A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork
We invite scholars to submit paper proposals on any aspect of Oates studies for our panel at the annual ALA conference in Chicago. Proposal deadline: January 10, 2026.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
We invite scholars to submit paper proposals on any aspect of Oates studies for our panel at the annual ALA conference in Boston. Proposal deadline: December 1, 2026. Please send proposals of approximately 200 words, along with a short bio, to Tanya Tromble-Giraud (tanya.giraud@univ-amu.fr) and Randy Souther (southerr@usfca.edu). Speakers will be invited to develop their papers into articles for submission to our journal.
For those who are unable to attend the ALA conference, we invite article submissions directly to Bearing Witness at any time.
In 2027, we particularly invite paper and article proposals on:
I'm a Reference Librarian at the University of San Francisco's Gleeson Library, and I run the Joyce Carol Oates web site, Celestial Timepiece.
