Deadline: March 17, 2025
Contact: Everett Hamner
Email: aslerocksmla@gmail.com

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment will sponsor one guaranteed session at MLA 2026 (January 8-11 in Toronto, ON, Canada), and also has the option of supporting an additional non-guaranteed session. At MLA 2025 in New Orleans, we had a crowd well over 100 for our guaranteed session on Donna Haraway, and were also successful in supporting a second, nonguaranteed panel on carceral environments, so there is recent momentum for strong ASLE sessions at this conference.

For 2026, there is no predetermined guaranteed panel. We solicit proposals for fully pre-formed or partially populated sessions on any ASLE-related topic, possibly but not necessarily incorporating the “family resemblances” presidential theme. Individual paper proposals are also welcome for addition to another session proposal or combination into a new panel.

All proposals should include a CV for panel organizer(s) and/or potential participant(s) as well as a short title and 250-300-word abstract for the proposed panel and/or contribution(s). We will consider not only the proposal’s insightfulness and timeliness, but also its prioritization of presenter diversity across many categories and its potential to serve a broad set of audiences.

Please send submission materials in a single email to aslerocksmla@gmail.com by Monday, March 17, 2025.

Posted on February 19, 2025