Romanticism and Related Panels at MLA ‘24
If you’re headed to Philadelphia January 4 to 7 for the annual MLA conference, we’ve done a round-up of panels that might be interesting to our readership. The full calendar is here. Please let us know if we’ve missed anything!
And don’t forget to book tickets for the K-SAA Awards Dinner on January 6.
This list is compiled by the K-SAA Communications Fellows and Communications Director.
The K-SAA sponsored panel is 258 - Disabling Environments in the Romantic Era, Friday January 5, 12:00-1:15
Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor)
Presider
Omar F. Miranda (U of San Francisco)
Presentations
“‘Corrosive Care’ and ‘Corrosive Tides’: Charlotte Smith’s Calcareous Body,” Diana Little (Princeton U)
“The Commonplace Book of Edmund Pear, 1832–34,” Roseanna Kettle (U of York)
“Emaciated Bodies in Yun Dong-Ju’s Poetry and in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” Jane Kim (Biola U)
“‘Like Mighty Giants of Their Limbs Bereft’: Enclosure as Disabling Force in the Poetry of John Clare,” Olivia Rosane (independent scholar)
Romanticism panels
Thursday January 4
16 - Neurodivergent Romanticisms
12-1:15PM
Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor)
Description
Panelists reconsider the Romantic-era’s renowned reflections on subjectivity, consciousness, memory, and time as expressions and theories of neurodivergence in a period when medical norming of the embodied mind was still developing. We will offer interactive, experiential presentations attuned to a diversity of “bodyminds,” followed by discussion exploring how period authors might offer new forms of nonpathological neurodifference.
For related material, write to ksinger@mtholyoke.edu after 1 Jan.
Speakers
Emily Stanback (U of Southern Mississippi)
Jared S. Richman (Colorado C)
Fuson Wang (U of California, Riverside)
Kate Singer (Mt. Holyoke C)
Marguerite Vanderford (U of California, Los Angeles)
Annika Mann (Arizona State U West)
Mark E. Canuel (U of Illinois, Chicago)
42 - Byron’s Legacy, Two Hundred Years On
1:45-3:00PM
Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor)
Description
Panelists examine Byron’s legacy in the two hundred years following his death.
Presider
Alice J. Levine (Hofstra U)
Speakers
John Havard (Binghamton U, State U of New York)
Ghislaine Gaye McDayter (Bucknell U)
Matt Sandler (Columbia U)
Jerome J. McGann (U of Virginia)
44 - The Quixotic Eighteenth Century
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Marriott - 411-412 (Level 4)
Presider
Sarah Tindal Kareem
U of California, Los Angeles
Vivasvan Soni
Northwestern U
Presentations
Novelistic and Romantic Legacies of Eighteenth-Century Reimaginings of the Quixotic
Donald R. Wehrs, Auburn U
‘The Credit of a Wild Imagination’: Quixotism in Narrative Suspense
Scott R. MacKenzie, U of Mississippi
Translating The Female Quixote: Circulating Gender, Aesthetics, Politics
Catherine Marie Jaffe, Texas State U
Don Quixote, Parson Adams, and the Unsettling of Satirical Expectations
José Luis de Ramón Ruiz, York C of Pennsylvania
76 - William Galperin’s Romanticism: Critical Double Takes
3:30-4:45 PM
Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor)
Description
Participants discuss the contributions of William Galperin, a distinguished scholar of Romanticism, visual culture, poetics, and Jane Austen.
Presider
Colin Jager (Rutgers U, New Brunswick)
Nancy Yousef (Rutgers U, New Brunswick)
Speakers
Mary Favret (Johns Hopkins U, MD)
Jacques Khalip (Brown U)
Jonathan Kramnick (Yale U)
Adam Potkay (William and Mary)
Orrin N. C. Wang (U of Maryland, College Park)
Susan J. Wolfson (Princeton U)
86 - The Time of Festival in the Nineteenth Century
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Marriott - Franklin 6 (Level 4)
Presider
Emily Sun, Barnard C
Respondent
Peter J. Manning
Stony Brook U, State U of New York
Presentations
‘Living Calendar’: Joy and Festival in Revolutionary Time(s)
Joseph Albernaz, Columbia U
The Urbanization of Carnival: Nikolai Gogol’s ‘The Fair at Sorochyntsi’ versus ‘Nevsky Prospekt’
Marianna Petiaskina, U of California, Los Angeles
Wreaths, Seasons, Cycles: Walter Pater and Virginia Woolf
Rachel Kravetz, U of Virginia
153 - “Kubla Khan” All Over Again
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Loews - Commonwealth B (2nd Floor)
For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/kubla-khan-panel/ after 23 Dec.
Presider
Elizabeth Fay (U of Massachusetts, Boston)
Respondent
Nasser Mufti (U of Illinois, Chicago)
Presentations
“Coleridgesplaining,” Vidyan Ravinthiran (Harvard U)
“Engineering Romanticism by Decree and Device,” Michele Speitz (Furman U)
Friday January 5
174 - The Archival Turn and the Nineteenth Century
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Marriott - 305–306 (Level 3)
Presider
Vanesa Miseres (U of Notre Dame)
Presentations
“Eugenics Scripted: Reading Disability in the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Theatre Archive,” Carlos Gustavo Halaburda (U of Toronto)
“Josefa Acevedo’s Marginal Archive,” Catalina Rodriguez (Northwestern U)
“Writing Science in South America: An Archive of Women Publishers, Editors, and Translators,” Veronica Ramirez (U Adolfo Ibáñez)
“How an Author Is Made: The Bolivar Author against Its Sources,” Eduardo Febres Munoz (U of Notre Dame)
215 - Byron in Circulation
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Loews - Commonwealth A1 (2nd Floor)
Presider
Lindsey Eckert (Florida State U)
Presentations
“The Material Byron: Book History and Textual Studies,” Michael Macovski (Georgetown U)
“Byron and Drama,” James Armstrong (City C, City U of New York)
“Byron and Textuality,” Gary R. Dyer (Cleveland State U)
258 - Disabling Environments in the Romantic Era
K-SAA sponsored panel
12:00-1:15
Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor)
Presider
Omar F. Miranda (U of San Francisco)
Presentations
“‘Corrosive Care’ and ‘Corrosive Tides’: Charlotte Smith’s Calcareous Body,” Diana Little (Princeton U)
“The Commonplace Book of Edmund Pear, 1832–34,” Roseanna Kettle (U of York)
“Emaciated Bodies in Yun Dong-Ju’s Poetry and in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” Jane Kim (Biola U)
“‘Like Mighty Giants of Their Limbs Bereft’: Enclosure as Disabling Force in the Poetry of John Clare,” Olivia Rosane (independent scholar)
317 - Pan-European Romanticism
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor)
Presider
Erica McAlpine (U of Oxford, St Edmund Hall)
Presentations
“Epigraphs in Byron and Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin,” Jonathan Gross (DePaul U)
“Temporality and Revelation in K. H. Mácha and the English Romantics,” Martin Procházka (Charles U, Prague)
“Byron and Sand: Constructing an Image of the Nineteenth-Century Travel Writer,” Andra Bailard (U of Texas, Austin)
“Print Culture and the Rise of Global Celebrity,” Omar F. Miranda (U of San Francisco)
Saturday January 6
609 - Poetic Postures
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Marriott - Franklin 8 (Level 4)
Presider
Carmen Faye Mathes (McGill U)
Presentations
“Poetic Postures of Romantic Abolitionism,” Carmen Faye Mathes (McGill U)
“Brought Low,” Sarah Dowling (U of Toronto)
“John Ashbery’s Studly Pose,” Brian Glavey (U of South Carolina, Columbia)
“The Dancing Lyric Body in a Selection of Emily Dickinson’s Poems,” Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau (Clermont Auvergne U)
Sunday January 7
661 - Climates of Romanticism
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Loews - Anthony (3rd Floor)
Presentations
“Climate Change in Byron’s Heaven and Earth,” Andrew Sargent (U of Western Ontario)
“Documenting Ephemera: Romanticism of the Record,” Claire Grandy (Baruch C, City U of New York)
“Blue Again,” Jacques Khalip (Brown U)
Related Panels
Thursday January 4
13-Decolonize the Literary Curriculum
12-1:15PM
Marriott - 302-304 (Level 3)
Description
Social ferment must be adjudged the ultimate progenitor of calls for decolonizing the literary curriculum or any curriculum for that matter. How do literary studies respond to the worldwide social protests instigated by the death of George Floyd? Panelists take these as the starting points for discussing various pedagogical methods and procedures for decolonizing the literary curriculum.
Speakers
Ankhi Mukherjee (U of Oxford)
Ronald Charles (U of Toronto)
Aarthi Vadde (Duke U)
Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm U)
Katherine Gillen (Texas A&M U, San Antonio)
Ato Quayson (Stanford U)
52 - Gothic Pain
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Marriott - Franklin 2 (Level 4)
For related material, visit www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/17520
Presider
Amanda Alexander
U of Minnesota, Morris
Presentations
The Power of Spectral Friendship in Elizabeth Gaskell and Neil Gaiman
Mckenzie Bergan, U of Connecticut, Storrs
Gótica y Gorda: Queering Monstrosity in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties
Danielle Garcia-Karr, U of Texas, Austin
Gehrayee: Harnessing Gothic Pain for Ecology
Aparajita Hazra, Diamond Harbour U
Uncanny Identities: Gothic Confrontations of Dementia
Laura Kremmel, Niagara U\
81 - Editing the Nineteenth Century
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Loews - Congress A (4th Floor)
Description
Addressing the editing of nineteenth-century American literary texts, panelists discuss Shakespeare-related annotations in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, teaching strategies that involve undergraduates in editing processes, photographic images as a codex for textual editions, the problem of “a readable text” as ableist medicalization, and insights from a community-university partnership to edit a novel by a Black resident of Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Presider
Jesse Alemán, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Speaker
Wesley Raabe, Kent State U, Kent
Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Texas Christian U
Sanjana Chowdhury
Texas Christian U
Brenna Casey
U of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kadin Henningsen
U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mollie Godfrey
James Madison U
84 - Gothic Pleasure
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Marriott - Franklin 2 (Level 4)
For related material, visit www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/17079
Presider
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Central Michigan U
Presentations
Sweet Relief: The Restorative Powers of Hunger, Rage, and Pleasure
Alexa Broemmer, St. Louis U
A Diachronic Analysis of the Validity of Gothic Pleasure
Jason Carney, Christopher Newport U
Gothic Pleasure and the Embrace of Mortality in José de Espronceda
Rhi Johnson, Indiana U, Bloomington
Lovely Viscera and the Symbiotic: On Body Snatching
J. Blackwood, Boston U
Sunday January 7
712 - Nineteenth-Century Poetry and (in, as, of) Translation
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Marriott - Grand J (Level 5)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/17454
Description
Panelists present specific poems circulating through translation in the long nineteenth century and participate in broader discussion to compare various theories, histories, methods, forms, formats, genres, modes, media, politics, ideologies, and cultures of translating poetry.
Presider
Yopie Prins, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Speaker
Michael C. Cohen, U of California, Los Angeles
Nan Da, Johns Hopkins U, MD
Annmarie Drury, Queens C, City U of New York
Matthew Potolsky, U of Utah
Taymaz Pour Mohammad, Northwestern U
Bhavya Tiwari, U of Houston
Colton Valentine, Yale U
