Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

• Cats as characters, symbols, companions, pets, inspiration, environmental pests, guides, thieves, mystical creatures, gods
• Cats and mystery, aesthetics, creativity, abstraction, contemplation, parody, comedy, modernism, myth, the supernatural
• Cats in science fiction, comics, film, young-adult literature, children’s literature
• Cats in the works of specific authors like T. S. Eliot, J. K. Rowling, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Mikhail Bulgakov, Stephen King, and others.

Academics at all levels—including undergraduates—are welcome to submit proposals (a 250-word abstract) to bprobertson@troy.edu by 1 February 2025.

 bprobertson@troy.edu

 Ben P. Robertson