MLA 2027: Connectivity Across Landscapes: Writing Together With the Natural World
In the collective global imaginary, humans seemingly write the world in isolation. We dictate the climate, biodiversity, and natural resources but we also control the ways in which the world is perceived through literature. This roundtable considers how literature is a co-constitutive process written through connectivity across time and space, landscapes, species, environments, and voices by humans and more-than-humans. Drawing on ecopoetic discourses on Patricía Vieira’s zoophytography theory, we invite proposals for a roundtable discussion that explores connectivity and co-writing among and between humans and more-than-humans across time and space, examining questions of landscape and species connectivity, posthuman being, and non-human voices in literature. Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief bio to Kate Ostrom (keho@umich.edu) and Jace Jung (jacejung@umich.edu) by 25 March 2026.