Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 6 - 9, 2025

This panel deliberates on the relationship between literature, radicalism, and resistance that offer concrete or imaginative mappings in the liberation of humans and counteract the multifaceted power of oppressive systems (visible, invisible, or imagined) and despotic bodies (physical, social, governmental, or body politics). This panel invites submissions that investigate theoretical works of scholars in the areas of revolutionary thinking and resistance, such as Judith Butler’s “subversive bodies,” Michel Foucault’s radical thinking about Western civilization and its strategic ways of normalization and control, CLR James critical thinking related to American renegades, Talal Asad’s radical critique of secularism, Frantz Fanon’s notion of revolutionary violence and liberation, and Edward Said’s notion of resistance literature, among others. This panel also encourages submissions on literary texts from British Literature, American literature, and Global Anglophone literatures that either derive insights from above-mentioned scholars or engage in conversation of radicalism and activism in some form or shape. 

Please submit an abstract (300 words max.) and a brief bio via NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21323 by September 30, 2024

For Questions/Queries, please reach out to Muhammad Farooq, Seton Hall University, at farooqm2@shu.edu