PAMLA thanks you!

With PAMLA’s 2021 Conference behind us, we want to offer our most profound thanks to so many individuals, groups, and communities for helping us to successfully pull off our first in-person and virtual conference. We’d especially like to thank the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for hosting the conference, and the University of Texas at Austin for co-hosting the conference. Special thanks go out to PAMLA’s Assistant Director, David John Boyd, for his dedicated work, as well as the many PAMLA volunteers, registration captains, concierges, and presiding officers who worked so diligently to make sure the conference would be a success.

The PAMLA Board and the Executive Director wishes to thank the universities and departments that helped fund and organize portions of the conference, including:

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Department of English
  • Department of World Languages and Cultures
  • Department of History
  • Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies

University of Texas, Austin

  • Department of English

We also want to give thanks to all our university professors, chairs, deans, students, scholars, volunteers, and staff who gave so much time and energy to the conference planning process, including:

  • Jeremiah Axelrod, Occidental College
  • Ying Bao, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • John Bowers, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • David John Boyd, PAMLA Assistant Director
  • Emily Butler-Probst, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Susan Byrne, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Sonia Christensen, Independent Scholar
  • Yolanda Doub, Fresno State
  • Megan Edwards, Independent Scholar
  • Jorge Galindo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • John Goshert, Utah Valley University
  • Gabriel Grinsteiner, Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry
  • John Hay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Nanette Hilton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Richard Hishmeh, Palomar College
  • Max Ho, Pasadena Community College
  • Jarret Keene, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Martin Kevorkian, University of Texas at Austin
  • Andrew Kirk, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Oksana Marafioti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Russell McDermott, University of Southern California
  • Andrea Polegato, California State University, Fresno
  • Kyooyung Ra, University of Southern California
  • Alicja Relidzyńska, University of Warsaw
  • Alicia Rico, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Amanda Riggle, University of California, Riverside
  • Christian Rodriguez, LA Dept. of Recreation & Parks
  • Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • John Schwetman, University of Minnesota, Duluth
  • Jason Spangler, Riverside City College
  • Anne Stevens, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Anna Torres Mallma, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Gary Totten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Michelle Ver Hagen, Northern Arizona University

And finally, we would like to thank every single person who participated in the conference at large, in person or virtually. We are so pleased that we were able to continue forth with the 118th annual conference even in these uncertain times. We look forward to seeing so many old and new friends next year in Los Angeles for the 119th annual PAMLA conference!