Deadline: March 15, 2021
Below are calls for paper proposals for two linked panels at the January 2022 MLA convention, of likely interest to scholars of 19th- and 20th-century Russian and Eurasian literatures. If you’re interested in participating, please send a title, 300-word abstract, and short bio to the organizers by March 15.
Tribune Poetics, Congress Aesthetics I: The National Poet from Romantic Myth to Modular State Institution
This panel considers how “national poets” theorized and practiced political representation across Eurasia, from the proliferation of national Romantic movements to the interwar establishment of state literary institutions in new nation states and SSRs.
Contact: Sam Hodgkin, samuel.hodgkin@yale.edu
Tribune Poetics, Congress Aesthetics II: Occasionality, Performativity and Political Representation in Socialist World Literature
This panel considers the public performance and staging of literature in the broader Socialist literary world, with emphasis on the processes by which authors came to envision, constitute, and represent new collectives.
Contact: Naomi Caffee, caffee@reed.edu