UMD English at MLA 2024

English faculty and graduate students will present recent research at the 139th Modern Language Association's Annual Convention in Philadelphia.

Faculty and students presenting current research include GerShun Avilez, Aaron Bartlett, Kimberly Anne Coles, Annemarie Ewing, Julius Fleming, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Rebecca Liu, Natalie McGartland, Melanie Rio, Jeannette Schollaert, Fatima Seck and Orrin N. C. Wang. See below for a list of forums, special sessions, and other session types featuring UMD English department members and other scholars from UMD.

DAY 1: Thursday, 4 January 2024

Showing Up with Color and Rhythm: The Persistence of Contemporary Senegalese Women Artists in Music
Fatima Seck
Presentation
Marriott - Franklin 6 (Level 4)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/24535

William Galperin’s Romanticism: Critical Double Takes
Featuring Orrin Wang
Session
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/17038

Envisioning Citizenship in Indigenous Periodicals
Annemarie Ewing
Presentation
Loews - Washington B (3rd Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/24347

Agriculture, Culture, Permaculture: From the Enlightenment to the Enlivenment
Josh Alvizu
Presentation
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25002

The Use of Epideictic Rhetoric in the Funeral Orations of the Italian Renaissance
Joseph D. Falvo
Presentation
Marriott - Franklin 4 (Level 4)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25541

Rebellious Affects: Black Joy, Pleasure, and Happiness as Counterabjection
Featuring William Mosley
Session
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Loews - Congress B (4th Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/16898

DAY 2: Friday, 5 January 2024

Reading Generative AI: Theory, Data, Critique
Featuring Matthew Kirschenbaum
Session
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Loews - Jefferson (3rd Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/18158

From Slavery to ‘Free Labor’: On Narratives of Transition in Nineteenth-Century Asian Indenture
Rebecca Liu
Presentation
Marriott - Franklin 9 (Level 4)

African American Literature: Plotting a Way Forward
Julius Fleming Jr.
Session
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Loews - Congress C (4th Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/18032

We Need to Talk about Rape Culture: Spenser, Donne, and the Politics of the Epithalamion
Kimberly Anne Coles
Presentation
Loews - Commonwealth B (2nd Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/24174

DAY 3: Saturday, 6 January 2023

Toward a Coolie Class Consciousness: Boundedness and Repetition in the 1876 Cuba Commission Report
Rebecca Liu
Presentation
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/24673

Reconceptualizing Colonialism in Postcolonial South Asia
Tapaswinee Mitra
Session
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/17920

Finding the Earthly Paradise: Radical Futurity in William Morris
Aaron Bartlett
Presentation
Loews - Commonwealth A2 (2nd Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23605

Just in Time: Literature and Large Language Models: Where Are We Now?
Featuring Matthew Kirschenbaum
Session
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Marriott - 309–310 (Level 3)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/18506

Haunted Objects in Post-45 Literature
Featuring Jeannette Schollaert
Session
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Loews - Congress A (4th Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/17321

Energy: The Labor of Mining, Magic, Water, and Poesie
Julie Koser
Session
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Marriott - Franklin 1 (Level 4)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/17447

Being with Kevin Quashie: A Meditation on Black Words and Works
GerShun Avilez
Session
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Loews - Congress C (4th Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/16679

DAY 4: Sunday, 7 January 2024

Makerspace Pedagogy in the Humanities
Natalie McGartland
Presentation
Loews - Congress B (4th Floor)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25501

Care in Early Modern Literature: Practices and Possibilities
Melanie Rio
Session
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/18033