The Modern Language Association Conference went online for 2021, and so did nine of UNM\u2019s English faculty and graduate students, who participated on panels and as presenters of their original research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Feroza Jussawalla, BILS Professor, and Doaa Omran, Alumna and Instructor, participated in a colloquy entitled \u201cSpeaking Persistently: Muslim Women Writers\u2019 Resistances,\u201d over which Omran presided. This intercultural panel considered the ways in which women \u201cshow that by persistently speaking out they are creating forms of resistance within their Islamic identities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernadine Hernandez, American Literary Studies Assistant Professor, was a panelist in a session that considered \u201cCarla Trujillo\u2019s Chicana Lesbians at Thirty Years.\u201d
Chuck Paine, Rhetoric & Writing Professor, spoke as a panelist in a session that discussed \u201cRelations between Two-Year and Four-Year Institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nahir Ota\u00f1o Gracia, Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies, presented two papers: \u201cLanguage Politics and Arthuriana in Guillem de Torroella\u2019s La Faula\u201d and \u201cViolence is Not Neutral: The Persistent Erasure of Violence in the Historiography of the Global North,\u201d in panels concerning the Medieval Mediterranean and race in Medieval Iberian studies, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lauren Perry, American Literary Studies PhD student, was present in her capacity as regional delegate from the Central and Rocky Mountain Region.
David Puthoff, PhD student of American Literary Studies was a panelist for \u201cClimate Activist Pedagogies.”
Tania Balderas, American Literary Studies PhD student, was a panelist on a panel entitled \u201cSolitude and the Community: Teaching and Learning during a Pandemic.\u201d
Vicki Vanbrocklin, American Literary Studies PhD student, presented her research, \u201cA Constellation of Lost Stars: Nineteenth-Century Black Women Activists,\u201d in a session that focused on Black women and intellectualism in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an executive committee member of the MLA\u2019s LLC Nineteenth-Century American Literature Forum, Jesse Alem\u00e1n, Professor of American Literary Studies, helped to arrange the 2022 MLA panels for the group, including the session he is chairing on \u201cRevoluci\u00f3n\/R\u00e9volution: Insurrection, slave rebellion, civil unrest, social change, or literary activism in the US and the Americas, especially in languages other than English.\u201d Also, as a member of the American Literature Society executive committee (an MLA Allied Organization), he helped to plan their 2022 MLA sessions and is chairing the panel titled \u201cNo Justice\/No Peace: On the role, relevance, and responsibilities of American literature and social change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an executive committee member of the MLA\u2019s CLCS Arthurian Forum, Anita Obermeier, Professor of Medieval Studies, helped to arrange the 2022 MLA panel for the group: \u201cDifferent Endings \u2013 Happy and Otherwise: The nature and role of endings in various Arthurian traditions, especially endings across more than one national literature or across time periods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n