Suggested topics for individual papers, joint panels, roundtables, and practice-based presentations include but are not limited to:
· Epistolary form and modernist or mid-century aesthetics
· Correspondence and transatlantic networks: Miller’s letters and the people in them; epistolarity and literary friendship; distance as a literary resource
· Miller’s contested place in the canon: why is Miller hard to place in the canon? What is the status and role of canonization in the 21st century?
· Sex, gender, and obscenity: Miller after #MeToo; representations of sexism, misogyny, and gender; reception, controversy, and censorship; comparative studies with other twentieth-century authors who foreground sexuality in their work
· Miller and the archive: the Schnellock collection and its implications for Miller studies; editing, textual scholarship, and the reconfiguration of the oeuvre through new material; archives, curation, cataloguing, and institutional histories
· Paris, exile, and return: Miller and Paris; expatriation and the idea of homecoming; the city as subject and as myth; Franco-American crossings
· Intermediality: Miller and painting; Miller and music
· Miller in translation: linguistic, stylistic, and cultural correspondences across languages
· Circulation: publishing history; the clandestine and legitimate lives of Miller’s texts; reception and rejection across languages and decades
To apply, please submit an abstract of 300-400 words to the following address by 31 October 2026. Please include your institutional affiliation (if any) and a short biographical note (150 words) along with your abstract:
