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New Orleans, LA, April 8-11, 2010
Friday, 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; session 5
Chair, Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University
1. "Getting a Sense of the New Orleans Welty Knew,” Pearl McHaney, Georgia
State University
2. "Lost in the Streets: Welty's New Orleans,”
Rebecca Mark, Tulane University
3. "Dangerous Carnivals in Eudora Welty's Letters and The Optimist's Daughter,”
Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston
4. "Taking the Rebel to N.O.," Suzanne Marrs, Millsaps College
Friday 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.;
Session 7
Chair: Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
1. "New Orleans, Consumer Culture, and Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom," Mae
Miller Claxton
2. "Africanist Welty: A Thousand Years of Slavery in the Hemispheric South,"Candace
Waid
3. "Part of Some Larger Continuity': Welty's Journeys,"David McWhirter
4. "’The Piano Player at the Picture Show’: Art and the Culture Industry
in Eudora Welty's The Golden
Apples,"Jason Dupuy
San Fransisco, CA, May 22-25, 2008
Chair: Gayle Graham Yates, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1. "Effective Negation of the Personal in Welty’s 'No Place for You, My Love,”
Carey Wall, San Diego State University
2. "The Absence and Presence of Daring in Eudora Welty’s Fiction,”
Sarah Ford, Baylor University
3. "The Slaughter of the Trees: Genocide in Eudora Welty’s Fiction,”
Rebecca Mark, Tulane University
Saturday 8:00 am - 9:20 am;
Session 15-B
Chair: Rebecca Mark, Tulane University
1. Sarah Ford,
"Reimagining 'Eudora Welty' Through the Eyes of the Artist:
Kathryn Stockett's The Help, Edward P. Jones' The Known World, and Kate Campbell's
'The Yellow
Guitar'"
2. Harriet Pollack,
"'Before the Indifferent Beak Could Let Her Drop,': Interrogating Comedies
Of Rape In The Welty
Canon"
3. Carey Wall,
"Mattie Will Is Not Abused, Junior Is Not Dumb: Eudora Welty's 'Sir Rabbit'"
Saturday 11:00 am - 12:20 pm; Session 17-G
Chair: Mae Miller Claxton
1. Ronald A. Sharp,
"Collaborating on The Norton Book of Friendship"
2. Julia Eichelberger,
“Cultivating Friendship and Selfhood in Eudora Welty's Letters to Diarmuid
Russell and John Robinson”
3. Sharon Baris,
“Mrs. Pike's Pique and the Testing of Friendship in Welty's ‘Petrified Man’”
The American Literature Association (ALA) was established in 1990 to operate largely through single-author societies, such as the rapidly growing Eudora Welty Society. The EWS boasted fifty members at the time of its first organizational meeting, held during the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, Dec. 28, 1991, at New Joe’s on Geary St., in San Francisco. Hosts were Wall and Donaldson; others in attendance were Carol Manning, Rebecca Mark, Peggy Prenshaw, and Louise Westling.
In 1992, the EWS held its annual business meeting at the ALA conference in San Diego, beginning an alternation of annual meetings between the west and east coasts. Although historically these meetings have taken place in San Diego and Baltimore, the last weekend in May, the 2000 meeting was in Long Beach, CA, and the May 2001 conference took place in Cambridge, MA.
The EWS also regularly sponsors panels at such conferences as the MLA, the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) and regional conferences like the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA).