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