2025 Annual Meeting
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025.
Important Dates:
| Secretariat sends notifications | December 17, 2024 |
| Registration opens | December 17, 2024 |
| Travel grant (fee waiver) applications open | December 17, 2024 |
| Undergraduate seminar application deadline | January 20, 2025 |
| Travel grant (fee waiver) application deadline | February 28, 2025 |
| Secretariat sends travel grant (fee waiver) decisions | March 14, 2025 |
| Registration & membership deadline for presenters and seminar organizers | May 1, 2025 |
For more information about each phase of the process, please view our step-by-step guide and check the Annual Meeting FAQ.
Registration
All ACLA members, presenters, seminar organizers, and other attendees must register for the 2025 Annual Meeting. For rates, additional information, and the registration form, visit acla.org/annual-meeting/register.
Travel Grants
In 2025, the ACLA Annual Meeting will be held virtually. This year, we will offer full waivers for registration and membership fees through the travel grant program. If you receive a 2025 grant, the Secretariat will add one conference registration and one year of ACLA membership to your user account. We are particularly interested in helping students and contingent faculty who have no support for conference attendance from their institutions or other sources. For more information on applying for registration and membership fee waivers for the 2025 Annual Meeting, visit acla.org/travel-grants.
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 by January 20, 2025.
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, 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!