CFP: Modern Language Association 2026 Conference, January 8-11, Toronto Canada
The RCWS Literacy Studies forum invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2026 conference theme family resemblances across intellectual homes. How are literacies, and literacy practices, embodied, shared-in, and performed within intellectual homes and across kinships? What, if any, are the resemblances? We invite panelists to speak to this theme and to consider the resemblances across social settings, communal spaces, institutions, media, and modalities. We particularly encourage junior scholars and graduate students to submit. This is a guaranteed MLA session, so accepted proposals will be ensured a place on our 2026 convention panel.
Proposals should reference our panel theme (Tracing Kinships: Literacy Practices Across Intellectual Homes) and/or the following:
– Unconventional method/ologies of telling about literacy learning and literacy kinships
– Recovery and recuperative reading and writing practices
– Narratives and code switching and code meshing
– Unsettling and decentering literacies of whiteness
– Digital literacies and digital circulation of literacies
– Literacies of survivance, resilience, and/or resistance and the risk of telling
– Family and familial literacy practices
– Communal and community literacy practices – Literacies of accessibility
Submit 250-word individual or full panel proposals to Romeo García (romeo.garcia) by March 1st. Proposals will be reviewed by the RCWS Literacy Studies Committee, and notifications will be sent by the end of March.
Kristi Girdharry, Ph.D.
[she/her/hers]
Writing Center Director
Babson College
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