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edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social
Global Wharton!!!
Come join us for a guaranteed session at MLA 2026.

#MLA2026 #EdithWharton #Academicsky #AmericanWomenWriters #modernism #lit #ww1
Call for Papers: Global Wharton Papers might consider: • Wharton’s representations of international settings • Cross-cultural influences in Wharton’s writing • Wharton and the questions of imperialism and colonialism • The global dimensions of Wharton’s social critiques • Translations and adaptations of Wharton's works in different cultural contexts • Global politics in peace and conflict via Wharton’s war writing • Wharton’s contemporary relevance in a globalized world • Comparative studies between Wharton and other global authors We welcome proposals for individual papers from established and emerging scholars, independent scholars, graduate students, and contingent faculty. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract and a one-page CV by 3/15 to Arielle Zibrak azibrak@uwyo.edu.
February 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social
Just a quick reminder that the proposal deadline for our D. H. Lawrence session at #MLA2026 (Toronto) is approaching (3/17/25!)⏰

Be in touch with Ben @bdavidhagen.bsky.social (contact detail below) if you have questions about this session or need another day or two to put together a proposal.
dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Feb 11
For next year's #MLAConvention in Toronto, DHLSNA's panel will focus on 'D. H. LAWRENCE AND ANIMALS'. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

See our CFP here:
Call for papers of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America's session at the 2026 MLA Convention. Theme: Lawrence and Animals.
March 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
ryancordell.org
This #mla205 thread & the responses to it led to some productive chats with @leoflores.bsky.social & this panel for #mla2026 -seeking proposals "balancing critical AI scrutiny with student-centered approaches to foster AI literacy in education"—abstracts due in 1 week mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
March 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
bjschreier.bsky.social
How many of my friends are boycotting and/or not going to #mla2026 on account of politics?
January 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
Would anyone be interested in a session proposal for #MLA2026 revolving around Lost and Haunted Media? A colleague and I at W&M are considering proposing a session on the topic. If there is enough interest we will properly draft something up!
December 30, 2024 at 12:59 AM
amandalicastro.bsky.social
Two CFPs for #MLA2026 from the committee on Libraries and Research, "Collections as AI data?" and "Book Bans and Censorship in Academic Libraries," now up on the Library Writer’s Blog: librarywriting.blogspot.com/2025/03/cfp-... 📚 #GLAM #DH
CFP: Libraries and Research Forum of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, Ontario, Canada - January 2026)
The Libraries and Research Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes submissions to its two proposed panels at the   Modern Language...
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March 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
erikekman.bsky.social
We still have one slot open for the #MLA26 #MLA2026 session New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies, sponsored by the LLC Medieval Iberian forum. Papers on any aspect of medieval Iberian studies are welcome.

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Presentation: New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (2026 MLA Annual Convention)
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March 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
Our @eliterature.bsky.social #MLA26 #MLA2026 session on open source and alternative genAI is still accepting abstracts through March 10th - guaranteed session, please ping me if you have questions!
anasalter.bsky.social Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Feb 25
The @eliterature.bsky.social #MLA26 session call focuses on "Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI" and using digital humanities and electronic literature as tools for building critical AI literacy outside of mainstream and edtech platforms. Call here: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
Session: Electronic Literature Organization (2026 MLA Annual Convention)
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March 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
rebeccaingram.bsky.social
Deadline at the end of this week! #foodstudies #MLA2026 #pedadogy #globalhispanophone
rebeccaingram.bsky.social Rebecca Ingram @rebeccaingram.bsky.social · Feb 3
We welcome your proposals for a #roundtable on #FoodStudies Pedagogies and the #GlobalHispanophone.

Eugenia and I are delighted to work with Víctor Sierra Matute (@sierramatute.bsky.social) and the Global Hispanophone Forum for #MLA Toronto.

Detailed cfp in the first message. Send your proposals!
Listing of the two panels sponsored by the MLA forum on the Global Hispanophone for the Toronto MLA in 2026: Food Studies Pedagogies and the Global Hispanophone; Encounters between Catalan Studies and the Global Hispanophone.
March 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
latinopolicyforum.bsky.social
Want to be the first to know more about our Multicultural Leadership Academy? Fill out our interest form!

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July 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
robnguyen.bsky.social
The Adaptation Studies forum is soliciting proposals for the following panels for #MLA2026, due this Friday, March 15. Please reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to reading about your work!
#MLA2026 Calls for Papers. Submissions due 15 March 2025. ‎Adaptation and Opposition through Comics How do comics adaptations riff on, rewrite, or supplant canonical works and literary forms? Why are resistant adaptations often perceived as a threat? Submit 300-word abstract and bio. Sponsored with Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum. Robert Nguyen, Lycoming College [nguyen@lycoming.edu](mailto:nguyen@lycoming.edu) Qiana Whitted, University of South Carolina [whittedq@mailbox.sc.edu](mailto:whittedq@mailbox.sc.edu) Adapting Race How do filmic adaptations convey, obscure, and transform racial meanings? How does race, as a social construct and strategy of biopolitical control, adapt within different social and aesthetic contexts? Submit 300-word abstract and bio. Arianna James, University of Pennsylvania [aqjames@sas.upenn.edu](mailto:aqjames@sas.upenn.edu) Bad Adaptations This roundtable seeks speakers exploring “bad” adaptations. How should we evaluate unusual or unconventional adaptations either aesthetically and/or in the context of teaching? Submit 300-500-word abstract and bio. Bishoff. Sponsored with Screen Arts and Culture Forum. Leah M. Anderst, Queensborough Community College [leah.anderst@gmail.com](mailto:leah.anderst@gmail.com) Nayoung Bishoff, The George Washington University [nayoung.seo@gwu.edu](mailto:nayoung.seo@gwu.edu)
March 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
amandalicastro.bsky.social
CFP for #MLA2026
Should libraries provide collection data to generative AI companies? Should libraries restrict access to web scraping? What impact will these decisions have on access, research, privacy, and information literacy? Guaranteed panel. 350 words. #GLAM 📚
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Call for Papers: Collections as AI data? (2026 MLA Annual Convention)
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March 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
elikaortega.bsky.social
It's March 12 and I don't have any MLA2026 commitments for the first time since like 2010.
Hit me up if you think I'd be a good addition to your panel or round table.
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
ssag.bsky.social
Hello all! MLA acceptances are rolling out. If you are comfortable with your presentation/panel being shared on social media, please let us know so we can advertise it here. We would like to have a resource to locate other gothicists in Toronto.

#SSAG #MLA2026 #GothicLit #MLA
May 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social
Deadline extension! Thanks to those who reached out - we've decided to extend the submission deadline to next Monday, 24 March!

Interested in Lawrence and animals? Why not draft an abstract and join our panel at #MLA2026 in Toronto! More details👇
dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Mar 15
Just a quick reminder that the proposal deadline for our D. H. Lawrence session at #MLA2026 (Toronto) is approaching (3/17/25!)⏰

Be in touch with Ben @bdavidhagen.bsky.social (contact detail below) if you have questions about this session or need another day or two to put together a proposal.
dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Feb 11
For next year's #MLAConvention in Toronto, DHLSNA's panel will focus on 'D. H. LAWRENCE AND ANIMALS'. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

See our CFP here:
March 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
francantero.bsky.social
Call for Papers! Join us at #MLA2026 in Toronto for the session Republican Radical Poethics in Exile. We seek papers on exile, radical poethics, and literary resistance. Submit your proposal (500–700 words) by March 25 to fran.cantero@rutgers.edu #CFP Modern Language Association
March 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
revkilljoy.bsky.social
Exciting news—I’ll be presenting my first academic paper at MLA 2026 in Toronto in January!

“Sherlocke Holmes, Consulting Alchemist” explores how stories travel and transform, blending creative writing with scholarship.

Grateful to all who’ve supported this journey!

#MLA2026
#TransformativeWork
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September 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
xineyaophd.bsky.social
#MLA2026 #MLA26 19th Century American Forum Guaranteed Panel: RESOLUTION!!!!!!

A roundtable to protest MLA’s R2025-1 suppression: discussions on how to organize, teach, research nineteenth-century American literary studies with a commitment to staying and fighting

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Please share and submit! RESOLUTION!!!!!!! To protest MLA’s R2025-1 suppression this guaranteed roundtable organized by LLC 19th Century American Forum welcomes discussions on how to organize, teach, research nineteenth-century American literary studies with a commitment to staying and fighting. A failed resolution =/ lack of resolve. Approaches could include critique of interlocking settler colonial regimes, transnational Indigeneity, genres of protest, Palestine in the long nineteenth-century imagination, traditions of Jewish advocacy for social justice, affect studies, racial capitalism… Please send a few sentences about your potential contribution and a short bio by March 28 to Xine Yao christine.yao@ucl.ac.uk. Please share and submit! On behalf of the executive committee of the MLA Forum on Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, I am sharing our CFP for our guaranteed panel at MLA 2026 in Toronto. This follows the MLA for Justice in Palestine group’s suggested action to commit to thematically address the MLA’s compromise of academic freedom and member governance in the 2026 guaranteed panels. A good report can be found here of the walkout at the MLA delegate assembly: https://www.commondreams.org/news/mla-bds?fbclid=IwY2xjawH43LVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHY65E9MIPFVag5l57vg6bkejpv9MS7wYoiJ2jGMUVdQS6drWtBDmf4lCvg_aem_IsYgXeF2XbqzoIde_qlHwg Rebecca Colesworthy has written a good breakdown of the various events that led to the actions at NOLA in former MLA President Chris Newfield’s blog: https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/01/resigning-from-and-to-mla-guest-post.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawH43QpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW0_XpoxV3bagQElrZF0Fl3TurZW9IHmSJ51FQOOxWjnZ5Aj_-L8XWlkpQ_aem_oRqR2c4gm89eLKhZytEQKw&m=1 In solidarity, Xine
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ryancordell.org
But he also can’t escape his own training & the limits it puts on his imagination—even when he recognizes that’s what happening.

That’s my theory—look for the paper at #mla2026 I guess. I’ll be taking no further questions at this time.
January 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
lajsa.bsky.social
🚨 CFP: Jewish Writing, Dictatorship & Democracy ✡️🗳️ #MLA2026 (Toronto, Jan 8–11)

✍️ 250-word abstract + 50–75-word bio
📩 slerner@fandm.edu
⏳ Deadline: March 25, 2025
March 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
chantyhouse.bsky.social
CFP: Fractured Families in Larry McMurtry for an #MLA2026 panel. I'm happy to accept submissions on his other novels too! #CFP #CFP2026 #MLA2026
March 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
fuscowrites.bsky.social
Hi everyone, I'm organizing a session about Film as Film History for the MLA's Screen Arts and Culture Forum (a guaranteed session for the 2026 MLA). #filmstudies #MLA2026

Please consider and circulate: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
Call for Papers: Film as/and Film History (2026 MLA Annual Convention)
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February 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
bradleyfest.bsky.social
Great to hear that a panel and a roundtable were both accepted for #MLA2026. I'll be presenting things from the last chapter of my in-progress book on megatexts: the physicality of the comics megatext and the Krakoan era of The X-Men.
May 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social
2025 is an excellent year for Wharton scholarship, if nothing else. We have upcoming panels at:
ALA in Boston May 21-24
SSAWW in Philadelphia Nov 6-9
and in 2026 . . . MLA in Toronto Jan 8-11

stay tuned for more details!

#academicsky #ssaww #mla #ala #mla2026 #ssaww2025
April 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
kathylubey.bsky.social
CFPs for Restoration/Early 18th C forum are up for #mla2026: Up Close and Literary, and Political Imperatives. Propose your papers--and please share!
February 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM