MLA 2022 CFP: Afrosouthernfuturism and the Black Speculative Arts

Recently scholars have begun to explore how black artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers construct blackness, black embodiment, and black experiences in the speculative arts. Indeed, as Isiah Lavender III has argued, “one might argue that chattel slavery is an apocalyptic e…[Read more]

For MLA 2022:

Subaltern Souths

2022 MLA Convention

Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022

In her contribution to Keywords for Southern Studies (2016), Shirley Elizabeth Thompson contends that southern studies would benefit from “more precisely articulating the disruptive knowledge of subalterns.” This panel seeks to continue this work by problem…[Read more]

The attached documents provide a list with links to the 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels.

Hello Everyone!

I currently chair the executive committee of the LLC Southern US Forum and am seeking feedback from our membership. Our forum hasn’t been particularly active in the MLA Commons, and I am currently completing a report for the MLA, one of the goals of which is to find out what would make the Commons more useful for our purposes.…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

CFP: New Media and the U.S. South [Edited Collection]

Proposals Due May 1, 2018
Editors: Gina Caison (Georgia State University), Lisa Hinrichsen (University of Arkansas), Stephanie Rountree (Auburn University)

We are seeking inventive work from scholars in a variety of fields for an edited collection that will examine the role of new media in…[Read more]

Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Biennial Conference
Austin, Texas
15-18 February 2018
South By and By

The Society for the Study of Southern Literature will mark its 50th anniversary in 2018 with a biennial conference, “South By and By,” at the University of Texas at Austin. With its proximity to a number of borders—including the U…[Read more]

The members of this forum will need to elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]

The Revolution(ary) South

Across its history, the South, broadly conceived, has been the site for numerous revolutions and revolutionary ideas. These moments have been classified under many headings, including but not limited to: rebellion, insurrection, and protest. This panel invites papers that interrogate these revolution(ary) Souths as…[Read more]