Panel: Nonhuman Life in Early America

The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites papers on the subject of nonhuman life in early America. 
This panel will consider forms of nonhuman life in early America as they appear in the work of Sedgwick and her contemporaries. Papers might address (but are not limited to):• nonhuman animals, whether domestic or wild• vegetative life• superhuman or supernatural life (angels, ghosts, gods, sprites)• exclusions from the human (the subhuman, the semihuman, the animalistic)• early America in/and the anthropocene

Please send abstracts of 250 words to Ashley Reed, akreed@vt.edu, by January 23, 2020. 

The 2020 American Literature Association Conference will take place May 21-24 in San Diego, CA.