Hey all,
Please see below for information on a sponsored panel at MLA 2027. Feel free to write with any questions (CNL0018).
Thanks!
-Charlie
Charles N. Lesh
Associate Professor of English
Auburn University
Modern Language Association 2027 Conference, Los Angeles, CA
RCWS: Literacy Studies invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2027 conference theme of emancipatory narratives. At these crossroads, what are the im/possibilities of emancipatory literacies? In what spaces do we seek emancipation? And from what? We invite panelists to speak to this theme and to consider the various sites of emancipatory literacies and literacy work: from the mind to the institutions and technologies that confine us, from the body to the communities that shape us. We particularly encourage community educators and writers to submit. This is a guaranteed MLA session, so accepted proposals will be ensured a place on our 2027 convention panel.
Proposals could reference:
- Unconventional method/ologies of emancipation narratives, such as autoethnography and fictional autobioethnography
- Literacies of liberation
- Emergent understandings of emancipatory agency
- Communal and community literacy practices, including oral literacies, music, and other modalities
- Resistance to institutional and technological coercion
- Emancipatory teaching practices and projects
- Language as a site of emancipatory praxis/potential
- Literacies for solidarity
- Counterstories, counter-narratives, and storytelling
Submit 250-word individual or full panel proposals to JWells (jwells) by March 6th. Proposals will be reviewed by the RCWS Literacy Studies Committee, and notifications will be sent by the end of March.