Melville Society Panels at MLA 2022
Modern Language Association
Annual Convention
January 6-9, 2022
Washington, DC and Online
Melville and the Cultures of Antiquity
FRIDAY, 7 JANUARY 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, MONUMENT (MARRIOTT MARQUIS)
1. ‘The Blocks in Symmetry Congealed’: Melville’s Poetic Response to American (Neo)Classicism, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak (U of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle) [#18279]
2. ‘Like a Sachem Petrified’: Clarel in the Age of Secularism, Sarah Buchmeier (U of Illinois, Chicago) [#18280]
3. Ancient Beauty in Timoleon, Cody Marrs (U of Georgia) [#18281]
4. Melville’s Indian Antiquities: From the ‘Matse Avatar’ to the Queen of Sheba, Brian Yothers (U of Texas, El Paso) [#18282]
Embrace All Aliens: Melville and Migration
SATURDAY, 8 JANUARY 10:15 AM-11:30 AM, Virtual
1. Black Feminist Futures, Kayla Hardy-Butler (Binghamton U, State U of New York) [#18416]
2. Bartleby, Refugee, Dana Medoro (U of Manitoba) and Alyson Brickey (U of Winnipeg) [#18419]
3. Law and Legibility in Benito Cereno, Rohan Ghatage (U of Toronto) [#18422]
4. Israel Ramírez / Alonso Potter: Narrative Coincidence in Migrant Fiction of Sigüenza y Góngora and Melville, Jaime Campomar (George Washington U) [#18426]
Presiding
Mary Grace Albanese (Binghamton U, State U of New York)
