ALA 2026: Politics in American Fiction

ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on politics in American fiction. We are interested in novels such as Henry Adams’ Democracy, Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, Jonathan Bayliss’s Gloucesterman tetralogy, or Ward Just’s Echo House, but we are also interested in more wide-ranging approaches to the topic. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words along with your academic affiliation (if any) and a brief biographical note  to Gary Grieve-Carlson (grieveca@lvc.edu) by January 23, 2026. Conference and hotel details are available at https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/.