UMD English at MLA 2021
January 06, 2021
University of Maryland faculty and graduate students will present recent research on a variety of topics at the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting from January 7-9, 2021.
The 2021 convention (#mla21) will take place online January 7-10. The presidential theme for the convention is Persistence. Faculty and graduate students presenting current research include Peter Mallios, Julius Fleming Jr., Kimberly Anne Coles, Chad Infante, Martha Nell Smith, John Macintosh, Marina del Sol, Kellie Robertson, James Rankin, Orrin Wang, Sangeeta Ray, Lee Konstantinou, Jeffrey Moro, Melanie Rio, Jeannette Schollaert, Dominique Young, Liam Thomas Daley, Andrew Ferguson, Valérie K. Orlando, Charlee Bezilla, and Maria Beliaeva Solomon.
Thursday, 7 January:
- “My Splendors Are Menagerie”: The Persistence of Emily Dickinson’s Voice in Art Forms Other Than Literature: Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau, Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau, George Boziwick, Martha Nell Smith, Maria Ishikawa and Sandra Runzo
- The Violence of Abstraction: John Macintosh
- Comparativism Now: Faulkner, Conrad, and Weak Theory: Peter Mallios and Taylor Hagood
- Black Time Studies: Theoretical Applications and Interrogations: Julius Fleming Jr.
- Transnational Perspectives on Early Modern Race: Melissa E. Sanchez, Toby Wikström, Dennis Britton, Urvashi Chakravarty, Kimberly Anne Coles, Mélanie Lamotte, Noémie Ndiaye, and Ashley Williard
- Why Teach Protest Literature? Clement Akassi, Marina del Sol, Maria Beliaeva Solomon, Trimiko Melancon and Daiana Nascimento dos Santos
- Planetary Conrad Peter Mallios and Mark Deggan
Friday January 8
- Medieval Abstraction: Julie Orlemanski, Danielle Allor, Clint Morrison, Matthew Boyd Goldie, Kellie Robertson, and Michelle Ripplinger
- Black Queer Feelings: La Marr Bruce
- Shakespeare, Identity, Aesthetics: Race, Genre, and Disability Kimberly Anne Coles, Amrita Dhar, Royce Best, Justin Shaw, Deyasini Dasgupta, and Kyle Pivetti
- Poetics of Persistence in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead: Perspectives on the Thirtieth Anniversary: James Rankin, David L. Moore, Penelope Kelsey, Joni Adamson, and Antonio Barrenechea
- Romantic Futures: Elizabeth Fay, Orrin N. C. Wang, Manu Samriti Chander, Colin Jager, Atesede Makonnen, J Yoon Sun Lee, and Elizabeth Effinger
Saturday January 9
- The Persistence of Comparative Literary Studies: Sangeeta Ray, Sadia Abbas, Andrea Bachner, Eleanor Kaufman, Gavin Walker, Poulomi Saha, Sonali Thakkar, Sandra L. Bermann
Sunday January 10
- Race and Performance after Repetition: Shane Vogel, Erica Edwards, Julius Fleming Jr., Alexandra Vazquez and Douglas Jones Jr.
- Contemporary Autofiction: Ralph Clare, Timothy Bewes, Lee Konstantinou, Annabel Kim, and Ellen Lee McCallum
Research presentations:
Thursday 7 January
- Murdering Masculinity: On Bessie Smith in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman Chad Infante
- The Violence of Abstraction in Helen Phillip’s The Beautiful Bureaucrat: John Macintosh
- Time Is a Difference of Pressure: Breath-Critical Approaches to Environmental Media Studies: Jeffrey Moro
- Daggers of the Mind: Trauma and Madness in Macbeth: Melanie Rio
Friday 8 January
- Homegrown Technologies of Abortion: Botanical Abortifacients and Undue Burdens in the Late Twentieth Century: Jeannette Schollaert
- Black Visual and Affective Witnessing: The Persistence to Survive in Set It Off: Dominique Young
Saturday 9 January
- King Arthur for Renaissance Humanists: Thomas Hughes and the Crisis of Arthurian History: Liam Thomas Daley
- Glitch, Malfunction, and the Breakdown of Narratypicality: Andrew Ferguson
- Transcultural and Borderless in the Post-francophonie: The Works of Wajdi Mouawad and Louis-Philippe Dalembert: Valérie K. Orlando
Sunday 10 January
- ‘Making Kin’? Family and Fraternité in the Novels of Rétif de la Bretonne: Charlee Bezilla
- ‘For the Pleasure of Young Girls’: Horror in the French Romantic Era: Maria Beliaeva Solomon