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MLA 2027 CFPs
Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Negotiating with the Dead”: Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural in
Atwood’s Works
The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel focusing on how Atwood’s
writing engages religious and spiritual practices and the supernatural. We welcome proposals that
consider how Atwood’s works mobilize the sacred, the ritual, the metaphysical, and/or the ghostly as
vehicles for meaning-making, ethical reflection, and narrative strategy. Possible topics include but are not
limited to:
Religion as ideology
Spirituality and folk belief outside institutional frameworks
Myth, ritual, and cosmology
Scriptural and prophetic discursive modes
Haunting, spectrality, and divided subjectivity
Eco-spirituality and religious environmental ethics
The relationship between storytelling, testimony, and the sacred
Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief biographical note to leefrew@yorku.ca by 15 March 2026.
Online Panel MLA 2027: “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”: Testimony and Resistance in Atwood’s
Works
The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel on testimony and resistance in
Margaret Atwood’s work. In keeping with the MLA 2027 presidential theme, this panel welcomes papers
that examine how Atwood’s narratives represent coercion and constraint while also tracing the risk and
agency at stake in claiming liberatory space. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• Testimony, witnessing, and the politics of voice
• Surveillance, secrecy, confession, and the archive
• Gendered power, reproductive politics, and bodily autonomy
• Critical reception and adaptation
Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief biographical note to leefrew@yorku.ca by 15 March 2026.
MLA 2026 CFP
MLA 2026: Toronto, 8–11 January 2026, CFP:
The circle game
We invite proposals on Atwood’s work and impact engaging with the theme of Families—broadly defined, including lineage, kinship, inheritance, found families, cross-species bonds, intertextuality and literary genealogies. 250-word abstract and CV due 3/23.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025
Lee Frew, York U (leefrew@yorku.ca)
NeMLA CFP
NeMLA 2025 (Philadelphia, March 6-9)
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2024
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference – Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025
Contact email: riley.thomas@temple.edu
Title: Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations
The “Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations” panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites proposals for 20-minute papers exploring themes of revolution and evolution in Margaret Atwood’s texts, adaptations, and real-life crossovers. In what ways has Atwood’s works sparked revolutionary change—or not? What role does evolution play in her texts?
Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief bio (<100 words) by September 30th through the NeMLA portal for consideration: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21213. Please reach out to Riley Thomas at riley.thomas@temple.edu with any questions.
MLA 2024 CFP
MLA 18 Call for Papers
“Renegades and Revenge: Hag-Seed &/or The Heart Goes Last.” 250-300 word abstract and a short bio by 15 March 2017; Eleonora Rao (erao@unisa.it)
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