Disability Studies and Related Panels at the 2020 MLA Convention
This list, which includes sessions that may be of interest to disability studies scholars, was compiled by the Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession.
Thursday
014. Apocalypse (Then and) Now
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 615
033. Intersectionality and Coalitions: Medieval Studies and Beyond
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 619
061. Corpse Female: Reproduction, Embodiment, and the Feminine in Faulkner
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 205
069. New Directions in Contemporary Turkish Literature
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 2
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna C
082. Comedia, Disability, Disease
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 2
086. Wharton and Disability
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 612
094. Seventeenth-Century Race Thinking: Embodiment
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 615
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
118. Disability Bioethics
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 612
129. Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – 205
Friday
219. Race, Age, and Futurities
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC – 620
228. Olfactory Genres
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 10, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna AB
243. “Beyond the Pale”: The Cost of Border Crossing in Ireland’s Architecture of Containment
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
268. New Approaches to Reading (in) Nineteenth-Century America
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC – 213
300. Embodying Difference: Disrupting Disability in Language and Literature
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC – 201
309. Disability and Surveillance
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC – 612
338. Bad Books
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 617
339. Keywords for the Future
3:30 PM–5:15 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 6A
353. Disability and Migration
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC – 612
364. Posthumanism and Premodern China
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 5
408. Bodies, Borders, and Boundaries: Embodiments of Multicultural and Transnational Children
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 4
Saturday
431. Vision and Sight in Children’s Literature and Culture
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 5
435. Contextualizing Critical Debates: Narrative Theory and Sociopolitical Change
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC – 204
451. Bodies That Matter: Early Feminism(s) and the Problem of Biology
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 613
467. Black Time and Temporality
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC – 204
479. Building Authentic and Articulated Learning Experiences that All Students Can Access
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 303
504. The Body in Pain at Thirty-Five
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC – 201
523. Bad Reading
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 11, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna AB
528. Graphic Narratives and Multiple Marginalities
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 5
545. Being Human, Technology, and New Media
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 303
561. LGBTQ Health Humanities
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 211
567. Critical Childhood Studies and Intersectionality: The State of the Field
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC – 619
583. World Orders and the Geopolitics of the Transpacific
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC – 204
586. Being Human, Making Waste
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 2
602. Reading Poverty in United States Literature: Theories and Methods
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 611
625. Literary and Cultural Representations of Stigma
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 614
Just in Time: Care, Cure, and Genealogies of Disability Justice: A Conversation between Critical Disability Studies and Health Humanities Perspectives
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
643. Being Human in Contemporary Arab Writing
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 211
Sunday
684. Translating the Ethics of Care in French Literature and Cinema since 1968
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 214
777. The Eunuch: Past(s) and Present(s)
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC – 616
778. Intersectionality and Italian American Studies
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 620