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Location

Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date

April 21-23, 2012

Program

Keynote:

• H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - Elizabeth Madox Roberts in the WPA Literary Landscape of Kentucky
  

Presentations:

• Jane Eblen Keller (University of Baltimore) - All My Songs: Chapter One of the Biography of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Vicki Barker (Carson-Newman College) - "Honor my Resting Muse": Editing Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Flood Manuscript
  
• William Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Roberts, the Poetry Club, and Poetry
  
• Chad Horn (Independent Scholar) - Capturing Bigfoot on the Sacred Stomping Grounds of Thomas Merton: How a Blind Squirrel Named Rovit Stumbled over a Magical Acorn Whilst Scampering Frantically Under the Tree
  
• Giséle Sigal (Université de Pau--IUT de Bayonne) - Drama and Trauma in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ My Heart and My Flesh
  
• Jessica Conti (SUNY New Paltz) - "The lamb had bleated softly. . . like the cry of a small child": Roberts’ Morality Play, "The Children of the Earth"
  
• Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State University) - "The Life of Elizabeth Madox Roberts": On the Springfield Central Community Theatre Stage
  
• Adam Neikirk (University of Mississippi) - Between the Meadow and the Mouth: Song in the Meadow and the Romantic Chronotope
  
• Jerry Salyer (Jefferson CCC) - Envisioning Origins: Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and the American Frontier
  
• Shawn Rubenfeld (University of Idaho) - Discovering Place: Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Carol Ryrie Brink
  
• Amanda Capelli (SUNY New Paltz) - The Points Where Poetry Touches Life: Conceptions of Beauty and Pleasure in The Great Meadow
  
• Chris Paolini (SUNY New Paltz) - "White Light in the Ewe-ltide": The Mysteries of Man and Beast in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ "Holy Morning"
  
• Lyndsey Brown (Georgia Southern University) - The Mysterious Complexities of Home in Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Jenny Bugna Lambeth (Georgia Southern University) - If These Walls Could Talk: The Roles of Domestic Space and Hostess in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Virginia Woolf
  
• Melissa Hay (Georgia Southern University) - Romantic Overtones in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Zora Neale Hurston
  
• Alex Shakespeare (Boston College) - Marianne Moore in Brooklyn, Elizabeth Madox Roberts in Kentucky
  
• Matthew Nickel (SUNY New Paltz) - "Time flowed tightly . . . Outside, singing": Yearning Toward Vision in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren
  
• Brad McDuffie (Nyack College) - "My Love Will Come From the Highway": Not By Strange Gods of the Road in Roberts’ "Love by the Highway"
  
• Jared Young (SUNY Albany) - Roberts and Faulkner: Consequences of Found Fortune within A Buried Treasure and "The Bear"
  
• Andrew Limbong (SUNY New Paltz) - Growth Spurts and Pains: The Realization of Mortality in Hemingway’s In Our Time and Roberts’ Song in the Meadow
  
• Chris Lawrence (SUNY New Paltz) - Intimations of Eco-Socialism in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
  
• Megan Morris (Georgia Southern University) - Feminine Individualism and Sexuality in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man and Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!
  
• Jennifer Dellerba (Georgia Southern University) - The Passionate Human Spirit in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man