Description: Editors of American literary studies journals reflect on a series of questions: What exciting trends, concepts, or methods do you see emerging? What concerns you about the field’s direction? What questions, methods, or archives need more attention? Where do you see the field going in the next decade? Where do we need to go in the light of the challenges and tensions invoked in the notion of being human?

Speakers

Nathan Grant, St. Louis U

Gordon N. Hutner, U of Illinois, Urbana

Samantha Pinto, U of Texas, Austin

Marion Leeson Rust, U of Kentucky

Gary Totten, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

Priscilla B. Wald, Duke U

Presider

Derrick R. Spires, Cornell U