2027 MLA Convention The 2027 MLA Annual Convention will be held from 7 to 10 January in Los Angeles. The presidential theme will be Emancipatory Narratives. We look forward to meeting in person, and we hope you’ll join u...

It’s April 1st & you know what that means—it’s the deadline to submit your session proposal for #MLA27 in LA!

Whether you want to talk Chaucer or Morrison, methods in translation or digital humanities, enrollments or leadership development, MLA is here for you. Join us!

www.mla.org/Events/2027-...

Convention Program Forms Sessions at the MLA convention are organized by individual MLA members as well as by MLA forums, allied organizations, and MLA committees. Refer to Planning a Convention Session and Proposing a Special Session for guidance on creating and submitting convention sessions.

Don’t miss your opportunity to organize a session for #MLA27, which will take place in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January. MLA members can submit a session proposal or program copy through tomorrow, 1 April. www.mla.org/Events/2027-...

Still a little time to propose something for #mla27– happy to chat about possible format.

There's one more week to submit sessions for #MLA27 in Los Angeles! We hope you'll consider submitting a proposal and joining us in January: www.mla.org/Events/2027-...

Presentation: The “Border” on Campus (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

Deadline is 3/25 for this #MLA27 CFP: The “Border” on Campus
--Concepts of the border in academia including its impact on teaching, student experience, institutional policy, and belonging, within contexts of migration, surveillance, and nationalism/ Link: mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Many awesome CFPs for what I hear in my mind as MLALA (em-la-la), but what others might call #MLA27 in LA. Want to find a session in your research area? It’s there. Future of the humanities? It’s there. AI, pedagogy, professional development? There. But if it isn’t, propose it—it’s your convention!

Session: MLA Committee on Information Technology (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

If you're thinking about heading to #MLA27, there are several session calls I'm involved with that could be of interest to DH, electronic literature, and games folks: first up, the MLA Committee on Information Technology has calls on AI in DH & language pedagogy: mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web... (1/3)

Call for Papers: Roundtable: Contingent Labor at a Crossroads (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

There are a number of #MLA27 calls for papers focused on contingent faculty — please check them out…

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Call for Papers: Counter-theories (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

CfPs on counter-theories & feminist protest for #MLA27 @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Counter-theories/theories of the counter: mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Feminist protest and transmedia activism in the 21st century: mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Call for Papers: Close Reading, Professional Practice, and Public Writing (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

Interested in coming to #MLA27 to talk about close reading & public writing? Here's a guaranteed seminar session for you! New format=participants write <1500wds, everyone reads everyone's & we workshop them. Draft a piece of public writing, join a seminar, leave w/something pitch-able! Apps by 3/16

Session: MLA Committee on Information Technology (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

The MLA Committee on Information Technology has published CFPs for 2 panels at the #MLA27 Convention:

1. Agentic AI and the Digital Humanities
2. AI and Second-Language Pedagogy

See the CFPs in the link below:

mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Deadline: March 20

#DH #AI #elit

Call for Papers: Creative Responses to Coding and AI: from Infrastructure to Output (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

Thinking about #MLA27? The @eliterature.bsky.social has a CPF!! Please consider submitting!!!

mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Calls for Papers The listing of calls for papers allows session organizers to solicit paper submissions for potential MLA sessions and connects MLA members who wish to participate in the convention with session organizers. Please note that calls for papers are not session proposals.

Reminder: There's still time to submit a call for papers for #MLA27 in Los Angeles! Members can post a call for papers until 28 February, and you can view the calls through March. Learn more: www.mla.org/call-for-pap...

Thinking about the next #mla? @modernlanguage.bsky.social
Send us your abstract! #mla27 #mla2027
We welcome innovative, critical, and interdisciplinary perspectives on language, society, & pedagogy.
LSL – Language and Society is now accepting abstracts for MLA 2026 (guaranteed sessions)

Please send your proposal to brian.croxall@byu.edu and dkj004@bucknell.edu no later than Sunday, 15 March 2026. #mla27

Call for Papers: Names That Reveal; Names That Conceal: Onomastic Sleight of Hand in Global Literature (MLA 2027) The American Name Society Call for Papers for the ANS virtual panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention #mla27 7-10 January 2027, Los Angeles, California Names That Reveal; Names That Conceal Onomastic Sleight of Hand in Global Literature Espionage novels and allegories often use names to conceal motives or plot twists or to reveal character or caricature. How have authors, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, lyricists and other wordsmiths used names of characters, places, corporations, institutions, movements, etc., to effect onomastic sleight of hand?

Call for Papers: Names That Reveal; Names That Conceal: Onomastic Sleight of Hand in Global Literature (MLA 2027)

The American Name Society Call for Papers for the ANS virtual panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention #mla27 7-10 January 2027, Los Angeles, California Names That…