CONFERENCES
2010 CONFERENCE UPDATES:
Conference Registration Form
Schedule of Events Draft 1/29/2010
Hotel rooms have been set aside at the
Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel
700 Lackawanna Ave
Scranton, PA 18503
(570) 342-8300
24th Annual MELUS Conference
April 8-11, 2010
The University of Scranton
Scranton, PA
Theme:
Ethnic Transformation in the Self and the City
Plenary Speakers: Jay Parini, Marilyn Chin,
Sonia Sanchez, and Dara Horn
People make cities and cities make people. Reductive as that claim is,
it stands at the heart of much of the ethnic American experience.
Immigrants originally inherit the cities in which they settle. Then,
as they come to know their new culture and as their children grow and
develop, they remake their communities, creating places that reflect
the multiple strands of their origins. For scholars of ethnic literature,
American cities stand, in part, as texts themselves. They reflect the
immigrant experience as it has taken place, and they contextualize the
possibility for future immigration.
We invite paper abstracts and complete panels, workshops, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of the multi-ethnic literatures of the United States. We are particularly interested in proposals for papers that explore literature of the city and theories of the urban experience in a multi-ethnic context.
Submissions should detail requests for specific audiovisual equipment, if needed. We also ask that a proposal for a complete panel, roundtable, or workshop include a brief description of the central topic, supplemented by brief abstracts of individual speakers’ contributions.
The deadline for abstracts and proposals (250 words) is
January 10, 2010.
Please email abstracts to:
Prof. Joe Kraus & Prof. Susan Mendez
melus2010@gmail.com
Hotel rooms have been set aside at the
Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel
700 Lackawanna Ave
Scranton, PA 18503
(570) 342-8300
All presenters, chairs, and respondents must be members of MELUS. Membership
information can be found on the MELUS website (www.melus.org).
All payments of membership dues must be mailed directly to MELUS,
not to the conference organizers.