American Literature Association - 34th Annual Conference - May 25-28, 2023

The ALA annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston, May 25-28, 2023 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). For further information or specific questions, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliteratureassociation.org or contact the conference director, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield, at carr@georgiasouthern.edu, or the Executive Director of the ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen of Princeton University, at ab23@princeton.edu.

Call for Proposals

The Jonathan Bayliss Society will sponsor two roundtable panels at the ALA Annual Conference in Boston.

Panel 1: The Sea in American Literature

deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites submissions for a panel on The Sea in American Literature. Potential subjects for this panel range from Melville and Richard Henry Dana to Stephen Crane, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Barry Lopez, and Jonathan Bayliss, but others will occur to you as well. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary GrieveCarlson at grieveca@lvc.edu by January 25, 2023. Please note if you will have AV requirements.

Panel 2: Narrative Form in American Fiction

deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023

Ever since Aristotle told us in the Poetics that a plot has a beginning, a middle, and an end, writers have been pushing back against that claim in interesting ways. In American fiction, we find examples in the work of Melville, Gertrude Stein, Faulkner, Gass, Gaddis, Acker, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Bayliss, among many others. Submissions for the panel Narrative Form in American Fiction may focus on particular authors or genres, or on theoretical questions. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu by January 25, 2023. Please note if you will have AV requirements.

More information about the ALA may be found at www.americanliteratureassociation.org.