The 2027 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
Thu, May 20
|University of Houston
ACLA 2027 meets online May 15–16 and in person at the University of Houston May 20–23. Related seminar proposal, “A Pedagogy Seminar and raw notes,” is pending ACLA’s December 1 decision. The organizer has accepted Vivien Jiaqian Zhu’s paper, “Annotating the Unstable Text.” See event details for the full abstract and official ACLA links.
Time & Location
May 20, 2027, 9:00 AM – May 23, 2027, 5:00 PM
University of Houston, University Dr, Houston, TX, USA
About the event
The 2027 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), with both in-person and online participation.
Related seminar proposal
A Pedagogy Seminar and Raw Notes — proposal decision pending. The seminar should not be regarded as accepted until ACLA confirms the outcome.
Papers accepted by the organizer
Living Twenty Years in the Past: Time-Travel Fiction as Historical Inquiry — Wanlin Falian · Accepted by organizer · Submitted August 28, 2026
Annotating the Unstable Text: A Digital Humanities Pedagogy for Recension-Aware Reading of Premodern Chinese Fiction — Vivien Jiaqian Zhu (Stanford University) · Accepted by organizer · Submitted September 6, 2026 — View paper on ACLA