The Reception Study Society seeks to promote informal and formal exchanges between scholars in several related fields. Bringing together theorists, scholars, and teachers from many areas, this association promotes a much needed cross-dialogue among all areas of reception studies.
Events
Visit the Conference page, for our call for papers, and join us in Provo, Utah from September 26-28, 2019! The conference page includes programs from our previous conferences, while CFPs and reports related to RSS panels at our sister organizations' conventions are available on the Events page. See details about our panel "Authors Made & Remade" at the 2020 MLA Convention in Seattle.
Publications
The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit by Cecilia Konchar Farr and Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature by Kristin L. Matthews appeared in 2016, and Barbara Ryan's Chronicling Ben-Hur's Early Reception: America’s Favorite Tale, 1880-1924 was published in 2017. Follow the link to Publications to see more.
Journal
Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is published by Penn State UP, and it promotes discussion among literature, culture and media scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in reception study, reader-response criticism and pedagogy, history of the book, audience and communication studies, and more. See Journal for details about our 2018 special issue.