Program

220: Afterlives of the Enlightenment: Speculation

Participants: Natania Meeker, Nicholas A. Rennie, David Alff, Alex Solomon, Kiel Shaub, Lise Gaston

222: Activist Imagination: Speculative Fiction for Decolonial Futures

Participants: Alexis Lothian, Lauren J. Lacey, Sarita O. Mizin, Elizabeth C. Brown, Rebecca Wilbanks

224: Romanticism Now I

Participants: Elizabeth Fay, Thora Brylowe, Timothy P. Campbell, Eric M. Eisner, Anne McCarthy, Catherene Ngoh, Brian Rejack, David Sigler, Andrew Warren, Chris Washington

226: Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly

228: Reading beyond Realism: The Politics of Style in Nineteenth-Century United States Fiction

Participants: Laura Fisher, Cherene Monique Sherrard-Johnson, Justine S. Murison, Dana Seitler, Arielle Zibrak

230: Transacting Comparative Studies with Other Disciplines and Units

Participants: Jonathan Abel, Thomas Oliver Beebee, Stiliana Milkova, Alfred J. Lopez, Susan Naomi Bernstein, Ian James, Radhika Koul

232: Transatlantic Transactions: The Impact of World War II on Conceptualizing Renaissance and Early Modern Literature in Rosemond Tuve, Erich Auerbach, and Antonio Gramsci

Participants: Russ Leo, Martin Elsky, Jane Ogden Newman, Rocco Rubini

234: The Persistence of Boethius

Participants: Kenneth Hawley, Ana Cristina Celestino Montenegro, Albrecht Classen, Sherif Abdelkarim

236: American Regionalism beyond English

Participants: Agi Legutko, Sylvia Veronica Morin, Diana Clarke, Adam Nemmers, Erin Faigin

238: The Female Quarreler in Seventeenth-Century France

Participants: Helena Taylor, Chloe Hogg, Lewis Seifert

240: Celebrating Doris Lessing’s Centennial

Participants: Cornelius Collins, Kevin Brazil, Tonya Krouse, Josna Rege

242: Textual Transactions in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Era and Beyond

Participants: Tara Green, Dean Casale, Wenwen Guo, Rachel Heffner-Burns, John Wharton Lowe

244: Edith Wharton’s Sense of Time

Participants: Melanie V. Dawson, Lynn Wardley, Anna Girling, Myrto Drizou, Donna M. Campbell

246: New Nuclear Criticism

Participants: Jada Ach, Bradley J. Fest, Jessica Hurley, Kristin George Bagdanov, Kyoko Matsunaga, Frances Ferguson

Lives of Literature editors (JSTOR)

248: Science and Literature: Publishing, Editing, Theorizing Science and Writing

Participants: Pamela K. Gilbert, Elspeth Green, Joshua Galat, Kari Nixon

250: Cartography of the Sacred

Participants: Joshua Pederson, Simone Pinet, Kurt Spellmeyer, Randa El Khatib

252: Unthinkable Presents: Modernism’s Science Fictions

Participants: Gerry Canavan, Kate Marshall, Paul March-Russell, Sierra Senzaki, Kate Perillo, Patrick Whitmarsh

254: Stepping Stones and Stumbling Blocks: Reflections on Service Learning and Community Engagement in First-Year Writing Pedagogy

Participants: Amanda Athon, Kerri Morris, Brad Smith, Laura White

256: Empirical Approaches to Narrative

Participants: Sven Strasen, Matthew Jockers, Rosamond Thalken, Paul Sopcak, Jan Alber

258: Southern Foodways: Textual Transactions and Regional Food Writing

Participants: David A. Davis, Katharine A. Burnett, Carrie Tippen, Psyche Williams-Forson, Tyler Bunzey

261: Models of Caregiving

Participants: Margaret Boyle, Emilie L. Bergmann, Elena Casey, Victor Sierra Matute, Emily Tobey

263: Donne in Space

Participants: Kader Hegedus, Piers Brown, Heather Dubrow

265: Blackness in Convergence and Tension with Jewishness in Contemporary Art and Literature

Participants: Rachel Garfield, Brett Ashley Kaplan, David Brauner

267: Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian Literature

Participants: Jonathan Abel, Haerin Shin, Jennifer Dorothy Lee

269: Globalizations before 1700: German Responses

Participants: Alison Beringer, Christopher Hutchinson, Marie Helen Klaiber, Peter A. Hess

271: Spanish and Portuguese for Specific Purposes in the Twenty-First Century: Engaging the Humanities

Participants: Sheri Spaine Long, Mary K. Long, Maria J. Maddox, María Luisa Ortega Hernández, Megan Jeanette Myers

273: The Future of Scholarly Journals

Participants: Helena Gurfinkel, Sandra M. Gustafson, Nancy Armstrong, W. J. T. Mitchell

275: Résumé Workshop

Participants: Jennifer Furlong

277: Critical University Studies and Postcoloniality

Participants: Samantha Pinto, Anne W. Gulick, Agata Szczeszak-Brewer, Cóilín Parsons, Raphael Dalleo, Sushmita Sircar, Matthew H. Brown, Neville W. Hoad

279: Theater as Communication

Participants: Anja Mueller-Wood, Anne M. Furlong, Shiladitya Sen, Jeremy Scott, Jonathan Fitchett

281: Textual Transactions of Native Literary Pedagogy

Participants: Christopher Pexa, Phillip Round, Becca Gercken, Eric Gary Anderson, April J. Anson, Dan Radus

Exploring Senior Leadership Positions

282: Adaptation before Cinema: Textual Transactions, Narrative Extensions

Participants: Lissette Lopez Szwydky, Luca Zipoli, Angelina Del Balzo, Yuki Morioka, Danielle Hart, Glenn Jellenik

284: Post-critique and the Profession

Participants: Peter Lurie, Christopher Looby, Pardis Dabashi, Bruce W. Robbins

286: Teaching the Global Middle Ages

Participants: Susan Jeanne Noakes, Geraldine Heng, Jonathan Hsy, Monica Green, Wan-Chuan Kao, Adam E. Miyashiro, Su Fang Ng

288: “Fiction Is Powerful Truth”: Truth, Power, Ethics, and Response-ability in Indigenous Narrative

Participants: Christopher Gonzalez, James Donahue, Heather McCracken, Nicole Dib

290: Gender and Governance

Participants: Noah David Guynn, Andrea W. Tarnowski, Jacqueline Victor, Deborah McGrady