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Location
Shaker Village and Springfield, KY

Date
April 21-24, 2017

Program
Keynotes:
  • H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - EMR on Moloka‘i?—Folk Voices & The Furious Sound of Memory in Jack London, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka
  • Tina Iraca (University of Connecticut) - Elizabeth’s Enduring Imagination: Hymns to Daughters of the Gods

Presentations:
  • Jane Keller (University of Baltimore) - Readings from the New Biography of EMR
  • Mark T. Lucas (Centre College) - The Time of Man and As I Lay Dying: A Comparative Reflection
  • Bill Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Theodosia’s Black Shadow, Faulkner’s Challenge
  • Sharon Peelor (University of Oklahoma) - First Time Readers: The Roberts Papers at the Filson
  • Christopher Paolini (SUNY New Paltz) - Walter de la Mare, the Chicago Renaissance, and the Poetry of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Rylie Fitzgerald (Misericordia University) - Ellen Chesser’s Journey Enduring with the Earth
  • Daniel J. Pizappi (University of Tennessee) - "Their Menacing Withdrawals": Ellen Chesser’s Sense of (Dis)place
  • Matthew Nickel (Misericordia University) - A Modernist Education: Professor Pound, Eliot, Laforgue, et al., & Roberts
  • Joseph Curra (SUNY New Paltz) - Reflections and Affirmation of Character in Place and Setting: A Close Reading of Setting in the Works of Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Ernest Hemingway
  • Marc Cioffi (Independent Scholar) - Do Not Go Westward to Move Through Time: Place as Defense against the Weight of Time in the Works of Roberts, Warren, and Manning
  • Jessica M. Nickel (Misericordia University) - "Clear of the tangles and marshy places": Manuscript Sleuthing for Crime and Judgment in Roberts’ "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"—with Thoughts on Faulkner and Hemingway
  • Zach Stewart (SUNY New Paltz) - "Wounds into Wisdom": Poetry and Romance in the Dialect of Roberts and Faulkner
  • Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State University) - Symmetry—and Chaos—in Roberts’ The Great Meadow
  • Gisèle Sigal (Universitè de Pau, France) - An Allegory of Universal Legitimacy Chiseled out from Regional Materials: Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man and James Still’s River of Earth
  • Leah Santucci (Misericordia University) - Planting the Seeds of Personal Growth: Embodying Empathy and One’s True Self in The Time of Man
  • Jessica Jones (SUNY New Paltz) - Self-Actualization through Labor in All the Living and The Time of Man
  • Damian Carpenter (East Tenn St University) - In the Epic Mood: Hart Crane, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and C.E. Morgan
  • Lauren Hayden (Misericordia University) - Sense of Place in Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Alex Pennisi (SUNY New Paltz) - Ceremony and Ritual in "Telling": Odyssean "Songs" of the Self in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Autumn Holladay (SUNY New Paltz) - "A Dog that Hoots like an Owl": Reassessment of Freedom in Black is My Truelove’s Hair
  • Jane Dionne (Independent Scholar) - A Teaching Guide for Jingling in the Wind
  • Colleen Stewart (SUNY New Paltz) - The Formation of the Kentuckian Voice: Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Song in the Meadow and Form
  • Evan Hulick (SUNY New Paltz) - Roberts’ He Sent Forth A Raven—Or, Why One Must Reject Despair, Evermore
  • Nathan Lee (SUNY New Paltz) - A Dyspeptic Optimist Tends No Garden: Jingling in the Wind
  • Elizabeth Oxler (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) - Orality in the Meadow(s): Text, Textuality, and Lineage in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Lee Smith
  • Alexis Williams (Misericordia University) - Some Thoughts on Feminism in The Time of Man
  • Peter Camilleri (SUNY New Paltz) - Mythology and Modernism in Roberts
  • Sierra Krohnemann (Misericordia University) - The Education of Ellen Chesser: Life Lessons from Nature
  • Emily Halbing (University of Pittsburgh) - "Necessary and simple": Elizabeth Madox Roberts and the Sacrament of Marriage
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