Society Activities
Call for Papers:
American Literature Association
The T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2010 annual
conference of the American Literature Association, May 27-30, at
the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. Please send proposals
(up to 250 words), along with a curriculum vitae, to professor Lee
Oser. Submissions must be received no later than January 15,
2010.
For information on the conference, see the
ALA website.
Conference Sessions Sponsored by the T.
S. Eliot Society
Modern Language Association
December 27–30, 2009
T. S. Eliot and Transnationalism
Sunday, December 27, 8:45–10:00 PM
Chair: Kinereth Meyer, Bar-Ilan University
1. “T. S. Eliot, St.-John Perse, and New World Modernism.”
Anita Patterson, Boston University
2. “T. S. Eliot’s Romanian Afterlife: Translation under
Communism.” Sean J. Cotter, University of Texas, Dallas
3. “The Grim Salmon: T. S. Eliot and Transnational Vernacularism.”
Matthew Hart, Columbia University
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Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900
February 18–20, 2010
Myth and Metaphysics
Chair: Carol L. Yang, National Chengchi University
1. “Modernly Metaphysical: Understanding Eliot’s Sensibility.”
Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University
2. “Reader Collaboration and the Mythical Method in The Waste
Land.” Kassandra Montag, Creighton University
3. “Eliot: Lists, Tallies, Catalogues, Inventories, Paradigmata.”
William Harmon, University of NC, Chapel Hill
Metaphor and Metamorphosis
Chair: Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University
1. “The Waste Land and the Virtual City.” Carol L. Yang,
National Chengchi University
2. “‘Inside a ring of lights’: Eliot’s ‘Suite
Clownesque.’” Stefanie Wortman, University of Missouri
3. “‘The Look of Flowers that Are Looked At’: Auratic
Distance and Eliot’s Eyebeam.” Stephen Koelz, Providence
College
