MLA 2026: Early Modern Women's Violence
deadline for submissions:
March 15, 2025
full name / name of organization:
Cynthia Nazarian / CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern
contact email:
The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they figure women’s force, resistance, criminality, self-harm, vengeance, etc.? How do cultural forces shape and respond to these portrayals? Please email a short CV and 200-word abstract to nazarian@northwestern.edu by March 15, 2025.