John Dos Passos Society, Open Topic Panel(s)

American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference May 21-24, 2025: Boston, MA

The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for one or two open-topic panels at the American Literature Association conference, to be held in Boston on May 21-24, 2025.

As such, we invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Dos Passos’s life or work. For consideration, please submit a 300-word abstract and a brief bio in Word or PDF format to Aaron Shaheen at aaron-shaheen@utc.edu AND jdpsociety@gmail.com by January 1, 2025. Be sure to also note any A/V requirements.

Possible topics might include Dos Passos’s relationships to:

• The Great War
• the expatriate experience
• the politics of democracy 
• sex, sexuality, and gender
• labor, the proletarian novel, and the Popular Front
• Ernest Hemingway and other luminaries of the period
• formalist experimentation
• realist, modernist, and late-modernist aesthetics
• regionalism and internationalism
• the Midwest
• teaching Dos Passos

Additional information about the 2025 ALA can be found here:

https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/

Additional information about the John Dos Passos Society can be found here:

https://johndospassossociety.org/