American Literature Association Conversations
The American Literature Association, a coalition of societies devoted to the study of American authors (www.americanliterature.org), gathers leading scholars and teachers of American literature for compelling roundtable discussions of the pressing issues that define the discipline today.
Podcasting since 2020 • 3 episodes
American Literature Association Conversations
Latest Episodes
Worlds of the Imaginary Ep 1: H. G. Wells's The Time Machine
In this inaugural episode of our subseries Worlds of the Imaginary, Troy University freshman Jason Frye and Kirk Curnutt discuss the grandfather of all sci-fi novels: H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, first published in 1895 when its author was s...
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The Flexibility, Durability, and Portability of the Short Story
In our second installment of the ALA Conversations series, Society for the Study of the American Short Story president James Nagel speaks with Kasia Boddy (University of Cambridge) and Oliver Scheiding (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) abou...
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Teaching American Literature Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Push for Social Justice
ALA executive director Alfred Bendixen explores with a roundtable of faculty from diverse institutions the challenges of teaching American literature during the Coronavirus crisis and the imperative of addressing social-justice issues in the af...
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