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Dr. Aaron Shaheen (middle) stands between John Dos Passos Coggin (left) and Dr. Alberto Luca, the current owner of the Villa Ca’ Erizzo Luca in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, during the John Dos Passos Conference. Photo courtesy of Dr. Aaron Shaheen.<\/p><\/div>\n

The George C. Connor Professorship of American Literature and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of English were co-sponsors of the fourth biennial John Dos Passos Conference, held May 23-25 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.<\/p>\n

The conference celebrated the life, writings and enduring influence of John Dos Passos (1896-1970), an American novelist and artist whose contributions to modernist literature remain significant. He is renowned for his \u201cU.S.A. trilogy\u201d comprising the novels \u201cThe 42nd Parallel\u201d (1930), \u201c1919\u201d (1932) and \u201cThe Big Money\u201d (1936), which depict the socio-political landscape of the United States during the early 20th century through innovative narrative techniques.<\/p>\n

Dr. Aaron Shaheen, the George C. Connor Professor of American Literature at UTC, organized the conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis latest conference was the most international of the four that have been held,\u201d said Shaheen, noting that scholars from 12 countries attended the conference.<\/p>\n

Previous conferences took place at UTC (2014), in Madrid, Spain (2016), and in Lisbon, Portugal (2018). Notably, this was the first Dos Passos conference since the lifting of international COVID-19 restrictions in 2022.<\/p>\n

Set against the historic backdrop of Villa Ca\u2019 Erizzo Luca, the conference venue resonated with history. In early 1918, Dos Passos served here as an American Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I. Later that year, the villa also sheltered a recuperating Ernest Hemingway, who had sustained a leg wound while delivering provisions to Italian troops on the Piave front.<\/p>\n

Shaheen said conference presenters included recent UTC graduate Alexis Armour\u2014the recipient of a Master of Arts in English in May\u2014and the conference namesake\u2019s grandson, John Dos Passos Coggin.<\/p>\n

The chief sponsor of the conference, the John Dos Passos Society, was founded at UTC in 2011 by Shaheen and Victoria Bryan, a two-time University alumna (2007 and 2009) who\u2014at the time\u2014was pursuing her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. Bryan, now the director of UTC\u2019s Walker Teaching and Learning Center, earned her doctoral degree from Ole Miss in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Victoria Bryan was one of my graduate students, she read a Dos Passos novel for the first time and it really resonated with her,\u201d Shaheen recalled. \u201cAfter she moved on to Ole Miss, she asked me if I was interested in creating a Dos Passos Society\u2014and I said, \u2018Of course.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Within a few months of its founding, they had already tracked down Dos Passos Coggin, \u201cwho has been a friend of ours ever since,\u201d Shaheen said. \u201cHe and his mother are sort of the co-executors of the Dos Passos Literary Estate, so we\u2019ve had constant contact with the family. I consider John Dos Passos Coggin a close friend of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the journey of the conference, Shaheen spoke of past gatherings. The inaugural conference in 2014 at UTC sparked enthusiasm that led a Spanish scholar to host the next event in Madrid in 2016. The success of the Madrid conference inspired a Portuguese scholar to hold the 2018 conference in Lisbon.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding on the success and turnout of the Bassano conference, the Dos Passos Society has chosen to hold its next conference on the Portuguese island of Madeira\u2014Dos Passos\u2019 ancestral homeland,\u201d Shaheen said.<\/p>\n

UTC participants in past international Dos Passos conferences have included UC Foundation Professor of Spanish Lynn Purkey and Professor Emerita Verbie Prevost.<\/p>\n

Learn More<\/h4>\n

UTC Department of English<\/a><\/p>\n

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How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n

John Dos Passos Conference\/Bassano del Grappa photo gallery courtesy of Dr. Aaron Shaheen<\/h4>\n
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The fourth biennial John Dos Passos Conference took place in the 18th-century Cappella Mares on the south end of the Villa Ca\u2019 Erizzo Luca complex. The cappella is dedicated to the Venetian violinist virtuoso Gaetano Mares, whose elegant tomb is seen in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The George C. Connor Professorship of American Literature and the UTC Department of English were co-sponsors of the fourth biennial John Dos Passos Conference, held May 23-25 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.<\/p>\n

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