

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence G, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. Presiding: Siggy Frank, U of Nottingham

1. “Nabokov's Failed (?) Works and How to Improve Them: Pierre Bayard's Place in Nabokov Studies,” Eric Naiman, U of California, Berkeley

2. “‘Off the Nabocuff’: Interviews, Interlocutors, and Aesthetics,” Ella Barker, U of York

3. “The Poetry of Publicity: Nabokov as Adman,” Marie Bouchet, U Toulouse Jean Jaurès

519.  Not Counting Languages: Naoki Sakai on Multilingualism and Translation

1:45–3:00 p.m., Woodley Park, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Andrew C. Parker, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

1. “Remediating and Retelling: Languaging Chinese as a Decolonial Tactic in Hong Kong,” Shuang Shen, Penn State U, University Park

2. “Uncounting Languages in Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear,” Penny Yeung, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

3. “Sawako Nakayasu's Translingual Poetics: Mouth: Eats Color and the Nonaggregate Community to Come,” Jennifer Scappettone, U of Chicago

Respondent: Naoki Sakai, Cornell U

For related material, write to andrew.parker@rutgers.edu after 15 Dec.

520.  Tactile Poetics

1:45–3:00 p.m., Scarlet Oak, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Clint Morrison, Ohio State U, Columbus

1. “Heavy Sits the Gown: Discomfort in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale and Emaré,” William Arguelles, Graduate Center, City U of New York

2. “Lacey Textures,” Elisabeth W. Joyce, Edinboro U

3. “Emily Dickinson, Anchoress,” Nicholas Hoffman, Ohio State U, Columbus

4. “The Weaver's Handshake at the Edge of the Archive,” Amy E. Elkins, Macalester C

521.  British and Dutch Women's Writing: Race, Class, and Colonialism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Magnolia, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Russ Leo, Princeton U; Melissa E. Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania

1. “Margaret Cavendish and East Indies Knowledges,” Su Fang Ng, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U

2. “Women's Writing and Race in the Dutch Republic,” Inger Leemans, Free U, Amsterdam

3. “Exploring Race, Whiteness, and Undesirability in Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,” Dennis Britton, U of British Columbia

4. “Genre, Colonialism, and White Supremacy in Lanyer, Cavendish, and Behn,” Sujata Iyengar, U of Georgia

Respondent: Nigel S. Smith, Princeton U

Leading scholars of seventeenth-century British and Dutch women's cultural production present interactive lessons that develop new knowledge of transnational dimensions in the field. Each lesson offers participants concrete knowledge and tools by which to read and teach women's writing through such international frameworks as race, class, religion, generation, sexuality, colonization, and multilingualism.

For related material, write to nsmith@princeton.edu after 1 Oct.

522V. Care in the Age of Chaucer

1:45–3:00 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum LLC Chaucer. Presiding: Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U

Speakers: Danielle Allor, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Abby Ang, Indiana U, Bloomington; Jo Nixon, U of Chicago; Annika Pattenaude, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Respondent: Sara Ritchey, U of Tennessee, Knoxville

This session addresses premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, and environmental discourses, exploring the following topics: gender, conduct, and responsibility; consolation and therapy; justice and reparation; (un)caring acts and affects; pastoral, non-Foucauldian, and Lordean paradigms; and self and community.

523V. Irreconcilable Differences in Theorizing Feminism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory. Presiding: Patrice Douglass, U of California, Berkeley

Speakers: Patrice Douglass; Linette Park, Emory U; Sara-Maria Sorentino, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Participants discuss and debate the first principles and assumptive logic of three orientations to feminist theory: Marxist, psychoanalytic, and Afropessimist. How do their divergent explanations of gender as a paradigm and mode of subjugation affect the work we do as critical theorists and as activists? How do they theorize paradigmatic violence? Are their points of convergence essential, important, or incidental?

524.  Blank Forms, Forms of Blankness

1:45–3:00 p.m., Silver Linden, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Culture. Presiding: Thy Phu, U of Toronto

1. “Free Space, Blank Time: Margins of the Book and Politics in Early-Twentieth-Century China,” Xiaoyu Xia, U of California, Berkeley

2. “Thumbing Her Nose at Meaning: Howardena Pindell's Video Drawings,” Matt Tierney, Penn State U, University Park

3. “The Brotherhood Gone Viral: Reading Invisible Man on #BlackOutTuesday,” Margarita Castromán Soto, Rice U

Respondent: Adrienne Brown, U of Chicago

525V. Black Archives and the Future

1:45–3:00 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum LLC African American. Presiding: Jervette Ward, Mississippi State U

Speakers: Shanna Greene Benjamin, independent scholar; Michelle Commander, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Meta DuEwa Jones, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jervette Ward; Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State U; Seretha Williams, Augusta U

Addressing the role of Black archives, collecting, and memory work in the production of literary texts and criticism that document Black lives and using their own research as springboards into the conversation, participants ruminate about the past, present, and future of Black archives; reflect on what archives can reveal and often obscure; and ponder the appropriate uses of critical fabulation and speculation to address archival gaps and silences.

526.  Anti-Asian Violence and Higher Education

1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty J, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Office of the Executive Director. Presiding: Yuan Shu, Texas Tech U

Speakers: Seo-Young Chu, Queens C, City U of New York; Christian Chun, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Iyko Day, Mt. Holyoke C; Tamara C. Ho, U of California, Riverside; Yuan Shu; Cynthia Wu, Indiana U, Bloomington

The March 2021 Atlanta shooting as culmination of the four thousand anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic marked a new turning point in Asian American history. What does it mean to be Asian American in a politically divided nation? Why aren't Asian Americans fully recognized in conversations about race, diversity, and equity? How can Asian American studies play an expanded role in critiquing anti-Black and anti-immigrant racism, United States neo-imperialism, and settler colonialism?

527.  Sadness

1:45–3:00 p.m., Tulip, Marriott Marquis

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

Speakers: Haiyan Lee, Stanford U; Anna Shields, Princeton U; Lisa Zunshine, U of Kentucky; Ya Zuo, U of California, Santa Barbara

Panelists explore sadness, an affective state of great theoretical significance yet one that is often addressed through periodized studies of affects like melancholy and depression. Drawing on Chinese literature and beyond, we discuss social-constructivist and physicalist views of emotion, grief's relation to ritual and genre, the gendering of sorrow, and the utility and limits of cognitive theories of emotion dominant in the new field of affect studies.

528.  Capital and Capitals in Nordic Literature, Art, and Film

1:45–3:00 p.m., Eastern Market, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Nordic. Presiding: Claus Andersen, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “The Norwegian Capital as Training Ground for the Morality of Capitalism in Hamsun's Hunger,” Mads Larsen, U of California, Los Angeles

2. “Love and the City: Habitualization of Romance in Dag Solstad's War Trilogy,” Espen Børdahl, Goethe U, Frankfurt

3. “Oslo's ‘Transtemporal’ Urbanity: Norwegian Exceptionalism in HBO's Beforeigners,” Jenny Evang, Stanford U

528A. Children's Literature Pedagogies in an Age of Misinformation

1:45–3:00 p.m., Judiciary Square, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Philip Nel, Kansas State U

1. “For the Bible Tells Me So: Adaptation Transparency in Children's Bible Texts,” Mandy Elizabeth Moore, U of Florida

2. “A Is for Antifa: Narrative Literacy, Anti-Fascist Education, and Children's Literature,” Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan U

3. “Young Adult Literature after the Subject: Making Knowledge in the Post-Truth Era,” Gabrielle (Brie) Owen, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

Saturday, 8 January 3:30 p.m.

529.  Translating Intent, Authorship, Source

3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty N, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Translation Studies. Presiding: Dima Ayoub, Middlebury C

1. “Paratextual Labor in Translation,” Dima Ayoub

2. “The Time of the Translator,” Benjamin Paloff, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Translation, Equity, and Solidarity,” Remy Attig, Bowling Green State U

4. “On Translating Woolf: The Varied Use of Copy Texts in Brazilian Editions of Her Essays,” Maria Rita Drumond Viana, U Federal de Santa Catarina

529A.  Unsettled Genealogies of Black Writing: Elizabeth McHenry's To Make Negro Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Mint, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing. Presiding: Laura E. Helton, U of Delaware, Newark

Speakers: Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia U; Frances Smith Foster, Emory U; Barbara McCaskill, U of Georgia; Jarvis McInnis, Duke U; Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton U; Jennifer M. Wilks, U of Texas, Austin

Respondent: Elizabeth McHenry, New York U

Panelists offer brief engagements with Elizabeth McHenry's To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship and reflect on her call to study the margins of print culture—from aspirational bibliographies to rejected manuscripts—as markers of Black literature's unsettledness at the turn of the twentieth century.

530.  Cultivating Collaboration in Doctoral Education

3:30–4:45 p.m., Judiciary Square, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Ruth Curry, Northwestern U; Annie Dwyer, U of Washington, Seattle

Speakers: Anna Castillo, Vanderbilt U; Kaelie Giffel, U of Washington, Seattle; Lizzie Hutton, Miami U, Oxford; Mandy Olejnik, Miami U, Oxford; Caitlin Postal, U of Washington, Seattle

Collaboration allows for the cocreation of knowledge, builds skills and capacities valuable for careers in and beyond academia, and disrupts the alienating isolation of much academic work. It also requires time, trust, flexibility—and infrastructure. How can we integrate collaboration into doctoral education? Participants share insights from programs that support collaborative teaching, writing, and professional development.

531.  Environmental Racism

3:30–4:45 p.m., Independence F, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Presiding: Teresa Shewry, U of California, Santa Barbara

1. “Environmental Racism and Environmental Unconsciousness in the United States–Mexico Borderlands,” Carlos Alonso Nugent, Stanford U

2. “Debt, Fugitivity, and Hurricanes in Lo terciario and Salvage the Bones,” Kathleen Field, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Contesting Afrofuturist Ecologies in African Literature and Film,” Lawrence Chamunorwa, Princeton U

532.  Decolonizing T. S. Eliot

3:30–4:45 p.m., Farragut North, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International T. S. Eliot Society. Presiding: Anita Patterson, Boston U

1. “The Voiced and the Unvoiced: The Colonial Project of The Waste Land,” Keith Wilson, Cave Canem

2. “‘Myrtle Always Treated Me White’: Passing through The Waste Land,” Michelle Taylor, Harvard U

3. “‘Let the Whiteness of Bones Atone to Forgetfulness’: Race and Death in Eliot's St. Louis,” Frances Dickey, U of Missouri, Columbia

533V. The Unspeaking Subject: Speech and Disability in Language and Literacy Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum LSL Language and Society

Speakers: A. Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State U, University Park; Lindsey Felt, Stanford U; Jennifer Johnson, Stanford U; Jennifer Phuong, U of Pennsylvania

Participants present scholarship that critiques the speaking subject in definitions of personhood, sociality, rights, and meaning making.

534.  Sociologies of the Global Anglophone

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 12, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Anglophone. Presiding: Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, U of Arizona, Tucson; Aarthi Vadde, Duke U

Speakers: Peter J. Kalliney, U of Kentucky; Kalyan Nadiminti, Northwestern U; Asha Rogers, U of Birmingham; Richard So, McGill U; Juliana M. Spahr, Mills C

Panelists discuss the affordances of sociological approaches to the study of global anglophone literatures. Topics include global literary institutions; state and countercultural interventions in literary culture; economies of prestige; book history, publishing, and periodical culture; corporate literary prizes; literary value and canon formation; qualitative and quantitative methods (reading vs. counting); and cultural diplomacy.

535.  Remaking Worlds: French Disability Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 15, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Disability Studies. Presiding: Tammy Berberi, U of Minnesota, Morris

Speakers: Anne-Lyse Chabert, CNRS, Laboratoire IHRIM; Cae Joseph-Massena, U of Miami; Tracy Rutler, Penn State U, University Park; Ashley Williard, U of South Carolina, Columbia

Respondent: Kaliane Ung, U of Pittsburgh

With La haine et le pardon (2005), Kristeva articulates a “democracy of proximity,” placing disability at the vibrant and interrelational center of a contemporary cultural revolution. How does French disability studies reframe revolution? How does it enable us to reimagine worlds—our histories and literatures, our teaching and programs, our relationships and institutions?

536V. Eugenics and the Body

3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

A special session. Presiding: Kim Adams, Stanford U; Mercedes Trigos, New York U

1. “Eugenics, Animality, and the Human,” Maren T. Linett, Purdue U, West Lafayette

2. “Strenuous Pleasure and the Eugenic Body: Anti-Eugenic Satires of Anita Loos,” Ewa Luczak, U of Warsaw

3. “Documenting the Weird: Narrative Form and Eugenic Anxiety in the Work of H. P. Lovecraft,” Pedro Ponce, St. Lawrence U

4. “Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic: Dramatizing Scientific Racism and Neoliberal Republican Motherhood,” Pamela Thoma, Washington State U, Pullman

537.  Black Time, Black Travel: Mobility in Black Literature and Visual Culture

3:30–4:45 p.m., Archives, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Kimberly Love, independent writer and scholar

1. “First-Class and Freight Cars: Pauli Murray and Queer Black Travel,” Miriam Thaggert, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

2. “Freedom and Its Discontents: Langston Hughes's ‘Freedom Train’ and the Black Travel Imaginary,” Michael Hall, Virginia Commonwealth U

3. “Black Transit: Post-Civil-Rights Movements in Time,” Shaun Myers, U of Pittsburgh

How have authors and artists represented the difficulties—and pleasures—of Black mobility? How have Black subjects negotiated travel in times and spaces that would contest their movement? Exploring both the metaphor and materiality of Black travel, panelists detail the aesthetic considerations of travel, temporality, and spatiality in poetry, fiction, essays, museum exhibitions, and visual media.

538V. The Dis-ease of Spirit: New Readings of Hegel

3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Presiding: Tilottama Rajan, Western U

1. “‘The Idea as the Negative of Itself’: The Sciences in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature,” Tilottama Rajan

2. “The Infectious Subject,” Rebecca Comay, U of Toronto

3. “Nature, Habit, and Second Nature: Sites of Resistance and Hindrance in Hegel's Anthropology,” Wes Furlotte, Thompson Rivers U

539V. Documenting Isolation

3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum GS Life Writing

1. “‘At the North of Nowhere’: Isolation in Amy Liptrot's The Outrun,” Laura Beard, U of Alberta

2. “The Search for an Explanation of the In-Between Self: Isolation in the Autofiction of Amit Chaudhuri,” Nakita Dass, U of New South Wales

3. “When Borders Have Walls: Refugees, Isolation, and Displacement in Contemporary Life Narratives,” Maria Lombard, Northwestern U, Qatar

4. “Exploring Personal Agency and Self-Privacy in Isolation: Women in Romanian Communist Prisons,” Simona Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza U

540.  Approaches to Teaching Liaozhai zhiyi (Liaozhai's Record of Wonders)

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gallery Place, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese

Speakers: Yun Bai, Yale U; Rania Huntington, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Xiaofei Kang, George Washington U; Peng Liu, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Tsz-kit Yim, Princeton U

Liaozhai zhiyi (Liaozhai’s Record of Wonders) is widely acknowledged as the pinnacle of the long Chinese tradition of tales of the strange. How are its varied contents best explored in the North American classroom? What challenges need to be overcome? Panelists discuss the work's religious dimensions, the typology of the strange and supernatural, and adaptations in traditional drama and contemporary audiovisual media.

541.  Medieval and Early Modern Boundary Crossings

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gallaudet University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC German to 1700. Presiding: Alexandra C. Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State U

1. “Translation as Carnival: Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung,” Brian Alkire, U of Zurich

2. “The Wolf of Gubbio—a Saint and Wolf in All of Us,” Detlev Weber, U of Washington, Seattle

3. “Bovo-Bukh: Multilingual Identities and Yiddish Romance,” Annegret Oehme, U of Washington, Seattle

4. “Defining Eternity? Jeremias Drexel's Betrachtungen von der Ewigkeit (1631) and English Translation,” Anna Murawska, U of Hamburg

542.  Pivot Points: Turns in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Woodley Park, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Texas State U; Aarti Madan, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.

1. “Emotions and the Five Senses in the Constructions of Race in the Nineteenth-Century Colombian Andes,” Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez, U of South Carolina, Columbia

2. “Soledad Acosta de Samper: The Affective Turn and Female Identity in the Nineteenth Century,” María del Pilar Melgarejo, Southern Methodist U

3. “The Audible Sublime and the Tuning of Foundational Fictions in Latin America,” Carlos Abreu Mendoza

Respondent: Dierdra Reber, U of Kentucky

543.  Multilingual and Multimedia Dante

3:30–4:45 p.m., Tulip, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Dante Society of America and the American Association for Italian Studies. Presiding: Kristina Marie Olson, George Mason U

1. “Medieval ‘Motherese’; or, The Nursery as Multilingual Space,” Julie E. Singer, Washington U in St. Louis

2. “Mediating Presence in Dante's Inferno from Silent Cinema to Virtual Reality,” Mads Larsen, U of California, Los Angeles

3. “On Making Good Use of Postmodern Versions of Dante's Epic,” Madison U. Sowell, Brigham Young U, UT

4. “The Hell Franchise: Dante's Commedia in American Marketing,” Elizabeth Coggeshall, Florida State U

544.  Teaching Tough Topics: Mental Health, Gender, and Race

3:30–4:45 p.m., Silver Linden, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Jan Balakian, Kean U

1. “Teaching Paired Texts Transhistorically,” Elizabeth Weybright, Graduate Center, City U of New York

2. “Aesthetics of the Sad Woman: Teaching Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce,” Anna Mukamal, Stanford U

3. “Reading Black American Literature as World Literature,” Anna Muenchrath, Appalachian State U

For related material, write to JBalakia@kean.edu after 1 Dec.

545.  The Life Cycle in the Afterlife of Slavery and Colonialism: New Directions in Age Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Monument, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forums TC Race and Ethnicity Studies and TC Age Studies

1. “Shelter from the Storm: Little Huts and Old Age,” Nathaniel Windon, Loyola U Maryland

2. “Colonialism and the Paces of Race,” Jacob Jewusiak, Newcastle U

3. “Age and Race,” Susan Bussey, Georgia Gwinnett C

Respondent: Habiba Ibrahim, U of Washington, Seattle

546.  Translingual Encounters: Linguistic Mobilities in Catalan and Galician Writing by Women

3:30–4:45 p.m., Eastern Market, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Galician. Presiding: Catherine Barbour, U of Surrey

1. “Rosalía's Peripheralized Romanticism, Catalonia, and the Civil Code of 1888–89,” José M. Rodríguez García, Duke U

2. “Approaches to Feminist Nations: Two History Plays by Maria Aurèlia Capmany and María Xosé Queizán,” Pilar Martínez-Quiroga, U of Illinois, Urbana

3. “Carme Riera in Self-Translation: A Poetics between Re-Creation and Effacement,” Esther Gimeno Ugalde, U of Vienna

4. “The Bodily Geographies of Najat El Hachmi's L’últim patriarca and Zadie Smith's White Teeth,” Nadiyah Aamer, U of Miami

547.  Woolf's Twenty-First-Century Academia

3:30–4:45 p.m., Howard University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Virginia Woolf Society. Presiding: Emily M. Hinnov, Great Bay Community C, NH

1. “Taking Virginia Woolf Seriously: What Do and Should We Do?” Beth Rigel Daugherty, Otterbein U

2. “Poor Queer Studies for a Society of Outsiders,” Matthew Cheney, Plymouth State U

3. “What Is a Woolfian? Teaching Woolf to STEM Students at a Regional University,” Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky U

4. “Outsider Pedagogy and Its Paradoxes,” Erin Greer, U of Texas, Dallas

For related material, write to emhinnov@yahoo.com after 31 Dec.

548.  Pandemia, enfermedad, género, activismo, producción y representación cultural en el mundo global lusohispano

3:30–4:45 p.m., Independence H, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by Feministas Unidas. Presiding: Leslie Bary, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

1. “La noticia de la epidemia como excusa para hablar de globalidad y activismo femenino trasatlántico,” Ana Simon Alegre, Adelphi U

2. “Rereading Mario Bellatin's Salón de Belleza in Times of COVID,” Aviva Kana, U of California, Santa Barbara

3. “Illness and Cruelty in Meruane and Eltit,” Dianna C. Niebylski, U of Illinois, Chicago

549.  Contemporary Biofiction: A Conversation with Colum McCann

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 5, Marriott Marquis

Participants: Michael Lackey, U of Minnesota, Morris; Colum McCann, Hunter C, City U of New York

Respondent: Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne C

Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after a historical figure, and it has been a dominant literary form since the 1990s. This public interview of Colum McCann, the author of three spectacular biographical novels, explores the way biofiction functions and signifies and why it has become such a dominant literary form over the last thirty years.

For related material, write to lacke010@morris.umn.edu.

550.  The Ends of Lusotropical Consensus

3:30–4:45 p.m., Cherry Blossom, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian. Presiding: Pedro S. Pereira, Ohio State U, Columbus

Speakers: Inês Beleza Barreiros, U Nova de Lisboa; Jorge Mauricio Herrera Acuna, Princeton U; Patricia Martins Marcos, U of California, San Diego; Francisco Pires, New York U; Vítor de Sousa, U do Minho

Panelists address challenges to Lusotropicalism by the rise of new political and cultural subjects across the Portuguese-speaking world and consider new literary voices, poetics and politics of the archive, racism, memory, and iconoclasm.

551.  Big Tent English

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 17, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English. Presiding: Natalie Katerina Eschenbaum, St. Catherine U

Speakers: Natalie Katerina Eschenbaum; Tamara Harvey, George Mason U; Mary Shapiro, Truman State U; Christine A. Wooley, St. Mary's C, MD

In recent years, English departments have been reimagined, and retitled, as English studies, literature and writing studies, international literatures and languages, global English, and more. This roundtable addresses the opportunities that come with embracing “Big Tent English,” as well as the challenges that arise in the leadership of, recruitment for, and curriculum design of these new versions of the field of English.

552.  The Biopolitics of Childhood

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 13, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Laura Soderberg, U of Southern Indiana

Speakers: Allison Giffen, Western Washington U; Manuel Herrero-Puertas, National Taiwan U; Lucia Hodgson, independent scholar; Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Texas A&M U, Central Texas; Rebecca Rosen, Hollins U; Christa Vogelius, U of Copenhagen; Mary Zaborskis, Penn State U, Harrisburg

Considering the role of childhood in state efforts to control the lives and determine the deaths of individuals and populations in the long American nineteenth century, panelists articulate how particular figurations of childhood and normative narratives of child development render individual child bodies expendable or exploitable and facilitate the differential treatment of groups along the axes of age, race, sex, and ability.

For related material, visit https://ccsproject.org/ after 3 Jan.

553.  Editing outside the Walls

3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty J, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Association for Documentary Editing. Presiding: Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown U

1. “Scholarly Editing, Bibliography, and the Edges of the Text,” Clayton McCarl, U of North Florida

2. “Documenting Disruption: Editor-Author Vision, Control, and Textual Multiplicity,” Heidi Nobles, U of Virginia

3. “Expanding Editorial Conversation: Mapping, Metadata, and Mediation in Browsing the Bookshops of Paul’s Cross Churchyard,” Mary Erica Zimmer, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Respondent: Nikolaus Wasmoen, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

554.  Frames of 9/11: Post-9/11 Literature and Culture, after Twenty Years

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 1, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Eden Osucha, Bates C

Speakers: Lopamudra B. Basu, U of Wisconsin, Stout; Aaron DeRosa, California State Polytechnic U, Pomona; Tony Grajeda, U of Central Florida; Ambreen Hai, Smith C; Peter C. Herman, San Diego State U; Shelly Jarenski, U of Michigan, Dearborn; Elizabeth J. Toohey, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York

How do we examine cultural productions engaging with the horrors of the Trump era (including the Capitol riots and pandemic) in the light of 9/11's political rhetorics and cultural concerns, including fixations with terror, trauma, and security? Participants explore how to frame post-9/11 as a temporal marker without perpetuating the hegemony of the United States or reinforcing cultural tropes and discuss how various theoretical lenses inform our pedagogy and scholarship.

555.  The Pre-Raphaelites and Print Culture

3:30–4:45 p.m., Dogwood, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the William Morris Society and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Presiding: Lise Jaillant, Loughborough U

1. “Illustrating History in The Germ,” Courtney Krolczyk, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

2. “Enigma Variations: Looking at Burne-Jones and Morris's Cupid and Psyche Prints,” Mark Samuels Lasner, U of Delaware, Newark

3. “Pre-Raphaelite Print Legacies and The Lark,” Rebecca N. Mitchell, U of Birmingham

4. “Ornamental Borders: Paratext and Imperial Britain,” Jennifer Rabedeau, Cornell U

For related material, write to florence-boos@uiowa.edu.

556.  Susceptible Subjects: Toward a Psychology of Consent under Erasure

3:30–4:45 p.m., Scarlet Oak, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature. Presiding: Natasha Hurley, U of Alberta

Speakers: Dina Al-Kassim, U of British Columbia; James Godley, Dartmouth C; Cressida J. Heyes, U of Alberta; Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth C; Melissa Wright, Barnard C

In recent news cycles, both the #MeToo movement and the escalation of extreme conspiracy theories have raised questions about experiences of regressed consent, or consent under erasure, as subjects become susceptible to sexual coercion or overtly absurd manipulations. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, presenters reflect on susceptibility and its sociopolitical implications as a condition of negated, foreclosed, or deformed consent.

For related material, visit https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/.

557.  Anti-Racist Comparison: What Is Comparison after Eurocentrism?

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 16, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Medieval. Presiding: Michelle R. Warren, Dartmouth C

1. “Anti-Racist Manuscript Studies: From Abba Garima to Lindisfarne,” Gennifer Dorgan, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

2. “Medieval Lyric Encounters: Toward New Epistemologies of the Global South,” Marisa Galvez, Stanford U

3. “Dismantling from Within: Anti-Racism and the Category of the ‘Medieval,’” Sierra Lomuto, Rowan U

4. “Comparative Literature at the Intersection: Race, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries,” Adam E. Miyashiro, Stockton U

558.  Protest Visualities

3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty K, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Culture. Presiding: Ruby Tapia, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “Sequential Sankofa: Reclaiming the Black Comix Archive,” John Jennings, U of California, Riverside

2. “Virtual Presence in the Pandemic: Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People Speak Out,” Ashley Lucas, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Avant-Garde Black Cinema and Protest Cultures,” Hayley O'Malley, U of Iowa

4. “You Weren't There: Reynaldo Rivera's Los Angeles,” Richard T. Rodríguez, U of California, Riverside

Respondent: Ruby Tapia

559.  Critiques of Neoliberalism in the Contemporary French Novel

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 14, Marriott Marquis

A special session

1. “The Infrastructure of Ontological Anxiety: Urban Movement in Les passagers du Roissy-Express,” Jason Grant, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Michel Houellebecq, Neoliberalism, and the ‘French Weird,’” Russell Williams, American U of Paris

3. “Misogyny, Neoliberalism, and the Limits of Satire,” Carole Sweeney, Goldsmith's, U of London

4. “When Care Gratitude Is Not Enough: Chanson Douce and Care Work under Neoliberalism,” Brittany Murray, U of Tennessee, Knoxville

5. “The Idea Is to Disappear: Anti-Neoliberal Utopias in Despentes and Vasset,” Joshua Armstrong, U of Wisconsin, Madison

6. “Necro-Neoliberalism in Antoine Bello's Roman américain,” Jennifer Willging, Ohio State U, Columbus

For related material, write to willging.1@osu.edu after 31 Dec.

560.  More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei and the Industrialization of Literary Work

3:30–4:45 p.m., Independence C, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German. Presiding: Petra McGillen, Dartmouth C

1. “Everyone Their Own Printer: Hektography and the Multiplication of Vielschreiberei,” Ilinca Iurascu, U of British Columbia, Vancouver

2. “Love in an Age of Vielschreiberei: Affect and Paperwork in Keller's ‘Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe,’” Malika Maskarinec, U Bern

3. “Industrial Print Culture, Precarious Authors, and the Rise of the Literary Agent,” Ervin Malakaj, U of British Columbia, Vancouver

For related material, visit http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/dnjv-w886.

561.  Ends of Satire

3:30–4:45 p.m., Chinatown, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Humor Studies Association and the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding: Maggie Hennefeld, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. “‘Maybe the Artist Is Being Literal’: The Political Present and the Betrayal of Satire,” Fabrizio Ciccone, Brown U

2. “Dead Funny: Satire and Horror,” David Gillota, U of Wisconsin, Platteville

3. “Satirizing the Colony in Han Suyin's A Many-Splendoured Thing,” Karintha Lowe, Harvard U

562.  Migrating Letters

3:30–4:45 p.m., Magnolia, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English

1. “Disrupting the Borders of Genre: Vision and (Re)Vision in Gloria Anzaldúa's Writing,” Rebeca Hey-Colon, Temple U

2. “Contra Imperium Imperatives: Poetry and Protest Culture in Nicaragua,” Alberto Castillo Ventura, Harvard U

3. “Letters, Numbers, and the Order of Language in the Literature of Translating Children,” Janet Hendrickson, U of Dallas

4. “Migrations between Russian and English: Linguistic Crossings in Brodsky's ‘Lullaby of Cape Cod,’” Dalia Mazur, U of California, Santa Barbara

Respondent: Néfer Muñoz-Solano, U of Dallas

563V. Demanding Civic Accountability through Critical Rhetorical Practices

3:30–4:45 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric

Speakers: Shenika Hankerson, U of Maryland, College Park; Temptaous Mckoy, Bowie State U; Cecilia Shelton, U of Maryland, College Park

The project of American democracy is just as linguistic and rhetorical as it is political. We explore the critical potential of Black (and other marginalized) linguistic and rhetorical practices and violence of white supremacist (and other oppressive) linguistic and rhetorical practices. Thinking across contexts of civic and community engagement (classrooms, publics, institutions), we consider the role of accountability in the American myth of democracy.

564.  Multilingualism in American Drama

3:30–4:45 p.m., Independence A, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Theatre and Drama Society. Presiding: Nicole Tabor, Moravian C

1. “‘You Can't Speak Two Languages at Once’: ASL Performance, Language, and Identity,” Daniel Ciba, Ramapo C

2. “Deaf Music Making: Performing National Identity and Decolonizing the Musical World,” Stephanie Lim, U of California, Irvine

3. “Washed in the Rain: Yiddish, Phenomenology, and Stage Directions in Indecent's Rain Scene,” Sarah Bess Rowen, Villanova U

565.  Inaugural Poetry

3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty I, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Douglas G. Dowland, Ohio Northern U

1. “Symbolic and Cultural Capital: Inaugural Poets and the State,” Amish Trivedi, U of Delaware, Newark

2. “Robert Frost's Inaugural Poem ‘Dedication’ as a Modern-Day Panegyric,” Grzegorz Kosc, U of Warsaw

3. “Distributed Blackishness: The Uses of Black American Women Poets in (Mostly White) United States Electoralism,” Micah Bateman, U of Texas, Austin

Respondent: Sheila Liming, Champlain C

565A.  Teaching World Literature during and beyond the Pandemic

3:30–4:45 p.m., Marquis 10, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the ADFL Executive Committee. Presiding: Jiwei Xiao, Fairfield U

Speakers: James Hodapp, Northwestern U, Qatar; Jina Kim, U of Oregon; Christopher M. Lupke, U of Alberta; Bala Venkat Mani, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin C; Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

The prolonged trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the spikes of racism and xenophobia in its wake have caused enormous disruption to teaching and learning. Speakers from diverse linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary backgrounds address these challenges from three sets of focuses: textual content and pedagogy, use of languages and formats of delivery, and teaching and social activism.

Saturday, 8 January 5:15 p.m.

566.  Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Apart from Emily Dickinson

5:15–6:30 p.m., Marquis 13, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Gerard Holmes, independent scholar

Speakers: Scott Ellis, Southern Connecticut State U; William Hunt, Barton C; Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Penn State U, Altoona; Martha Nell Smith, U of Maryland, College Park; Wendy Tronrud, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Cheryl Weaver, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

Thomas Wentworth Higginson is mostly remembered as a correspondent with Emily Dickinson and early editor of her poems, yet he had a long career as a clergyman, writer, editor, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights and writing. His personal relationships, writings, and behind-the-scenes activism helped shape nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Panelists seek to spark new discussion about Higginson's life and work beyond Dickinson.

567.  Romanticism and World Literature

5:15–6:30 p.m., Monument, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC English Romantic. Presiding: Orrin N. C. Wang, U of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Bakary Diaby, Skidmore C; Humberto Garcia, U of California, Merced; Olivia Moy, Lehman C, City U of New York; Kerry Sinanan, U of Texas, San Antonio; Cesar Soto, Grace C; Emily Sun, Barnard C

Panelists generate a spirited, substantial conversation about the possibilities and challenges of thinking about British Romanticism and world literature together.

568.  Extinction and Biodiversity Narratives from Local to Global

5:15–6:30 p.m., Independence F, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Timothy Sweet, West Virginia U, Morgantown

1. “The Caribbean's ‘Hypothetical’ Macaws: Recovering Extinct Species through Flemish Paintings,” Lizabeth Paravisini, Vassar C

2. “‘Of Salmons There Is Greate Abundance’: Fishing in the Time of Extinction,” John Levi Barnard, U of Illinois, Urbana

3. “‘Ninety Perfect Sealskins’: Toni Morrison's Counterhistory of Sealing,” Alison Glassie, Harvard U

4. “Gaia's Revenge,” Matthew A. Taylor, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

569.  Poetry and Sound: Beyond Voice

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gallery Place, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and Poetics. Presiding: Lucia Martinez Valdivia, Reed C

Speakers: Vivian Delchamps, U of California, Los Angeles; Elisabeth W. Joyce, Edinboro U; Cameron MacDonald, U of Toronto; Courtney Weiss Smith, Wesleyan U; Adam Zucker, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

How can readers explore poems sonically without the abstraction of a voicing subject? Exploring new approaches to nonvocal aspects of sound in poetry from the sixteenth century to the present day, each participant briefly considers a poem as a case study to prompt a wider discussion with the audience.

570.  Restarts in Seventeenth-Century France

5:15–6:30 p.m., Marquis 14, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-Century French. Presiding: Ellen Welch, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “Montaigne in Pascal: Citation as Return and as New Beginning,” Erec Koch, Graduate Center, City U of New York

2. “Hitting the Reset Button on Monarchy: Performing Reform in the Soupirs de la France esclave, 1689–90,” Kathrina LaPorta, New York U

3. “‘Writing’ the French Army: Reform and Officer Imagination in Seventeenth-Century France,” Julia Osman, Mississippi State U

571.  Our Aesthetic Contexts

5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Station, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies. Presiding: Heather K. Love, U of Pennsylvania

1. “How Loss, Lack, and Longing Shape Our Encounters with Fiction,” Cristina V. Bruns, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York

2. “When Empathy and Solidarity Are Only Temporary,” Elaine Auyoung, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

3. “Ethical Laughter in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy,” Sarah Balkin, U of Melbourne

572.  The Week of Modern Art One Hundred Years Later

5:15–6:30 p.m., Cherry Blossom, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Portuguese Studies Association. Presiding: Estela J. Vieira, Indiana U, Bloomington

1. “The Week of Modern Art: Modernos ou modernistas?” Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown U

2. “The Adequacy of Errors in Oswald de Andrade's Poetic Voyage,” Isaac Giménez, U of California, Los Angeles

3. “Bold (Broad) Brushstrokes: Women by Women and Anita Malfatti's Painterly Legacy,” Marguerite I. Harrison, Smith C

4. “Modernism's Antropofagia: Walking the Thin Line between Rescues and Abductions,” Paulo Moreira, U of Oklahoma

573.  A Method Armistice—and the Problem of Method

5:15–6:30 p.m., Marquis 16, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Aurelia Cojocaru, U of California, Berkeley

1. “Theory by Way of Historicist Formalism,” Patrick Fessenbecker, Bilkent U

2. “The Virtues of Close Reading: Ethical, Social, and Theoretical Approaches to Mallarmé's ‘Salut,’” Eric Touya de Marenne, Clemson U

3. “Fictitious Capital: Disagreement and Truth in Literary Studies,” Daniel Malinowski, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

574.  Writing Surveillance

5:15–6:30 p.m., Archives, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Humanities. Presiding: Avery Slater, U of Toronto

1. “Reading in Public: Goodreads, Canvas, and the Future of Self-Surveilling Texts,” Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida

2. “Surveilling Ourselves: Literary Form in the Age of Kindle,” Keith Clavin, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

3. “‘Under His Eye’: Surveillance in the Classroom through the Lens of Margaret Atwood,” Amanda Licastro, U of Pennsylvania

4. “Disrupting Surveillance Capitalism: William Gibson and Colson Whitehead,” Timothy Lem-Smith, U of Toronto

575V. Non-Sinitic Literatures of the People's Republic of China

5:15–6:30 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese

Speakers: Darren Byler, Simon Fraser U; Joshua Freeman, Princeton U; Palden Gyal, Columbia U; Aynur Kadir, U of Waterloo; Christopher Peacock, independent scholar; Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, Texas State U

This session interrogates the horizons and overlapping, contradictory imaginations of what can be called Chinese literature by discussing texts in Uyghur and Tibetan, both non-Sinitic languages endemic to the People's Republic of China. By putting these traditions into conversation with one another and with Sinophone literature from Xinjiang and Tibet, panelists consider their conflicts with and insights into Chinese literature, as well as its constitution.

576.  The Rising Tide of American Ethnic Climate Change Fiction

5:15–6:30 p.m., Marquis 17, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Presiding: Stella Setka, West Los Angeles C, CA

1. “Climate Change, Anticapitalism, and Antiauthoritarianism in Future Home of the Living God,” Jessica L. Maucione, Gonzaga U

2. “‘Let's Start with the End of the World’: N. K. Jemisin's Tidalectics,” Lauren Nelson, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Salvage the Bones and On Such a Full Sea: Pregnant Possibilities in Multiethnic Cli-Fi,” Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton U

Respondent: Robert Philip Marzec, Purdue U, West Lafayette

577.  Indigenous Multilingualism and Knowledge Production in Literature, Language Technologies, and Community Media

5:15–6:30 p.m., Judiciary Square, Marriott Marquis

A special session

1. “Sounds of Resistance: Language Revival and Indigenous Knowledge Production in Community Radio,” Sandra Jasmin Gutierrez de Jesus, California State U, Los Angeles

2. “Indigenous Literature and the Possibilities of Translation Exercises in Universities in the United States,” Osiris Aníbal Gomez Velazquez, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

3. “Indigenous Technologies of Communication in Colonial Mexico: Language, Orality, and Writing,” Kelly McDonough, U of Texas, Austin

4. “Digital Migrants: Textual Strategies of Indigenous Migrant Literatures,” Paul M. Worley, Western Carolina U

Respondent: Ines Hernandez-Avila, U of California, Davis

578.  The Book Lab: Material Culture, Digital Humanities, and Book History

5:15–6:30 p.m., Liberty N, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography. Presiding: Laura Forsberg, Rockhurst U

Speakers: Emily Brooks, Coastal Carolina U; Sandra Leonard, Kutztown U; Inés Vañó García, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Claude Willan, U of Houston; Kacie Wills, Illinois C

Participants demonstrate or exhibit printed or digital artifacts that illuminate the materiality, making, thinking about, or theorizing of the book as an object or the process of creating, in book history, print cultures, and lexicography. Sharing and producing artifacts is encouraged, as is audience participation.

579.  Manga's Global Influence

5:15–6:30 p.m., Independence H, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum GS Comics and Graphic Narratives. Presiding: Margaret Galvan, U of Florida; Leah Misemer, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Speakers: Ayanni Cooper, U Florida; Aaron Kashtan, U of North Carolina, Charlotte; Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, U of Oregon; Mahriana Rofheart, Georgia Gwinnett C; Junshik Yun, Brigham Young U, UT

Participants examine manga's global influence as it travels to other countries (Korea, Senegal, Canada, the United States) and is transformed by local cartoonists making new work that innovates genres and intervenes as forms of anticolonial endeavors.

580.  From Canons to Collectivities: Digital Editions and Scholarly Labor

5:15–6:30 p.m., Farragut North, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. Presiding: Elizabeth Rodrigues, Grinnell C

1. “Contributor-Editor Collaboration on ‘Microeditions’ at Scholarly Editing,” Noelle A. Baker, independent scholar; Robert Riter, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton C, MA; Raffaele Viglianti, U of Maryland, College Park

2. “Creating Collectively: DH and the Bilingual Edition of La Princesse de Clèves,” Jenifer Bartle, Wellesley C; Helene Bilis, Wellesley C; David Harrison, Grinnell C

3. “Valuing Expertise and Collaboration in Digital Editing,” Caitlin Postal, U of Washington, Seattle

581.  Linguistic Representations of Alterity

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gallaudet University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature. Presiding: Mary Hayes, U of Mississippi

1. “Speaking Sameness Alone in John Lyly's Galatea,” Gillian Knoll, Western Kentucky U

2. “Homoerotic Alterity in Self-Translation: Julien Green's Bilingual Play Sud/South,” Genevieve Waite, Graduate Center, City U of New York

3. “Gender Moves: Rhetorical Strategies in the Urdu Ghazal,” Anu Aneja, Indira Gandhi National Open U

582.  Brecht and the Police

5:15–6:30 p.m., Scarlet Oak, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Brecht Society. Presiding: Marc David Silberman, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Vasıf Öngören, Brechtian Dialectics, and Antifascism in Theater,” Ela Gezen, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

2. “On the Right to Reinterpret Silence: Richard Pryor, Police Violence, and Brechtian Technique in Glenn Ligon's 2014 Installation Live,” James Martin Harding, U of Maryland, College Park

3. “A-Effect, Police Brutality, and the George Floyd Solidarity Protests in Athens,” Christina Banalopoulou, independent researcher

583.  Streetwise: Children's Literature and Culture in the Modern City

5:15–6:30 p.m., Howard University, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Children's Literature Association and the Modernist Studies Association. Presiding: Kristin B. Bluemel, Monmouth U

1. “British Children's Classics in the Modern City: A Tale of Two Series,” Amy Webster, Bishop Grosseteste U

2. “Building a Better London,” Elizabeth West, U of Reading

3. “Modernism for Girls: Laura Riding's Schooling for Street Smarts,” Anett Jessop, U of Texas, Tyler

4. “Growing a ‘Beautiful Place’: Urban Romance of the Rural in African American Children's Literature,” Paige Gray, Savannah C of Art and Design

584.  Reimagining #MeToo in the Context of Gender and Sexual Violence in South Asian Diaspora

5:15–6:30 p.m., Liberty J, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Amit Baishya, U of Oklahoma

1. “Silenced Narratives: Revisiting Partition Novels in the Diaspora,” Nidhi Shrivastava, Western U

2. “Reading Isabel Wilkerson's Caste in the Context of Caste-Based Gender Violence,” Ruma Sinha, Syracuse U

3. “#MeToo, the Armed Forces Special Power(s) Act, Gender, and Sexual Violence in Northeastern India,” Billie (Sumitra) Thoidingjam Guarino, Jamia Millia Islamia

4. “The Other Malalas: Sexual Assault, Vulnerability, and Violence in Pakistani Televisual Narratives,” Tehmina Pirzada, Texas A&M U, Qatar

For related material, write to nshrivas@uwo.ca.

585V. Crip Time and the Tenure Clock: Disability and the Spatiotemporal Demands of Academia

5:15–6:30 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. Presiding: Petra Watzke, Kalamazoo C

1. “Where's the Affective-Labor Union? Equity for Disabled Women in Postpandemic Academia,” Christie Honore, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

2. “Disability, Emotional Labor, and the Tenure Clock,” Petra Watzke

3. “On Being an Insistently Inconvenient Thinker,” Jennifer Hoyer, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

586.  From Theory to Practice: Multilingualism in the Second Language and Teaching

5:15–6:30 p.m., Independence C, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning

1. “Creative Writing in the Multicultural Classroom: One Approach in Fostering Writing Competence,” Javier Reyes, United States Air Force Acad.; Ismenia de Souza, United States Air Force Acad.

2. “Multilingualism and the Heritage Language Classroom,” Anastasiya Stoyneva, Catholic U of America

3. “Is Africa the Future of the French Classroom?” Jonathan Haddad, U of Georgia

For related material, write to Ismenia.DeSouza@afacademy.af.edu after 15 Nov.

587.  Different Endings—Happy and Otherwise

5:15–6:30 p.m., Independence A, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Arthurian. Presiding: Jeff Rider, Wesleyan U

1. “Une Chose Andui at the Roche de Canguin: Transgressive Analogy at the End of the Conte du graal,” Paul Vincent Rockwell, Amherst C

2. “Dying Indefinitely: The Suspended Animation of Sir Tristan's Corpse,” Clint Morrison, Ohio State U, Columbus

3. “A Failed Recruitment Operation: Bredbeddle's Difference and a Vulgate Conspiracy in Sir Gawain,” Randy P. Schiff, U at Buffalo, State U of New York

4. “The Death of Geraldine Arthur and the Persistence of the Welsh Messianic Myth,” Sarah J. Sprouse, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

588.  Indigenous Literary Pedagogies: How and Why I Teach [Fill in the Blank]

5:15–6:30 p.m., Dogwood, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada. Presiding: Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason U

Speakers: Angela Calcaterra, U of North Texas; Joanie Crandalll, Yorkville U; Francisco Delgado, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York; Nicole Dib, Southern Utah U; Amber Hodge, U of Mississippi; Alyssa Hunziker, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater; Kirstin L. Squint, East Carolina U

Focusing on Indigenous literary pedagogies, panelist give lightning talks on how and why they teach particular texts, writers, genres, questions, ideas, contexts, and methodologies before inviting audience members to share their teaching ideas, strategies, and questions.

589.  Lectura Boccaccii, Day Nine

5:15–6:30 p.m., Tulip, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the American Boccaccio Association. Presiding: Susanna Barsella, Fordham U, Bronx

1. “A Night of Intrigues, Dreams, and Sleepwalking: Deception and Illusion in Decameron IX.6,” Simona Lorenzini, Yale U

2. “The Tale of Two Ceccos: Decameron IX.4,” Patrizio Ceccagnoli, U of Kansas

590.  The Waste Land at One Hundred

5:15–6:30 p.m., Treasury, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International T. S. Eliot Society. Presiding: Anthony Cuda, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

1. “Burying the Dead: The Waste Land as World Elegy,” Jahan Ramazani, U of Virginia

2. “Longing, Dying: Emily Hale, Isolde, and Nietzsche in The Waste Land,” Aakanksha Virkar, Brighton U

3. “The Waste Land and T. S. Eliot's Poetics of Antiprovincialism,” Wei Liu, U of Virginia

4. “Eliot and the Contemporary,” Christopher Paul Bush, Northwestern U

591.  Multilingual Roots, Multilingual Identities: Romanian Language Justice in North America

5:15–6:30 p.m., Independence G, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the Romanian Studies Association of America. Presiding: Simona Livescu, U of California, Los Angeles

1. “ARCS (Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists) Advocacy for Heritage Language Education and Cultural Diversity,” Otilia Baraboi, U of Washington, Seattle; Ileana Marin, U of Washington, Seattle

2. “Hostile Archives: Toward a Polyphonic Reading Practice,” Cristina Vatulescu, New York U

3. “Learned Societies and Languages of Justice,” Simona Livescu

Respondent: Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic U

592.  Aesthetics of Neoliberalism

5:15–6:30 p.m., Mount Vernon Square, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC West Asian. Presiding: Shir Alon, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. “The Politics of Time in Gamal al-Ghitani's Post-Infitah Novels,” Mohamed Ben Hammed, Columbia U

2. “Performing the Divine Scenarios: Neoliberal Formations and Transformations of Islamic Theater in Turkey,” Gamze Tosun, Kadir Has U

3. “Farrukhzad's Ghost Haunts Neoliberalism in Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights,” Thomas Thompson, U of Colorado, Boulder

593.  Faulkner and the Multilingual

5:15–6:30 p.m., Liberty K, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the William Faulkner Society. Presiding: Laura Wilson, Fisk U

1. “Archipelagic Faulkner,” Joanna Davis-McElligatt, U of North Texas

2. “Voluntary Ignorance of Language: The Intentional Unhearing of Nancy Mannigoe,” Laura Stiffler, U of Rhode Island

3. “Geologic Umbilicals: The Problem of Unity in Faulkner's Cosmopolitan Fiction,” Bernard T. Joy, U of Glasgow

4. “‘Maybe She Cant Speak English’: Quentin Compson and the Threat of Multilingualism,” David McWhirter, Texas A&M U, College Station

594.  Speculative Adaptations of Blackness

5:15–6:30 p.m., Liberty I, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding: Rebecca A. Wanzo, Washington U in St. Louis

1. “Full Circles: Race and Gender in Lovecraft Country,” Kinitra Brooks, Michigan State U

2. “Regina King, Subversive Masking, and the Making of Sister Night in HBO's Watchmen,” Kimberly Nichele Brown, Virginia Commonwealth U

3. “Dark Laughter: Satire in African American Speculative Television,” Brandon Manning, Texas Christian U

595V. How to Organize a Union: Challenges and Strategies

5:15–6:30 p.m., Virtual

Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council. Presiding: Samer Mahdy Ali, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Speakers: Eva Cherniavsky, U of Washington, Seattle; Michael Dreiling, U of Oregon; Deepa Kumar, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Charles P. Toombs, San Diego State U

For decades, humanities labor has been under structural pressures that threaten tenure, academic freedom, and basic work conditions. Led by experts—academics and organizers—this session seeks to stimulate discussion and knowledge sharing about union organizing and collective bargaining as a grassroots response, spotlighting future-oriented practical advice for empowerment and solidarity.

596.  Reclaiming Time: Gender, Narrative, and Strange Temporalities

5:15–6:30 p.m., Chinatown, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Presiding: Tara MacDonald, U of Idaho

1. “Formation Stories and Refusals of Narrative Form,” Joanne Freed, Oakland U

2. “Marian Erle's Ghost: Temporal Exclusion in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh,” Angela Du, U of Toronto

3. “Temporalities beyond Transition: Narrative Times in Contemporary Trans Novels,” Chiara Pellegrini, Newcastle U

597.  Why the Black Baptist Minister, Novelist, Publisher, Orator, and Educator Sutton E. Griggs Matters Now

5:15–6:30 p.m., Silver Linden, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: John Gruesser, Sam Houston State U

Speakers: Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin C; John Ernest, U of Delaware, Newark; Maria Giulia Fabi, U of Ferrara; DeLisa Hawkes, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Michael Winship, U of Texas, Austin; Autumn Womack, Princeton U

Why do Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933) and his five novels matter today? Participants include editors of Griggs's work, an editor of the book series Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture, an expert on the history of the book, a scholar whose work engages lynching's afterlives, and the author of a forthcoming literary biography of Griggs.

598.  Translation and Archipelagic Thought

5:15–6:30 p.m., Marquis 12, Marriott Marquis

A special session. Presiding: Susan Gillman, U of California, Santa Cruz

Speakers: Vilashini Cooppan, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia U; Susan Gillman; Brian Russell Roberts, Brigham Young U, UT; Gayle Rogers, U of Pittsburgh; Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

In 1996 Édouard Glissant wrote, “La traduction est . . . une des espèces parmi les plus importantes de cette nouvelle pensée archipélique” (“Translation is . . . among the elements most essential to this new mode of archipelagic thought”). Glissant becomes a starting point for thinking of translation and archipelagic thought as intertwined. What is the relation between archipelagic relationalities among islands and translational relationalities among languages?

For related material, write to brianrussellroberts@byu.edu after 1 Nov.

599.  Valuing the Digital Now: Building an OER Infrastructure

5:15–6:30 p.m., Magnolia, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology

Speakers: Molly Campbell, U of New Hampshire, Durham; Matthew K. Gold, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Krista Jackman, U of New Hampshire, Durham; Eliseo Jacob, Howard U; Robin Miller, Graduate Center, City U of New York

The pandemic has prompted a renewed interest and awareness in using open educational resources (OER) but not an increase in their use. Panelists discuss developing and supporting the institutional and technical infrastructure necessary for robust access to building and implementing OER at a wide variety of institution types.

600.  Teaching the Cultures of Portuguese-Speaking Countries

5:15–6:30 p.m., Eastern Market, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Presiding: Marcus V. C. Brasileiro, Utah State U

1. “Emotions and Subjective: History of Emotions and Teaching Portuguese Language,” João Marcos Copertino Pereira, Harvard U

2. “O uso da música em contexto de sala de aula no ensino do português avançado e da cultura dos países,” Nuno Brito, U of California, Santa Barbara

3. “Partner Language Exchange and Partner Culture Exchange,” Renato Alvim, California State U, Stanislaus

4. “Literature and Translation Studies in Portuguese: A Case Study,” Manaíra Athayde, U of Coimbra; Marcus V. C. Brasileiro

For related material, write to marcus.brasileiro@usu.edu.

600A.  Conflict and Contradiction: Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Language Justice, and Institutional Priorities

5:15–6:30 p.m., Mint, Marriott Marquis

Program arranged by the forum HEP Community Colleges. Presiding: Simon Abramowitsch, Chabot C, CA

1. “Hope and Innovation for the Community College Writing Classroom in the Age of White Supremacy,” Indigo Eriksen, Northern Virginia Community C

2. “Bridging the Gap with Third-Space English: Communal Learning through Anti-Racist Curriculum,” Rachel Brooks-Pannell, Columbus State Community C, OH; Whitney Larson, Columbus State Community C, OH

3. “Anti-Racist Writing Assessment and Language Justice in Writing across the Curriculum Programs,” Melissa Dennihy, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York

4. “Cultivating Anti-Racist Pedagogy through Student Reporting and Media Literacy,” Elizabeth J. Toohey, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York

Saturday, 8 January 7:00 p.m.

601.  MLA Awards Ceremony

7:00–8:30 p.m., Marquis 5, Marriott Marquis

Presiding: Barbara Fuchs, U of California, Los Angeles, MLA President

1. Barbara Fuchs will announce the newly elected honorary fellows.

2. Christopher John Newfield, Independent Social Research Foundation, MLA First Vice President, will present the William Riley Parker Prize; James Russell Lowell Prize; MLA Prize for a First Book; Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize; Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; Morton N. Cohen Award; MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition; 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 Slavic Languages and Literatures; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies; Lois Roth Award; William Sanders Scarborough Prize; MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; Matei Calinescu Prize; and MLA Prize for an Edited Collection.

3. Paula M. Krebs, MLA, will announce the MLA International Bibliography Fellowship Awards.

4. Paula M. Krebs will present the seal of approval from the Committee on Scholarly Editions.

5. Paula M. Krebs will present certificates to the recipients of the MLA Humanities Innovation Grant.

6. Paula M. Krebs will present the MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize.

7. Gina L. Greco, Portland State U, and Michael Long, Baylor U, ADFL Copresidents, will present the ADFL Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession to Charlotte Ann Melin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

8. Remarks by Charlotte Ann Melin.

9. Natalie Katerina Eschenbaum, St. Catherine U, ADE President, will present the ADE Francis Andrew March Award to Michael Bérubé, Penn State U, University Park.

10. Remarks by Michael Bérubé.

Saturday, 8 January 7:15 p.m.

Adaptation Studies and Translation Studies Forums Cash Bar

7:15–8:30 p.m., Scarlet Oak, Marriott Marquis

University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature Reception

7:15–8:30 p.m., Tulip, Marriott Marquis