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Location

Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date

April 26-28, 2014

Program

Keynote:

• H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - Ginglen in the Wind: Reflections on a Roberts Collection

Presentations:

• Vicki Barker (Carson-Newman College) - "A Wall Standing Before Kentuck": A Discussion of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Historical Sources for The Great Meadow and their Influence on the Novel’s Portrayal of Appalachia
• Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State University) - The Great Global Meadow: The Significance of Roberts Novels Around the World
• Bill Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - The Kentucky of Roberts, Merton, and Berry
• Cynthia Cain (Independent Scholar) - Church Bells & Bird Song: Listening for the Holy with Roberts’ Women
• Jenna Niece (Saint Catharine College) - Novice to Novel
• Gisèle Sigal (Université de Pau - IUT de Bayonne) - Meditation over Alienation: The Rewriting of Southern Myths in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ "The Sacrifice of the Maidens"
• Steve Brahlek (Palm Beach State College) - Crackers, Race, and Nature: An Introduction to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• Mickey D’Addario (Marist College) - Making Sense of Roberts: More Than a Regionalist
• Amanda Capelli (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) - Re-Configuring the Canon: Roberts and the Southern Literary Tradition
• Jane Dionne (Independent Scholar) - Teaching Guide for The Time of Man
• Jane Keller (University of Baltimore) - "Something of Myself": Readings from the Preliminary Draft of the Biography of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• James Stamant (Agnes Scott College) - Spaces of A Buried Treasure
• Nathan Lindsay Lee (Independent Scholar) - Hear the Hillfolk or the Bad New Highway
• Daniel Pizappi (SUNY New Paltz) - Flowering out of stone: Roberts, Modernism, and Comparative Mythology
• Evan Hulick (SUNY New Paltz) - "The bell at St. Lucy rang. . . ": The Christian Imagery of Roberts’ The Time of Man
• Gregory Bruno (SUNY New Paltz) - Diony: Namesake, Prophecy and Identity
• Chris Vecchiarelli (SUNY New Paltz) - "Bright new machines that would go clickity click across the sparkling meadows"—Modernity in Twain and Roberts
• Joe McNulty (Independent Scholar) - In from Out: Smallness & Solitude in EMR’s Poetry
• Peter Camilleri (SUNY New Paltz) - Ellen Chesser: Beyond Victory and Defeat
• Christopher Paolini (Independent Scholar) - Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Song in the Waste Land