Modern Language Association

Each year the Society sponsors at least one panel at the MLA Convention. Calls for Papers for these panels are usually posted in February or March, for the following January. Following is a complete list of past panel topics.

2023

Spring and All at 100

2022

Multilingual Williams

2021

William Carlos Williams Thinking

2020   
William Carlos Williams, American Modernism, and West Coast Culture

2019   
Approaches to Teaching William Carlos Williams

2018   
Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and New York City
Pater and Son: Fathers in the Work of William Carlos Williams

2017   
“Wiping Soiled Words”: The Poetics of William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore

2016   
Ezra Pound and the Future (s) of the University
Borders and Crossings: Time and Space in William Carlos Williams

2015   
Remembering Williams, Williams Remembering

2014   
New Directions in William Carlos Williams Studies

2013   
William Carlos Williams and the Armory at One Hundred

2012   
William Carlos Williams’s A Voyage to Pagany and Pagany (1930–33)

2011   
Prosody in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams and the “Radiant Gist” of Science
William Carlos Williams’s An Early Martyr and Other Poems: Seventy-Five Years Later

2009   
William Carlos Williams and Life Studies
William Carlos Williams and the Problems of Embodiment: Disability, Medicine, and Trauma Studies

2008   
William Carlos Williams, the Beats, and the San Francisco Scene
The Williams of Paterson Book V

2007   
William Carlos Williams in Little Magazines: Poetry, the Little Review, and Others
William Carlos Williams and Company

2006   
Williams and the Classics
 “It’s All in / the Sound”: The Prosody of William Carlos Williams

2005   
Twenty-Five Years of the William Carlos Williams Review: Landmarks, Controversies, and Change
Recent Trends in Williams Scholarship

2004   
William Carlos Williams and the American Republic: In the American Grain I
William Carlos Williams and the American Republic: In the American Grain II

2003   
William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All Today
William Carlos Williams and Objectivism

2002   
William Carlos Williams and Latin America
Williams and the Urban Environment

2001   
Williams and British Poetry