In addition to the two panels that the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum will be sponsoring, 325. Webcomics and/as Digital Culture & 587. A Decade in Comics, there will be a number of other comics-related panels at MLA 2020. Comment on this post if you have any sessions to add!
About Comics:
Friday, January 10
348. Futures and Pasts in Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels
Saturday, January 11
445. Being (Super)Human: Afrofuturism after Black Panther
447. Political Imagination in Iberian and Latin American Graphic Narratives
528. Graphic Narratives and Multiple Marginalities
Sunday, January 12
659. Comics and the Digital Humanities
Featuring Papers on Comics:
Thursday, January 9
127. Data and Justice
147. Diaspora in Crisis
156. Political Uses of Medieval Iberia
176. Popular Culture and Technology
Friday, January 10
244. Humanitarian Violence and the Ethics of Witnessing: Representation, Narrative, and the Politics of Visibility
249. The Multilingual Maghreb
295. Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia
365. “Grown-Ass Women”: Understanding and Teaching Angry Texts in Several Genres
408. Bodies, Borders, and Boundaries: Embodiments of Multicultural and Transnational Children
Saturday, January 11
476. Indian Manliness Lost and Found: An Intermedial Study of Masculinities and Masculine Identities
508. Revisiting Immigration in Asian American Literature
Sunday, January 12
655. Translatability and World Literature
680. Southeast Asian Diasporic Authors in Conversation