[Jonathan Hiller]

Dear Colleagues,

The LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th Century Italian Forum is pleased to invite submissions for two guaranteed panels and one non-guaranteed roundtable for the 2024 MLA Conference (Philadelphia, Jan. 4–7).

The deadline to send your abstracts to the panel organizers is March 22, 2023.Thank you for considering and we hope to see you in Philadelphia!

1) Intersectional visions of italianità and race

This panel invites papers that explore how depictions of race and racialized difference inform the concept of what it means to be Italian in literary texts from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Jonathan Hiller, Adelphi University (jhiller@adelphi.edu)

2) Celebrating disability in Italian texts from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century
This panel invites papers that explore how 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century Italian literary texts engage with disability in its various forms. Papers engaging with texts that challenge the stigmatization of disability are particularly welcome.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Rachel A. Walsh, U of Denver (rachel.walsh@du.edu )

And the following non-guaranteed roundtable:

Pedagogies of race/alterity in Italian StudiesThis roundtable invites short papers that share strategies of inclusivity in the Italian Studies classroom. Intersectionalities of ethnicity, gender, race, and sexuality, the transnational Mediterranean, and multilingualism in a (Post)Colonial framework are particularly welcome.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Clorinda Donato, CSULB (clorinda.donato@csulb.edu)

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