Soliciting participants in a roundtable reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of teaching literature online. The discussion will focus on topics such as teaching close reading, fostering community, and asynchronous discussion and synchronous online meeting tools. Please submit a brief description of experiences and innovations in teaching literature online in synchronous and/or asynchronous modalities. Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, 1/5/23 - 1/8/23

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022

Julie Wilhelm, National University (jwilhelm@nu.edu )

Speculative fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate not totally free of the specter of history but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. If the weight of history has and does manifest itself in violence, both physical and otherwise, then the question of autonomy is central, for violence is perhaps the most basic violation of the individual and the communal.

This week-long workshop will bring together both critical and creative writers to support one another in the development of new written work across a wide range of “popular” genres, forms and approaches. “Genres Against the Market” aims to foster a temporary community to encourage radical writers to explore new methods for reaching unconventional audiences toward a critique of economic limitation and possibility. Leaving aside the familiar form of the conventional academic essay and monograph, we aim to host a gathering to explore how radical ideas that challenge reigning forms of social and economic power can be expressed and broadcast using “popular” formats of writing.