The Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association seeks proposals for several panels at the American Literature Association’s 20th annual conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 21-24, 2009.   We are particularly interested in seeking out papers that address the following topics:

Latina/o Writers and Canon(s).

Chair: Roberto Oscar Lopez.  rolopez@csun.edu

Spoken-Word Poetry.

Chair: Elizabeth Jacobs. elj@aber.ac.uk

Any aspect of the work of Junot Diaz

Chair: Alisa Braithwaite. akb1@mit.edu

Latina/o Children’s Literature

Chair: Tiffany Lopez. tiffany.lopez@ucr.edu

Ambiguous Authors and Transgressive Texts

(joint panel with the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies).

Chair:  Jennifer Ho  jho@email.unc.edu

Those interested in submitting a paper should send a one-page abstract with your name, position, affiliation, and contact information to the appropriate panel chair

For proposals on any other aspect of Latina/o Literature and Culture, please send them along with your name, position, affiliation and contact information to Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson at eliza_rodriguezygibson@redlands.edu

Final Deadline for Proposals: January 5, 2009.

For more information about the ALA and the conference, go to www.americanliterature.org.