The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 is now in its thirty-seven year, and has become an international event attracting more than six hundred participants annually. Scholars in all languages and literatures are invited to submit proposals on any topic pertaining to literary and cultural since 1900. The Conference also welcomes submissions by creative writers. Reading committees select the best critical and creative works; the papers are then grouped for presentation at sectional meetings held on our campus. The conference also hosts national and international Group Societies. Each year the Conference features keynote presentations by distinguished authors and critics.
Each year the Conference features presentations by distinguished authors and critics. Past speakers have included: Germaine Brée, John Barth, Paolo Soleri, Ishmael Reed, Michel Butor, Marge Piercy, Robert Coover, Bobbie Ann Mason, John Ashbery, Carolyn Forché, Hugh Kenner, W.S. Merwin, Marjorie Perloff, Tess Gallagher, Ken Kesey, Alicia Ostriker, Sherley Anne Williams, Susan Howe, Reinhold Grimm, Hortense J. Spillers, Frank Lentricchia, Louise Glück, Robert Scholes, Charles Bernstein, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Judith Roof, Tobias Wolff, Harryette Mullen, Eavan Boland, Cary Nelson, Rosa Nissán, Steven Weisenburger, Robert Creeley, Marilyn Nelson, Gabriele Eckart, Gilda Holst, Tom Sleigh, Cristanne Miller, Rober von Hallberg and Edwidge Danticat, Frank Bidart, Sidonie Smith, Dale Bauer, Becky Hagenston, Eduardo Heras León, Charles Alteiri, C. D. Wright, Fernando Operé, Michael Ryan, Jeffrey Williams, Lyn Hejinian, Dominick LaCapra, Morris Beja, Fernando Operé, Catherine Sasanov, Austin Clarke, Katherine Hayles, Molly Peacock, Ronald Schleifer, Ana María Shua, Judy Veramendi, Octavia Butler, Samuel Weber, Alan Nadel, Bob Perelman, Mary Vásquez, Alain Badiou, Stanley Fish, Sena J. Naslund, Kenneth Reinhard, Cary Wolfe, Susan Wheeler, Cecilia Urbina, Sherman Alexie, Laura Kipnis, Bruce Robbins, Perla Suez.
Send all submissions and correspondence to:
Danielle Day, Conference Director
Dept of Classical & Modern Languages
University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40292
Inquiries: dlday@louisville.edu
Website: http://modernlanguages.louisville.edu/conference/index.html
Consult our website for additional conference information.