Call for Papers: MLA 2027 - Los Angeles

The William Morris Society in the United States is soliciting proposals for two panels at next year's MLA (January 7-10, 2027 in Los Angeles). You are warmly invited to submit proposals for either session. Please submit your proposals to the email addresses listed with each CFP. Submissions must be received by March 15.

William Morris, Labor & the Nineteenth Century

We invite papers that draw on William Morris’s socialism to examine nineteenth-century labor and craft practices, as well as the work of successors in Britain and elsewhere. Please submit 300-word abstracts and 2-page CVs.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Jennifer Rabedeau, Cornell University (rabedeau@cornell.edu) Jesse Cordes Selbin, Gettysburg College (jcordess@gettysburg.edu)

Follow this link to the CFP posted on the MLA website.

Financial support may be available from the William Morris Society in the United States for a speaker without institutional funding. If you would like to be considered for funding, please notify the session chairs when you submit your paper proposal.