The 2023 MLA Annual Convention will take place from January 5-8 in San Francisco, and a lot of German Studies faculty members will participate.
As part of the panel "Plants in Nineteenth-Century German Culture," Dr. Joela Jacobs, founder of the international Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network, will present on "Pansies, Pollen, and Pleasure: Plant Sex and Its Phytopoetic Effects in Nineteenth-Century Germany." Dr. Janice McGregor will speak on a roundtable on "Critical Reflections on Second-Language Study Abroad Research,” together with UA colleagues Dr. Wenhao Diao in East Asian Studies and Dr. Julieta Fernandez in Spanish and Portuguese. The roundtable discussion features contributors to a recent book on Designing Second Language Study Abroad Research, co-edited by Dr. McGregor and Dr. John L. Plews. Together with UA colleagues Dr. Carine Bourget and Dr. Maria Letizia Bellocchio from the department of French and Italian, Dr. Barbara Kosta and Dr. Barbara Citera will present in the Language and Literature Program Innovation Room on "Developing Foreign Cultures Courses for the Professions." Dr. Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni will moderate a panel on "From Anthropocene to Zeitgeist: Politics of Temporality in German Literature and Culture around 1800." Together with her colleague Heather Willis Allen from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Chantelle Warner will moderate a session on "Affect and Emotions in Language and Culture Teaching and Learning." Dr. Albrecht Classen will be one of three speakers at a session on "Where Do We Go from Here? (Re)Imagining Philological and Linguistic Futures" and will give a presentation on "Globalism and Early Modern German Perspectives: Olearius in Persia and Jesuit Missionaries in Mexico" within a panel on "Cultural Responses to Global Connections."
Take a look at the full program here.