Willa Cather panels at the American Literature Association Conference
The Willa Cather Foundation seeks proposals for 1-2 panels at the 36th annual conference of the American Literature Association, held at the Westin Copley in Boston from May 21-24, 2025.
Topics could include (but are by no means limited to) race and ethnicity, indigeneity, settler colonialism, Queer histories, labor and leisure, Cather and other writers, teaching Cather, urban/rural spaces, philosophy and religion, approaches to Cather’s letters, ecological issues, and material culture.
While proposals on any topic pertaining to Cather’s life and writing are welcome, 2025 marks the centennial of the publication of The Professor’s House, so papers on that novel would be of particular interest.
Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words and a brief bio no later than Friday, January 17, to Sarah Clere at sarahclere@gmail.com.
Note: For assistance with conference expenses, graduate students may apply for the Willa Cather Foundation Education Scholarship for Student Research.
All scholarly and critical approaches are welcome, as long as Cather’s work is the central focus. Recipients must have travel and registration expenses not already covered by other external sources. See https://www.willacather.org/discover/students/education-scholarship-student-research for more information.