This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies. Papers may address writing and publishing in carceral settings; representations of racializing logics of carceral regimes; aesthetic representations of the spacetimes and sensoriums of incarceration; abolitionist imaginaries; cognitive maps of intersections between infrastructures of migration and detention; cultural consequences of geographies and political economies shaped by mass incarceration; media, genre, and public sphere considerations of cultural expression within carceral contexts; and other topics that investigate cultural responses to modern infrastructures of incarceration.

Questions about this proposed panel may be sent to David Sherman, organizer (davidsherman@brandeis.edu); please email abstracts (300 words) and brief bios by March 20.

Conference information is available here: https://www.moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2025/CFP/