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Loews Hotel, Atlanta, November 5-7, 2010
Chair: Rebecca Harrison, University of West Georgia
1. Delores Natale, Westminster College,
"Eat, Pray, Love Southern Style: The Family Reunion in Losing Battles "
2. Adrienne Akins, Baylor University,
"'If you know how to read it': Oral and Written Literacy in Losing Battles"
3. Lisa Cunningham, University of West Georgia,
"'Destruction is at Hand': Physical Manifestations of Collective Storytelling in Losing Battles"
Fort Worth, TX, October 28-30, 2010
Chair, Don James Mclaughlin, University of Pennsylvania
1. "'You have to believe to be a teacher': Teachers and Preachers in Welty and Gaines,"
Adrienne Akins, Baylor University
2. "Coherence and Discontinuity: Shaping the Mother in the Short Story Sequences of Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter,”
Kerry Hasler-Brooks, University of Delaware
3. "Welty and Travel,”
David McWhirter, Texas A&M University
4. "Beyond Land's End: Tracing the Global South in Eudora Welty's 'Music from Spain," Joshua Lundy, University of Mississippi
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 27-30, 2010
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'"
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
Chair: Suzanne Marrs, Millsaps College
1. "Bizarre Confluences: Eudora Welty in the Pages of Harper’s Bazaar," Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston
2. "Welty’s Music from Spain: Discovering the Underbelly of the Quotidian," Alison Graham Bertolini, Louisiana State University
3. "Fatal Sisters: The Black Mother in the Mirror of Welty’s Art," Candace Waid, University of California, Santa Barbara
NOVEMBER 1-3, 2007 THE HILTON HOTEL, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
Friday, Nov. 2, 2007: 2:15-3:45 p.m.
Room: Directors Row 3
Chair: Delores Natale, Westminster Coll., nataleda@westminster.edu
Secretary: Jean Griffith, Wichita State U, jeangriffith@gmail.edu
1. “Currents of Racism in America: The Prophetic Nature of Eudora Welty’s Where is the Voice Coming From?” Terence Dalrymple, Angelo State U, terry.dalrymple@angelo.edu
2. “‘There were the two worlds’: Eudora Welty’s At the Landing” Joan Baranow, Dominican U of California, joan.baranow@dominican.edu
3. Business meeting
4. “And it Runs Into the Sea: Currents of National Identity in Delta Wedding” Gwen V. Kordonowy, U of Virginia, gvj9s@virginia.edu
5. “A Pearl in the Depths: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty’s The Wide Net” Laura Schrock, Baylor U, laura_schrock@baylor.edu
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007: 9:15-10:45 a.m.
Room: Southeast Ballroom B
Chair: Phyllis Bridges, Texas Woman’s U, pbridges@twu.edu
Secretary: Delores Zumwalt, Collin County Community Coll., dzumwalt@ccccd.edu
2. “Seeking Distant Shores: Eudora Welty’s Moon Lake as Other World” Melinda Williams McBee, Prairie View A&M U, jmcbee@scbcglobal.net