Description: In the light of critics’ recent calls for more expansive reading practices, this panel takes aim at their effective inverse: the single-author study. It begins by asking how, and under what terms, single-author studies flourished and became part of the literary scholar’s tool kit. It then proceeds to examine the current status of single-author studies through discussions of research methods, publication, specific authors, accessibility, and teaching.

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Speakers

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson U

Lee Konstantinou, U of Maryland, College Park

Matthew Luter, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, MD

Ellen Lee McCallum, Michigan State U

Mike Miley, Loyola U, New Orleans

Robert Ryan, U of Illinois, Chicago

Presider

Sheila Liming, U of North Dakota