The University of New Mexico\u2019s English Department arrived in force to the 2025 Modern Languages Association Convention. Both faculty and graduate students participated in panels, presentations, and governance meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesse Alem\u00e1n<\/strong>, Professor of American Literary Studies presented, \u201cWorking under Fire: Precarity, Censorship, and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marissa Greenberg<\/strong>, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies presented, \u201cRethinking the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future\u201d and presided over “Milton and Visibility.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bernadine Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, Associate Professor of American Literary Studies presented, \u201cStrategies for Positive Visibility in Student and Community Engagement\u201d and presided over “Chicana (S)Excess in the Archive.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feroza Jussawalla<\/strong>, Professor Emerita of British and Irish Literary Studies, presented, \u201cMeeting 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carmen Nocentelli<\/strong>, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies presented, \u201cTravel Writing and Go-Betweens\u201d and presided over “Early Modern Social Media.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anita Obermeier<\/strong>, Professor of Medieval Studies presented Melissa Ridley Elmes\u2019 paper, \u201cNot Just Parroting: Originality, Motifs, Minor Arthuriana, and the Ethics of Canonization\u201d and participated in the MLA Delegate Assembly as an elected delegate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doaa Omran<\/strong>, Alumna of Medieval Studies and current UNM English Instructor presented, \u201cChronotopic Affects in the Blue between Sky and Water: Palestinian Losses Also Matter” and participated in the MLA Delegate Assembly as an elected delegate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nahir Ota\u00f1o-Gracia<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies was the presider of “(In)Visibility and Marginality in the Global Middle Ages.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jeslyn Pool<\/strong>, PhD Student in American Literary Studies presented, \u201cImperfect Women Writers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brandy Reeves<\/strong>, PhD Candidate in American Literary Studies, presented, \u201c\u2018Bad\u2019 Black Parenthood in the US Novel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah L. Townsend<\/strong>, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies presented, \u201cSolidarities and Schisms: Uses and Limitations of Irish Analogies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Melina Vizca\u00edno-Alem\u00e1n<\/strong>, Associate Professor of American Literary Studies presented, \u201cHidden Geographies: Estela Portillo Trambley\u2019s Concept of the Biosphere,\u201d and also presented, \u201cPictures and Parables of Place: Fray Ang\u00e9lico Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s New Mexico Triptych.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ying Xu<\/strong>, 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of New Mexico\u2019s English Department arrived in force to the 2025 Modern Languages Association Convention. Both faculty and graduate students participated in panels, presentations, and governance meetings. 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