Extended Deadline!

Call for Papers

The 21st Summer Meeting

of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

June 2-5, 2016

The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont

During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]

*Extended Deadlines!*

Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.

“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”

Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]

My name is Jason Courtmanche and I have been nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the Teaching of Literature Forum. For the last nine years I have been the Director of the Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs and Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut. I was a high school English teacher for 12 years before earning my PhD,…[Read more]