Roberts Sessions at SAMLA, November 7-9, 2008 in Louisville, KY

Papers may deal with all aspects of Roberts’s work and life. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Roberts in the context of Southern literature, Roberts and other writers (i.e. Roberts and Faulkner, Roberts and Yeats, Roberts and James Still, Roberts and Wendell Berry, Roberts and John Burroughs), Roberts and Southern Agrarianism, Roberts’s literary and stylistic influences (i.e. Synge, Hardy, Joyce, Homer, Hopkins, Beethoven), Roberts and nature writing, Roberts and Modernism, Roberts and the novel, Roberts as poet, Roberts as writer of short fiction, Roberts and regionalism, Roberts and the politics of literary reputation, Roberts and feminism, Roberts and Kentucky. Papers should run between fifteen and twenty minutes long. Please submit a title and 250 word abstract to Steven Florczyk (florczyk@uga.edu) or Goretti Vianney-Benca (VianneyG@aol.com). The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2008.