Romantic-Era Literature Session at PAMLA (PAMLA Annual Conference)
Abstracts are invited for the Romanticism section of the 122nd annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), scheduled for 20-23 November 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA, at the InterContinental Hotel.
The Romanticism session seeks papers that examine any aspect of Romanticism, whether English, German, French, or in other languages (although we ask that papers and proposals be primarily in English). We welcome but do not require paper proposals attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion."
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- Translations of Romantic works, ideas, or concepts from one language /culture to another
- Textual and manuscript analysis: textual fragments, erasures, revisions, and debates
- Spatial analysis, including of palimpsestic cities and natural spaces, and human/nature/animal interactions
- Memory, forgetting, and misremembering in Romantic works
- The intersection of Romanticism and the environmental humanities
- Rethinking Romanticism via a political, Marxist, queer, or new-Historical lens
- Ruins, disasters, and fragments in connection to aesthetics
- Post-apocalyptic worlds
- Cosmic and transnational voyages
Submit abstracts of 250 to 500 words by 15 May 2025 at this link: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19606
Questions may be addressed to Ben P. Robertson at bprobertson@troy.edu.
Ben P. Robertson