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Friday, April 22 |
►AT THE
OPERA HOUSE, GUTHRIE, KY - CLOSE TO ROBERT PENN
WARREN BIRTHPLACE◄
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9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
Readings from award winning essays of WKU graduate and
undergraduate students
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11:45 PM - 1:00 PM |
Poetry Session 1 |
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Chair: Victor Strandberg, Duke
University
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John Burt, Brandeis University: "Wild Metaphor and Dark
Transcendence in Brother to Dragons"
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Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University: "Robert
Penn Warren and Robert Frost"
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Keri Overall, Tarrant County
College-Northwest: "Myth-Breaking, Myth-Making: Robert Penn Warren's
Audubon: A Vision"
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1:00 PM - 2:15 PM |
Lunch provided by the Robert
Penn Warren Birthplace Committee - Served at the Christian Church,
Guthrie, KY
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
Renaissance Man
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Chair: Keri Overall, Tarrant
County College - Northwest
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William Boyle, SUNY - New Paltz:
"Beyond the Dark Night: Warren and Mysticism"
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Damian Carpenter, SUNY - New
Paltz: "Sweeter than Hope: A Dantean Journey to the Recognition of
Complicity"
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Noah Jampol, SUNY - New Paltz:
"A Sense of the South: The Persistent Truth of Robert Penn Warren's
Segregation and The Legacy of the Civil War"
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Saturday, April 23 |
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8:00 AM - 4:45 PM |
►Circle Sessions - Cherry Hall -
Western Kentucky University - Bowling Green, Kentucky◄
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8:00 AM - 9:15 AM |
Fiction Session l (Flood) |
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Chair: H. R. Stoneback, SUNY -
New Paltz |
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James Stamont, SUNY - New Paltz:
"Yearning for Recognition in the Heart of the Precious Moment and the
'Beginning of Innocence': Time, Timelessness, and Complicity as the
Braided Connections of Flood, and For Whom the Bell Tolls"
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Nicole Camastra, SUNY - New
Paltz: "'Depth and Shimmer' or 'The Secret of Contact' in Elizabeth
Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren"
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Brad Duffie, SUNY - New Paltz:
"'The Direction of Fulfillment': Physical and Spiritual Tides in Robert
Penn Warren's Flood"
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Goretti Vianey Benca, SUNY -
New Paltz: "Rising Above the Flood: Know 'that the lives we lived are
blessed"'
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9:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
Poetry Session II |
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Chair: John Burt, Brandeis
University |
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Anthony Szczesiul, University
of Massachusetts - Lowell: "Words Made Flesh: Racial Discourse and the
Confessional Voice in Warren's Incarnations" |
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Gwen Le Cor, Université de
Paris 8: "Vision in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry" |
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Michael Beilfuss, SUNY - New
Paltz: "Yearning as a Way of Life: Moon Imagery in Warren's Criticism
and Poetry" |
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10:30 AM - 11:45 AM |
Warren as Critic |
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Chair: James A. Perkins,
Westminster College |
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H.R. Stoneback, SUNY - New
Paltz: "'Strange Caterwaulin': Singing in the Wilderness with Boone and
Audubon, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren"
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Charlotte Beck, University of
South Carolina - Beaufort: "Trying to Do Too Much"
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Jonathan S. Cullick, Northern
Kentucky University: "The New Critic Teaches Writing: Brooks and
Warren's Modern Rhetoric" |
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12 Noon - 1:00 PM |
Lunch Provided Onsite, courtesy
of the Robert Penn Warren Circle
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1:15 PM - 2:15 PM |
Fiction II (All the King's
Men) |
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Chair: Aimee Berger, University
of North Texas |
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James A. Perkins, Westminster
College: '"...and the awful responsibility of Time': Chronology in
Chapter Four of All the King's Men."
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Mark Miller, Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts: "All the King's Men in the
Undergraduate Classroom"
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Bryan Mangano, Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts: "Warren's Alienated Narrator: An Analysis of
All the King's Men"
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2:30 PM - 3:45 PM |
Roundtable on Teaching Warren |
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Moderator: Charlotte Beck,
University of South Carolina-Beaufort
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Randy Hendricks, University of
West Georgia |
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Leverett Butts, Georgia
Military College |
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Kate Cochran, Northern Kentucky
University |
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and of course, much audience
participation... |
