UMD at MLA 2018

 

8: Modos infinitos de narrar: Homenaje a Ricardo Piglia

Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Laura Demaria, U of Maryland, College Park
 

24: Administering Feminism: Leadership, Activism, and Diversity
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Sheri Parks, U of Maryland, College Park

30: Late-Nineteenth-Century Panics
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Edlie L. Wong, U of Maryland, College Park

57: Activism in the Humanities: Digital Projects for Public Engagement
Thursday | January 4, 2018 | 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Purdom Lindblad, U of Maryland, College Park

62: Music Human and Nonhuman before the Phonograph
‘I Am Small, like the Wren’: Emily Dickinson's Selected Birdsongs
Gerard Holmes, U of Maryland, College Park
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM

70: The Circuitous Path into Higher Administration
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
William A. Cohen, U of Maryland, College Park

134: Gender and the Language of Business / the Business of Language
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Individual and Collaborative Responsibility for Women’s Job-Finding Work in Outplacement
Oliver Brearey, U of Maryland, College Park

 

139: Jin Ping Mei in Context: Approaches to Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Presider: Andrew Schonebaum, U of Maryland, College Park

 

178: Beyond Materiality in Shakespeare Studies
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Withholding the Loved Boy
Presider and Speaker: Scott A. Trudell, U of Maryland, College Park

 

January 5, 2017
 

237: The Matter of Writing
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 10:15 PM – 12:00 PM
Shirley Wilson Logan, U of Maryland, College Park

 

258: Questioning Precarity in the Global South
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 10:15 – 11:30
Who is Precarious Now?
John Macintosh, U of Maryland, College Park

 

261: New Directions in Multiethnic American Literature
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Black Soldiers as Suffering Heroes: The First World War, Racial Melodrama, and African American Citizenship
Blake Wilder, U of Maryland, College Park

 

284: Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Randy Ontiveros, U of Maryland, College Park

 

295: Yiddish and the Political
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Neoconservative Yiddish Scholarship
Adi Mahalel, U of Maryland, College Park

 

304: Activist Infrastructures: Vulnerable Collections and Minimal Computing
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Take Only Data, Leave No Footprints
Jeffrey Moro, U of Maryland, College Park

 

318: Keywords for Today and the Keywords Project
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Kellie Robertson, U of Maryland, College Park

 

339: Biography, Race, and Nineteenth-Century American Culture: Challenges, Methods, and Goals
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Carla L. Peterson, U of Maryland, College Park

 

399: Writing AIDS in the Twenty-First Century
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Presider: Martha Nell Smith, U of Maryland, College Park

 

414: The Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Divide in French
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Andrea Marie Frisch, U of Maryland, College Park

 

415: “Aca-Fandom” and Digital Scholarship: Rethinking Research and Fan Production
Friday, January 5, 2018 | 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Queer Geek Methodologies: Social Justice Fandom as a Transformative Digital Humanities
Alexis Lothian, U of Maryland, College Park

 

428: Sound and Performance
Friday, January 6, 2018 | 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
A Voice like Thunder: Native Oratory, Metamora, and Unsettling American Drama
Caitlin Marshall, U of Maryland, College Park

 

438: The Haverford Discussions and the Course of Black Studies
Friday, January 6, 2018 | 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Julius Fleming, U of Maryland, College Park

 

466: Twenty-First-Century Chicanx Performance
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Screening Chicana Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Suburbs: Finessa Pineda’s and Venecia Troncoso’s Performances in Mosquita y Mari (2012)
Randy Ontiveros, U of Maryland, College Park

 

481: Twenty-First-Century African Writers
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Algérianité, la Littérature-Monde, and the Contemporary Modes of Being an Algerian Author
Valérie K. Orlando, U of Maryland, College Park

 

504: Hip-Hop History Lessons: Tragic Form, Truth, and Fiction in Hamilton: An American Musical
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Here Comes the General: Hamilton, Gender, and Tragic Form
Laura Rosenthal, U of Maryland, College Park

 

506: Frederick Douglass at Two Hundred: Literary Reconsiderations
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | 10:15 PM – 11:30 PM
Presider: Robert S. Levine, U of Maryland, College Park

 

507: Precarious Bonds
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | 10:15 – 11:30
The Political Physics of Nothing
Amanda Bailey, U of Maryland, College Park

 

607: The Fiction of Colson Whitehead
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Presider: Lee Konstantinou, U of Maryland, College Park
Speaker: Mary-Helen Washington, U of Maryland, College Park