Call for Papers
The XVII Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference:
April 24-27, 2015
St. Catharine College—Springfield, Kentucky
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 and 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 December 1, 2014. Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Academic paper sessions will be held at St. Catharine College in Springfield.
E-mail title and abstract to both of the Co-Program Chairs: Jessica M. Nickel, jesmackenzie@hotmail.com (Misericordia University) and Daniel J. Pizappi, dpizappi@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu (SUNY New Paltz).
Direct all other conference inquiries to Conference Co-Directors: Matthew Nickel, mattcnickel@gmail.com (Dept. of English, Misericordia University) and H. R. Stoneback hrs714@gmail.com (Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz).
Titles and abstracts are due December 1, 2014. Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Academic paper sessions will be held at St. Catharine College in Springfield.
E-mail title and abstract to both of the Co-Program Chairs: Jessica M. Nickel, jesmackenzie@hotmail.com (Misericordia University) and Daniel J. Pizappi, dpizappi@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu (SUNY New Paltz).
Direct all other conference inquiries to Conference Co-Directors: Matthew Nickel, mattcnickel@gmail.com (Dept. of English, Misericordia University) and H. R. Stoneback hrs714@gmail.com (Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz).
