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In addition to the three panels that the Comics and Graphic Narrative Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2026, there will be a number of other comics-related panels at the conference. Comment on this post if you have any sessions to add. MLA 2026 Panels Featuring Papers on Comics: Thursday, January 8 52. Comics as Physical Objects Friday, January 9 Just in Time: Material Lives, Migrant Worlds, Ecologies of Belonging Just In Time: Rewriting Patriarchy through Expanded Comics: Tu corazón me pertence Pathways: Comics and Community: A Transfer Student Pathway 190. Toronto the Good? Representations of Toronto in Canadian Literature 287. BIPOC Relationships across Territorial Boundaries Saturday,Read More →

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The Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum will be sponsoring three panels at MLA 2026: 180. Adaptation and Opposition through Comics; 246. Canadian Comics, and a Just-in-Time session on Comics in Times of Genocide. Also, check out all the other comics-related panels at this year’s conference. Just in Time: Comics in Times of Genocide Thursday, 8 January 20267:00 PM – 8:15 PMVirtual Session Presiders:Adrienne Resha, U of Virginia Presentations: Click here to access abstracts for this panel’s presentations. 180. Adaptation and Opposition through Comics Friday, 9 January 20268:30 AM to 9:45 AMMTCC – 715A Presiders:Chase Gregory, Bucknell U Robert Nguyen, Lycoming C Presentations: 246. Canadian ComicsRead More →

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Please note: This is a proposed, not a guaranteed, session, co-sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives and Adaptation Studies for MLA 2026. It is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee. All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by April 1, 2025. Comics have a long history with the transformative practices of adaptation. The medium’s earliest years saw characters like Krazy Kat, the Shadow, and Superman hurling from the pulps to comics to animation, radio, and film. Meanwhile, long-running comics series such as Classics Illustrated, and recent graphic novelizations of popular fiction and educational material continue to extend the reach of canonical worksRead More →

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This session is a guaranteed session sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives for MLA 2026. All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by April 1, 2025. In their introduction to Crucial Comix’s recent anthology Cartoonists for Palestine, editors Yazan al-Saadi, Syah Mirk, Andy Warner, and Tracy Chahwan urge that, “in the face of calamity, artists still have a role to play” (4). While the editors speak specifically to the “forced displacement and killing of Palestinian people,” which has been ongoing since 1948 but recently become more visible, they also place their work within a transnational tradition of comics depicting genocide across timeRead More →

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Canadian Comics Please note: This is a proposed, not a guaranteed, session, sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives for MLA 2026. It is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee. All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by April 1, 2025. Canadian Comics takes the location of the 2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Toronto as the opportunity to examine the ways that comics and graphic narratives represent Canada within its national context. Discussions of nation and nationhood in Canada are inevitably complex, invoking the concerns of Indigenous peoples and of Canada’s component federations, issues surrounding linguistic and ethnicRead More →