The XVI Annual Elizabeth Madox
Roberts Conference
April 26-28, 2014 Harrodsburg and Springfield (Roberts' hometown), KY
The XVI Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference will be
held April 19-21, 2014, at St. Catharine College (Springfield, KY) and the
Beaumont Inn (Harrodsburg, KY). We welcome papers that deal intertextually with
Roberts and other writers: especially Roberts and Earl Hamner, Roberts and C. E. Morgan; Roberts in the context of the Southern Renascence;
Roberts viewed from regional and historical perspectives; Roberts and
Modernism; Roberts and Southern history; Roberts and Religion, etc. First-time
reader response papers or essays of discovery and celebration from new readers
of Roberts are strongly encouraged. Conference directors also welcome papers on
recently published works by Roberts. In 2012, the Reading Roberts Series
published Roberts’ unfinished novel Flood (ed. Vicki Barker), manuscript
fragments and poems in Reading Roberts: Prospect & Retrospect (eds.
William Boyle, H. R. Stoneback, and Matthew Nickel), and Daniel Boone variants
in Kentucky: Poets of Place (ed. Matthew Nickel).
Titles and abstracts are due January 7, 2014. Papers should be no more
than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Academic paper sessions will be held at
St. Catharine College in Springfield. The conference headquarters is the lovely
and legendary Beaumont Inn in Harrodsburg.
Email title and abstract to both of the Co-Program Chairs: Jessica Mackenzie Conti (SUNY New Paltz) at jesmackenzie@hotmail.com and Jamie Stamant (Texas A & M University) at stam202@tamu.edu.
Direct all other conference inquiries to the Co-Conference Directors: Matthew
Nickel (Dept. of English, Misericordia University) at mattcnickel@gmail.com and H. R.
Stoneback, (Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz) at hrs714@gmail.com.
