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Location

Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date

April 18-20, 2009

Program

Keynote:

• H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - "Home & Path, Body & Space: The Architecture of Place in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' Fiction
  

Presentations:

• Jerry Salyer (Bellarmine University) - Esse est percipi: Nature, Neighbors and nous in the Work of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Kelli Palinkas (SUNY New Paltz) - The Significance of St. Lucy in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man
  
• Damian Carpenter (Texas A&M) - My Old Kentucky Inscape: Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Gerard Manley Hopkins
  
• Sharon Peelor (University of Oklahoma) - The Dark Night of the Soul and the Writing of Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Literary Device and Philosophical Concept
  
• Crissy Rogowski (SUNY New Paltz) - Roberts, Faulkner, and the Southern Renascence
  
• Giséle Sigal (Université de Pau--IUT de Bayonne) - Fortitude and Faith in Books by Four Southern Women Novelists: Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Mary Noailles Murfree, Ellen Glasgow, and Edith Summers Kelly
  
• Alex Shakespeare (Boston College) - "My, my. How a body gets around": Wandering Women in the Novels of Elizabeth Madox Roberts and William Faulkner
  
• Vicki Barker & Nicole Drewitz-Crockett (Carson-Newman College) - "An Uneven Stair" - Elizabeth Madox Roberts and the Question of Appalachian Identity
  
• Jane Eblen Keller (University of Baltimore) - The Residue of Disaster, The Leavings of Tragedy: Women and Violence in Roberts' Fiction
  
• Matthew Nickel (University of Louisiana-Lafayette) - "The most natural growth, indigenous to the soil": Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Folklore
  
• Amanda Boyle (SUNY New Paltz) - Exploring The Light and The Dark: Superstitions, Omens, and Folklore in The Great Meadow and Black is My Truelove's Hair
  
• James Stamant (Texas A&M) - Terra Incognita in A Buried Treasure
  
• Kelly Sullivan (Boston College) - Timescape with Cabin: Vernacular Architecture, Regionalism, and Modernism in Roberts' The Time of Man and Synge's The Aran Islands
  
• William Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Elizabeth Madox Roberts and the Literary Marketplace
  
• Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State College) - Staging The Great Meadow: A Play in Progress
  
• Daniel Butler (SUNY New Paltz) - Imagination and Dignity
  
• Jane Massey Dionne (Independent Scholar) - Teaching The Haunted Mirror: Helping Students Find Interest and Relevance in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' Short Stories
  
• Goretti Vianney-Benca (SUNY New Paltz) - Emotional and Material Stability in The Time of Man
  
• Brad McDuffie (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - River of Time: James Still's River of Earth and Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man
  
• Mert Sanivar (SUNY New Paltz) - From the Kentucky Earth to the Anatolian Earth: A Comparitive Reading of the Female Characters Called Ellen and Alive in Roberts' The Time of Man and Halide Edip Adivar's Strike the Harlot
  
• Oona Morrow (Clark University) - The Time of Man and the Pleasure of Possession