121st Annual Conference (Palm Springs, CA) – Nov. 7-10, 2024

Our 2024 Conference Co-Sponsors:

The National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature

San Diego State University Department of English & Comparative Literature

California State University, San Bernardino

La Sierra University

California State University, Los Angeles

The Dorothy Ramon Learning Center

 (Please contact Executive Director Craig Svonkin to become a conference sponsor: [email protected])

The 121st Annual PAMLA Conference

The PAMLA 2024 Conference will be held at the lovely Margaritaville Resort in sunny Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Cher, and other Hollywood and musical stars). The conference will begin on Thursday morning, at approximately 8 am, on November 7, and continue through late Sunday afternoon, November 10, 2024 (ending at approximately 4 pm).

The 2024 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the Margaritaville Resort Hotel and Conference Center. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Here is our link for PAMLA conference attendees to make their hotel reservations at the Margaritaville Resort Hotel in Palm Springs at a very special PAMLA rate ($169 plus a $20 resort fee and tax per night). NOTE: At the moment, standard King rooms are temporarily sold out at the Margaritaville; you may want to book a two Queen bed room at $10 more per night, or premium King rooms at $30 more per night. Watch the link, since rooms at the lower rate will reappear if people cancel their hotel reservation.

The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), the west coast affiliate of the MLA, is a warm, welcoming, inclusive Humanities and Arts association dedicated to the creation, advancement, and diffusion of the aesthetic practices and knowledge of ancient & modern languages, literatures, cultures, and the arts. Approximately 800 to 1,000 faculty, students, writers, and interested independent scholars and members of the community attend our annual PAMLA conference, which offers scholars and writers the opportunity to share research and creative artistic works in a friendly, stimulating atmosphere.

Special session and paper submissions are not limited to the theme of this year’s conference, “Translation in Action.” But if you’d like to touch on the theme that would be most welcome.

Our 2024 PAMLA CFP page and online paper proposal system is still open, with many sessions accepting proposals until filled or July 15 (whichever comes first).

You will need to log in to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/ to propose a paper to one of our approved sessions (or, if you never created a user account, you’ll need to do that first).

PAMLA, founded as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899, and the western affiliate of the Modern Language Association, is dedicated to the creation, advancement, and diffusion of the aesthetic practices and knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, cultures, and the arts.

Please email Craig Svonkin if you have any questions about PAMLA or the PAMLA conference: [email protected].

**The following General (Standing) Sessions present programs at the Association’s annual conference: 21st-Century Literature; Adaptation Studies; African American Literature; American Literature before 1865; American Literature 1865-1945; American Literature after 1945; Ancient-Modern Relations; Anime and Manga; Architecture, Space, and Literature; Asian American Literature; Asian Literature; Austrian Studies; Autobiography; Beyond Binaries; Bible and Literature; British Literature and Culture: To 1700; British Literature and Culture: The Long Eighteenth Century; British Literature and Culture: The Long Nineteenth Century; British Literature and Culture: 20th and 21st Century; Carceral/Prison Studies; Children’s Literature; Classics (Greek); Classics (Latin); Comics and Graphic Narratives; Comparative American Ethnic Literature; Comparative Literature; Comparative Media; Composition and Rhetoric; Creative Writing; Critical Theory; Cultural History; Digital Arguments; Digital Studies; Disability Studies; Disney and Its Worlds; Drama and Society; East-West Literary Relations; Fantasy and the Fantastic; Feminisms; Film and Literature; Film Studies; Folklore and Mythology; Food Studies; French; Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Literature; Germanic Studies; Gothic; Hip Hop Poetics; Horror and the Supernatural; Indigenous Literatures and Cultures; Italian; Italian Cinema; Italian Ecocriticism; Jewish Literature and Culture; Latina/o Literature and Culture; Linguistics; Literature & the Other Arts; Literature and Religion; Medieval Literature; Middle English Literature, including Chaucer; New Italians; Oceanic Literatures and Cultures; Old English Literature, including Beowulf; Poetry and Poetics; Post-Colonial Literature; Religion in American Literature; Rhetorical Approaches to Literature; Romanticism; Science Fiction; Shakespeare; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America: Jewish Culture & Literature in Trans-Iberia, Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American); Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular); Teaching with Media and Technology; Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines; Television Studies; Travel and Literature; Veterans Studies; Video Game Studies; Western American Literature; Women in Literature; Young Adult Literature and Culture.