Melville Society Panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference

The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA, May 21st-24th, 2025.

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Melvillean Pedagogies

Chair and Respondent: Sari Edelstein, University of Massachusetts, Boston

1.     “Melville, Hawthorne, and Movement,” Melissa Gniadek, University of Toronto

2.     “The Heart of the Deal: Herman Melville and the Affective Life of Commerce,” Jennie Lightweis-Goff,

         Texas A & M University

3.     “What a Whale Is: ‘Cetology,’ Literature, and the Environment,” Jeffrey Insko, Oakland University

Agonistic Melville

Chair: Daniel Couch, U.S. Air Force Academy

1.     "Hope in Confidence, Emma Adler, Stanford University

2.     "Melville’s “The Fiddler,” Circus, and Democracy,” David Carlyon, Independent Scholar

3.     "Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings: The Confidence Man and the Case for Post-Nihilist Literary

        Studies,” Ashley Barnes, UT Dallas

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For more details on the American Literature Association Conference, see https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/