MLA2026: "Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities"

deadline for submissions: 
March 15, 2025
full name / name of organization: 
MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies
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The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on "Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities." We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are contributions that address: the epistemological shifts prompted by the "global turn"; the integration of non-European perspectives into traditionally Anglo-centric narratives; the material and digital infrastructures enabling globally oriented research; and the tensions between local and global methodologies. How have global approaches transformed our understanding of canonical texts, cultural movements, religious and economic networks? What are the institutional and pedagogical implications of decentering England in seventeenth-century studies? How might we productively navigate between different scales of analysis? How can we develop more nuanced frameworks that capture the complex interplay between global connections and local specificities? Please send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios to Carmen Nocentelli (nocent@unm.edu) by March 15, 2025.