The Comparative American Ethnic Literature session at the 2026 PAMLA Conference in Seattle, WA seeks proposals for papers (about 15-20 minutes in length) related to a wide variety of topics regarding multi-ethnic texts, relationships between multi-ethnic writers, and/or connections among ethnic and religious communities. While proposals may engage with this year's conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," the session is open to broad interpretations and explorations of the field, including considerations of historical period, geographic area, genre (including film and music), gender and sexuality, bi- and multi-lingual texts, and so on.

This session welcomes proposals by established scholars, new scholars, graduate students, and independent scholars.

You may submit an abstract through the PAMLA Conference website for this session at: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19938 

Proposals are due by May 25, 2026.

Any queries regarding this session are welcome and may be e-mailed to the session chair, William Etter, at: better@ivc.edu.