This panel invites submissions on literature and media from the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Papers can respond to a wide range of questions, including (but not limited to):

- How does literature and media from the U.S. Virgin Islands and/or Puerto Rico expand, enhance, and/or challenge conceptions of a diasporic Caribbean canon?
- How does literature and media from the U.S. Virgin Islands and/or Puerto Rico challenge or enhance conceptions of literal and metaphorical boundaries between the U.S. and the Caribbean?
- How does literature and media from the U.S. Virgin Islands and/or Puerto Rico respond to the conference's overarching theme of "surplus"?
- How does literature and media from the U.S. Virgin Islands and/or Puerto Rico challenge or enhance conceptions of creolization, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism?