May 2021

The annual conference of the American Literature Association is scheduled to take place in Boston May 27-30, 2021. See our scholarly research page for information about the roundtables we are sponsoring. 

September 2021

We hope that an in-person annual conference will be feasible in 2021. If so, it will be in Gloucester on the weekend of September 11-12, 2021. 

Email updates

If you would like to be kept up-to-date about JBS activities, send your contact information in an email to info@jonathanbayliss.org and we will add you to the JBS email list. 

Past Readings and Other Events

The September 2020 Zoom readings entitled "From Cats to Seagulls: A Bayliss Bestiary" and "Gloucester Quintet: Five Writers, Five Friends" are on YouTube. 

David Rich and Ken Riaf read passages from the novels Gloucestermas and Gloucesterbook relating to downtown "Dogtown" at the first annual conference in September 2019 - the videotapes are available here. 

A 1990 student production of Bayliss's stage play The Tower of Gilgamesh is available on our YouTube channel.