Elizabeth Madox
Roberts: Prospect & Retrospect
Papers for this session may deal with all aspects of Roberts’s
work and life. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Roberts and new work (particularly her posthumously published unfinished novel Flood); Roberts and her manuscripts;
Roberts in the context of Southern literature; Roberts and Southern
Agrarianism; Roberts’ literary and stylistic influences (i.e., Synge, Hardy,
Joyce, Homer, Hopkins, Beethoven, Pound); Roberts and religion; 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; and, Roberts and Kentucky. Abstracts should
be 250 words and sent by June 1, 2013 to Jessica Mackenzie Conti (SUNY-New
Paltz) at jesmackenzie@hotmail.com.
Elizabeth Madox
Roberts and Other Writers
Papers for this session should deal with Elizabeth
Madox Roberts and other writers. Topics may include but are not limited to:
Roberts and her contemporaries (Roberts and Pound, Roberts and Faulkner,
Roberts and Hemingway, Roberts and Woolf, Roberts and Wescott, etc); Roberts
and her influences; Roberts’ literary friendships; Roberts’ epistolary
relationships; those influenced by Roberts; Roberts as Kentucky writer; Roberts
as Southern Writer. Abstracts should be 250 words and sent by June 1, 2013 to Matthew Nickel
(SUNY-New Paltz) at mattcnickel@gmail.com. 