Society for the Study of the American Short Story

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY
OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY

Organized by the Society for the Study of the American Short Story.

SSASS Panels at the 2016 Annual American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco

Thursday, May 26, 2016, 1:30 – 2:50 pm
Session 4-I New Considerations of Great American Stories
Chair: Olivia Edenfield, Georgia Southern University

1. “The Secret Life of Things: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and the Material Turn in Literary Studies”,” Oliver Scheiding, Johannes Gutenberg University
2. “The Confusing Perspectives of Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’,” Lee C. Mitchell, Princeton University
3. “Visiting Hemingway’s ‘Indian Camp’ Once Again,” James Nagel, University of Georgia

Thursday, May 26, 2016, 3:00 – 4:20 pm
Session 5-H New Insight into American Stories
Chair: James Nagel, University of Georgia

1. “Cultural and Gendered Contacts and Collisions in Short Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri and Chitra Divakaruni,” Marilyn Edelstein, Santa Clara University
2. “David Foster Wallace’s ‘Good People,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants,’ and American Literary Minimalism,” Robert Clark, College of Coastal Georgia
3. “The Good Country Gentleman Caller: Echoes of The Glass Menagerie in O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’,” James W. Thomas, Pepperdine University

Thursday, May 26, 2016, 4:30 – 5:50 pm
Session 6-K Business Meeting: Society for the Study of the American Short Story