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Boston, May 26-29, 2011
Chair: Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University
1. "Man, Machine and Metaphor in 'Death of a Traveling Salesman,'" Paula Elyseu Mesquita, University of Lisbon Center for English Studies
2. "Rereading Welty Misreading Faulkner: Character Prototype, Sanctuary, and The Robber Bridegroom," Pat Bradley, Middle Tennessee State University
3. "Red Heads and Real Deltans: Black Men and White Masculinity in Delta Wedding," Jean Griffith, Wichita State University
4. "Gentlemen in Spring," Noel Polk, Mississippi State University
Chair: David McWhirter, Texas A&M University
1. "The Death of Mothers: Shamanic Violence in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding," Martina Sciolino, University of Southern Mississippi
2. "'Now what did you want to tell that for?': Violence and Silencing in Losing Battles," Adrienne Akins, Baylor University
3. "Interrogating Rape in Welty's Fiction: 'The Burning,'" Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University
The American Literature Association (ALA) was established in 1990 to operate largely through single-author societies, such as the rapidly growing Eudora Welty Society. The EWS boasted fifty members at the time of its first organizational meeting, held during the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, Dec. 28, 1991, at New Joe’s on Geary St., in San Francisco. Hosts were Wall and Donaldson; others in attendance were Carol Manning, Rebecca Mark, Peggy Prenshaw, and Louise Westling.
In 1992, the EWS held its annual business meeting at the ALA conference in San Diego, beginning an alternation of annual meetings between the west and east coasts. Although historically these meetings have taken place in San Diego and Baltimore, the last weekend in May, the 2000 meeting was in Long Beach, CA, and the May 2001 conference took place in Cambridge, MA.
The EWS also regularly sponsors panels at such conferences as the MLA, the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) and regional conferences like the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA).