The MLA's forum on African American Literature invites proposals for two sponsored panels about African American Literature and the digital humanities for the 2023 Modern Language Association convention: https://bit.ly/3uGl1WH 

Encoding Blackness: Black Digital Literary Practices

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022

We seek to continue conversations about the ways that Black "sousveillance" impacts Black readers and writers. Key questions for this panel include: How do technologies of surveillance affect Black literary and reading practices? Please send a 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Kristin.moriah@queensu.ca by March 15.