Call for Papers – The American Literature Association

There will be some Bonnie Jo Campbell Society action. Contact Bonnie Jo Campbell or Lisa Durose if you have any questions or want to be a part.

There will be an official release of Monica Friedman’s latest comic!

Thursday, May 21, 2026

5:30-6:15 pm

Session 7-D Business Meeting: Bonnie Jo Campbell Society (Salon 1)

Thursday, May 21, 2026, 2:30-3:50 pm

Session 5-D Bonnie Jo Campbell & the American Midwest (Salon 1)

Organized by the Bonnie Jo Campbell Society

Chair: Lisa DuRose, Inver Hills Community College

1. “Gender Out of Balance in the Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell,” Charles Cunningham, Eastern

Michigan University

2. “Bonnie Jo Campbell Comics Volume 5: 13 Ways of Looking at The Waters,” Monica Friedman,

Independent Scholar

3. “Nowhere Places and Invisible People: Surfacing Stories of the Overlooked,” Dawn Burns, Michigan State University

Thursday, May 21, 2026, 4:00-5:20 pm

Session 6-I Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Influence: A Roundtable Discussion (Madison)

Organized by the Bonnie Jo Campbell Society

Chair: Sara Kosiba, Northeast Ohio Medical University

1. Lisa DuRose, Inver Hills Community College

2. Caitlin Horrocks, Grand Valley State University

3. Doug Sheldon, University of Illinois Chicago

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