Guaranteed roundtable for MLA 2023 (San Francisco) on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. We invite roundtable presentations from a wide variety of perspectives – cultural, formal, social, legal, historical – and literary traditions. How can the shifting dynamics of consent and coercion help us understand premodern race-making and gender construction? Roundtable organized by the MLA forum on Renaissance/Early Modern Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies; comparative and transnational perspectives are especially welcome.

Brief CV and 250-word abstract by 14 March to Kirsten Mendoza (U-Dayton, kmendoza1@udayton.edu) and Penelope Anderson (Indiana U, pea@indiana.edu).