Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

340. Disability and the Foreign Languages

7:15–8:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession

Presiding: Sally J. Chivers, Trent Univ.

1. “Reading Disability as Disability in Korean Literature,” Eunjung Kim, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

2. “The Destabilizing Power of Disability in Ousmane Sembène’s Xala,” Thomas Jay Lynn, Penn State Univ., Berks

3. “Aging Women and Disability in Premodern Spanish Literature,” Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, Univ. of Notre Dame

4. “Worlds Apart: Disability and the Foreign Language Classroom,” Tammy Elizabeth Berberi, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris

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