Louisa May Alcott Society

Celebrating LMA was a success! To watch the seminar again, please click here . [The passcode for this event is:  2f4fyh=T .] The Alcott Society is hosting a very special virtual event to celebrate Louisa May Alcott’s birthday,  Celebrating Louisa May Alcott. We have  scheduled  it for   Sunday, November 29, 2020  at  4:00 p.m. Eastern (3:00 CT, 2:00 MT, 1:00 P, 9:00 GMT). We will be meeting v ia Zoom at  https://tinyurl.com/CelebratingLMA  .

Our friends from The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society request  submissions of paper and session proposals for its triennial summer conference to be held in Indianapolis on June 18-20, 2021 . The deadline for submission is  October 5, 2020 .

Please note that due to COVID-19, the American Literature Association Conference which was to be held in San Diego, CA May 21-24, 2020 has been cancelled. American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2020: Teaching Alcott: Alcott in Proximity to Other American Realists, Regionalists, Romantics In college-level American literature anthologies, Louisa May Alcott enjoys an eclectic reputation. Her writings may appear in context with those of other Civil War or Realist writers or be cataloged as Transcendentalist works. Alternately, they can be regarded as Local Color or Regional writings, or considered in connection with the Gothic or with American Romanticism. This panel seeks to consider Alcott’s works in proximity to other nineteenth-century American authors, including but not limited to figures such as Davis, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Sedgwick, Spofford, Whitman, and/or others. Attention to her Gothic tales, writings for adult readers, and works other than ...