The Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference
The Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference
Friday, March 22, 2024
The Historic New Orleans Collection
and Williams Research Center
New Orleans, LA
Friday, March 22, 2024
The Historic New Orleans Collection
and Williams Research Center
New Orleans, LA
Founded in 1995, the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference is an annual one-day meeting held in the historic French Quarter as part of the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. The week-long festival features writing workshops, theater events, literary panels, literary walking tours, music events, culinary events, and more.
Call for Proposals
Deadline for submissions:
November 6, 2023
Sessions at this one-day event do not consist of traditional conference papers. Instead, panels feature scholarly conversations that spring from Williams’s work and its many contexts and futures. We invite brief proposals for topics related to Tennessee Williams writ large.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- conceptual casting in productions of Williams’s plays
- non-US-based productions, films, and contexts
- production history and 21st-century dramaturgy
- BIPOC representation in text and productions
- connections between Williams and the work of other artists and creative professionals, including playwrights, poets, novelists, actors, and directors
- how Williams fits into LGBTQ+ history and the present
- intersectional feminist critiques
- disability in Williams’s texts and productions
- directing and adapting Williams in the 21st century
- Williams’s influence on the cinema in the US and abroad
All sessions will be held in person in New Orleans; there are no virtual or hybrid sessions.
Proposals should include your name, affiliation (if applicable), contact information (including phone number and email), an abstract of 250 words about a proposed topic, and a 100-word bio. Submissions should specify any A/V needs. Because the special hotel rate offered to Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival attendees sells out quickly, those interested in staying at the festival hotel are encouraged to make their reservation as early as possible: visit the TW/NO Literary Festival website here.
Deadline: Please email proposals to margit.longbrake@hnoc.org by Monday, November 6, 2023.
Stipends of $200 will be offered to panelists who participate in person. Panelists interested in submitting an essay on their topic to the Tennessee Williams Annual Review will be invited to schedule a virtual meeting with the managing editor of the Review, to discuss possibilities.
The conference organizers and the Tennessee Williams Annual Review are committed to reflecting a wide range of experience of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and physical ability. Scholars of the global majority are especially encouraged to submit proposals.
Proposals should include your name, affiliation (if applicable), contact information (including phone number and email), an abstract of 250 words about a proposed topic, and a 100-word bio. Submissions should specify any A/V needs. Because the special hotel rate offered to Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival attendees sells out quickly, those interested in staying at the festival hotel are encouraged to make their reservation as early as possible: visit the TW/NO Literary Festival website here.
Deadline: Please email proposals to margit.longbrake@hnoc.org by Monday, November 6, 2023.
Stipends of $200 will be offered to panelists who participate in person. Panelists interested in submitting an essay on their topic to the Tennessee Williams Annual Review will be invited to schedule a virtual meeting with the managing editor of the Review, to discuss possibilities.
The conference organizers and the Tennessee Williams Annual Review are committed to reflecting a wide range of experience of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and physical ability. Scholars of the global majority are especially encouraged to submit proposals.