M/MLA & MLA
Every year, SSML sponsors sessions at both the Midwest Modern Language Association and Modern Language Association conferences.M/MLA November 4-7, 2010 Chicago
1) Heartlessness in the Heartland: Midwestern Literature and the Lure of the Grotesque
2) Literature, Terror and the Unconventional Midwest
MLA January 6-9, 2011 Los Angeles
1) "Narrating Lives and Midwestern Literary Self-Consciousness: Writers in Search of a Midwest" What is the relationship between the stereotype of the Midwest and the realities of its literature?
2) "Narrating Lives and Midwestern Literary Characters: 'The Way Who Mixes Up With Where'" How do Midwestern writers use geography or place in their creation of Midwestern characters?
If you are a current SSML member (or are willing to join) and would like to participate in one of our 2010 M/MLA conference panels, please send your title and a one page abstract to Marilyn Atlas at atlas@ohio.edu or 230 North Roosevelt Avenue, Bexley, Ohio 43209.
Deadline: March 25, 2010
Click here to view the 2010 M/MLA Conference site.
Click here to view the 2011 MLA Conference site.