Updike panels set for ALA 2024

Chicago’s Palmer House will welcome back the American Literature Association Conference the end of May, once again opening its world-famous Tiffany peacock doors to scholars from all over the world.

The John Updike Society will sponsor two panels:

Friday, May 24, 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Session 10-M “Revisiting Olinger Stories(1964) at 60 and The Afterlife(1994) at 30: A Roundtable” (Salon 6)

• Moderator: Sylvie Mathé, Aix-Marseille University, France

• Peter Bailey, St. Lawrence University, NY

• Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade, Serbia

• Nemanja Glintić, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

• James Plath, Illinois Wesleyan University

• Matthew Shipe, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

Saturday, May 25, 8:30-9:50 a.m. Session 16-J “The Witches of Eastwick: novel (John Updike, 1984) v. film (George Miller, 1987): A Roundtable” (Salon 7)

• Moderator: Adam Sexton, Yale University

• Edward Allen, University of South Dakota

• Carla Alexandra Ferreira, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil

• Olga Karasik-Updike, Independent Scholar, Newbury, MA

• Robert Morace, Daemen University, Amherst, NY

• Takashi Nakatani, Yokohama City University, Japan

Here’s a link to the most recent draft program.