This January, I will be presenting a paper at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention for the first time. It won't be my first time at MLA (I've been before for job interviews), but it will be my first time navigating the convention's extensive line-up of panels, roundtables, &c.
To that end, I've compiled a list of sessions that constellate around my interests in book history, bibliography, remediation, and pedagogy. This list is not designed to be comprehensive but rather to give others who might be interested in similar fields a starting point for their own #mla16 itineraries.* (You can search the whole convention program and find more information about the locations of the sessions listed below here.)
For those still around on the Sunday morning, the second-to-last entry on this list is the panel I've put together with Megan Heffernan (DePaul University) and Scott Trudell (University of Maryland) about processes of remediation in seventeenth-century English literature—and methods of studying these processes. Reid Barbour (UNC-Chapel Hill) will be serving as respondent. (You can read our full panel proposal and abstracts here.)
*If there's a session I've overlooked but that might fit this constellation, please let me know in the comments, and I'll add it!
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7
8. Paper Publics: American Women Readers, Writers, and Periodical Culture / 12 noon–1:15 p.m., 19A, ACC
23. Critical Informatics and the Digital Humanities / 12 noon–1:15 p.m., 203, JW Marriott
45. Ways of Knowing Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers / 1:45–3:00 p.m., 5A, ACC
126. Romantic Quotation: The Use of Quoted Material in British Romanticism / 5:15–6:30 p.m., 6B, ACC
136. Close and Distant Listening to Poetry with HiPSTAS and PennSound / 5:15–6:30 p.m., 208, JW Marriott [Program arranged by the forum TM Libraries and Research]
147. Editing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: The Digital Phase / 5:15–6:30 p.m., 4BC, ACC [Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare]
173. Early Modern Teaching in the Digital Age / 7:00–8:15 p.m., 5A, ACC
180. Print, Materiality, Narrative / 7:00–8:15 p.m., 4BC, ACC
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8
212. Archival Publics: Tracing Humans in Special Collections and Archives / 8:30–9:45 a.m., 4A, ACC
215. Editing Unruly Objects / 8:30–9:45 a.m., 209, JW Marriott [Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions]
283. Early Modern Books in Place / 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 6A, ACC
291. Teaching the Archive / 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 5C, ACC [Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee]
327. New Questions for the Codex / 1:45–3:00 p.m., 309, JW Marriott [Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval French]
333. What's Next? EEBO (Early English Books Online) in the Public Domain / 1:45–3:00 p.m., 4BC, ACC [Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-Century English]
359. Lawfully Donne / 1:45–3:00 p.m., 5B, ACC [Program arranged by the John Donne Society]
363. Textual Woolf / 3:30–4:45 p.m., 7, ACC
377. Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Its Readers / 3:30–4:45 p.m., 310, JW Marriott
393. Scenes of Reading in Colonial Mexico / 3:30–4:45 p.m., 303, JW Marriott
424. Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers / 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott [Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin American]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9
469. The Intermedial Eighteenth Century: Stage to Page, Print to Manuscript, Writing to Speech, and Back / 8:30–9:45 a.m., 18A, ACC [Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-18th-Century English]
522. Bibliography in the Digital Age: Tools, Technologies, Theories / 10:15–11:30 a.m., 5A, ACC [Program arranged by the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing]
537. Weaving, Burning, Growing: Material Readings in Galician Literature / 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 406, JW Marriott [Program arranged by the forum LLC Galician]
540. Aggregation, Publication, Pedagogy: Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the Digital Age / 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 203, JW Marriott
576. Returning to the Archives / 1:45–3:00 p.m., 205, JW Marriott [Program arranged by GEMELA: Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)]
578. Secret Archives: Privacy, Control, and Access / 1:45–3:00 p.m., 307, JW Marriott [Program arranged by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing]
579. Digital Publics / 1:45–3:00 p.m., 5C, ACC [Program arranged by the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English]
591. Pedagogical Shakespeare: Text, Performance, and Digitization / 1:45-3:00 p.m., 14, ACC
649. The Visual Display of Literary Information / 3:30-4:45 p.m., 409, JW Marriott
668. Word Books and Material Culture / 5:15–6:30 p.m., 9A, ACC [Program arranged by the forum TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography]
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11
734. Reader Mediations in Electronic Literature / 8:30–9:45 a.m., 209, JW Marriott [Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Culture]
740. Deranged Verse: Intermedia Arrangement in Seventeenth-Century England / 10:15–11:30 a.m., 5C, ACC
780. Literature and Media Change: Historical Perspectives from Europe and the Americas / 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m., Lone Star A, JW Marriott