Deadline approaching: CFP for MLA 2027

[Kamens, Edward]

The Executive Committee of the MLA’s Japanese literature 1900 Forum announces a call for papers for a panel to be presented at the January 2027 MLA conference in Los Angeles, as follows:

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We invite case studies of work in emergent areas of our discipline such as, but not only, literary Sinitic across the span of pre-1900 literary history; Korea-Japan exchanges and interfaces; performance studies (as distinct from theatre history and text-based work per se); Japanese literature as a multilingual space; and the shift toward intermediality (beyond “text and image” dynamics) in studies of early modern print media. Are these shifts “emancipatory” for the field and those who work in it?

Note:  The Presidential Theme for the 2027 conference is “Emancipatory Narratives.” Please see https://www.mla.org/Events/2027-MLA-Convention/Presidential-Theme-for-the-2027-Convention.  However, abstracts need not address this theme directly.

To submit an abstract for consideration for selection in this panel, please navigate to: 

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Session24226.html

Abstracts should be clear statements of the topic and its relevance to this CFP, and should be no longer than 300 words. Deadline for submission  is March 23, but earlier submissions are encouraged. 

Abstracts and questions may be sent directly to Ed Kamens (Edward...@yale.edu and/or Erin Brightwell (elbr...@umich.edu)