In addition to the three panels that the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum will be sponsoring at MLA 2022, 196. Comics on the Border, 407V. Reading and Translating Comics in Two Directions, and 579. Manga’s Global Influence, there will be a number of other comics-related panels at MLA 2022. Comment on this post if you have any sessions to add!
About Comics
Thursday, January 6
12V – Graphic Narrative in Spanish: Memory as Transitional Justice
63V – Graphic Narratives and Trauma: Framing the Holocaust
123V – Graphic Narratives and Trauma: Engaging with the German Past
Friday, January 7
386V – Graphic Narratives and Trauma: Confronting Sexism and Domestic Violence
Sunday, January 9
643V – Art Spiegelman’s Maus at Thirty
681V – Graphic Narratives and Trauma: Narrating Migration and Climate Change
Featuring Papers on Comics
Thursday, January 6
44 – Humor in African Literatures
46V – Language Border Poetics and Politics and Cultural (Self-)Translation
111 – Ethnic Literatures, Anti-Racism, and the Continuing Cold War
Friday, January 7
284V – Greece and Cyprus: Past and Present
332V – Indigenous Languages as and in Literature
Saturday, January 8
484V – Intermediality, Identity, and Agency in Contemporary Literature of the United States
Sunday, January 9
625V – Narrative and the Politics of Self-Writing in Korea
655V – Environmental Nihilism: On Ecocatastrophe and Meaning