Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference
Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!
April 3-6, 2025
Hosted by Cal State LA
Conference Theme: MELUS Outside
Deadline for Abstracts: December 6, 2024
This year’s conference theme, MELUS Outside, reflects the public and community action that gave rise to Ethnic Studies in the United States, the commitment to public good central to Cal State L.A.’s mission, and the shape of Los Angeles itself. Los Angeles is a city of ocean, desert, and mountain, and a city of ethnic enclaves and urban sprawl. Los Angeles is a city marked by homelessness and public pain, and it is a city known for glittering reflections, surfaces, and screens. Los Angeles is a city of cultural creation and racial violence, soaring uplift and ongoing suppression. We invite you to join us in this city of contradiction and complexity, to contribute to it and engage with it as academics and as people of practice, inside academic forums and in the communities outside.
We welcome proposals for panels, papers, and roundtables connected to the conference theme of “MELUS Outside” in the areas of multiethnic literature, culture, and performance broadly imagined; critical analyses, theoretical explorations, and pedagogical and community engaged approaches are all welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
Paper abstracts should be no more than 250 words and must include a title as well as author name(s), institutional affiliation(s), and email address. Panel proposals should include a 150-word overview of the panel theme, abstracts of no more than 250 words each for each of the 3-4 papers included in the panel, and a list of participants with their institutional affiliations and email addresses.
Roundtable proposals should include an abstract of 250-400 words describing the roundtable topic and a list of participants with their institutional affiliations and email addresses.
The Katharine Rodier Graduate Student Travel Award; The MELUS Graduate Student Travel
Award; and the MELUS President’s Contingent Faculty Award
Anyone who wishes to be considered for a graduate student award or contingent faculty must copy Karina Diaz on their submission: kdiaz5@niu.edu.
MELUS Membership
Note that all those participating in the conference must be MELUS members in good standing by February 1, 2025. If you need to join or renew your membership, please do so by clicking here: http://www.melus.org/members/membership/
For more information about MELUS, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, visit www.melus.org. For more information about the MELUS journal, visit https://academic.oup.com/melus. For more information about the Cal State LA’s English department, and its Engaged English curriculum, please visit
https://www.calstatela.edu/al/english
