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3/30/2012, All Day

March 29-31

March 30:  Scarritt-Bennett Center

 

 
Session 3 (Day Two): 8:30-10:00 a.m. Scarritt-Bennett Center
 
12. "Southern Masculinities"
Locaton: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Kreitner
 
Chair: Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University
 
Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University
"What Is Wesley's Story in A Long and Happy Life?"
 
Zackary Vernon, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Erotic Masculinized Nature in James Dickey’s Deliverance"
 
Lauren Wannenwetsch, Washington University in St. Louis
"Men of Faith, Men of Fury: Masculine Performance and the Civil War in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
 
13. "Southern Women Writers Writing Southern Women"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center;  Kreitner
 
Chair: Holly Stave, Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, Louisiana)
 
Peggy Dunn Bailey, Henderson State University
"Tapping the Vein of the Southern Gothic: O'Connor’s Wise Blood and Smith's Saving Grace"
 
Ed Piacentino, High Point University
"Racial Boundaries and Recurring Anniversaries in Hillary Jordan's Mudbound"
 
Holly Stave, Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, Louisiana)
"Performing the South: Lee Smith's The Last Girls"
 
14. "The Politics of Commemoration and Recognition"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Laskey B.
 
Chair: Patrick Horn, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
 
Huseyin Altindis, University of Arkansas
"Revolutionary Aesthetics: Resistance to Neocolonial Cultural Imperialism and Commemoration of Folk Culture in Erna Brodber's Louisiana"
 
Jordan J. Dominy, Berry College
"Southern Fiction and the Institution of Literary Prizes"
 
Patrick Horn, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Commemorating Slavery and the Confederacy, 150 Years Later"
 
15. "Haunting African American Presences"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Clyde and Mary Hall
 
Chair: Charmion Gustke, Belmont University
 
Melanie Anderson, University of Mississippi
"'She suddenly sort of erased herself': Ghostly Invisibilities in Alice Walker's The Color Purple"
 
Charmion Gustke, Belmont University
"The Politics of Homecoming: Postcoloniality in Willa Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl"
 
Wade Newhouse, William Peace University
"The Un-haunted: Disappointing Ghosts, Postsecular Faiths, and the Spirits of Randall Kenan"
 
16. The Eudora Welty Society: Anniversaries, Rituals, and Ceremonies in Eudora Welty’s Fiction and Photography (Panel)
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Laskey C.
 
Chair: Laura Patterson, Seton Hill University
 
Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
"'The Key': Seventy Years Hence" 
 
Laura Patterson, Seton Hill University
"'The Thing They Knew': Death Rituals in 'The Wanderers' and The Optimist's Daughter" 
 
Andrea Dimino, New College of Florida
"'We shall come rejoicing': Reanimating Ritual in Welty's Losing Battles"
 
Rachel Keller, Snow College
"Welty and Soyinka: ‘Carrying’ the Burdens of the Past"
 
 
Session 4 (Day Two): 10:15-11:45 a.m. 
Locaton: Scarritt-Bennett Center  
 
17. "Camera Obscura: Photographic Memories of Diverse Souths"
Locaton: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Laskey A.
 
Chair: Wendy Kurant, North Georgia College and State University
 
Wendy Kurant, North Georgia College and State University
"'A likeness in case the body can't return': Photography and the Body in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard"
 
Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University
"The Cultural Construction of Photography, Fiction, and Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man"
 
Katherine Upton, University of South Carolina
"Poor Shirley: Templates of Southern Girlhood in Depression-Era Film and Fiction"
 
18. "Black/Southern Identities"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Clyde and Mary Hall
 
Chair: Pip Gordon, University of Mississippi
 
Adrienne Akins, Mars Hill College
"'The precious dust of this South': Ned Douglass's Memorial in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"
 
Pip Gordon, University of Mississippi
"The Color Purple and 'The Wine-dark Kiss of Death': Alice Walker's Prescient AIDS Narrative"
 
Fiona McWilliam, Florida State University
"(Re)Appropriating Margaret Garner"
 
19. "Antebellum Souths: Reconsidering Slavery and the Civil War"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Laskey B.
 
Chair: Sarah Mesle, University of California, Los Angeles
 
Sarah Mesle, University of California, Los Angeles
"Southerness, Slavery, and Sentimental Fiction: Sarah Josepha Hale's Northwood and the South"
 
Summar Sparks, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
"Reconstructing Readership:  Augusta Jane Evans and the Literary Marketplace"
 
Jeffrey Stayton, University of Mississippi
"The Fire Eaters: The Civil War and the Vanishing Charleston Renaissance"
 
20. Roundtable: Institutional Southernism (Panel)
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Laskey C.
 
Chair: Daniel Cross Turner, Coastal Carolina University
 
Michael Bibler, University of Manchester
"Professional Southernism outside the United States"
 
Martyn Bone, University of Mississippi
"Institutional Postsouthernism"
 
Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas
"Institutional Southernism on the Market"
 
Scott Romine, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"Institutions of the Synthetic South"
 
Jon Smith, Simon Fraser University
"Friendship and Disagreement"
 
Melanie Benson Taylor, Dartmouth College
"An Invisible Trade: Pursuing Southern Studies in Northern and Native American Contexts"
 
21. "The Ellen Glasgow Society: War, Women, and Remembrance" (Panel)
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center. Laskey A.
 
Chair: Mark A. Graves, Morehead State University
 
Jill Leroy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University 
"'[T]he pathos was worse than the tragedy:' The Modern Woman and the New South in Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground"
 
Mark A. Graves, Morehead State University
"How Dare She: Ellen Glasgow's Allegory of War in '‘Dare's Gift'"
 
Martha E. Cook, Longwood University
"Irony and Idealism in Glasgow’s Short Fiction of the 1920s"
 
 
Session 5 (Day Two): 1:30-3:00 p.m. 
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center
 
 
22. "There Will Be More Blood: The Forbidden Souths in Film and Television"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Laskey A.
 
Chair: Amy K. King, University of Mississippi
 
Amy K. King, University of Mississippi
"The Trade of Women between Men in Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates"
 
Bill Phillips, University of Mississippi
"'The Grim Reaping': Sacred Southern Violence in Birth of a Nation"
 
Brooke Shippee, University of Arkansas
"Bad Things with You: Forbidden Desires and Threatened Heterosexuality in HBO's True Blood"
 
23. "Narratives of the Antebellum South"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Laskey B.
 
Chair: Cory Shaman, Arkansas Tech University
 
Katherine A. Burnett, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
"The 'Mischievous Interpolations' of the Revolutionary War: Antebellum Romance and Re-Writing Southern History in the Context of Nineteenth-century Capitalism"
 
Anna Lynn Nelson, Southern Methodist University
"The Perfect Shadow of His Master: Mimicry as the Sign of a Double Articulation in John Pendleton Kennedy’s Swallow Barn"
 
Cory Shaman, Arkansas Tech University
"Marking Nature, Making Virginia: William Byrd’s History of the Dividing Line, The Secret Diaries, and the Unbounded Geographies of the Colonial Interior"
 
24. "The Countermemories of Women Poets" 
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Clyde and Mary Hall
 
Chair: Joan Wylie Hall, University of Mississippi
 
Joan Wylie Hall, University of Mississippi
"The Colonizing Father in Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall"
 
Rebecca L. Harrison, University of West Georgia
"'A Voice from the Future Cries Out': A Literary Engagement with Elizabeth Arnold Poe"
 
Stephanie Noel Urich, University of West Georgia
"Rescuing Mary: Deification of the Virgin Mary in Beatrice Ravenel's 'Motherhood'"
 
25. "The Civil Rights Era and the Civil Rights Novel"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Kreitner
 
Chair: Christopher Metress, Samford University
 
Pam Kingsbury, University of North Alabama
"Joy Harjo: Coming of Age during the Civil Rights Movement"
 
Christopher Metress, Samford University
"Harper Lee and the Burden of Southern Liberalism"
 
Jordan Stone, Louisiana State University
"To Tell (on) a Fairytale: The Self-reflexive (White) Narrator in the Southern Civil Rights Era Novel"
 
26. "Southern Sexualities I: Queer Southern Terrains" (Panel)
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Laskey C.
 
Chair: Michael P. Bibler, University of Manchester
 
Katherine Henninger, Louisiana State University
"Sexual Re-Mappings in the 'Queer South'"
 
Elizabeth Steeby, University of New Orleans
"'What Kind of Gang Is This That Can Make Such Music?': Deviance and Punishment in Segregation-Era Literature"
 
Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi
"'Say Jesus and Come to Me': Naiad Press, Ann Allen Shockley, and Literary Lesbian Feminism in the South"
 
Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas
"Screening Southern Fantasy in Mandingo"
 
Session 6 (Day Two): 3:15-4:45 p.m. 
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center
 
27. "Power Lines: Contemporary Southern Poetries"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Kreitner
 
Chair: Alex Albright, East Carolina University
 
Alex Albright, East Carolina University
"'Corsons Inlet' at Fifty: A. R. Ammons and Our Diminishing Worlds"
 
Destiny O. Birdsong, Vanderbilt University
"'The words that shadow us': Matrilineal Cultural Trauma, Naming, and Identity in Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard"
 
Heather Hoover, Milligan College
"'The Kingdom of the Past': Marking Memory in Charles Wright's Black Zodiac and Appalachia"
 
28. "A Wealth of Welty: Re-classifying Race and Gender"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center; Clyde and Mary Hall
 
Chair: Mae Miller Claxton, West Carolina University
 
M. Alexandra Blair, University of Mississippi
"White Southern Guilt and Identity in Welty's '‘Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden'"
 
Mae Miller Claxton, West Carolina University
"Mothers, Daughters, and The Help in Southern Fiction and Memoir"
 
Monica Miller, Louisiana State University
"The Petrifying Woman: The Figure of the Ugly Woman in Eudora Welty's Curtain of Green"
 
29. "Foodways and Southern Literature" (Panel)
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Laskey B.
 
Chair: Tara Powell, University of South Carolina
 
David A. Davis, Mercer University
"Helping or Hindering: Reading Transgressive Relationships in the Kitchen"
 
Anthony Dyer Hoefer, George Mason University
"Barbecue in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
 
Erica Abrams Locklear, University of North Carolina-Asheville
"An Invitation to the Table: Literary Responses to Class-based Assumptions about Appalachian Food"
 
Ann Romines, George Washington University
"The Double Bind of Southern Food in Willa Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl" 
 
30. "Off the Written Path: Hiking Southern Literary Trails" (Panel)
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Laskey A.
 
Chair: Lorie Watkins Fulton, William Carey University
 
Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi
"'Beyond the Peacock': Alice Walker, Flannery O'Connor, and the Southern Literary Trail"
 
Sherita L. Johnson, University of Southern Mississippi
"'Is This Freedom?': Traveling with Harriet Jacobs among Black Contrabands in Historic Alexandria, Virginia"
 
Lorie Watkins Fulton, William Carey University
"Around the State in Thirty Days: In Defense of the Scholarly Literary Pilgrimage"
 
31. "Unmarked Anniversaries: Confederate Literature at 150" (Panel)
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Laskey C.
 
Chair: Coleman Hutchison, University of Texas at Austin
 
Christopher Hanlon, Eastern Illinois University
"Henry Timrod's Transnational Confederacy"
"Killing, Dying, and Genre: Nationalism and the News in the Confederacy"
 
Coleman Hutchison, University of Texas at Austin
"Putting Poor Relations in Context: Confederate American Literary History, 1861-2011"
 
 
Presentation of the 2012 C. Hugh Holman Award: Philip Weinstein, Becoming Faulkner (Oxford UP), 5 p.m.
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Second Floor
 
 
Special Sessions (Day Two): Immediately after Holman Presentation -6:30 p.m. 
 
32. "Placing The Help in Social, Political, and Literary History"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Laskey C.
 
Moderator: Suzanne Jones, University of Richmond
 
Suzanne Jones, University of Richmond
"The Divided Reception of The Help"
 
Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
"Stockett's Postmodern First Novel"
 
Susan Donaldson, College of William and Mary
"The Help, Ellen Douglas, and the Racial Politics of Storytelling"
 
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Emory University
"Every Child Left Behind: Minny’s Many (Invisible) Children in The Help"
 
Valerie Smith, Princeton University
"Civil Rights Memory and The Help"
 
Allison Graham, University of Memphis
"The Summer of '63: Hazel, Opie, and the Small-Screen World of The Help"
 
33. "Tennessee Poets, Southern Poetry"
Location: Scarritt-Bennett Center, Clyde and Mary Hall
 
 
Moderator: Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University
 
Bill Brown, Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University
James E. Cherry, West Jackson Learning Center
Kate Daniels, Vanderbilt University 
Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University
 

 

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