CFP: Stephen Crane Society at ALA 2018

  Call for Papers for the Stephen Crane Society at ALA 2018

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on May 24-27, 2018. All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:

·      Crane’s depiction of war

·      Crane and the arts (e. g., painting, photography, music)

·      Crane’s depiction of the city

·      Crane’s poetry

·      Crane’s journalism

·      the Sullivan County tales and sketches

·      the Western stories

·      the Whilomville stories

·      one of Crane’s lesser-known novels (The Third Violet, Active Service, or The O’Ruddy)

·      Crane’s depiction of women

·      Crane’s relationship with other writers, e. g., Garland, Howells, Conrad, or Frederic

·      Crane’s influence on later writers

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

You may also propose a roundtable discussion on, say, teaching Crane’s short stories.

Please email abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by January 15, 2018, to the program chair:

Paul Sorrentino

psorrent@vt.edu

For more information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. If you have specific questions about ALA, contact the conference director, Professor Leslie Petty, atpettyL@rhodes.edu, or the Executive Director of the ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen, at ab23@princeton.edu.