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The International Theodore Dreiser Society was formed by Miriam S. Gogol and Frederic E. Rusch at the second annual American Literature Association Conference in Washington, D.C., on 25 May 1991. A growing organization of scholars, teachers, and Dreiser enthusiasts, the Society promotes interest in the life and works of Theodore Dreiser and those associated with him. Annual membership in the society includes two issues of the society's journal, Studies in American Naturalism.

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Heard in the Corridors

Two Dreiser Panels, ALA, Boston, May 2015

First Panel: Theodore Dreiser: Open Topic, 
Chair: Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University

1. “The Value of Restraint: A Dialogue on the Composition and Editing of Theodore Dreiser’s The Titan,” Jude Davies, University of Winchester, and Roark Mulligan, Christopher Newport University
2. “‘There’s no Place Like Home’: Domestic Spaces in Sister Carrie.”  Nancy Von Rosk, Mount Saint Mary College

Second Panel: Round Table on Dreiser and Gender 2015. This roundtable showcases new work on Theodore Dreiser’s writing vis a vis gender theories through a series of 10-minute talks. 
Moderator: Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University

1.  “Maids and Other Working Women in Dreiser,” Miriam Gogol, Mercy College
   
2. "Dreiser's  Working Women and the Black Female Imaginary," Laura Hapke, New York City College of Technology/City University of New York
   
3. “The Realist and his/her Sources:” Gendered Authorship and Readership in Dreiser’s Late Literary Criticism,” Carol Smith, University of Winchester
   
4. "Dreiser, Wharton, Gilman: Rereading Dreiser Through a Feminine Lens," Hildegard Hoeller, City University of New York—The Graduate Center and College of Staten Island
   
5.  “The Contraceptive Dreiser,” Victoria Olwell, University of Virginia 

Conference details may be found at the American Literature Association web site: http://alaconf.org/

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Dreiser Society Officers 2014-2016

• President: Jude Davies, University of Winchester, UK
  
• Vice President: Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University
• Secretary-Treasurer: Roark Mulligan, Christopher Newport University
  
• Recording Secretary: Miriam S. Gogol, Mercy College 
• Director at Large: Eric Carl Link, University of Memphis
  
• Director at Large: Cara Erdheim, Sacred Heart University
  
• Past President: Gary Totten, North Dakota State University

International Advisory Board

• Nadjia Amrane, University of Algiers
  
• Renate von Bardeleben, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz
  
• Ratan Bhattacharjee, Dum Dum Motijheel College
  
• Yoshinobu Hakutani, Kent State University
  
•  Lawrence E. Hussman, Wright State University
  
•  Kiyohiko Murayama, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  
•  Thomas P. Riggio, University of Connecticut
  

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Copyright © 2014
Images courtesy of Theodore Dreiser Papers, University of Pennsylvania
Contact: dreisersociety@gmail.com