Romanticism at MLA 2022

Dec 17

If you’re headed to Washington, D.C. January 6-9 2022 for the annual MLA conference (or if you’re joining remote sessions), over here at the K-SAA we’ve done a round-up of panels that might be interesting to our readership. Please let us know if we’ve missed anything!

This list is compiled by the K-SAA Communications Fellows and Communications Director.

420V – Romanticism and the Caribbean [VIRTUAL SESSION]

Saturday, 8 January 2022

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Presider

Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern U

Speaker

Lily Gurton-Wachter, Smith C

Alexandra L. Milsom, Hostos Community C, City U of New York

Kiel Shaub, U of California, Los Angeles

Kerry Sinanan, U of Texas, San Antonio

Thomas Van Camp, U of Wisconsin, Madison

225 – Attachment and Critique

Friday, 7 January 2022

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Presider

Sarah Tindal Kareem U of California, Los Angeles

Vivasvan Soni Northwestern U

Presentations

‘We Have Gone Too Far to Recede’: Clarissa and Continuation Deidre Lynch, Harvard U

On Books and Blankets: Getting ‘Hooked’ in Northanger Abbey John Havard, Binghamton U, State U of New York

Eighteenth-Century Studies without the Long Eighteenth Century Juliet Shields, U of Washington, Seattle

62 – Byron and His Others: Texts, Authors, History

Thursday, 6 January 2022

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Marriott Marquis – Georgetown University

Audience members are invited to reconsider Byron’s works in relation to new developments in literary criticism, theory, and technology—particularly in the fields of textual studies, book history, literary communities, and the digital humanities. Have such approaches changed how we read Byron among his contemporaries, including Robert Southey, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Moore, and Walter Scott, as well as among earlier poets, such as Pope and Dryden?

For related material, write to Michael.Macovski@georgetown.edu after 15 Dec.

Presider

Michael Macovski, Georgetown U

Speakers

Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton U

Peter J. Manning, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

Jane Stabler, U of St Andrews

Andrew M. Stauffer, U of Virginia

Tom Mole, Durham U

Michael Macovski, Georgetown U

166V – Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” [VIRTUAL SESSION]

Thursday, 6 January 2022

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Presider

Nancy Yousef, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Respondent

John Brenkman, Baruch C, City U of New York

Presentations

After Melancholy Mary Favret, Johns Hopkins U, MD

Gorgeous Jacques Khalip, Brown U

200 – Byron’s Stanzas: The 1822 Cantos of Don Juan

Friday, 7 January 2022

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott Marquis – Scarlet Oak

How do we read and teach Byron’s long poems, especially Don Juan, and what reading strategies are most productive and relevant to his work? Panelists center on a discussion of specific stanzas of Byron’s Don Juan, emphasizing the connections among poetics, thematics, and the larger cultural contexts and theoretical concerns of the Romantic era.

Presider

Mai-Lin Cheng, U of Oregon

Speaker

Celeste G. Langan, U of California, Berkeley

Deidre Lynch, Harvard U

Omar Miranda, U of San Francisco

Emily Rohrbach, Durham U

Mariam Wassif, U of Paris 1, Paris-Sorbonne

213 – Romanticism and Data

Friday, 7 January 2022

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott Marquis – George Washington University

Presider

Charles Waite Mahoney, U of Connecticut, Storrs

Respondent

Yohei Igarashi, U of Connecticut, Storrs

Presentations

‘Looking as from a Distance on the World’: Romantic Epistemologies of Information Mark Algee-Hewitt, Stanford U

Data and Disablement in Wordsworth’s Poetry Lesley Thulin, U of California, Los Angeles

Body Language: Album Verse and Embodied Data Jillian Hess, Bronx Community C, City U of New York

296V – Debunking Imperial Myths and Dreaming Decolonization in the Long Nineteenth Century [VIRTUAL SESSION]

Friday, 7 January 2022

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Panelists explore how the study of British empire in the long nineteenth century can be transformed by critical approaches that center the perspectives of Indigenous and colonized subjects, confronting Romantic and Victorian studies’ participation in systems of white supremacy and settler colonialism and articulating new methods for redressing historical patterns of exclusion, erasure, and marginalization.