MLA Call for Papers

Vancouver, Canada
January 8-11, 2015

Austin, Texas
January 7-10, 2016

Theme: Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future
Who is the public for literature? This question is foundational to the work we do and to the state of our discipline and profession. Literature as a cultural category and a human activity, the place of literary studies in the humanities, the composition of the academic workforce, the Common Core State Standards Initiative—all these issues concern the MLA and involve a notion of our public.

Durham, NC
November 13-15, 2015