Disability and Hierarchy

deadline for submissions: 
March 16, 2026
full name / name of organization: 
Modern Language Association: Committee on Disability Issues
contact email: 

For the 2027 Modern Langauge Association Convention, the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession welcomes papers about:

  • disability restricting ascent within social or academic hierarchies
  • anti-hierarchical thinking in literature portraying disabled people
  • representations of disabilities according to an imagined hierarchy

Please submit a 300-word abstract and CV to: Cassandra.falke@uit.no