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 session proposals (these examples are applicable to all types of special-session and nonguaranteed-session proposals). Click on a 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.
Examples from Special-Session Proposals
- 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)
Examples from Nonguaranteed-Session Proposals
- Literature, Wars, and the American Body (Scholarship section)
(Example of a collaborative session proposal) - Drawing Women’s Lives (Scholarship section)
(Example of a single-entity proposal)