NeMLA meets next during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is similarly punctuated on either end, by the novel’s original appearance at the outset and with Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation (2022) as coda. White Noise’s fortieth is an auspicious occasion to explore it anew, then, not only in its own right, on the one hand, but at least as importantly, on the other, in terms of its legacy within the author’s own body of work and literature and popular culture generally. Explorations of either sort will be considered, but the latter are encouraged in particular.

All disciplines, methods, and perspectives welcome.

Submission guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted directly to the NeMLA site, athttps://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21334, by October 15, 2024. Questions, concerns, and inquiries generally may be forwarded to: trip@mccrossin.org.