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Information on Panelists' and Presider's Scholarship Examples

This page contains links to good examples of the section for information on panelists' and presider's scholarship from a variety of special-session proposals (these examples are also applicable to nonguaranteed sessions submitted on behalf of divisions, discussion groups, allied and affiliate organizations, MLA committees, and the American Literature section). Click on the link below to view the example. These excerpts appear as they were received by the MLA and have not been edited to conform to MLA style.

Ideas of Form in Twentieth-Century Poetry: What We Talk about When We Talk about Form (Scholarship section)
(Example of a proposal organized by a graduate student)

Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: New Approaches to African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 (Scholarship section)
(Example of a proposal with three graduate student panelists)

Saintly Women and Priestly Poets: The Fifteenth-Century English Poetry of Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, and John Audelay (Scholarship section)
(Example of a proposal with participants at all different stages in their careers)

Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance at Twenty Five (Scholarship section)
(Good overall example)

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