Toni Morrison Society Panels for the 35th
American Literature Association Meeting

May 23-May 26, 2024

Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago Illinois 60603

The Toni Morrison Society is pleased to announce its two scholarly panels that will be presented at the ALA meeting in Chicago. In addition to the panels, the Society will also host its annual business meeting. All Society events will take place on Saturday, May 25 th . See the schedule of Society events below.

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Conference Program: ALA 2024 Program

PANEL I
Reading Toni Morrison’s Novels Then and Now Salon 6. Saturday, May 25. 2024 1:00pm-2:20pm
Organized by the Toni Morrison Society

Chair: Carolyn Denard, Toni Morrison Society

"Two Scholars, Same Neighborhood, Divergent Rereadings: Rereading Toni Morrison through Spatial Literary Studies," Herman Beavers, University of Pennsylvania
"Two Scholars, Same Neighborhood, Divergent Rereadings: Rereading Toni Morrison through Spatial Literary Studies," Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Case Western Reserve University
Respondent, Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University

PANEL II
Toni Morrison and the Interview as Genre. Salon 6.
Saturday May 25. 2:30pm -3:50pm
Organized by the Toni Morrison Society

Chair: Michelle S. Hite, Spelman College

"Adopting and Adapting Literary Tradition: Morrison’s Use of Genre in Beloved," Katie Painter, Iowa State University
"The Interview and the Translation Now and Then," Aoi Mori, Meiji Gakuin University
“’I'll talk to you all day long....Just don't interview me:' Black Folk Resistance to the Interview as Genre," Carolyn Denard, Toni Morrison Society

MEETING OF THE TONI MORRISON SOCIETY. Salon 6.
Saturday May 25. 4:00pm-5:20p