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Howells Sessions at ALA 2005 in Boston

Howells and Others
Chair, Susan Goodman, University of Delaware.

1.     "Twain's Whittier Birthday Speech and Howells," Jerome Loving, Texas A & M University.
2.     "Charming Comrades: Jane Addams and William Dean Howells," Katherine Joslin, Western Michigan University.
3.     "The Portuguese Among Other Ethnic Minorities in Some of Howells' Fiction," Renaldo Silva, Universidade de Aveiro.
4.     "Is there a Place for Genius in Literary History? Howells and the Editing of an American Anthology," Claudia Stokes, Trinity University.


Representations of Masculinity in Howells' Writings
Chair Donald Vanouse, State University of New York at Oswego.

1.     "Who's You Daddy? Paternity, Paternalism and Patriotism in William Dean Howells' An Imperative Duty ," Lynn Jennings, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2.     "The Literary Heroine and the Epistlary Hero in Howells' Indian Summer,"Robert Klevay, University of Delaware.
3.     "Howells and Heterosexuality," Axel Nissen, University of Oslo.
4.      Paul Petrie, Southern Connecticut State University. respondent

Howells Sessions at ALA

2004 Howells Sessions at ALA 2004
2003 Howells Sessions at ALA 2003
2002 Howells Sessions at ALA 2002
2001 Howells Session at ALA 2001
2000Howells Session at ALA 2000
1999 Howells Session at ALA 1999  
1998 Howells Sessions at ALA 1998 Howells in his study

Other Conference Papers and Conferences on Howells

MLA 2000 "Miscegenation, Medicine, and the Law in Howells's An Imperative Duty," Laura K. Johnson, Boston University, in Session 449, "Race and the Subject of Marriage in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America."

Howells Conference at Kittery Point (Note: Lingua Franca [September 2001] has an article about this conference. )

  • Howells Session at ALA Symposium on American Humor (December 10-12, 1998)
  • Howells Session at MLA 1998: "William Dean Howells: Culture Maker? Culture Marker?" (December 28, 1998)
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