ADPCL Meetings

The ADPCL has traditionally held meetings in conjunction with the Modern Language Association (MLA), where it has sponsored an annual session on a topic of programmatic interest to comparatists and administrators; and with the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), where it has co-sponsored an annual job-market workshop with the ACLA’s Graduate Caucus, as well as held sessions on professional topics. If you are interested in suggesting a topic for a future meeting, contact the ADPCL.

2024

MLA, January 2024. Round Table: Surveying PhD Programs in Comparative Literature for ACLA's State of the Discipline Report.
ACLA, March 2024. Round Table 2: Surveying PhD Programs in Comparative Literature for ACLA's State of the Discipline Report.

2023

Adapting Digital Resources for Comparative Studies.
ACLA, March 2023. Incorporating Medical Humanities in Research and the Curriculum.
MLA ADE-ALD Summer Institutes, June 2023. Leading a Comparative or Interdisciplinary Department or Program.

2022

ACLA, March 2022. The Global Job Market for Humanities Workshop.

2021

MLA, January 2021. World Languages, World Literature, and Comparative Literature.
ACLA, March 2021. Literature Writers, Scholars and Students Under Threat: How to Build a Culture of Solidarity with Threatened Writers and Scholars in Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature.

2020

MLA, January 2020. Comparative Literature: Reconciling Indigenous, Migrant, and National Languages.

2019

MLA, January 2019. Comparative Studies and Human Diversity.
ACLA, March 2019. Mentoring—Building Meaningful Professional Relationships and Creating a Supporting Institutional Culture.

2018

MLA, January 2018. Transacting Comparative Studies with Other Disciplines and Units.

2017

MLA, January 2017. How Difficult (or Easy) Is It to be Global—and Comparative? A roundtable on teaching and researching world literature in addition to comparative literature; the impact of the rising interest in global studies; assessment of how the “going global” (or at least transnationalization) of previously more insular departments, including their hiring of faculty members who work comparatively, is affecting comparative literature programs.

2016

ACLA, March 2016. Session on “The World in a Journal: New Directions in Literary Scholarship for a Global Age”.
ACLA, March 2016. ADPCL Annual Breakfast Meeting (for department chairs and other administrators).
ACLA, March 2016. Job-Market Workshop, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.
MLA, January 2016. Comparative Literature and Global Studies: a Round Table on the institutional and curricular relations between comparative literature and the expanding institutional field of global (or international) studies.

2015

ACLA, March 2015. Thursday Workshop: Rethinking Graduate Programs.
ACLA, March 2015. ADPCL Annual Breakfast Meeting (for department chairs and other administrators).
ACLA, March 2015. Job-Market Workshop on the Academic Job Interview, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.
MLA, January 2015. Comparative Literature: Turning, Returning: Pedagogical and Digital Trajectories.

2014

ACLA, March 2014. ADPCL Annual Breakfast Meeting and Working Session on the Undergraduate Curriculum (for department chairs and other administrators).
ACLA, March 2014. Job-Market Workshop on Alt-Ac Careers, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.
MLA, January 2014. Comparative Literature: The Next Ten Years.

2013

ACLA, April 2013. Job-Market Workshop on Publishing Journal Articles in Preparation for the Job Market, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.
ACLA, April 2013. Round Table: Should We Justify the Humanities?
ACLA, April 2013. Annual Meeting Lunch (for department chairs and other administrators).
MLA, January 2013. What Does Comparative Literature Do For, Against, After Periodization?

2012

ACLA, Mar-Apr 2012. Job-Market Workshop on the Non-Tenure-Track Job Market, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.
ACLA, Mar-Apr 2012. ADPCL Round Table on Teaching.
ACLA, Mar-Apr 2012. Annual Meeting Breakfast (for department chairs and other administrators).
MLA, January 2012. The Americanization of Comparative Literature, the Comparatization of American Studies.

2011

ACLA, Mar-Apr 2011. Annual Meeting Breakfast (for department chairs and other administrators).
ACLA, Mar-Apr 2011. Job-Market Workshop on Looking Beyond the Academic Job Market, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.
MLA, January 2011. Collaborative Strategies for Hard (and Good) Times: Local, Regional, International Options.

2010

ACLA, April 2010. Annual Meeting Breakfast (for department chairs and other administrators).
ACLA, April 2010. Job-Market Workshop on Navigating the Current Job Market, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.

2009

MLA, December 2009. Evaluating and Publishing Comparative Scholarship: A Roundtable with Academic Press Editors.
MLA, December 2009. Comparative Literature Past and Future: How Should We Teach Our Discipline?
ACLA, March 2009. Job-Market Workshop, Round Table, Perspectives on the Market in Comparative Literature, co-sponsored with the Graduate Caucus.
ACLA, March 2009. Round Table on Teaching Across Media.
ACLA, March 2009. Annual Meeting Breakfast (for department chairs and other administrators).

2008

MLA, December 2008. Comparative Literature and Translation Studies.
MLA, December 2008. Evaluating and Publishing Comparative Scholarship: A Roundtable with Journal Editors.

Earlier Years

We are building the archive for earlier years. In the meantime, see the posted annual programs for the MLA and ACLA meetings.