CFP for American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA in 2027
The Louisa May Alcott Society announces two calls for papers for the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA, May 26-29, 2027. 1. Wild(ing) Alcott Take a walk on the wild side with the Louisa May Alcott Society at ALA 2027. We invite proposals for a panel addressing strange, rebellious, unruly, radical, or otherwise feral scenes in Alcott’s writing. “Wildness” might be personal, familial, communal, political, aesthetic, or an attribute of the natural world. Wild plots, wild settings, wild children, wild adults: who or what is coded as “wild” in Alcott’s writing, and how are dangerous, exciting, or exotic others (human or not) valorized, domesticated, tolerated, or expelled? How did Alcott depict the wilderness? Was Alcott herself a wild child growing up? Who among her contemporaries perceived Alcott’s wildness? Where in her fiction, essays, letters, and journals does Alcott express longing to sow her own wild oats (transcendental or otherwise)? Did or does Alco...
