MELUS at MLA 2003

Take note of the MELUS events that will be held during this year's MLA convention in San Diego, California. 

MONDAY, December 29,   12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.

Work and Play in the Multiethnic Literatures of the United States

Cunningham C, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

Presiding: Fred L. Gardaphe, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook

1. “Revising Women’s Work: Three Ethnic Women Writers,” Josephine Hendin, New York Univ.
2. “Sacred Hoop Dreams: Basketball in Sherman Alexie’s Short Stories,”  David Goldstein-Shirley, Univ. of Washington, Bothell
3. “The Work of Play in Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play and August Wilson’s Fences,”  Reggie Young, Univ. of Louisana, Lafayette
4. "The Spirit of Play in Contemporary Ethnic Literature,” Bonnie TuSmith, Northeastern Univ.
    

Monday, December 29
5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Cash Bar
Ballroom H
Manchester Grand Hotel

At this event Professor Werner Sollors of Harvard University will be presented with the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Ethnic American Literary and Cultural Studies.

Please stop by to toast Professor Sollors and each other and help consume the complimentary appetizers.

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