21st Annual Conference
American Literature Association

May 27-30, 2010
San Francisco, CA

The James Fenimore Cooper Society invites paper proposals for its session at the 21st Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held in San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010.

The Cooper Society will offer two sessions: (1) a general panel seeking papers on any aspect of Cooper’s life or work, and (2) a specialized panel focusing on the teaching of Cooper in the college classroom. For the second panel, special preference will be given to papers devoted to the teaching of works other than the Leather-stocking Tales.

Papers should be 20 minutes (6-8 pages) in length. Brief discussion will follow the presentations. Papers must be read in person by the author, except in the case of last-minute emergencies. Presenters need not be members of the James Fenimore Cooper Society, though we certainly hope they will choose to join. According to ALA guidelines, presenters may give only one paper at the Conference.

Papers presented at the conference will, with their authors' permission, be published in the James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers series and made available online at the Cooper Society website. Papers may be mildly revised for publication. Generally, proposals for papers intended for the Miscellaneous Papers will receive preference.

Paper proposals should include the paper title, an abstract (approximately 300 words in length), and an indication of whether or not the paper may be published in the Miscellaneous Papers.

Proposals should be submitted no later than January 10, 2010 to

Matthew Wynn Sivils, Assistant Professor of English
Department of English, 203 Ross Hall
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1201
sivils@iastate.edu

E-mail submission is preferred.
For more information on the Conference, follow this link:

http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/