Call for Papers
The Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Association invites you to attend its 73rd annual conference, our first post-pandemic, in-person meeting! We are excited to welcome you to Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA, from October 12 – 14, 2023.
We are especially interested in papers dealing with the following:
- African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Afro-Latino Studies
- American Sign Language / Deaf Studies
- Asian Studies
- Classics
- Digital Humanities
- Eco-Criticism
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- English as a Second Language
- Film Studies
- Francophone Studies
- Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
- Italian Literature & Culture
- Immigration Studies / Diaspora Studies
- Jewish Studies
- K-12 World Language Studies
- Women’s and Gender Studies
- Latin American Studies
- Linguistics
- Luso-Brazilian Studies
- Pedagogy
- Service Learning
- Slavic Studies
- Study Abroad
- Translation & Interpretation
If you are interested in presenting an original paper or proposing an organized panel, please submit a 250-word abstract (including keywords) in English to miflc@su.edu. At the conference, twenty-minute presentations may be given in ASL, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish. Papers of authors in absentia will not be read.
Submission deadline extended – July 15, 2023.
Please share widely with your professional networks. Graduate students, contingent faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.