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Location

Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date

April 16-18, 2011

Program

Keynote:

• H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - Roberts at the Crossroads of Poetry & Fiction: Dialect, Dialogue & Interior Monologue, Inscape & Landscape, Voice & Place

Presentations:

• Jane Eblen Keller (University of Baltimore) - Stuck in Springfield: EMR’s Ambivalent Love of Home
  
• Vicki Barker (Carson-Newman College) - Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Unpublished Flood Novel: The Historical Context Behind the Story
  
• William Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Treachery: A Death’s Head with a Bone in its Mouth
  
• Jessica Conti (SUNY New Paltz) - The Haunted Self: Image and Identity
  
• Matthew Nickel (University of Louisiana—Lafayette)
   - "Can a song of a rose answer me?": Wastelands, Mystic Agrarianism, and Prophecy in "The Prophet'
  
• Gisèle Sigal (Université de Pau—IUT de Bayonne) - Landscapes of the Mind: Recurrence & Variations in the Poetry of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• William Boyle (University of Mississippi) - "Pioneer Perspective": Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Barry Hannah
  
• Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State University) - "His Shadow. . . Crouching at his Feet": Time and Timelessness in "Record at Oak Hill"
  
• Emily Jacobson (Pratt Institute) - Prominence and Discovery: Archiving Roberts
  
• Lee Conell (SUNY New Paltz) - Slow Reading Roberts in Manhattan: The Time of Man in a Turbulent City
  
• Brad McDuffie (Nyack College) - "Running up to the new field": Rereading "The Scarecrow"
  
• Adam Neikirk (University of Mississippi) - Invisible Speakers: A Diagram of Self-Refraction in Roberts’ Poetry of Childhood
  
• Roy Verspoor (SUNY New Paltz) - Unearthly Terror: Dark Shadows in The Great Meadow
  
• Jennifer Stuck (Iona Colege) - The Drawing of the Horse and the Sticking of the Sow: A Look at the Struggle for Self in "A Haunted Palace"
  
• Roxanna Billington (University of Wisconsin: Green Bay) - "It’s Only a Matter of Time": Roberts’ "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
  
• Christopher Paolini (SUNY New Paltz) - The Snake in the Garden: Moral Preservation Against Temptation and Environmental Encouragement in The Time of Man
  
• Andrew Limbong (SUNY New Paltz) - Finding Brother Andrew’s G Fiddle String: Music, Sound, and Growth in The Time of Man
  
• Valerie Werder (SUNY New Paltz) - "How far is it to a star?": Celestial Signifiers of Order and Community in The Time of Man
  
• Jared Young (SUNY New Paltz) - Traditions in Song: Kentucky Literature
  
• Shawn Rubenfeld (SUNY New Paltz) - "And I’ll Know Everything Some Day": Childhood Growth through Nature from
  Under the Tree to The Time of Man
  
• Amanda Capelli (SUNY New Paltz) - I’m A-liven’ Like "a Wet Seed Wild in the Hot Blind Earth": The Intrinsic Poetry of Ellen Chesser and Dewey Dell
  
• Cristin Rogowski-Vita (Independent Scholar) - "Our Place to Keep": Elizabeth Madox Roberts and the American Dream Natalie Lozinski-Veach (SUNY New Paltz) - Heimweh: Home and Belonging in Roberts’ The Time of Man and the poetry of Mascha Kaléko
  
• Amanda Boyle (SUNY New Paltz) - "I’ll Never Set Foot on Earth Again While Time Lasts": Misconceptions and a Renewal of Vows in Roberts’ He Sent Forth a Raven
  
• Jessica Kimmel (SUNY New Paltz) - "A Right to Live": A "Ruined Woman" in Black is My Truelove’s Hair
  
• Sharon Peelor (University of Oklahoma) - From "Screaming Gander" to "one of the most beautiful songs in the world": Reassessment and Recovery of the Values of Dena’s Story
  
• Michelle Kramisen (SUNY New Paltz) - New Beginnings through Times of War in The Great Meadow
  
• Russell Karrick (SUNY New Paltz) - "All My Enduren Life’: The Burden and Beauty along the Dusty Road