Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society
ALA 2014

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 22-25 May 2014. All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:

• · Crane’s depiction of war
• · Crane and the arts (e. g., painting, photography, music)
• · Crane’s depiction of the city
• · Crane’s poetry
• · Crane’s journalism
• · the Sullivan County tales and sketches
• · the Western stories
• · the Whilomville stories
• · one of Crane’s lesser-known novels (The Third Violet, Active Service, or The O’Ruddy)
• · Crane’s depiction of women
• · Crane’s relationship with other writers, e. g., Garland, Howells, Conrad, or Frederic

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

You may also propose a roundtable discussion on, say, teaching Crane’s short stories.

Please email abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by January 10, 2014, to the program chair:

Paul Sorrentino

psorrent@vt.edu

For further information, please consult the ALA website at http://www.americanliterature.org or contact the conference director, Professor Alfred Bendixen of Texas A & M University at abendixen@tamu.edu with specific questions.