Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference at the University of Mississippi

 

Thursday, July 21st

 

12:00pm-5:00pm Registration- Student Union Lobby

 

2:45pm-3:00pm Welcome- The University Railroad Depot

Stephen Monroe, Conference Director

 

3:00pm-3:30pm Welcome Reception- The University Railroad Depot

 

3:45pm-5:00pm Session 1- The University Railroad Depot

 

Faulkner and Identity

 

Kathleen Flacy, Texas A&M University

Literary Argument, Family Systems Theory, and the Bundrens

Mike Riding, Brigham Young University

Faulkner's Use of Typographic Techniques to Demonstrate the Id and Superego

Jennifer Laufenberg, Louisiana Tech University

An Honorable Death and the Legacy of the Absurd

Jee Eun Kim, University of Southern Mississippi

"Through the Gates of the Chronotype": Fleshing Out The Sound and the Fury

 

5:00pm-8pm            Dinner on your own

 

8pm-until            Gathering at The Burgundy Room on the Oxford Square

 

Friday, July 22nd

 

8:00am-8:45am            Registration/Coffee Service- Foyer, Barnard Observatory

 

8:45am-10:15am            Simultaneous Sessions

 

Session 2A- Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory

 

Faulkner's Female Bodies

 

Melinda Hollis, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

"I'd whip them good" : Quiet Caddy King of the Compson's

Jennifer Malesich, University of Mississippi

Tough Love: Temple Drake's Stockholm Syndrome

Stacey Coulter, Claremont Graduate University

"My, my. A body does get around" : The Illusion of Progress in Light in August

 

Session 2B-Room 209, Barnard Observatory

 

Southern Christianity: Shame, Conversion, and Rebirth

 

Thomas Aiello, University of Arkansas

Jim Crow Ordained: Objectification of White and Black Southern Christians

Kevin Oberlin, University of Cincinnati

Shame and the Community: Conspiracy in James Wilcox's North Gladiola

Charles Knight, Tennessee

Fired Symbolism: Fire of Religious Discourse and the Individual Psyche

 

10:30am-12pm            Simultaneous Sessions

 

Session 3A- Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory

 

Where Are the Belles? : Challenges to Southern Literary Constraints

 

Joan Wylie Hall, University of Mississippi, Moderator

Daniel Smith, University of Cincinnati

The Dream of Southern Arcadia in Richard Ford's A Piece of My Heart

Benjamin Pruett, Southeast Missouri State University

Barthelme's The Brothers: A New Take on Traditions in Southern Literature

Courtney George, Louisiana State University

Between Virgin and Whore: Faulkner's Fight Within Women's Boundaries

 

Session 3B- Room 209, Barnard Observatory

 

White and Traditional?

 

Alison Graham-Bertolini, Louisiana State University

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Reckoning of Ideology

Jesse R. Bishop, University of West Georgia

Bearing the Briars: A Meditation on Warren's Thorny Essay "The Briar Patch"

Jeremy Cagle, Texas State University

Demystification of the Southern Family Romance in Allen Tate's The Fathers

 

12pm- 1:30pm Lunch- On Your Own

 

1:45pm- 3:15pm Simultaneous Sessions

 

Session 4A- Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory

 

Behave Yourself! You're Speech-Acting Badly

 

Sonya Brockman, State University of New York-Buffalo

"We don't talk, we moralise at each other" : Relationship Woes in The Wild Palms

Alicia Casey, Austin Peay State University

Metaphysical Experience: Interpreting the Politics of the Personal in The Wild Palms

Melissa Sexton, Emory University

Dialogical Performance in O'Connor, Welty, and Percy

 

Session 4B- Room 209, Barnard Observatory

 

The Interstices of Gender

 

Noah Mass, University of Texas at Austin

Southern Counter-Public: Gender, Community and Place in The Ballad of the Sad Café

Cynthia Barounis, University of Illinois at Chicago

Reading Through Spectacle(s): Flannery O'Connor and the Politics of Drag

Brian Malone, Indiana University South Bend

Models of Male Friendship and Its Consequences in G.W. Cable's The Grandissimes

 

Session 4C- Conference Room, Barnard Observatory

 

Introducing the Comparable William Faulkner

 

Matt Saye, University of Mississippi

Memory and Truth in Absalom, Absalom! and The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

Daniel Spoth, Vanderbilt University

Grotesques, Ghosts, and Fishboys: Bodily Disunity and the Dissolving South

Heather Brown, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Narrative Spectacles: The Bakhtinian Dialogic in "A Rose for Emily" and "Wakefield"

 

 

3:15pm- 5:15pm Break

 

5:30pm- 6:30pm Plenary Lecture- Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory

 

Noel Polk, Mississippi State University

Living Outside History

Joseph Urgo, Introduction

 

6:30pm- 8pm Dinner- On Your Own

 

8pm- 10:30pm Creative Panel/ Wine and Cheese Reception, Off-Square Books

 

Anna Baker, University of Mississippi

Terence Youngblood, University of Mississippi

Sean Ennis, University of Mississippi

Neal Walsh, University of Mississippi

 

 

 

Saturday, July 23rd

 

8:00am- 8:45 am Registration/ Coffee Service- Foyer, Barnard Observatory

 

8:45am- 10:15am Simultaneous Sessions

 

Session 5A- Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory

 

Faulkner and Cather

 

Joseph Urgo, University of Mississippi, Moderator

Brooke Etheridge, Drew University

Willa Cather’s Tom Outland: Homage to Phil Stone’s “Young Faulkner”

Sarah Gardam, Drew University

Cather’s Lena Lingard and Faulkner’s Lena Grove

Dennis Coyle, Drew University

Unwilling Objects of Affection

Adam Cheney, Drew University

 

Session 5B- Room 209, Barnard Observatory

 

Submission, Resistance, and Domesticity

 

Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi, Moderator

Amy McDonald, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Gazing and Cross-Gazing in Charles W. Chestnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Stacey Pigg, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

The New Mammy Figure? : Carson McCullers and the Black Female Domestic

Kathleen Belew, University of Washington

Landscape of Stories: Narrative and Memory in a Tennessee Sharecropping Family

 

10:30am- 12:00pm             Simultaneous Sessions

 

Session 6A- Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory

 

The Ties that Bind: Exploring the Elements of Family in Southern Literature

 

Scott D. Elingburg, Clemson University

The Lay of the Land: Familial and Physical Landscapes in Faulkner, McCarthy, and Rash

Skye Suttie, Clemson University

Opposites Attract: The Role of Foils in Southern Literature

Kara Baldwin, Clemson University

Irish Oral Traditions in Appalachian Literature

Gaven Watkins, Clemson University

Familial Relationships in the Religional South

 

Session 6B- Room 209, Barnard Observatory

 

Ghosts, Revolution, and the Anti-Idyllic

 

Richie Caldwell, University of Mississippi

A Place of Ghosts: On the Life and Work of Willie Morris

Mark Bennett, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Rural Anti-Idyll in American Popular Fiction: Faulkner, Dickey, and Hooper

Sharron Sarthou, University of Mississippi

Nightmares, Curses, Dreams of Resistance: Haiti as Icon, Representation, and Reality

 

Session 6C- Conference Room, Barnard Observatory

 

Light, Time, and Memory: Faulkner's Synesthesia

 

Jeffrey Stayton, University of Mississippi

Hills, Hollows, and Valleys of Elevation in Faulkner's Freedman Town

T.William Wahlstrom, Michigan State University

The Absurd and the Unfinished: Faulkner and Time

Terri Smith Ruckel, Louisiana State University

"Bear[ing] the Vast Structure of Recollection" : The Perfume of Memory in Absalom!

 

12:15pm- 2:00pm  Awards Luncheon, Downtown Grill

 

Presentation of the Third Annual Colby Kullman Prize for Outstanding Submission

 

2:00pm- 4:00pm Double-Decker Tour of Oxford and Rowan Oak

(Bus will depart from the Square near the Downtown Grill)