Society for Novel Studies

A poster of the Novel Languages conference, featuring a photo of text on a digital tablet and the dates May 29 - June 1, 2025
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The Biannual Conference of the Society for Novel Studies will take place May 29-June 1, 2025.

Please see the SNS 2025 site for further information and CFP, here.

Theme: “NOVEL LANGUAGES”

Hosted by Duke University at the Durham Convention Center (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

The Society for Novel Studies (SNS) exists to further the study of the novel as a genre and to examine the role of fiction in engaging, formulating, and shaping the world.


Members of the SNS share an interest in the novel as a historical and contemporary phenomenon, as a genre continually open to change and experimentation, and as a national, regional, transnational, and global form. The society’s membership is occupied in researching individual works of fiction and their writers and in engaging in critical study of the theoretical questions posed by the writing, reading, translation, distribution, and consumption of novels.

The Society for Novel Studies is formally affiliated (via a Memorandum of Understanding) with the Novel Network at the University of Sydney, Australia.