ALA 2016

American Literature Association Annual Conference

May 26-29, 2016

San Francisco, CA

I.  Vonnegut and History
Organized by the Kurt Vonnegut Society

Chair: Nicole Lowman, University at Buffalo

  1. “American Fascism and Mother Night,” Susan Farrell, College of Charleston
  2. “From Good War to Bad: Vonnegut’s Vietnam,” Gregory Sumner, University of Detroit, Mercy
  3. Galápagos, or, Kurt Vonnegut in the Anthropocene,” Gerry Canavan, Marquette University
  4. “Vonnegut Without Kurt: Reading and Teaching after April 11, 2007,” Tom Hertweck, University of Nevada, Reno

II.  Vonnegut in his own Fiction: Science, Politics, and Psychology
Organized by the Kurt Vonnegut Society

Chair: Susan Farrell, College of Charleston

  1. “’You Know What I Mean by Blue?’: Color Theory and Human Awareness in Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions,” Nicole Lowman, University at Buffalo
  2. “No Neat Box: ‘Harrison Bergeron’ and the Personal Politics of Kurt Vonnegut,” Benjamin Reed, Texas State University
  3. “’That Was I. That Was Me’: The many Vonneguts and their Relationships with Fiction,” Zachary Perdieu, Texas State University