Call for Papers:
The Fifth Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference
April 26-28, 2003
Papers will be presented at Saint Catharine College, Saint Catharine,
Kentucky
(which is located near Miss Roberts' hometown of Springfield, Kentucky).
Papers are invited on any topic related to the work of novelist, short story
writer, and poet Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Several papers from the 2001
conference, which celebrated the 75th anniversary of the publication of The
Time of Man (1926), were published in Appalachian Heritage (Berea,
Kentucky), and this year two scholars from the Roberts Society, Jane Kellar
and Gregg Neikirk, won awards for outstanding contributions to that
prestigious journal! Also in 2002: Kentucky Humanities magazine featured an
essay by H.R. Stoneback on Roberts and other Kentucky writers (available on
Kentucky Humanities web-site).
The Roberts Society is also binding and submitting collected conference
papers to the Library of Congress.
Sample Topics include, but are in no way limited to:
--Roberts as a Regionalist -- Roberts in the Context of Southern
Literature -- Roberts as a Modernist -- Roberts' Influences (Literary, and
the Chicago Milieu . . .) - Roberts and Linguistic Argot - Roberts and
Southern Agrarianism - Stylistic and Literary Comparisons and Influences
(i.e. Synge, Hardy, Faulkner, Warren, Joyce, Homer, Beethoven, Elizabethan
Ballads, etc.) - Class, Gender, and Racial Perspectives - Roberts and Fellow
Kentucky Writers - Folkloric and Regional Historical Connections - Biblical
Symbolism - Roberts the Poet - Roberts for Teaching Children and Young
Readers -- Also, "First-time Reader Response Papers" are welcomed and
encouraged.
Seven-to-Eight page papers, absolutely limited to no more than 20 minute
reading lengths, are requested. One page abstracts are due by Jan. 15, 2003.
Send via regular mail or e-mail to:
Dennis C. Winter, EMRC Program Director
20 Lindsley Ave.
Kingston, NY 12401
winterdc@newpaltz.edu
Please direct all program and paper inquiries to Professor Winter, Program
Director.
Please direct all other Conference inquiries (accommodation, registration,
Kentucky Writers Day program, etc.) to the Conference Director:
Professor Gregg Neikirk:
Chair, Dept. English
Westfield State College
Westfield, MA 01085
gneikirk@wisdom.wsc.ma.edu
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