Call for Papers for 2021 American Literature Association Conference
The Louisa May Alcott Society will sponsor two panels at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held July 7-11, 2021, Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116. Please send 300-word abstracts for either panel to Gregory Eiselein at eiselei@ksu.edu . The deadline for proposals is February 12, 2021 . Early submissions welcome. Alcott and Adaptation For over a century, Louisa May Alcott’s writings have been adapted in many ways—for stage, radio, television, and film. As scholars such as Beverly Lyon Clark, Elizabeth Keyser, Elise Hooper, and others have documented, Alcott’s work remains timely and continues to inspire adaptations and spinoffs for diverse audiences. The best known, of course, are the numerous film adaptations of Little Women. Each new production of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel both represents and reinterprets the lives of the four March sisters for a new audience. We invite proposals for a panel on film adaptation
