American Literature Association Draft Program
Friday, May 26 11:10-12:30 Session 9-C Humor and Travel Organized by the American Humor Studies Association and the Society for the Study of American Travel Writing Chair: Jeffrey Melton, University […]
Teaching Travel Writing
The Society for American Travel Writing seeks abstracts for a session on “Teaching Travel Writing” for the American Literature Association annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 25-28, 2017. As a […]
Humor and Travel
“I just flew in from Miami Beach, and, boy, are my arms tired.” The Society for American Travel Writing and the American Humor Studies Association seek abstracts for a collaborative […]
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 8 JANUARY 2016 FOR “BAD TRIPS” PANEL AT ALA
The new proposal deadline for SATW’s “Bad Trips” panel at ALA is 8 January 2016. In travel writing, what is there to tell if everything goes according to plan? Shouldn’t […]
Bad Trips
In travel writing, what is there to tell if everything goes according to plan? Shouldn’t we grant that travel writing is to some extent dependent upon the frustrated expectations of […]
Ethical Travel Writing
Given that travel means to leave home and go somewhere else, to cross over into the space of other peoples, cultures, and environments, is there an ethics of travel writing, […]
ALA Symposium on The City in American Literature, New Orleans, Sept. 10-11
The Society for the Study of American Travel Writing is organizing a panel for the American Literature Association Symposium on The City in American Literature to be held in New […]
Symposium on Frontiers and Borders in American Literature
ALA Symposium on Frontiers and Borders in American Literature February 25-27, 2016, San Antonio, TX Proposals due September 15, 2015 to Susan Roberson at susan.roberson@tamuk.edu The Society for the […]
2015 ALA Conference Schedule
The draft of the 2015 ALA Conference Program is now available online. The tentative schedule for the SATW is as follows: Thursday, 21 May 2015, 4:30-5:50 Session 6-F Where […]
American Women Writers and Their Travels
The Society for American Travel Writing is now an affiliate of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) and will host its first session at the SSAWW […]
