Standing Session

American / Cultural Studies

Nancy Carranza (University of California - Riverside)
ncar@****.com (Log-in to reveal)

This session focuses on American Literature from 1945 to the present. Presentations might engage with the conference theme of "Geographies of the Fantastic and Quotidian," as well as ecocritical, sociological, political, and aesthetic approaches to American literature after 1945.

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. This virtual session welcomes proposals on a wide variety of topics, with particular consideration granted to papers that engage with the conference theme of "Geographies of the Fantastic and Quotidian," which may consider topics such as the spatial imagination of Los Angeles, migration/border crossings, the family and/or spaces of domesticity, homelessness, heterotopias and palimpsests, and literature that blends the genres of the "fantastic" and the "quotidian."

Some other topics of interest include:

• Ecocritical approaches to Post-World War II literature;

• Multicultural approaches to American literature after 1945;

• Psychological and/or sociological and/or political approaches to American literature after 1945;

• Aesthetic approaches to American literature after 1945.