ALA 2025
Washington Irving Society events have been slotted for Boston ALA 2025:
Thursday, 5-22
- 1:00-2:20 Conversation Roundtable: Starting an Author Society with Tracy Hoffman and Anna Beaudry (Session 4-H in Staffordshire)
- 2:30-3:50 Political Washington Irving with John Dennis Anderson, Daniel Diez Couch, and Klara Rebecca Fuchs (Session 5-I in North Star)
- 5:30-6:15 Washington Irving Society Business Meeting with Tracy Hoffman (Session 7-M in St. George C)
Officers, as of May 2025
Tracy Hoffman, President
Sean Keck, Vice-President
Kirsten Stine, Treasurer
John Dennis Anderson, Social Media (Facebook)
Business Agenda for ALA 2025
If you’re attending the American Literature Association Conference in May 2025, then here’s the agenda for the business meeting. We’ll have some hard copies available for you, but scanning the agenda might help us move things quicker, and you’ll also have the electronic version available to you. If you cannot attend ALA this year but want to stay updated on the society’s doings, here you go:
Washington Irving Society Meeting May 2025
Recent Releases
- American Enchangment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World (2017) by Michelle Sizemore includes a chapter about Washington Irving. The book is available at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/american-enchantment-9780190627539?cc=us&lang=en&
- The Dutch World of Washington Irving: Knickerbocker’s History of New York and the Hudson Valley Folktales (2025) by Elisabeth Paling Funk is available at http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
- Edited by Zubeda Jalalzai, Washington Irving and Islam: Critical Essays (2018) is now available at:
https://rowman.com/isbn/9781498569668/washington-irving-and-islam-critical-essays
“Washington Irving Crosses the Genesee” by Michael J. Nighan
Check out a November 2021 article about Washington Irving by Michael J. Nighan: https://talkerofthetown.com/2021/11/16/washington-irving-crosses-the-genesee/
First Crayon Club Booklet
A researcher in Australia has been looking for information about Crayon Club history and is wondering who might have purchased the first Crayon Club booklet (1853) auctioned off by Sothebys in 2004. The booklet includes Washington Irving. If you know anything about the booklet, please comment on the page or message Tracy_Hoffman@baylor.edu, and she can pass along the information to the researcher.
Dutchess County
Michael De Sapio has written a screenplay called Dutchess County, inspired by the life of Washington Irving.
Here’s the link to order the screenplay on Amazon:
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