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PAMLA 2014 in Riverside, California October 24th, 2014

Next week I’ll be heading to Riverside, California, to attend the 2014 conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), whose theme this year is “Familiar Spirits.”  In my role as the liaison between PAMLA and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), I’ve organized four ASLE co-sponsored Ecocriticism sessions for presentation at the conference, and I’ll also be presenting some of my own research (on Chief Peter Jones, the nineteenth-century founder of the New Credit First Nation) on a panel devoted to Indigenous Literatures and Cultures.  It will be fun to be in California to celebrate Halloween and Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), and to see old friends and colleagues.  Check out the conference and its various events at http://www.pamla.org/2014.