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1992 ALA Sessions

EDIS will sponsor two panels devoted to Emily Dickinson at this year's meeting of the American Literature Association, to be held in San Diego in late May. This will be the third annual meeting of ALA, a coalition of societies devoted to the study of American authors.

"Emily Dickinson and Feminist Criticism: A Review"
Chair: Margaret Dickie, Univ. or Georgia Participants: Suzanne Juhasz, Univ. of Colorado; Joyce Warren, Queens College; Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern Univ.;,and Lissa Attaway-Hollaway, Univ. of Georgia.

"Emily Dickinson and Influence"
Chair: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland

"'Inebriate of Air': My Emily Dickinson"
Alicia Ostriker, Rutgers Univ.

"The Plight of a Serious Poet Who Happens to Be a Woman" Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology

For further information about the panels, contact Margaret Dickie at 404-548-8969 or404-542-2186. General information about the ALA meeting can be obtained from Alfred Bendixen by phone,
213- 343-4291,or by fax, 213-343-2670.