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The Modern Language Association of America LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German (D061) Forum is seeking a new Forum Committee Member to take up the role for a five-year term starting in 2027. We would particularly welcome applications from…[Read more]

This panel series seeks to examine Holocaust literature, broadly defined, by p…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

We hope this message finds you well. As we continue to grow and expand our community, we are excited to reach out to our 70 members of the MLA LLC Italian American Forum. Your participation and insights are invaluable, and we aim to create a vibrant and dynamic space for dialogue and collaboration.

We are keen to hear your thoughts…[Read more]

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one of the…[Read more]

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure of…[Read more]

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right reader[s…[Read more]

CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more]

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]

Dante’s Echoing Woods in Renaissance Pastoral
During the last year of his life, while working on the final cantos of the Paradiso, Dante penned two Latin eclogues in reply to Giovanni del Virgi…[Read more]

As a member of the MLA Irish LLC, I am writing to begin a discussion about the way that the Irish forum could be most useful for your work and engagement. What kinds of posts, links, or connections would you like to see here? How can we best use this forum to connect with each other and encourage community building and…[Read more]