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2025

May 21-24

 

Call for Papers

American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference

Boston MA

 

 


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.


Additional information about the 2025 ALA can be found here:

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

 


Biennial Conferences

Fotografía: Jorge Rosenvinge

Bassano del Grappa 2024

Villa Cà Erizzo Luca

The Fourth Biennial  John Dos Passos Society Conference was a huge success. We brought together speakers from across the world to discuss the significance of the Great War on Dos Passos’s legacy

Fotografía: Jorge Rosenvinge

Madrid 2016

Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio

The Second Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference was a truly international event. It gathered participants from different countries and dealt, among other topics, with Dos Passos´s relationship to Spain.



Fotografía: Jorge Rosenvinge

Lisbon 2018

Lisbon

Third Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference (June 20-22, Lisbon, Portugal).






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