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Location
Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date
April 21-23, 2007

Program
Keynote:
  • H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - In a Station of the Modern: Roberts and Pound – Post-Symbolism, Imagism, Melopoeia, Phanopoeia, Logopoeia, and Mo(o)re

Presentations:
  • William Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - He Sent Forth a Raven: The Pastoral Ground
  • Gregg Nekirk (Westfield State College) - First Comes [Safety], Then Comes Marriage: Family Choices for Diony on the Kentucky Frontier
  • Gérald Préher (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) - Blood Ties Exposed: Revelatory Letters in My Heart and My Flesh
  • William Boyle (SUNY New Paltz) - The Blue Hammer: Teaching Roberts to a Bunch of Punks
  • John C. Baker (Concord University) - “It was a good book, a learned book. I read it a heap here and yon”: Experiences with Teaching The Time of Man in a University Writing About Literature Course
  • James Stamant (SUNY New Paltz) - The Sacrifice of the Married: Views of Marriage and the Sacrament in Roberts
  • Goretti Vianney-Benca (SUNY New Paltz) - “Distressed Phrases of Prayer”: Seeking Our Lady’s Help
  • Nicole Myers (SUNY New Paltz) - Language and Style of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Damian Carpenter (SUNY New Paltz) - The Rain Bat and Black Sheep: Jingling in the Wind and Its Failed Artistic Vision
  • Michael Beilfuss (Texas A&M) - Self, Identity, and Knowledge: Merging the Familiar and the Strange in The Haunted Mirror
  • Matthew Nickel (SUNY New Paltz) - “In spite of their simplicity”: The Tall Men in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ “Record at Oak Hill”
  • Nicole Camastra (University of Georgia) - “It Came Into Being in Her Mind”: Spectral Existence in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ “The Scarecrow”
  • Steven J. Florczyk (University of Georgia) - In the Great Steep’s Garden: Roberts’ Journey West and Early Growth as a Writer
  • Emily Kane (University of Georgia) - Evaluating “the beauty of the distant vale”: The Reality of Escape in “Love by the Highway”
  • Erin Presley (University of Georgia) - You Can’t Go Home Again: The Rhetoric of Place in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ “On the Mountainside”
  • Katy Shores (University of Georgia) - “Formless Levels” and “Changing Curves”: Geometry of the Unsignifiable in “The Haunted Palace”
  • Paula Sirc (SUNY New Paltz) - Here I Am: Sense of Place in The Time of Man
  • Landan Gross (SUNY New Paltz) - A Vision of One’s World, Organic and Lasting: Solitude, Cerebral Space, and Epiphanic Understanding of the Soil in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and William Faulkner
  • Natalie M. Khoury (University of Georgia) - Finding A Room of One’s Own in The Time of Man
  • Angela Green (University of Georgia) - The Touch Made its Horror Drunk: Resisting Womanhood in “The Scarecrow”
  • Brad McDuffie (Nyack College) - “There Will Your Heart Be Also”: Treasures–Damned & Divined–In William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses and Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ A Buried Treasure
  • John Weatherford (University of Georgia) - Buttons, Bubbles, and She-Books: The Sensory Formation of the Psychological in “I Love My Bonny Bride”
  • Gisele Sigal (Université de Pau--IUT de Bayonne) with Gérald Préher – selections from Berkeleyian Impressionism in the Works of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
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