2020 MLA Convention Sessions of Interest to K–12 Educators and Their Allies
This list was compiled by the MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances.
Sessions Arranged by the Committee
Friday
191. Together Again: Literature, Creative Writing, and Composition
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 612
Saturday
479. Building Authentic and Articulated Learning Experiences That All Students Can Access
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 303
Other Relevant Sessions
Thursday
001. How to Be Your Own Best Editor
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna AB
Preregistration is required
002. Reacting to the Past (RTTP) Pedagogy: Transforming Learning and Teaching Empathy
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton – Issaquah
Preregistration is required
003. Advocating for Your Department
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 5
Preregistration is required
010. Latin America and the Rise of the Right: Citizenship and Belonging
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 203
015. Spain in Crisis: Crime Fiction and Crisis Literature as a Cultural Response to Economic Precarity
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 213
019. Critical Engagements between Modern Languages and Digital Humanities
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 204
044. Making and Using the MLA International Bibliography for the Twenty-First Century: Human Expertise, Digital Tools
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 4
049. Poe, Islands, Archipelagoes
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 615
050. The Other #MeToos
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
052. The State of the Syllabus
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 607
057. Lyric Keywords
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 604
059. Racism, Jews, America
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 214
061. Corpse Female: Reproduction, Embodiment, and the Feminine in Faulkner
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 205
063. Asian American Reading Publics
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 617
068. Transformative Archives-Based Humanities Pedagogy
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 303
080. Diverse Destinies: Envisioning Futures for Youth of Color
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 5
083. Literatures of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Movement
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 303
085. Sound Disruptions
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 607
089. Writing during Genocide
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
091. Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 3
101. Black Feminisms Now
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna C
102. Theorizing #MeToo
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 1
113. Migration and American Literary History
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 613
116. Human Rights and the Human
5:15 PM–7:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 6A
117. “Mankind Was My Business!”: Dickens and the Exploration of Humanity, Humanism, and Being Human
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 617
120. Gothic Childhood
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Willow A
125. Being Human: From the Public Scholar to the Collaborative Humanities
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 619
136. Imagining the Archive: Black Art and Black Collecting Practices
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 1
141. Jewish Objects, Jewish Materials
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 201
176. Popular Culture and Technology
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 5
179. Climate Change, Technology, and Academic Responsibility
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 612
Friday
190A. Language and Literature Program Innovation Room
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 2A
195. Representing Diversity through Montage: Film, Photography, Radio
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
Sheraton - Issaquah
210. Second-Language Research and Practice: Looking Back, Moving Forward
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 5
212. Interdisciplinarity in/and the Environmental Humanities
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
213. MLA Style Workshop: Documenting Sources with the MLA Handbook
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 4C-1
227. Infrastructure, Race, and Literature
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC – 606
240. Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture I
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 618
245. Decolonization and the Age of Goethe
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 205
261. Teaching Hemingway and Gender
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC – 613
270. The Ethics of Pedagogy: What Do We Owe Our Students?
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 607
275. Decolonizing the English Major
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 2
279. Augmenting Shakespeare: How VR/AR Technology Is Transforming the Way We Teach, Experience, and Consume Shakespeare
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 615
315. Humanizing the Young Trans Body
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 3
323. The Seal of Biliteracy and Implications for Language Programs in Higher Education
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 303
346. Reading Women Writers
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 203
361. Witness, Testimony, Story, Counterstory: Languaging Race and Racism in the Teaching of Writing
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 604
368. Teaching the History of the English Language
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 10, 2020
Sheraton - Willow A
373. Exploring Strategies for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in Language Classrooms
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 5
402. On (Not) Breaking Our Bonds: Teaching Writing in English Departments in 2020
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 211
412. Humanizing Latinx Voices: Rhetorics, Literacies, Storytelling
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 614
Saturday
427. Public Engagement: Academics Writing in Public
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 608
461. Composing the Future of English Studies
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 611
524. Theorizing the Teaching of Writing in the Literature Classroom
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 606
525. Digital Creative Making in the Literature Classroom
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
537. Research Projects from the MLA Reading-Writing Pedagogy Institutes
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 4C-2
579. Language and the Interdisciplinary Department
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 4
581. The Role of Social Justice Pedagogy in Second-Language Studies
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 205
605. Why Teach Literature?
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 608
613. The Future of the Humanities
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 4C-4
Sunday
654. Pre-Texts Workshop
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 12, 2020
Sheraton - Greenwood
Preregistration is required.
659. Comics and the Digital Humanities
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 12, 2020
Sheraton - Willow A
663. Teaching Early Modern Iberian Literature in Secondary and College Classrooms: Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Language Acquisition and Cross-Cultural Competence
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 2
675. Public-Facing Humanities, Literary Adaptation, and K–16 Connections
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 615
694. Teaching the Difficult: Working with Social Justice, Modern Slavery, and Climate Change
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 303
697. When Texts Move: Teaching Digital Writing Projects
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 619
726. Crossing the Divide: Political Polarization and the Humanities Classroom
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 214
742. Being Human after War: Veteran Writers and the Public Sphere
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 606
766. Transmedia Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
770. Teaching in an Age of Populism
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 614
779. Decolonizing Language Education
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 617