UNM’s English Department made a strong showing at the 2022 Modern Languages Association Conference. Faculty and graduate students participated in panels and presentations, engaging with scholarship concerning raciolinguistics, pedagogy, the pandemic, and more. The list below details their contributions and the sessions in which they participated.
Jesse Alemán, Professor of American Literary Studies:
– Literatures of Reconstruction and Their Resonances for the Present
– Revolución/Révolution
Bernadine Hernandez, Associate Professor of American Literary Studies:
– Decolonial Methods: Archives, Borders, Books, Bodies
– No Justice / No Peace
Feroza Jussawalla, Professor Emerita of British & Irish Literary Studies:
– Multilingual Critical Theories: Decolonizing the Hegemony of European Critical Theories
– Speaker, Negotiating Culture, Conflict, and Controversy in a Global World: Multilingual Muslim Women’s Writing
Emma Mincks, PhD Student in British & Irish Literary Studies:
– Debunking Imperial Myths and Dreaming Decolonization in the Long Nineteenth Century
Julianne Newmark, Principal Lecturer in Rhetoric & Writing:
– Presented “Nativism as Virality, Nativism and Virality: Lawrentian Rejections of the Essentialism of Illness and Health” in the session on Disease and Recovery: Pandemic Perspectives
AJ Odasso, PhD Candidate in Rhetoric & Writing
– Just in Time: The New Postpandemic Paradigm at Community Colleges
Doaa Omran, Alumna of Medieval Studies and current Instructor:
– Speaker, Multilingual Critical Theories: Decolonizing the Hegemony of European Critical Theories
– Presider, Negotiating Culture, Conflict, and Controversy in a Global World: Multilingual Muslim Women’s Writing
Nahir Otaño Gracia, Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies and British & Irish Literary Studies:
– Diglossia, Heteroglossia, and Raciolinguistics
Charles Paine, Professor of Rhetoric & Writing:
– Relations between Two-Year and Four-Year Institutions
Sarah L. Townsend, Assistant Professor of British & Irish Literary Studies
– Teaching Irish Studies in an Era of White Supremacy
