MLA 2019 Events
The William Morris Society in the United States holds its annual
meeting in conjunction with the Modern
Language Association (MLA) Convention each year. As the MLA Convention changes
locations annually, this meeting offers our members many opportunities to meet
up with fellow Morrisians from across the U. S.
The 2019 convention in Chicago, IL—which this year coincides with
the annual meeting of the American
Historical Association—promises to once again be
a busy time for attending WMS members, with all our formal events taking place
on Friday, January 4, 2019. Our sponsored session this year is on “William
Morris: Reflections on Art and Labor” (8:30-9:45 am | Michigan 2 in the Hyatt
Regency) with the following participants and papers:
Brandiann Molby (Loyola
University Chicago), “The Handcrafted Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction: Walter Benjamin and the Revolutionary Potential of William
Morris’s Decorated Books”
Patrick Fessenbecker
(Bilkent University), “Aestheticism and the Birth of the Consultant: Wilde
versus Morris on Art, Work, and the Self”
Rebekah Greene (Georgia
Institute of Technology), “William Morris and The Dawn: Ideas for ‘The
Society of the Future’”
Moderator: KellyAnn
Fitzpatrick (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Taking advantage of the Convention’s location in Chicago, we have
also arranged for a tour and special viewing of Morris and Pre-Raphaelite
materials at the Newberry Library
(3:00-4:30 pm).
Our annual meeting & dinner, held this year at Quartino from 6-9
pm, will offer further opportunities for forging new relationships. The event
allows us to welcome new board members, remember members who can no longer be
with us, and appreciate those who can be.
Additional details on our MLA 2019 schedule of events can be
found on our website. Members
who plan to attend the MLA session, Newberry Library tour, and/or the annual
meeting & dinner should RSVP to KellyAnn Fitzpatrick (kellyann@gatech.edu) no
later than December 28, 2018.
MLA
2020 Planning
Planning is already well underway for our annual meeting at MLA
2020 (January 9-12 | Seattle, WA). In regards to our sponsored MLA sessions, we
are seeking submissions for the following guaranteed session:
Re-evaluating the
Pre-Raphaelites
In the past decade, a
number of exhibitions from Manchester to Moscow have reassessed Pre-Raphaelite
art and design, from William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision
at the Manchester Art Gallery in 2009 to the traveling exhibition Victorian
Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement at
venues through 2021. These displays have positioned the intersection of
art, design, and literature as defining features of the Pre-Raphaelites and the
Arts and Crafts movement, marking them as both “avant-garde” and deeply engaged
with the past. We seek papers that respond to these recent re-evaluations
of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement (including critical
responses).
Submission instructions: send CV and a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper to KellyAnn Fitzpatrick (kellyann.fitzpatrick@gmail.com) no later than 1 March 2019.
We are also seeking submissions for the following session,
co-sponsored with Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment. Please note that this
session is not guaranteed and subject to approval by the MLA:
Ecosocialism and the Late
Victorians
The late nineteenth century
saw writers, artists, and thinkers such as William Morris help plant the seeds
of ecological concerns in socialist politics, leading to innovative approaches
to both environmental and socialist ideas. We seek papers that explore any
aspect of the ways (literary, artistic, political) that resultant ecosocialist
impulses influenced or grew out of late Victorian culture.
Submission instructions:
send CV and a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper to Clare Echterling
(cechterling@ku.edu) and KellyAnn Fitzpatrick (kellyann.fitzpatrick@gmail.com)
no later than 1 March 2019.
Many thanks to Jane Carlin, the current WMS-US Secretary, for
already laying the groundwork for what promises to be an exciting slate of
events for our 2020 annual meeting & dinner.
--KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Georgia Institute of Technology
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