SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHERN LITERATURE
2015 American Literature Association Conference
Boston, MA May 21-24, 2015
Deadline: January 20, 2015

"Southern Modernism"

The Thomas Wolfe Society and the Society for the Study of Southern Literature invite paper proposals for ALA 2015 related to the influence of southern modernism in twentieth-century literature. Examples of possible approaches might include studies of the influence of specific southern modernist authors such as Thomas Wolfe, James Agee, Richard Wright, and others not represented by author societies at this year's ALA on American or international literatures of the twentieth century; reconsiderations of the influence of Fugitive poetics on American poetry or specific poets, such as James Dickey or Natasha Trethewey; or new directions in the study of Thomas Wolfe or his contemporaries. Proposals related to genres other than the novel, as well as relevant creative work, are welcome also. Please email abstracts and either a cover letter or 2-page CV by January 20, 2015, to Tara Powell at tfpowell@gmail.com. For further information about this session or SSSL, please contact Tara Powell, or for information about the conference, consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. For information about the Thomas Wolfe Society, see http://www.thomaswolfe.org/.