[MLA 2026] Family Ghosts Panel

deadline for submissions: 
March 20, 2025
full name / name of organization: 
Joe Larios
contact email: 

For this panel, the phrase "family ghosts" is to be understood broadly. What does it mean to have family ghosts? What does it mean to be haunted by them? And who or what is haunted? Is family itself the ghost that haunts all of us? In what sense are we all haunted by family? These are just a few opening questions to consider this idea of family ghosts.

A brief bio and a short abstract (200-300 words) is requested by 3/20.