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M/MLA & MLA

Every year, SSML sponsors sessions at both the Midwest Modern Language Association and Modern Language Association conferences.

M/MLA November 8-11, 2012, in Cincinnati
Midwest Literary Debt In July 2011 on Flavorwire, Kathleen Massara used the release of David Graeber's book, Debt: The First 5000 Years, published by Melville House, as a reason to explore how great writers have dealt with debt in their work.

What do Midwestern writers do with this theme? Is there anything distinctively Midwestern in their approach? Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, Patrica Hampl and Gwendolyn Brooks all come to mind.

SSML members (go here to join) who would like to participate in the 2012 M/MLA panel, send title, short cv, and 1-page abstract to Marilyn Atlas by April 1, 2012

MLA Jan. 3-6, 2013, in Boston
(Details to be posted soon.)

Click here to view the 2012 M/MLA Conference site.

Click here to view 2013 MLA Conference information.