The Katherine Anne Porter Session at the twenty-first annual American Literature Association conference will be chaired by Alexandra Subramanian. The topic of the session will be "'The Downward Path': Depictions of Childhood in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction." Please email proposals of 250 words or less to Alexandra Subramanian at kapsociety@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2009.
The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in the Embarcadero Center, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California, May 27-30, 2010. Conference details and information about hotel reservations are available through the Web site of the American Literature Association.