English department faculty and grad students attended the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans. Below is a list of papers presented:

Florence Boos, chair, Morris, Religion, and Myth

Jennifer Buckley, "Paratextual Interpretation and Adaptation in Speechless Drama"

Tara Bynum, Obour Tanner’s Grief

Jamie Chen, Teaching Intertextuality in the Archives: Tracking Down Texts in The Underground Railroad

Rajorshi Das, Queer Theory from the South: Knowledge, Being, and Method

Eli Rodriguez Fielder, Experimental Media and Activism during the Civil Rights Movement

Adare Smith, The Transatlantic Slave Ad: Examining the Legibility of the Enslaved from Restoration England to Revolutionary America

Harry Stecopoulos, Multilingual Absalom, Monolingual Absalom: William Faulkner’s Empire of Language

Philip Zaborowski, Making the Book: Curating Textual Communities in the General Education Classroom