The University of New Mexico’s English Department arrived in force to the 2025 Modern Languages Association Convention. Both faculty and graduate students participated in panels, presentations, and governance meetings.
Jesse Alemán, Professor of American Literary Studies presented, “Working under Fire: Precarity, Censorship, and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Classroom.”
Marissa Greenberg, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies presented, “Rethinking the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future” and presided over “Milton and Visibility.”
Bernadine Hernández, Associate Professor of American Literary Studies presented, “Strategies for Positive Visibility in Student and Community Engagement” and presided over “Chicana (S)Excess in the Archive.”
Feroza Jussawalla, Professor Emerita of British and Irish Literary Studies, presented, “Meeting the Stranger, and the Stranger Is Himself: Lawrence in Oaxaca,” presided over “Gullah Narratives in American Literature and Music”, and participated in the MLA Delegate Assembly as an elected delegate.
Carmen Nocentelli, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies presented, “Travel Writing and Go-Betweens” and presided over “Early Modern Social Media.”
Anita Obermeier, Professor of Medieval Studies presented Melissa Ridley Elmes’ paper, “Not Just Parroting: Originality, Motifs, Minor Arthuriana, and the Ethics of Canonization” and participated in the MLA Delegate Assembly as an elected delegate.
Doaa Omran, Alumna of Medieval Studies and current UNM English Instructor presented, “Chronotopic Affects in the Blue between Sky and Water: Palestinian Losses Also Matter” and participated in the MLA Delegate Assembly as an elected delegate.
Nahir Otaño-Gracia, Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies was the presider of “(In)Visibility and Marginality in the Global Middle Ages.”
Jeslyn Pool, PhD Student in American Literary Studies presented, “Imperfect Women Writers.”
Brandy Reeves, PhD Candidate in American Literary Studies, presented, “‘Bad’ Black Parenthood in the US Novel.”
Sarah L. Townsend, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies presented, “Solidarities and Schisms: Uses and Limitations of Irish Analogies.”
Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán, Associate Professor of American Literary Studies presented, “Hidden Geographies: Estela Portillo Trambley’s Concept of the Biosphere,” and also presented, “Pictures and Parables of Place: Fray Angélico Chávez’s New Mexico Triptych.”
Ying Xu, Alumna of the American Literary Studies Program and current Term Teacher in the UNM English Department participated in the MLA Delegate Assembly as an elected delegate.
