Events of Interest to Graduate Students at the 2023 MLA Annual Convention
Graduate Student Lounge sponsored by EBSCO Information Services and the MLA International Bibliography. A lounge where graduate students can meet for discussion and relaxation—located in the Marriott Marquis (Juniper, level B2)—will be open at the following times:
Thursday, 5 January: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Friday, 6 January: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Saturday, 7 January: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Sunday, 8 January: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
Lounge activities. We hope you will visit the de-stressing zone in the lounge to unwind and relax your mind. Each day we will hold a drawing for a door prize; please see the schedule below for times and come enter for a chance to win!
Social networking. The Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities (CSGSH) encourages attendees to tweet sessions using the convention hashtag (#mla23) and session hashtags (e.g., #S632). Follow the committee on Twitter @MLAgrads.
Blog. The CSGSH has created a blog, MLAgrads, covering the annual convention, the job market, and other issues relevant to graduate student members of the MLA.
MLA Professional Development Hub. The MLA provides support to members at all stages in their careers. Explore a variety of sessions and events at the 2023 MLA convention designed to help you build your network and enhance your career. The hub is located in the Marriott Marquis (Golden Gate A, level B2) and is open on 5 January from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on 6 and 7 January from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Learn more about the Professional Development Hub at MLA 2023.
Career Mentoring Service. Individual career mentoring will be available in the Professional Development Hub. Sign up for one-on-one sessions to discuss job-search and career options on a wide spectrum of careers inside and outside the professoriat.
Language and Literature Program Innovation Room. Showcase presenters share models of curriculum reform, including new programs, credentials, courses, and initiatives in areas such as experiential learning, digital humanities, public humanities, and career diversity. The event, a poster-style session with each presenter at an individual station, allows audience members to drop by any time while the Innovation Room is in session and spend as much time as desired exploring the showcase.
Door Prize Drawing. 11:45 a.m. daily, Graduate Student Lounge, Marriott Marquis (Juniper, level B2)
Sessions. Sessions of particular interest to graduate students include the following:
Please see the online program for the latest session information.
THURSDAY
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
6 Beyond the Professoriat: Career Pathways for Job Seekers in Languages
7 Career Pathways for PhDs in English: A Preconvention Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
11 Teaching Identity and Anti-Racism in Global Modern Languages Classrooms
18 Linguistic Justice in College Writing and Literature Classrooms
28 English Professors and Academic Union Leadership: The Canadian Experience
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
37 Working toward Inclusivity: Teaching English in Minority-Serving Institutions
38 Working Conditions in Australian Writing and Publishing
55 Navigating COVID-19 as a Graduate Student
56 Working in Slow Collapse: Production in the Posthistorical University
66 Contingent Faculty Members, Labor Equity, and the Common Read in First-Year Writing
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
76 How the Pandemic Permanently Changed Teaching
89 City Lights at Seventy: 1953–2023
96 Working Conditions in Access-Oriented Education with the Equity Collective
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
123 MLA Institute for the Teaching of Reading and Writing: Reflections on the Curriculum
126 Infrastructures of Professional Development
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
153 Careers in English at Community Colleges and the Job Search
FRIDAY
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
186 Pandemic Contingent Working Conditions
188 MLA Handbook Plus: A New Resource
189 The MLA Convention and Your Career Quest
195 What Should an English Degree Teach, Now?
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
164 Language and Literature Program Innovation Room
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
218 Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
222 Returning to “Normal” University Life: Pandemic Pedagogies during Debilitating Times
231 Contingent Faculty Matters and the Future of English Studies
232 Discussion Group on Continuing Conversations about Caregiving and the Academy
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
255 New Theories of Academic Labor
274 What Do We Want in a Learning Platform of the Future?
276 Scholarly Book Publishing with a Disability-Centered Approach
277 Discussion Group on Leading When Leadership Does Not Look Like You
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
312 Discussion Group on Career Exploration for Prospective Program Leaders and the Leadership-Curious
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
326 What to Do with Reviewer 2?
345 Discussion Group on When Leaving Academia Might Be the Right Move: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
352 Graduate Union Organizing and Scholarship
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
359A Political Threats to Academic Freedom; or, A Call for Anti-Racist Advocacy
386 Discussion Group on Setting Midcareer Priorities
387 Literature and Language Scholars and Institutional Administration
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
SATURDAY
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
406 How to Get Your Book Published
428 Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Literature Online
429 Discussion Group on Using Twitter and LinkedIn to Advocate for Yourself and Your Program
430 Public Humanities Incubator Showcase
431 Working Conditions outside the United States
432 From Pedagogy to Research and Back Again
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
452 Decolonizing the Classroom: Why and How?
458 The Ecology of the Community College Classroom
460 Pandemics and Academics: Gendered and Disciplinary Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
465 PMLA: How Members Shape the Journal
467 Addressing Women’s Invisible Labor in the Academy
468 Discussion Group on Career Pathways to K–12
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
489 Working Conditions in Foreign Languages Departments in the Age of Neoliberal Institutions
509 Working Conditions: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching, Retaining, and Staffing LOTE Programs
515 What Can Faculty Governance Do?
516 Entangling Career Education in Classes and the Curriculum
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
542 Integrating Information Literacy in Writing, Literature, and Language Instruction
543 Working Conditions and Language Education at Early College
545 Career Diversity Allies: Supporting Graduate Students in Humanities Career Development
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
561 Gender Neutrality and Gender Diversity in Modern Languages
562 Writing Program Challenges: The Next Three Years
574 Translation Revisited: New Priorities, New Technologies in Language Education
587 Debt, Surplus Value, and the Conditions of Intellectual Work
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Energy of Motion and Innovation in the Humanities: The BA in Applied Humanities
Open Discussion with the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Racism
602 Radical Pedagogy in Precarious Times
620 What Do We Want in a Research Platform of the Future?
622 Academic Labor Justice: How Adjunctification Hurts Us All and How to Advocate for Change
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
SUNDAY
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
685 Racial Justice Work in the Humanities: Public-Facing Scholars’ Projects, Lessons, Limitations, and Hope
698 Professional Resources for International PhD Teaching Assistants and Candidates in English Programs
691 Scholarly Journal Publishing with a Disability-Centered Approach
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
720 Social Media, Harassment, and Institutional Responses
721 Scholars of Color Decentering Whiteness in the Academy
722 White Scholars Decentering Whiteness in the Academy
726 Experiential Education in the Humanities and Critical Citizenship
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
753 Building Professional Dispositions for Undergraduate Humanities Majors