Profs. Hanna Wallinger and Tanya Clark at ALA 2011
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society sponsors panels at each year’s American Literature Association Annual Meeting. Members may share news of additional conferences and panels related to Hopkins and her era via the HOPKINSSOCIETY listserv. An archive of previous years’ conference panels may be found here.
PEHS at ALA 2023: Pauline E. Hopkins in Comparative Perspective
The Pauline E. Hopkins Society invites proposals that examine any aspect of Hopkins’ work or life from a comparative perspective for presentation at the 34rd Annual American Literature Association Convention, to be held in Boston, May 25-28, 2023. Papers may put Hopkins in dialogue with any of her contemporaries or examine her work in relation to any later writer(s), such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, or Octavia Butler. We especially welcome submissions examining Hopkins in relation to popular culture (e.g. Wakanda, Lovecraft Country) and speculative fiction.
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words, with the subject line, “Hopkins in Comparative Perspective,” to John Barton at bartonjc@umkc.edu by Jan 15, 2023.
For details about the ALA Convention, please consult the following website: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/general-call-for-papers/
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2021 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Hopkins and Her Contemporaries: Responses to Racial Violence, Appeals for Racial Justice
2020 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Pauline E. Hopkins and Social Justice
2019 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Afrofuturism and Pauline Hopkins
Shirley Moody-Turner, Associate Professor of Penn State University and author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation, will act as respondent for this panel.
2018 Conference Panels Sponsored by the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
American Literature Association
Pauline E. Hopkins’s Activism
Panel Chair: John Gruesser, Kean University
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Past and Future Cultures: Deep Contextualization of Pauline Hopkins
Panel Chair: JoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston Downtown
