XVII Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference

Location

Shaker Village and Springfield, KY

Date	April 24-28, 2015

Program

Keynotes:

H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - On Judging a Book By Its Cover: Proletarian Realism or Hallelujah Anyway?
Don Scriven (Independent Scholar) - From Journey in the Dark to a Haunted Mirror: One Collector’s Path to Unearthing EMR First Editions

Presentations:

Jane Keller (University of Baltimore) - "Something of Myself": Readings from the preliminary draft of the biography of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Frances Kearney (University of Ulster, Ireland) - Ellen Chesser’s "Great Hunger": An Irish Reader Discovers The Time of Man
Rachel Wissner (SUNY New Paltz) - The Great Meadow and the Women’s Literary Tradition
Matthew Nickel (Misericordia University) - The Sacrifice of Ideas: Henry James & Elizabeth Madox Roberts
James Stamant (Agnes Scott College) - Memento Mori and the Blairs’ Lives With and Without a Treasure
Jacob Hebda (University of Baltimore) - Planting Values: Tree Symbolism in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
Daniel J. Pizappi (SUNY New Paltz) - "We sprang from a race of giants": Myth-making in Roberts’ Song in the Meadow
Eleanor Hough (SUNY New Paltz) - Ellen Chesser and The Female Sense of Self: A Discussion of the Ethic of Care in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man and an Exploration of the Work as a Predictive Feminist Praxis
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
Emily Halbing (Misericordia University) - Happiness as Defined by the Short Stories of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State University) - Coming Home: A Vision of Elizabeth Madox Roberts of Springfield
Gisèle Sigal (Universitè de Pau--IUT de Bayonne) - In the Meanders of Mind and Matter: the Case of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Bill Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Contemporary Southern Writers and Elizabeth Roberts
Leah Bayens (St. Catharine College) - "Turned toward the wonder of the equinoxes": Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ and Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Marvels
Goretti Vianney-Benca (SUNY Ulster) - Looking in the Mirror Darkly: Recovering the Feminine Self in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ "The Haunted Palace"
Danielle Walsh (SUNY New Paltz) - The Poetic Ritualism of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Prose Shaping Ellen Chesser’s Character in The Time of Man
Jane Dionne (Independent Scholar) - The Haunted Mirror: Teaching Guides for EMR’s Short Stories
Amanda Capelli (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) - "Beyond the Peacock": Re-Visioning Place in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Fiction
Bridget Martinez (SUNY New Paltz): Through the Haunted Mirror: A Lacanian Reading of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Short Story Collection The Haunted Mirror
Evan Hulick (SUNY New Paltz) - "A mystery stood in a clear pattern": The Tri-Fold Mystery of Death, Sin, and Life in Roberts’ "The Haunted Palace," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and "The Sacrifice of the Maidens"
Jessica M. Nickel (Misericordia University) - "Toward mystery and the unexpected": Reading the Grotesque in the Short Works of Roberts and O’Connor
Christopher Paolini (SUNY New Paltz) - History in Harmony: State-Singing Salvation in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ "Conversations Beside a Stream"
Adam Neikirk (Westfield State University) - The Beginning of Infirmity: Roberts, Creativity, & the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Michael D’Addario (SUNY New Paltz) - "Nothing left but kill, kill, kill": Violence in The Time of Man
Maia Painter (Misericordia University) - Words of Destruction and Creation in "The Sacrifice of the Maidens"
Peter Camilleri (SUNY New Paltz) - "A living dog is better than a dead lion": The Time of Man and All the Living
Gregory Bruno (SUNY New Paltz) - "A flower of panic bloom across her chest": Stability in All the Living and The Time of Man
Marc Cioffi (SUNY New Paltz) - Beholding the "heap of unexplored corners there must be" in Literature of Place: The "small gaps" Lit by Daniel Boone in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Maurice Manning