Book Salon

The Book Salon is a special session format designed to highlight and celebrate an abundance of
recent work in any given subfield of Shakespeare studies. Participants, all of whom will have
published a monograph or an edited collection in said subfield within the past three years
preceding the conference, will not discuss their own work. Rather, they will interview each other
about the frameworks and interventions of their recent books in order to highlight the critical
questions currently being pursued collectively by the subfield. This interview session will be
followed by a Q&A.

These salons offer opportunities for experts to publicly engage with each other’s work beyond
the slow and formal process of the book review, and, importantly, offer public forums for other
members to encounter new work from subfields with which they may be less familiar.

To propose a Book Salon, contact members of the Program Committee. Proposals should include
the subfield to be addressed, and the names of at least three (and no more than four) participants,
one of whom can be the session proposer, and the title of their recently published books with a
short abstract for each. These sessions are not restricted to first time authors. Book Salon
participants may enroll in a seminar the year they present, and their participation does not count
towards their one-in-any-three-year-period panel allowance.

Deadline: March 15, 2025