ASLE Panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference 2025

Boston, Massachusetts

The American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).

ASLE Panel Topic: "Blue Humanities"

Please submit a 300-word abstract on any aspect of American/ transatlantic/transpacific literature or material culture and a topic such as …

Migration across oceans

Flooding/drought/climate refugees

Anthropocene oceans

Petrocultures

Ocean acidification

Offshore energies

Storms at sea/tsunamis/hurricanes/currents of disaster

Cognitive fictions (ocean animal)

Oceanic cultures (human and/or nonhuman)

Pacific garbage patch/ocean plastics

Liquid poetics and/or politics

Fluidity and contamination/toxicity/transcorporeality

Whaling/fishing/aquatic agricultures

Empathy/“oceanic feeling”

Unfathomable depths/scales

Please submit an abstract and CV to federh@ecu.edu by November 1, 2024. Panelists must be members of ASLE before May 1, 2025. Hybrid papers (researched nonfiction or creative scholarship) are welcome. Note: this will be a panel of six, 10-minute papers.

The ALA Conference Fee: The registration fee covers the costs of the conference, including the receptions. It does not include any meals. All of those who are on the program are required to pre-register by April 15, 2025. Those who do not register by May 1 will be dropped from the program. The conference fee is $175 with a reduced rate of $125 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired Faculty. Registration Information for the conference will be available on the website in January. We prefer that individuals register online by using the link provided on the ALA website. Individuals may also pay by check along with the registration form, which can be found online after January 1. Please do NOT mail any checks until the registration form is posted.