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Location
Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date
April 22-24, 2006

Program
Keynote:
  • H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - "Comfortable Within Her Tradition": Light at the Jarvis Place & Other New Evidence Regarding Robert Penn Warren’s Early Tributes to Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Presentations:
  • Tina Iraca (University of Connecticut) - Struggling with Race in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s My Heart and My Flesh
  • Vicki Barker (Carson-Newman College) - “Get God into It”: Music as Sacrament in the Writings of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Bill Boyle (SUNY New Paltz) - Common Ground: Roberts, Warren, and Berry
  • Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State College) - The Hunters of Kentucky in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Great Meadows: de Crevecoeur’s "mongrel breed" Class Reclaimed
  • Michael Beilfuss (Texas A & M U.) - Berk’s Story and Place in The Great Meadow: The Thinking and Eating Parts
  • Damian Carpenter (SUNY New Paltz) - At Home in the World: Folk Song and Knowledge as History in The Great Meadow
  • David Powell (University of Georgia) - Lost and Found Implements: On Vice in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ A Buried Treasure and Black is My Truelove’s Hair
  • Brad McDuffie (Nyack College) - "Bringing in the Sheaves": Cosmic Dispensations of Grace and The Redemptive Tryst in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ "The Shepherd’s Interval"
  • Nicole Camastra (University of Georgia) - "He Cried Out Inwardly for the Answer": Innocence, Experience, and Knowledge in Roberts’ “On the Mountainside”
  • Matthew Nickel (SUNY New Paltz) - "Henceforth your name will be" Felix Culpa: The Recognition of the Flesh, the Acceptance of Sacrifice, and the Mystery of Magdalenian Salvation in “The Sacrifice of the Maidens”
  • Angela Green (University of Georgia) - "A Culture Founded on Sharp Practices": Post-War Violence in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s "Record at Oak Hill"
  • Emily Kane (University of Georgia) - Not Quite "as much mine as any man’s": Soul, Sound, and Self in "Children of the Earth"
  • James Stamant (SUNY New Paltz) - A Wedding of Dark and Light: Bird Imagery and Duality in Roberts’ Black is My Truelove’s Hair
  • Jill M. Parrott (University of Georgia) - Form and Rhetoric in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ He Sent Forth a Raven: A Burkian Perspective
  • Landan Gross (University of Georgia) - Mammy, Pappy, and the Hills Shoulder-to-Shoulder: The Nature of Family in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Goretti Vianney-Benca (SUNY New Paltz) - Looking at the Self: Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Use of the Mirror in "The Haunted Palace"
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