Approximately forty approved sessions are still in search of high quality paper proposals.  So, if you are interested in attending the 2014 PAMLA Conference, but you missed the original deadline, take a look at one of these open sessions and propose a paper by Saturday, May 31 at midnight at the latest (in other words, by 12:01 am on Sunday, June 1).

Please consult the Session Topics List to see the latest list of sessions still accepting proposals.

Open Sessions currently include:

• A Return to Aesthetics?
• Ancient-Modern Relations
• Asian Literature
• Baltic Studies
• Beowulf & Related Topics
• Children’s Literature
• Classics (Latin)
• Comparative American Ethnic Literature
• Comparative Media
• Continental Romanticism
• Creative Writing: Ekphrastic Poetry
• Critical Theory
• Edith Wharton
• English as a Second Language Studies
• Familiarizing the “jeune filles”
• Food Studies
• Geocritical Approaches to 20th & 21st Century Literatures
• George Eliot
• German Cinema
• Germanics
• Homely, Unhomely, Uncanny: Familiar & Unfamiliar in German Literature/ Culture
• Latina/o Literature and Culture
• Latin American Women and Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
• Literature and Religion
• Literature and the Other Arts
• Mid-Twentieth-Century Poetry & Culture
• Modern Austrian Literature
• Once Upon a Time
• Reanimating the Child: Children’s Media & the Macabre
• Reassessing Language Poetry: Thirty Years After The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book
• Rethinking “Remediation”: New Approaches for the 21st Century
• Rethinking/Retheorizing Video Games
• Rhetorical Approaches to Literature
• Satire and Humor
• Scandinavian Literature and Culture
• Shakespeare and Related Topics
• Teaching Languages & Culture Through Film
• Teaching Writing Across Disciplines
• Television Studies
• The Gothic
• The Little Short Shorts: Narrative as Commentary
• Topics in Tudor-Stuart Literature
• Travel and Literature
• Western American Literature
• Women and Film
• Young Adult Literature