Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society at ALA 2015

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place, Boston, on May 21-24, 2015. 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, 2015, to the program chair:

Paul Sorrentino

psorrent@vt.edu

For further information, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org.