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Faculty, graduate students, and alumni present current research findings at the annual Modern Language Association convention in Seattle, WA, from 9-12 January.

THURSDAY 9 JANUARY 2020

• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm, Session 35 Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, WSCC-620: John Hay, U of Nevada Las Vegas, Paul Fess, CUNY, and Gerard Holmes, U of Maryland College Park
• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm, Session 94 Seventeenth-Century Race Thinking: Embodiment, WSCC-615: Lara A. Dodds, Mississippi State U, Leighla Khansari, Ohio State U Columbus, Sujata Iyengar, U of Georgia, Laura Rosenthal, U of Maryland College Park, Jennifer Park, U of North Carolina Greensboro, Lauren Shook, Texas Lutheran U, and Janet Bartholomew, Jackson C
• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm, Session 114 Weird Books, Sheraton Willow A: Élika Ortega, U of Colorado, Boulder, Whitney Trettien, U of Pennsylvania, Tia Blassingame, Scripps C, Amaranth Borsuk, U of Washington, Bothell, Kari M. Kraus, U of Maryland College Park and Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers U New Brunswick
• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm, Session 125 Being Human: From the Public Scholar to the Collaborative Humanities, WSCC-619: Vivian M. May, Syracuse U, Annie Dwyer, U of Washington Seattle, Angela Duran Real, U of Arizona, Erica Kohl-Arenas, U of California Davis, Melanie Kill, U of Maryland College Park, Heather Steffen, Rutgers U New Brunswick
• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm, Session 127 Data and Justice, WSCC-4C3: Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Dartmouth C, Margaret Galvan, U of Florida, Tracey El Hajj, U of Victoria, Treena Chambers, Simon Fraser U, and DB Bauer, U of Maryland College Park
• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm, Session 153 New Materialism, Old Material, WSCC-204: Jennifer Stager, Johns Hopkins U, Mario Telo, U of California Berkeley, Gerard Passannante, U of Maryland College Park
• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm, Session 159 Conrad & the Senses, WSCC-615: Yael Levin, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Hugh Epstein, independent scholar, Julie Beth Napolin, New School, Brian Richardson, U of Maryland College Park, Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser U
• Thursday, 9 January 2020, 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm, Session 181 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Your Department, WSCC-Skagit 1: GerShun Avilez, U of Maryland College Park and Heidi Kim, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

FRIDAY 10 JANUARY 2020

• Friday, 10 January 2020, 8:30 am to 9:45 am, Session 201 Romanticism: 20/20 Hindsight, WSCC-604: Margraet E. Russett, U of Southern California, Sarah Weston, Yale U, Forest Pyle, U of Oregon, Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts Boston, and Orrin N. C. Wang, U of Maryland College Park
• Friday, 10 January 2020, 10:15 am to 11:30 am, Session 258 The Polar Imagination, WSCC-Skagit 5: William Germano, Cooper Union, Maxwell Cassity, Syracuse U, Courtney Ryan, U at Albany SUNY, Andrew Ferguson, U of Maryland College Park, Lowell Duckert, U of Delaware Newark
• Friday, 10 January 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm, Session 272 "Ten Thousand Orbs Involving and Involved": Systems of Change in Prometheus Unbound," WSCC-620: Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland College Park, Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts Boston, Kate Singer, Mt. Holyoke C, Omar F. Miranda, U of San Francisco, and Jacob Risinger, Ohio State U, Columbus
• Friday, 10 January 2020, 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm, Session 349 Race, Recovery, and Early African American Print Culture, WSCC-615: Edlie L. Wong, U of Maryland College Park and Sarah Sillin, Central Washington U
• Friday, 10 January 2020, 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm, Session 350 Music and Lyrics in Medieval and Early Modern Performance, WSCC-205: Joseph M. Ortiz, U of Texas El Paso, Kate Driscoll, U of California Berkeley, and Scott Trudell, U of Maryland College Park
• Friday, 10 January 2020 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm, Session 374 Spenser's Species; or, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, WSCC-618: Kimberly Anne Coles, U of Maryland College Park, Joseph Campana, Rice U, Jeffrey B. Griswold, U of Maryland College Park, Mira Kafantaris, Ohio State U Columbus

SATURDAY, 11 JANUARY 2020

• Saturday, 11 January 2020, 8:30 am to 9:45 am, Session 451 Bodies That Matter: Early Feminism(s) and the Problem of Biology, WSCC-613: Claire Waters, U of California Davis, Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt U, Kimberly Anne Coles, U of Maryland College Park, Connie Scozzaro, Johns Hopkins U
• Saturday, 11 January 2020, 10:15 am to 11:30 am, Session 467 Black Time & Temporality, WSCC-204: Margo Natalie Crawford, U of Pennsylvania, Badia Ahad, Loyola Chicago, Daylanne K. English, Macalester C, and La Marr Bruce, U of Maryland College Park
• Saturday, 11 January 2020, 10:15 am to 11:30 am, Session 471 On Suffering: Pain, Precarity, and the Disintegration of the Self, WSCC-401: Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins U, Ankhi Mukherjee, U of Oxford, Ato Quayson, Stanford U, and Sangeeta Ray, U of Maryland College Park
• Saturday, 11 January 2020, 10:15 am to 11:30 am, Session 490 Black Queer Contributions, WSCC-606: Kristin Moriah, Queen’s U, GerShun Avilez, U of Maryland, College Park, Daniel Shank Cruz, Utica C, Yumi Park, California State U San Bernardino, Matt Brim, CUNY

SUNDAY, 12 JANUARY 2020

• Sunday, 12 January 2020, 8:30 am to 9:45 am, Session 681 After the Neew Southern Studies, WSCC-613: Jon Smith, Simon Fraser U, Liegh Anne Duck, U of Mississippi, Jade R. Ferguson, U of Guelph, Julius Fleming, U of Maryland College Park, John T. Matthews, Boston U, Jarvis McInnis, Duke U, Erich Nunn, Auburn U, Melanie Benson Taylor, Dartmouth C
• Sunday, 12 January 2020, 8:30 am-9:45 am, Session 683 The Letterpress Studio as a Campus Maker Space, Sheraton-Ravenna AB: Ryan Cordell, Northeastern U, Emilie Hardman, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Kirstyn Leuner, Santa Clara U, Andrew Rippeon, Davidson C, Kurt M. Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve U, Andrew Griffin, U of California, Santa Barbara, Britt Starr, U of Maryland, College Park and Jonathan Senchyne, U of Wisconsin, Madison
• Sunday, 12 January 2020, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm, Session 773 The State of Single-Author Study, WSCC-205: Sheila Liming, U of North Dakota, Ellen Lee McCallum, Michigan State U, Robert Ryan, U of Illinois, Chicago, Matthew Luter, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, MD, Mike Miley, Loyola U, New Orleans, Lee Konstantinou, U of Maryland, College Park and Gabriel Hankins, Clemson U