The ADE sponsored a panel at the annual MLA meeting in Boston, on 4 January 2013. Carol DeBoer-Langworthy chaired the panel, “Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts,” which featured the following papers:

• “Editing Forgery, Scripting an Author: The Case of Emily Dickinson,” Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park;
• “Authorial Deceit in Literary Texts,” David L. Vander Meulen, Univ. of Virginia;
• “‘Shan’t Tell’: Sex, Lies, and the Unspeakable in the Fiction of Jerzy Kosinki,” Carolyn A. Sofia, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York; and
• “‘It Couldn’t Be Robbery to Steal That’: Plagiarism and Twain’s ‘Jumping Frog,'” Andrew Newman, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York; Brandi So, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York.