Friday, November 10
Our 2023 Special Feature Editor, Dr. Kirstin Squint, is presenting, with her co-interviewer Dr. Miriam Brown Spiers, their interview with Blake Hausman, published in NCLR 2023 print issue.
09-15 The Future of Indigenous Futurism
Roundtable
Suwanee | Saturday | 10:15-11:30am
Chair: Miriam Brown Spiers, Kennesaw State University (mspiers1@kennesaw.edu)
Co-Chair: Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge (scott.andrews@csun.edu)
- Kirstin Squint, East Carolina University (squintk19@ecu.edu)
Miriam Brown Spiers, Kennesaw State University (mspiers1@kennesaw.edu)
Imagining Otherwise in Indigenous Futurism
05-01 North Carolina Literary Review 2024: Disability (in) North Carolina Literature
Athens | Friday | 3:00-4:15pm
Chair: Casey Kayser, University of Arkansas (ckayser@uark.edu)
- Delia Steverson, University of Alabama (steve011@ua.edu)
Documenting Southern Black Deaf History: The Memoirs of Mary Herring Wright - Paula Eckard, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (pgeckard@charlotte.edu)
War, Motherhood, and Disability in Lee Smith’s On Agate Hill
Donna Summerlin, Lee University (dsummerlin@leeuniversity.edu)
Othering, Stigmatization, and Exclusion in Lee Smith’s Guests on Earth: Highland Hospital and the Treatment and Perception of Mental Illness in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Our 2024 Special Feature Editor, Dr. Casey Kayser, will be moderating a panel on our feature “Disability (in) NC Literature” with panelists Delia Steverson, Paula Eckard, and Donna Summerlin.
SAMLA 95 (In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies will be held in Atlanta in November.