In addition to the three panels that the Comics and Graphic Narrative Forum will be sponsoring at MLA 2024, there will be a number of other comics-related panels at the conference. We will also be hosting an event featuring comic artist Ben Passmore at Partners and Son, a local underground comics and art gallery, on Friday night! Comment on this post if you have any sessions to add.
MLA 2024 Panels Featuring Papers on Comics:
Thursday, 1/4
37 – New Approaches to Jewishness, Gender, and Power
114 – Indigenous Thought and the Environmental Crisis in Brazil
161 – Digital Humanities and Inclusive Pedagogy: Collaborative Construction in Practice
Friday, 1/5
262 – Current Trends in Arthurian Studies
340 – Theorizing the “Laughcry” in Asian American Literature
354 – Literary Theory on Acid: Thinking with the Psychedelic Renaissance
Saturday, 1/6
451 – Racing through Adolescence: Racial Identity and the Coming-of-Age Narrative
571 – Genre, Race, and Gender in Pop Culture
590 – Coming of Age at the Margins (of Society and Literature)
Sunday, 1/7
636 – Paratextual Relations: Literary Communication in the Margins