Scottish Studies at the 2007 MLA Convention

Chicago,
USA

The Modern Language Association's 123rd annual convention will be held in Chicago, and the Scottish Writing Exhibition will be there at stand #600. Organised for the Association for Scottish Literary Studies International Committee by Dr Gwen Enstam and Mr Duncan Jones, a number of Scottish authors and academics will be attending, including Louise Welsh and Iain Finlay Macleod.

Full details of the Scottish Writing Exhibition will be available at the ASLS website.

Scottish sessions at the conference are:

• Scottish Literature and the Union, a discussion group chaired by John Corbett
• Patterns in Time: The Scottish Nordic Synergy, chaired by Donna Heddle
• A Reading by Two Scottish Novelists with Louise Welsh and Iain Finlay Macleod
• Ghostly National Imaginings: Scotland in the Nineteenth Century, chaired by David Radcliffe
• Future Spaces, Scottish Places, chaired by Caroline McCracken-Flesher
• 'Reinventing the Nation': New Directions in Scottish Literature, chaired by Kenneth McNeil