[update] John Steinbeck as an International Writer

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Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University
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Update: Proposal deadline extended to March 15, 2016.

Conference Description:
The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars invites conference papers that examine Steinbeck as an international/translational writer. Contributions are welcome from a wide variety of theoretical applications, such as Steinbeck's connections to world literature and world thought—for example, Classical Greek and Roman, Eastern, and twentieth-century Russian. How has Steinbeck adapted not only themes but also aesthetic choices and narrative strategies? Other topics are welcome as well: deep ecology, power and subjugation, the concept of democracy and America, ethics and philosophy, gender studies.

Keynotes by:

Richard Astro
Provost Emeritus and Professor of English at Drexel University
Author of many works of Steinbeck scholarship including John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist.

Robert DeMott
Professor Emeritus at Ohio University
Author of Steinbeck's Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed; Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, 1938–1941; and Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art, among many other titles.

Paper proposals accepted through March 15, 2016 at http://www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/conference/

$500 travel stipend for undergrad/graduate students whose papers are accepted for presentation.