The 2027 MLA Convention will be held from January 7th-10th in Los Angeles, CA.  

The conference year, 2027, marks the centenary of two momentous events in T. S. Eliot’s life: his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism and his naturalization as a citizen of the United Kingdom. Accordingly, The International T. S. Eliot Society invites papers for their affiliated panel at the 2027 MLA conference on the broad theme of Eliot’s transitions: his engagements with or contributions to ideas, narratives, and metaphors of conversion, transformation, identity, migration, and pilgrimage; his place in the many transitions of twentieth-century literary and intellectual history; and, of course, these two major transitions in Eliot’s biography, how they shaped his work, and what new archival sources including the Emily Hale letters might have to say about them. Submissions around this theme are appreciated, but any and all topics related to Eliot will be considered.

For those interested, please submit your abstract, along with a brief biographical note, to Harrison Glaze at Harrison_Glaze1@baylor.edu by Sunday March 29, 2026.