2025 Annual Meeting
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025.
The seminar and paper submission portals are now closed for the 2025 Annual Meeting. If you are proposing a seminar, please finalize your slate by November 4 to be considered by the Program Committee.
Important Dates:
| Seminar proposal portal opens | July 29, 2024 |
| Seminar proposal portal closes | September 9, 2024 |
| Paper proposal portal opens | September 13, 2024 |
| Paper proposal portal closes | October 14, 2024 |
| Seminar organizer review begins | October 18, 2024 |
| Seminar organizer review ends | November 4, 2024 |
| Secretariat sends notifications | December 17, 2024 |
For more information about each phase of the process, please view our step-by-step guide and check the Annual Meeting FAQ.
Seminar Organizer Review
The seminar organizer review period will take place October 18 - November 4. During this period, seminar organizers review the papers submitted to their seminars. Accept the papers that are the best fit for your proposed seminar, keeping in mind ACLA guidelines on seminar makeup & size (please see the FAQ and note below). Once you've accepted or declined every paper submitted to you, your seminar is automatically sent to the ACLA Program Committee for review. If you have proposed a seminar for the 2025 Annual Meeting, you were sent additional instructions at the email address you submitted. If you can't find the instructions, please check your spam folder or view the email here. For any questions, contact info@acla.org.
Seminar organizers, please note the following guidelines for seminar composition. These are important for ensuring diversity and the widest possible participation in the conference. Please refer to the ACLA FAQs for further guidance.
- Each ACLA member may appear on only one seminar, whether as seminar organizer or paper presenter.
- No more than two presenters on a seminar may come from the same institution.
- Each seminar should include a balance of scholars at different stages and must include both faculty and graduate students.
- No more than 50% of presenters in a seminar should be graduate students.
- Optimal paper numbers are: 8 papers for a 2-day seminar (6-9 is acceptable), and 12 papers for a 3-day seminar (10-13 is acceptable). Proposed seminars of 5 papers or fewer are unlikely to be accepted.
2025 Undergraduate Seminar: Bad Readers
ACLA will hold an undergraduate seminar at the 2025 Annual Meeting. In view of the popularity of last year's topic, we reprise it this year and encourage all who applied last year but weren't admitted due to space constraints to reapply.
Bad Readers
From Heinrich von Kleist’s “The Earthquake in Chile” to Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, literature teems with warnings about the perils of “bad reading”: when characters who over-identify with fantasies, archetypes, and plotlines face dire consequences. This seminar will offer an opportunity for comparing representations of “bad reading” along with the situations and repercussions they generate. What are the cultural, intersectional, geopolitical, and historical vectors of bad reading in and beyond imperial nations and their canons?
Submit all proposals for the undergraduate seminar through the portal.
Advertising, Sponsorship, Book Exhibit
Publishers, departments, and other organizations are welcome to purchase a spot in our virtual book exhibit or an advertisement in our virtual conference platform or program guide. Please visit our conference program advertising and book exhibit pages for additional information.
2025 Registration Rates
Undergraduate Student: $10
Graduate Student: $35
Independent Scholar: $35
Contingent Faculty: $35
Tenure-track/tenured faculty making under 60k: $55
Tenure-track/tenured faculty making 60-90k: $75
Tenure-track/tenured faculty making 90-125k: $85
Tenure-track/tenured faculty making 125-175k: $95
Tenure-track/tenured faculty making over 175k: $135
We will be updating this page with additional details about the conference program, keynote speakers, registration, submission guidelines, and much more in the coming weeks. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@acla.org or visit the following links:
We look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association!