Conferences

Profs. Hanna Wallinger and Tanya Clark at ALA 2011
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society sponsors panels at each year’s American Literature Association Annual Meeting.  Members may share news of additional conferences and panels related to Hopkins and her era via the HOPKINSSOCIETY listserv.  An archive of previous years’ conference panels may be found here.

PEHS at ALA 2027: CFP Coming Soon

For details about the ALA Convention, please consult the following website: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/general-call-for-papers/

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2026 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Pauline E. Hopkins’s America, Then and Now

2025American Literature Association Call for Papers
Fifteen Years of the Pauline E. Hopkins Society

2023 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Pauline E. Hopkins in Comparative Perspective

2021 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Hopkins and Her Contemporaries: Responses to Racial Violence, Appeals for Racial Justice

2020 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Pauline E. Hopkins and Social Justice

2019 American Literature Association Call for Papers
Afrofuturism and Pauline Hopkins
Shirley Moody-Turner, Associate Professor of Penn State University and author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation, will act as respondent for this panel.

2018 Conference Panels Sponsored by the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

American Literature Association
Pauline E. Hopkins’s Activism
Panel Chair: John Gruesser, Kean University

Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Past and Future Cultures: Deep Contextualization of Pauline Hopkins
Panel Chair: JoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston Downtown