Professional Development Sessions at the 2020 MLA Convention
Over one hundred sessions at the 2020 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle will focus on professional development. Whether you’re interviewing for jobs, looking for tips to improve your writing, or trying to increase your department’s enrollments, there’s a session for you. Visit the online program to search or browse the more than 750 sessions and create your own schedule.
Graduate Education
5. Supporting Your Doctoral Students in Career Exploration: An Intensive Preconvention Workshop for Faculty Members
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 4
216. Let's Quit “Quit Lit”: Structural Issues in Graduate Education
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
398. Writing Projects in Graduate School: Writing with and through Anxiety
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
460A. Graduate Student Mentoring
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 5
548. Graduate School, Class Mobility, and the Job Market
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 606
553. Community, Access, and Mentorship in DBLAC: Building (In)Formal Support Networks
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 617
604. Graduate Admissions: Past, Present, and Especially Future
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 4
642. Empowering Graduate Student Writers: Theories and Strategies for Writers and Their Advisers
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 619
677. The Doctoral Internship: Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why?
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 2
Teaching
2. Reacting to the Past (RTTP) Pedagogy: Transforming Learning and Teaching Empathy
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Issaquah
21. Humanizing Online Literature Classes
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 617
24. Bibliopedagogy
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 401
52. The State of the Syllabus
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 607
68. Transformative Archives-Based Humanities Pedagogy
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 303
99. Corpus Data and Second-Language Education
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 5
123. Race and Ethnicity in the Teaching of Premodern East Asian Literature
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 4
129. Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 205
162. Intersections between Second-Language Studies and STEM
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 204
184. Pedagogy for the Justice-Involved: Teaching English in Jails and Prisons
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna C
190A. Language and Literature Program Innovation Room
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 2A
261. Teaching Hemingway and Gender
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 613
276. MLA Language Enrollment Census: Models of Successful Programs
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 303
288. Teaching Arabic (and) Humanism: Adab, Arkoun, Tahrir, and Beyond
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
Sheraton - Willow B
297. Exploring the Reaches of Translingual Approaches to Writing Studies
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
326. Human or Student? Faculty Members Respond to the Real Cocurriculum
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 615
355. Poetry for Scientists and Welders: Teaching the Liberal Arts at Two-Year Colleges
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 303
365. “Grown-Ass Women”: Understanding and Teaching Angry Texts in Several Genres
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 603
368. Teaching the History of the English Language
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
Sheraton - Willow A
406. Teaching Feeling: Affect in the Humanities Classroom
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 205
457. Teaching Literatures of the Global South
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 611
468. Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 3
480. Helping Students Articulate the Value of Their Undergraduate Humanities Studies
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
506. High-Impact Practices in the Teaching of Romance Linguistics
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
525. Digital Creative Making in the Literature Classroom
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
527. Critical Pedagogies: Precarity, Contingency, and Professional Practice
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 607
533. Decolonizing Pedagogies in Early American Studies
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 211
554. Digital Pedagogies for Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Literature
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 620
600. Digital Approaches to Place-Based Teaching
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 619
597. Digital Approaches to Second-Language Writing
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 211
644. The Teacher-Scholar at the Two-Year College
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
Sheraton - Willow B
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, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 2
683. The Letterpress Studio as a Campus Maker Space
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna AB
691. Teaching Texts in Translation: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 211
694. Teaching the Difficult: Working with Social Justice, Modern Slavery, and Climate Change
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 303
715A. Teaching Humanity? The Cultural Work of Literature Instruction in the United States
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 4
770. Teaching in an Age of Populism
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 614
779. Decolonizing Language Education
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 617
Contingent Labor
13. Fighting Exploitation of Contingent Faculty Members from Within: How Tenure-Stream Allies Can Help Create Equity on Campus
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 612
263. Taxonomies of Power: Roles and Regulations in the Academy
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 617
465. First Steps toward Institutional Change
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 617
603. The Valuation of the Seventy-Three Percent: Contingent Faculty Work and Access to Academic Freedom
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 612
Issues in the Profession
4. Become an Accredited External Reviewer for ADFL
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Willow B
7. Become an Accredited External Reviewer for ADE
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Willow A
33. Intersectionality and Coalitions: Medieval Studies and Beyond
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 619
50. The Other #MeToos
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
54. Strategies for #Decolonizing
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 606
73. Crowdsourcing the Future Work of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 201
84. Developing Diverse Leadership
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 617
115A. Making It More Social, More Just: The Liberal Arts Model and the Service of Teaching Writing
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 620
125. Being Human: From the Public Scholar to the Collaborative Humanities
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 619
126. Advancing the Public Humanities
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 604
155. Regional MLAs: New Media, Multimedia, and the Public Humanities
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 401
179. Climate Change, Technology, and Academic Responsibility
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 612
218. Values, Higher Education, and the Humanities
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 6A
235. HBCU Innovation Matters
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 607
275. Decolonizing the English Major
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 2
306. Public Humanities: Regional MLAs and Their Communities
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 5
327. Institutional Contexts and the Shaping and Reshaping of Power
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
Sheraton - Willow B
375. Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop
3:30 PM–5:30 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 1
400. Ins and Outs of Immigration in the Academy: Employment and Visas for Faculty Members
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 4
486. From Exclusion to Access: Disrupting the Academic Prestige Economy
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 604
535. Intellectual Work and the End of Higher Education
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 604
568. Being Online: Risks and Rewards for Women in Academe
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 4
613. The Future of the Humanities
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 4C-4
621. Academic Empire
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 603
675. Public-Facing Humanities, Literary Adaptation, and K–16 Connections
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 615
705. Mobilizing the Humanities: Building the Supercommons
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 201
752. Decolonizing Global Anglophone Literature
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 303
For Job Seekers
8. Career Pathways for Job Seekers in Languages
11:45 AM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Tahoma 1
9. Preconvention Workshop on Career Directions for PhDs in English
11:45 AM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Tahoma 2
55. Mentoring Workshop for Job Seekers in Languages
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Tahoma 1
231. Demystifying the Job Search Process
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
302. Hands-On LinkedIn Workshop
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
310. Career Opportunities in Two-Year Colleges
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 4
363. A Showcase of Career Diversity
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Tahoma 2
Putting Your Skills to Work in the United States Intelligence Community and Other Government Agencies
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 4C-1
428. Résumé Workshop
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 4
512. Curriculum Vitae Workshop
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 5
576. Networking for Humanities PhDs: Dirty Word or Vital Resource?
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 5
614. Speed Mentoring
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Tahoma 2
650. Cash Bar and Networking Event Arranged by MLA Career Services
7:15 PM–8:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
Sheraton - Boren
For Department Chairs and Administrators
3. Advocating for Your Department
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 5
105. Advocacy for the Humanities at the Statehouse and Beyond
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 604
128. Making the Invisible Minor Robust
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
181. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Your Department
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
296. Academic Trajectories: Pathways to the Deanship
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 1
370. Advocating for Foreign Language Departments
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 1
617. New Models for Master’s Degrees in Languages, Cultures, Media, and Digital Humanities
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Yakima 2
716. Connecting the Humanities to Gainful Employment: Career Education and the Undergraduate Curriculum
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 201
Digital Humanities
6. DH Curious? Digital Humanities Tools and Technologies for Students, Emerging Scholars, Faculty Members, Librarians, and Administrators
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Grand A
19. Critical Engagements between Modern Languages and Digital Humanities
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 204
30. Digital Humanities and Premodern Germany
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 211
43. Digital Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 2
76. Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 4C-1
79. Spenser and the Digital Humanities
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 616
165. Hawthorne and the Digital Humanities
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 604
168. Digital Humanities as Activism
7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 212
252. Digital Humanities and/in Beckett Studies
10:15 AM–11:30 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 612
388. Being Human, Seeming Human
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
Sheraton - Metropolitan A
422. Digital Humanities and Open Scholarship: An Introduction
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
432. Digital Humanities and Media Studies: Reading at Scale
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 401
659. Comics and the Digital Humanities
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
Sheraton - Willow A
719. Digital Humanities and Computational Media: At the Interface
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - Skagit 4
Writing, Editing, and Publishing
001. How to Be Your Own Best Editor
8:30 AM–11:30 AM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
Sheraton - Ravenna AB
42. The Uses of the University Press
12:00 PM–1:15 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 201
44. Making and Using the MLA International Bibliography for the Twenty-First Century: Human Expertise, Digital Tools
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 4
108. How to Get Published
3:30 PM–4:45 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - 4C-3
140. Build Your Online Presence, Share Your Scholarship, and Collaborate on MLA Commons and Humanities Commons
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Thursday, Jan 9, 2020
WSCC - Chelan 2
213. MLA Style Workshop: Documenting Sources with the MLA Handbook
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 4C-1
215. Inventing and Inheriting Scholarly Journals: Perspectives on Beginnings
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 401
316. Publishing for the Digital Humanities
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Friday, Jan 10, 2020
WSCC - 607
427. Public Engagement: Academics Writing in Public
8:30 AM–9:45 AM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 608
538. Public Engagement: Where Theory Meets Praxis and the Rubber Hits the Road
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 401
633. Fifty Years of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals—and Forward
5:15 PM–6:30 PM, Saturday, Jan 11, 2020
WSCC - 401
773. The State of the Single-Author Study
1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sunday, Jan 12, 2020
WSCC - 205