#  MLA Annual Conference 2018 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **January 4 - January 7, 2017** 

 02:15PM - 02:15PM EST 

 



 

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 See below a curated schedule of departmental activity at the upcoming MLA Annual Convention in New York City. If you are a graduate student attending the convention (either for a presentation or an interview), please fill out[ ](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZbYsMVPNEaSsA5ukK0Nn-nYcKrIN8amjYa4L37FlGa3M1GQ/viewform?usp=sf_link)[this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r0UDQXziXlAOvUmtsfcF4ogI3WZh3OaxeaPDcRV_R0Q/edit). For the full MLA Schedule, [click here](https://mla.confex.com/mla/2018/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0).

 **Thursday, January 4**

 **50. The Historical Novel after Postmodernism (1:45PM)**  
David Alworth, “Don DeLillo’s Bad Art History: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Paradox of the Contemporary”

 **116. Poetry Books in Multiple Versions: Editorial, Critical, and Pedagogical Issues (3:30PM)**  
Michelle Taylor, “Will the Real T.S. Eliot Please Stand Up? *Poems* (1920) versus *Ara Vos Pre*c”

 **Friday, January 5**

 **242. The Tacky South (10:15AM)**  
Isabel Duarte-Gray, speaker

 **270. Byron and Politics (10:15AM)**  
Andrew Warren, speaker

 **283. Nonfiction Prose in a “Post-Factual” World (12:00PM)**  
Tess McNulty, “Truth in Memoir: A Stylistic Analysis”

 **408. The Work of the Anthology in American Literature (5:15PM)**  
Nicholas Rinehart, presiding

 **410. Cultures of Vulnerability in the Contemporary United States (5:15PM)**  
David Alworth, “The Politics of the Contemporary Art Novel”

 **Saturday, January 6**

 **476. Fraught Logics of Natural Law (8:30AM)**  
Gordon Teskey, respondent

 **506. Frederick Douglass at Two Hundred: Literary Reconsiderations (10:15AM)**  
John Stauffer, speaker

 **554. John Clare: Encounters (12:00PM)**  
Marissa Grunes, “‘Thou Lowly Cot': Rudimentary Architecture in John Claire and Robert Frost”

 **595. Graphic States of Insecurity (1:45PM)**  
Chris Spaide, “Now and Then: Richard McGuire and Lauren Redniss’s Representation Extremes”

 **619. New York as Text: Bibliographies and Geographies (1:45PM)**  
Emily Silk, speaker

 **641. *Desire and Domestic Fiction* after Thirty Years (3:30PM)**  
Deidre Lynch, speaker

 **651. *Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England*, Thirty Years On (3:30PM)**  
Stephen Greenblatt, respondent

 **655. Auden and Others (3:30PM)**  
Steph Burt, “‘The Youngest Person in the Room': Auden and the Refusal of Authority”

 **661. Archival Research in the Black Diaspora (3:30PM)**  
Nicholas Rinehart, speaker

 **705. Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature (5:15PM)**  
Dena Fehrenbacher, “Palestinians Podcast: Ethical Representation in an Age of New Media”

 **Sunday, January 7**

 **787. Institutional History of Theory (10:15AM)**  
Marjorie Garber, “Heyday”

 **763. Poetry’s “We” (10:15AM)**  
Chris Spaide, “Terrence Hayes’s Response-Poems and the African-American Lyric ‘We'”

   
**Department Reception**

 The Department will be hosting a reception with drinks and light hors d’oeuvres for graduate students, alumni, and faculty attending MLA in New York City on **Friday,** **January 5**.

 All are welcome to attend! [Please RSVP via this google form before Tuesday, December 19.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBAvxNZ3DvFJl5VS_zDMWoXhd2AR0A-nLLhUxlUJ1cUHl-qQ/viewform?usp=sf_link)

 English Department Suite | 7:30pm



 

 



 

 

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