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Location

Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date

April 20-22, 2013

Program

Keynote:

• H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - More Roberts Connections: Earl Hamner, Cormac McCarthy, C. E. Morgan & Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Presentations:

• Bill Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Letters from the Little Country
  
• Jane Eblen Keller (University of Baltimore) - "Something of Myself": Reading from the preliminary draft of the biography of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Giséle Sigal (Université de Pau--IUT de Bayonne) - Between Permeability and Peculiarity: the Poetics of Gender in Jingling in the Wind
  
• Adam Neikirk (Independent Scholar) - Notes Toward a Roberts Concordance
  
• Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State University) - You Didn’t Make That World Out of Chaos By Yourself: Roberts Characters and their Reliance on Animals
  
• Jessica Conti (SUNY New Paltz) - Modern Prophets: Elizabeth Madox Roberts & Flannery O’Connor
  
• Matthew Nickel (SUNY New Paltz) - Strange Gods: Elizabeth Madox Roberts & T. S. Eliot
  
• Leah Bayens (Saint Catharine College) - Wendell Berry Farming Project
  
• Jane Dionne (Independent Scholar) - Teaching Guide for The Time of Man
  
• Jerry Salyer (Jefferson Community and Tech College) - "Beyond St. Lucy": Saint Rose Parish and the Springfield Dominicans
  
• H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - The Time of Man on the NBC Radio Theater: 1950
  
• Christopher Paolini (Independent Scholar) - Localizing Legends: Songs of Love and Place in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Song in the Meadow
  
• Chris Vecchiarelli (SUNY New Paltz) - The Time of Man: A Romantic Quest for Identity
  
• Jared Young (SUNY Albany) - Roberts and Kerouac: Self-Awareness and the Traveling God in Black Is My Truelove’s Hair and On the Road
  
• Patrick Skea (SUNY New Paltz) - Wanderlust and Pilgrimage: An Examination of the Phenomenon of Travel in The Time of Man and On the Road
  
• Benjamin Wallin (Nyack College) - Childhood Imagination in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Under the Tree
  
• Shawn Rubenfeld (University of Idaho) - Destructuring Control and Considering Chaos: Pattern and Variation in the Poetry of EMR
  
• Jessica Kimmel (Independent Scholar) - God Lives in my Ovaries: Roberts’ Bombshell Nuns of "The Sacrifice of the Maidens"
  
• Steven Siegelski (SUNY New Paltz) - Boundaries of the Self and Mystic Visions in The Time of Man
  
• Lou Reid (SUNY New Paltz) - Tracing Myth and Threading the Story in The Time of Man and The Great Meadow
  
• Jennifer Dellerba (SUNY New Paltz) - Sense of Place in Roberts’ Short Fiction and Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio
  
• Joseph McNulty (SUNY New Paltz) - Roberts and Frost: A Momentary Stay Against Confusion--Under the Tree
  
• Goretti Vianney-Benca (Culinary Institute of America) - Looking in the Mirror: Female Self-Esteem in Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  
• Taylor Steinberg (SUNY New Paltz) - Cultivation in The Time of Man: An Analysis of the Ritualism of the Human Experience
  
• Alex Pennisi (SUNY New Paltz) - "I’m Ellen Chesser and I’m a-liven": Achieving Selfhood through Language in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
  
• Andrew Limbong (Independent Scholar) - And You May Ask Yourself, "How Did I Get Here?": New-World Expectations vs. American Reality in The Great Meadow
  
• Daniel J. Pizappi (SUNY New Paltz) - Folksong and Pastoral Symphony: The Orchestration of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Great Meadow