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MLA 2027: Infrastructure and Culture in Los Angeles

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Lauren White / University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 8, 2026

This MLA special sessions panel invites papers on literary and cultural approaches to Los Angeles infrastructure, aimed at interrogating the political aesthetic of social, natural, and built environments. Please send a 250 word abstract and short bio. 

2027 MLA Convention: January 7-10 in Los Angeles (accepted presenters must be MLA members by April 1)

 

MLA 2027: The Arctic Imaginary: Extraction and Empire

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Patrick Vincent
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

We invite papers on the literature of the Arctic. Especially welcome are proposals on texts and authors that connect the Arctic to contemporary issues of extractivism, securitization, and imperialism. Please send a 250-word abstract and short bio.

5th IRW CFP: "Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance," Buenos Aires, Argentina August 5-7, 2026

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
International Rhetoric Workshop
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 21, 2026

5th IRW Theme: “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance.”

Submission Deadline (250-word abstracts in English or Spanish): March 21, 2026

Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/IRW-Submissions

The Planning Committee for the 5th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop invites international PhD students, emerging scholars, and established researchers to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making.

Hemingway and Disability

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Hemingway Society for 2027 MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
Los Angeles
JANUARY 7-10, 2027

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

 

Hemingway and Disability

 

Refugees, Migration, and Displacement in Literary Narratives from Global South

updated: 
Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 11:25am
Dr. Shubhanku Kochar (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) and Dr. Tanu Priya (Christ University)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Special note for the contributors:

 

  1. Please focus on the text that represents migration from the Global South to the Global North.

  2. The text under consideration should be published after 2000, though it can focus on migration that happened at any time in history.

  3. Please take a minimum of one and a maximum of two migration/refugee narratives for analysis.

  4. Please mention within the abstract the theoretical background clearly that one wants to apply.

  5. The text under consideration should be either written in English or translated into  English.