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XVIII Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference

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Location

Shaker Village and Springfield, KY

Date

April 22-25, 2016

Program

Keynote:
  • H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - C. E. Morgan’s The Sport of Kings: A Preliminary Report with Notes on Some Personal Connections and Further Reflections on Roberts and Morgan

Presentations:
  • Jane Keller (University of Baltimore) - "SOMETHING OF MYSELF": Readings from the (nearly completed!) draft of the biography of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Bill Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Harriette Arnow: "Probably Wrong on All Counts"
  • Gregory Bruno (SUNY New Paltz) - Reconciling Romantic Sentiments in Song in the Meadow
  • Victoria Prashad (SUNY New Paltz) - "The sweet soil. . . black earth, bitter and foul of odor": The Psychological Self in Nature within The Time of Man
  • Matthew Nickel (Misericordia University) - "The earth abideth forever": Ecclesiastes, Values, and Modernism
  • Eleanor Hough (SUNY New Paltz) - The Heart of her Hurt and the Heart of her Hate: Representations of Love and Abuse in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Black is My Truelove’s Hair
  • Daniel J. Pizappi (University of Tennessee) - "You won't get shed": Kentucky Homecomings in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Haunted Mirror and Chris Offutt’s Out of the Woods
  • Jaclyn Houlahan (SUNY New Paltz) - Diony’s Journey: Exploring the Forces that Realize the Self
  • Jessica M. Nickel (Misericordia University) - "Distance would still remain": Yearning for Communion in the Works of C. E. Morgan and E. M. Roberts
  • Mickey D’Addario (SUNY New Paltz) - "Mind, Soul, Spirit, MYSELF": Ellen, Diony, and Identity
  • Amanda Capelli (University of Lousiana, Lafayette) - Shadows of the Southern Renascence: The "politics of location" in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ My Heart and My Flesh and Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard
  • Donald C. Scriven (Scott, Scriven & Wahoff LLP, Columbus, Ohio) - More Thoughts—and a Few Tribulations—on Collecting Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State University) - Play-ing in The Great Meadow: The Dramatic Acts of Settling Kentucky
  • Jared Young (Oklahoma State University) - EMR, the Naturalist: The Time of Man and its Transcendental Narrative
  • Adam Neikirk (Westfield State University) - The Idea of the Holy and ‘Holy Children’ in Roberts and Wordsworth
  • Gisèle Sigal (Universitè de Pau, France) - Historicity in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Short Stories: Insights into the Social Terrain and the Sense of Place
  • Alexander Knowles (St. Catharine College) - Proletariat Struggle in Song in the Meadow
  • Marc Cioffi (Pacific College of Oriental Medicine) - The Legacy of the Pioneers: How Artists Saved the Frontier from Certain Chaos
  • Peter Camilleri (SUNY New Paltz) - Philosophy and Feeling and Roberts
  • Jane Dionne (Independent Scholar) - Not By Strange Gods—a Book of Short Stories by Elizabeth Madox Roberts: A Teaching Guide for Understanding and Enjoyment
  • Sara Herbert (St. Catharine College) - Class Struggle in "Children of the Earth"
  • Nathan Lee (SUNY New Paltz) - Peasant Dreams: Storytelling Tradition at Play in Jingling in the Wind
  • James Stamant (Agnes Scott College) - Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves: Liminality in A Buried Treasure
  • Zach Stewart (SUNY New Paltz) - Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Speech and Storytelling in The Great Meadow
  • Jessica Jones (SUNY New Paltz) - Relationships and Sense of Place in The Time of Man
  • Elizabeth F. Oxler (University of Louisina, Lafayette) - The Open Boundary: Place and Space in the Fiction of Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Eudora Welty
  • Matt Wessels (SUNY New Paltz) - To Till the Ground from which she was Taken: Felix Culpa in The Time of Man
  • Autumn Holladay (SUNY New Paltz) - Folk and Selfhood in The Time of Man
  • Colleen Stewart (SUNY New Paltz) - Weaving Women into the Domestic Sphere
  • Damian A. Carpenter (East Tennessee State University) - Toward Communitas and Individuality: Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Folk Heroines and the Emerging Performance of Self
  • Joseph Curra (SUNY New Paltz) - The Great Meadow: Lyricism within Mirror Imagery
  • Mike Marks (SUNY New Paltz) - No Machine—Just Ellen—in the Garden
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