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Location

Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date

April 19-21, 2008

Program

Keynote:

• H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - Rickert and Roberts, Burroughs and Edmonson: Influences and Confluences (Together with Reflections on the Time of Man and the Tenth Anniversary of the Roberts Society)

Presentations:

• William Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Roberts' Admirer James Still
  
• William Boyle (SUNY Maritime) - Kentucky Straight: Roberts and Offutt
  
• Giséle Sigal (Université de Pau--IUT de Bayonne) - "Between Acknowledgement and Literary Creation": The Case of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Brad McDuffie (Nyack College) - Songs That Give Back 'The Knowledge of Rain: Imagism, Vorticism, and the Poetry of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Noah Jampol (University of Maryland) - Personal and Persistent: Sin, Communion, and Complicity in the Southern Renaissance and Southern Gothic Genres
  
• Nicole Camastra (University of Georgia) - The Grand Spatial Configuration of a Symphony: Musical Influences in the Work of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Alex Shakespeare (SUNY New Paltz) - "Sing the Story One": Elizabeth Madox Roberts, William Faulkner, and American Folk Song
  
• Vicki Barker (Carson-Newman College) - The Influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on Elizabeth Madox Roberts' My Heart and My Flesh
  
• James Stamant (Texas A&M) - If a Tree Falls in Diony's Mind: Escaping Fictional Boundaries in Roberts' Song in the Meadow
  
• Steven Florczyk (University of Georgia) - "Moments of Union in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Haunted Mirror
  
• Amanda Boyle (SUNY New Paltz) - Ellen Chesser and Elizabeth Madox Roberts' Search for Identity in The Time of Man
  
• Nicole McDaniel (Texas A&M) - "Her Lips Said": Self-Recognition Through Dialogue in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man and Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging
  
• Sharon Peelor and Shannon Harvey (University of Oklahoma) - Making "a connection between the worlds of the mind and the outer order": Introducing New Readers to Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Her Writing
  
• Goretti Vianney-Benca (SUNY New Paltz) - How to Make Elizabeth Madox Roberts Popular Again: Making EMR an "Other"
  
• Juliana Alexander (Radford University) - "Myself Against the Chaos of the World": A Poststructuralist Look at the Work of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Matthew Nickel (University of Louisiana—Lafayette) - "Irregular sketchy outlines, like those of the landscape": Birds and Poets, Bovine Madness, John Burroughs, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Angela Green (University of Georgia) - A Far Piece to Go: The Migrant Worker and Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State College) - Men, Women, and Children: Defining Their Roles and Places in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Great Meadow
  
• Damian Carpenter (Texas A&M) - Theology, Philosophy, and Horse Sense: The Interplay of Modernity, Chaos, and Knowledge in He Sent Forth a Raven
  
• Tina Iraca (University of Connecticut) - Black is my Truelove 's Hair: An Empirical Ballad by Elizabeth Madox Roberts