John Dos Passos Society

2027

Call for Papers

American Literature Association 38th Annual Conference

Boston, MA 

Deadline for Submissions:
January 15, 2027
 

The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for the upcoming 38th ALA Conference as detailed below.

Sacco and Vanzetti at 100: A Roundtable Hosted by the John Dos Passos Society

A roundtable commemorating the 100th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Few American legal cases have attracted more attention from novelists and poets, both in contemporary responses and retrospective representations, from Dos Passos’s reportage in Facing the Chair (1927) and his treatment of the executions in the U.S.A. trilogy to the accounts and memorials by Carl Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Upton Sinclair, William Carlos Williams, and Kurt Vonnegut, to mention a handful. Thus, we invite presentations between five and seven minutes on any aspect of the Sacco-Vanzetti case and its impact on American literature, to be followed by a longer discussion.

Open Topic Panel

The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for an open-topic panel at the American Literature Association conference, to be held in Boston on May 26-29, 2027.

As such, we invite proposals for 20-minute 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 rosa.bautista@uam.es and jdpsociety@gmail.com by January 15. Be sure to also note any A/V requirements.