[Lynn Wolff]

Please consider submitting an abstract to the session The Holocaust in a Global Context at the MLA conference, taking place January 8–11, 2026 in Toronto. Submissions are due by March 15, 2025. This session is organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum.

This panel series seeks to examine Holocaust literature, broadly defined, by placing it in a global context, considering questions of canonization, circulation, translation, and remediation. We are particularly interested in examining the ways in which Holocaust literature can be considered a global literary system. As opposed to approaching Holocaust literature via genre conventions or national languages, we seek to highlight the various networks of connection across this category. Starting from an expansive understanding of literature to encompass various multimodal forms, we would like to explore how texts come to be understood as Holocaust literature and the role that literary scholarship plays.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• the Holocaust as a heterogenous set of events across an expansive geographical scope and how these factors influence literary production and reception
• (belated) translations and uneven publication histories across different languages and locations
• the development of a discourse around the Holocaust and new understandings of Holocaust literature within a broader global context
• visual culture and visual language in Holocaust literature and graphic narrative
• documentary film, archival footage, and animation in relation to Holocaust literature
• remediation of testimony in and testimonial function of literature

 

Submission guidelines:

Please submit 300-word abstracts and a short bio to Lynn L. Wolff (lwolff@msu.edu) by March 15, 2025. If your proposal is accepted, you must be an MLA member by April 7, 2025.

 

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