The LLC African American Forum and The College Language Association invite abstracts for a panel at the MLA Convention (January 8-11, 2026 in Toronto, CA). The proposed panel, "A Light on the Lesser Known: Black Writers and their Work," will explore understudied and underdiscussed writers, or understudied and underdiscussed works by well-known authors, within the Black Literary Tradition.

Please email abstracts (250 words) and bios (150 words) to McKinley E. Melton (meltonm@rhodes.edu) by Friday, 21 March 2025.

Please note: accepted panelists will need to be active members of both MLA African American Forum and the College Language Association by April 1, 2025.