Dear readers,
I write from the San Francisco airport, the second of three legs of my trip from Hawai’i to Austin from the annual meeting of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). With nearly a thousand different panels and presentations to choose from, here is my personal list of talks I want to grab between meetings with colleagues and job interviews. (Speaking of: if you are interested in the latest numbers on tenure-track hiring in the humanities, check out the MLA’s report of last year’s numbers, out last week, here.) I plan to be blogging panels I end up attending using the conference hashtag #mla16 at @ElizETavares.
Hope to see some of you there!
Elizabeth
Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future
Of primary concern:
- Actor and Audience Bodies in Early Modern Theatre (Sun 8:30AM): #s720
- Editing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: The Digital Phase (Thurs 5:15PM): #s147
- Edward II on Place and in Time (Fri 3:30PM): #s389
- Pedagogical Shakespeare: Text, Performance, and Digitalization (Sat 1:45PM): #s591
- Preconvention Workshop for Job Seekers in English (Thurs 11:45AM): #s3
- Scales of Time and Shakespeare (Fri 8:30AM): #s228
- Shakespeare and Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Reading Publics (Thurs 3:30PM): #s90
- The Pedagogy of Global Medieval Performance (Thurs noon): #s6
- Theatre and Its Publics in Shakespeare’s London (Sat 8:30AM): #s465
- (Up)Staging the Law (Sat 8:30AM): #s453
- What’s Next? EEBO (Early English Books Online) in the Public Domain (Fri 1:45PM): #s333
Early Modern English Literatures:
- Affect Theory and Early Modern Passions (Thurs 1:45PM): #s53
- After Sovereignty (Thurs noon): #s33
- Early Modern Books in Place (Fri noon): #s283
- “Ecology” and the Early Modern: Animals, Plants, and the Environment in Seventeenth-Century England (Thurs noon): #s18
- England and/in/or Europe: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives (Thurs 5:15PM): #s131
- John Milton: A General Session (Sat 5:15PM): #s671
- Lawfully Donne (Fri 1:45PM): #s359
- Literature and Cultures of Credit in Early Modern England (Fri 10:15AM): #s270
- Mediating Early Modernity (Fri 10:15AM): #s278
- Poetry and Performance (Thurs 1:45PM): #s43
- Renaissance Queenship (Sun 10:15AM): #s770
- Spenser and “the Human” (Sun 10:15AM): #s756
- Suspicious Salvation in Early Modern England (Sat 3:30PM): #s621
- The Allure of Catholicism in Early Modern English Literature (Sun noon): #s787
Medieval English Literatures:
- Becoming Human: Medieval (Sat 1:45PM): #s594
- Chaucer and His Publics (Sat 5:15PM): #s669
- Cosmopolitan Chaucer (Thurs 1:45PM): #s71
- Medieval (Non)Human Contagion (Sun 10:15AM): #s760
- Medieval Transfeminisms (Sat 8:30AM): #s477
- Medievalist Poetry Reading (Sat 3:30PM): #s620
- Middle English Economics (Fri 5:15PM): #s435
On the academy:
- Early Modern Teaching in the Digital Age (Thurs 7:00PM): #s173
- Graduate Student Writing Pedagogies (Thurs 7:00PM): #s170
- Salaita, Academic Freedom, and the Question of Palestine: Where Do We Go from Here? (Sat 8:30AM): #s458
- The Business of Publishing Scholarly Journals (Sat 10:15AM): #s491
- The Lore and the Lure of the Academic Job Market (Sat noon): #s542
- The Myth of Post-canonicity: Early Modern Women Writers (Thurs 3:30PM): #s92
- The Presidential Address (Fri 6:45PM): #s440
Of personal interest:
- Beckett and Surrealism (Thurs 5:15PM): #s127
- Bernard Shaw and New Media (Thurs 3:30PM): #s85
- Cavell and Close Reading (Sat 5:15PM): #s652
- Caviar or Marmalade? Reassessing Noel Coward (Thurs noon): #s9
- How Did Shakespeare Influence Karl Marx? (Sat 5:15PM): #s656
- “Imagined” Performance Contexts in Medieval Persian Literature (Sat 1:45PM): #s606
- The Scottish Fetish: Beyond the Kilt (Sat 8:30AM): #s470