TheAmericanShortStory:
AnExpansionoftheGenre
An American Literature Association Symposium
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of the American Short Story
October 20-22, 2016
Symposium Director: James Nagel, University of Georgia
Hyatt Regency Savannah
Two W Bay Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
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TheAmericanShortStory:
AnExpansionoftheGenre
An American Literature Association Symposium
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of the American Short Story
October 20-22, 2016
Hyatt Regency Savannah
Two W Bay Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
Symposium Director: James Nagel, University of Georgia
Acknowledgments:
Theconferencedirectorwishestoexpresshisappreciationtoanumberofpeople
whoprovidedhelpwithplanningtheprogram,especiallymycolleaguesinthe
SocietyfortheStudyoftheAmericanShortStory.OliviaCarrEdenfield,Executive
CoordinatorofAmericanLiteratureAssociation,handledallhotellogisticsand
arrangementsandservedasSiteDirector.OliverScheiding,Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität,servedasInternationalCoordinator,advertisingthe
symposiuminEuropeandencouragingcolleaguesinAmericanStudiestoattend.
DustinAndersonhelpedinmanyways,especiallyintakingresponsibilityforthe
societywebsiteandhandlingtechnicaldetails.Manyotherpeoplecontributedtime
andeffortinorganizingpanelsandotheraspectsoftheprogram,amongthem
RobertClark,GloriaCronin,andascoreofscholarsacrossthecountrywho
organizedpanelsforthismeeting.IalsothankDartmouthCollegeformycontinuing
appointmentasaResidentScholarandtheuseofBakerLibrary,amostcongenial
environment.MyroleasEidsonDistinguishedProfessorEmeritusattheUniversity
ofGeorgiaallowsmetocontinuethemostimportantinstitutionalconnectionofmy
life.IofferspecialthankstoAlfredBendixen,thefounderandExecutiveDirectorof
theAmericanLiteratureAssociation,withoutwhosegenerousassistancethis
symposiumwouldnothavebeenpossible.
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Thursday,October20,2016
Registration
5:30-7:30p.m.
(ScarboroughFoyer)
WelcomeReception
5:30-7:30p.m.
(SavannahRoom)
SpecialEvent
6:45p.m.
AReadingby
JudithOrtizCofer
(SavannahRoom)
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Friday,October21,2016
Registration:8:00-8:40a.m.
(ScarboroughFoyer)
Program
Session1-A:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughOne)
ContemporaryWriters
Chair:BenjaminMangrum,DavidsonCollege
1.“EarthasMementoMoriinDonDeLillo’s‘HumanMomentsinWorldWarIII,”R.
MacJones,UniversityofSouthCarolina
2.“ApproachingRichardBrautigan’sTheTokyo-MontanaExpressthroughBuddhist
Non-duality,”ClaraReiring,UniversityofDuesseldorf
3.“NarrativeEmpathyandShortFiction:TheCuriousCaseofGeorgeSaunders,”
MichaelBasseler,JustusLiebigUniversity(Giessen,Germany)
Session1-B:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughTwo)
AmericanWomenWriters
Chair:RobertLuscher,UniversityofNebraska,Kearney
1.“WritingPoverty,Race,andClassfromaBlackSouthernPerspective,”Caroline
Gebhard,TuskegeeUniversity
2.“JaneAddams’sGenderedCounter-Narratives:StorytellingtoClaimGendered
PoliticalAgency,”SarahRuffingRobbins,TexasChristianUniversity
3.“AsItWasintheBeginning:TheGothicinEarlyIndigenousLiterature,”CariM.
Carpenter,WestVirginiaUniversity
4.“`Mostremarkablefruits’:EnvironmentalEducationinStowe’sQueerLittle
People,”KarenL.Kilcup,UniversityofNorthCarolina,Greenboro
Respondent:KarenA.Weyler,UniversityofNorthCarolina,Greensboro
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Session1-C:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughThree)
AmericanShortStories
Chair:StevenFlorczyk,LongwoodUniversity
1.“Close(d)ReadingandExpansiveMeaninginJessieFauset’sShortStories,”
MasamiSugimori,FloridaGulfCoastUniversity
2.“AlienationandthePeculiarInstitutioninShortstoriesbyMachadodeAssisand
CharlesChesnutt,”MichaelJanis,MorehouseCollege
3.“Isolation,Intimacy,andtheComfortofClutterinT.C.Boyle’s`Filthywith
Things’,”AvisHewitt,GrandValleyStateUniversity
SpecialEvent
ARoundtableDiscussion
Session1-D:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughFour)
MemoryandTime:SaulBellow'sTietoHisFamilyofOrigin:"TheOldSystem"
and"BytheSt.Lawrence"
Chair:GloriaCronin,BrighamYoungUniversity
Panelists:GregBellow,AdamBellow,LieshaBellow,DanielBellow,Alexandra
Bellow
Session2-A:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughOne)
Jewish American Stories I
Chair,VictoriaAarons,TrinityUniversity
1.“ReadingMalamud's‘MagicBarrel’asStory,Collection,andLecture,”Sandor
Goodhart,PurdueUniversity
2.“J.D.Salinger's‘Seymour’andtheJewishSensibility,”HileneFlanzbaum,Butler
University
3.“‘Iamthefiction;thesuitcaseismyself’:ElisaAlbert’sRothianFiction,”Aimee
Pozorski,CentralConnecticutStateUniversity
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Session2-B:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughTwo)
ModernIssues
Chair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia
1.“Zitkala-ŠaandPaulineJohnson:AmongtheFirstWomentoCarrytheNative
VoiceintotheMainstream,”EkaterinaKupidonova,UniversityofNebraska
2.“CrossingBordersofNationandRaceinLangstonHughes’sTheWaysofWhite
Folks,”JoshuaMurray,UniversityofAkron
3.“DestabilizingPowers:TheWorkofMachinesinErnestHemingway’s‘InAnother
Country’,”LisaNarbeshuberandLanceLaRocque,AcadiaUniversity
Session2-C:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughThree)
NewStrategiesintheShortStory
Chair:OliverScheiding,UniversityofMainz
1.“LydiaDavisandtheTerribleHumiliationofReading,”LynnBlin,UniversitéPaul
ValéryMontpellier3(France)
2.“DerrickBell’sSci-FiStories:AfricanAmericanSatire,Law,andtheMythofPost
RacialAmerica,”ChristopherA.Shinn,HowardUniversity
3.“CommodityFetishisminFrankChin’s‘RailroadStandardTime’,”ZeinebAbbassi,
UniversitédeSousse(Tunisia)
Session2-D:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughFour)
TheStory-CycleNovel:ANecessaryFiction
Chair:AlfredBendixen,PrincetonUniversity
1.“TheFemaleBildung:EmbodyingtheStoryCyclefromJewetttoPorter,”
CandaceWaid,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara
2.“RecognitionandReflectioninTheGoldenApples:TheStory-CycleNovelas
ResistancetoNarrativeImperialism,”LeahFayeNorris,Universityof
California,SantaBarbara
3.“IsThereaFront-PorchNovelandHowDoesItRelatetotheBackPorchof
Fiction?”TrudierHarris,UniversityofAlabama
4.“PuzzlePiecesandPartsBecomingWhole:TowardaTribalographyofErdrich,”
ShirleySamuels,CornellUniversity
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Session3-A:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughOne)
JewishAmericanStoriesII
Chair:GloriaCronin,BrighamYoungUniversity
1.“TheMeltingPotandProgressiveReform:AnziaYezierskaandtheJewish
AmericanFuture,”SharonOster,UniversityofRedlands
2.“’Envy’:CynthiaOzickMeetsMelanieKlein,”AndrewGordon,Universityof
Florida
3.“BernardMalamud’sKleyneMentshelekh:ShortStoriesasParablesof
Conscience,”VictoriaAarons,TrinityUniversity
Session3-B:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughTwo)
NewFormsofShortFiction
Chair:DustinAnderson,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1.“Vignettes:Micro-FictionsintheNineteenthCenturyNewspaper,”
RyanCordellandJonathanFitzgerald,NortheasternUniversity
2.“JackLondon’s‘TheDreamofDebs’andWorking-ClassAgencyinthe
NaturalistShortStory,”JonFalsarellaDawson,UniversityofGeorgia
3.“EmbracingtheReligiousBackcountry:ChrisOffutt’sKentuckyStraightas
MythopoeticCollage,”PhilippReisner,HeinrichHeineUniversity
(Düsseldorf)
Session3-C:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughThree)
NewApproaches
Chair:RobertLuscher,UniversityofNebraska,Kearney
1.“ConnectiveTissueinLinkedShortStories:Place,Character,ImagePatterns,and
Theme,”WarrenG.Green,DominicanUniversity
2.“AmericanStoriesofWar:TimO’BrienandPhilKlay,”KellyRoyPolasek,
WayneStateUniversity
3.“DarkNightoftheSoul:ComplicatingRaceinWelty’s‘TheDemonstrators’,”
CharlesTyrone,ArkansasTechUniversity
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Session3-D:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughFour)
ContemporaryStories
Chair:JamesW.Thomas,PepperdineUniversity
1.“TheOctoberCountry:TheUnheimlichHomesofRayBradbury,”TracyFahey,
LimerickSchoolofArtandDesign(Ireland)
2.“PoetryandPolitics,LaborandLove:Carver,Spahr,Buuck,andPermanent
Impermanence,”DianaRosenberger,WayneStateUniversity
3.“LeroyandNormaJeanMeetRock,Doris,andDr.StrangeloveinBobbieAnn
Mason’s`Shiloh’,”DeborahWilson,ArkansasTechUniversity
SpecialEvent:Lunch:1:00-2:10
(Windows)
Speaker:JamesNagel
“TheFutureofthe
SocietyfortheStudyoftheAmericanShortStory”
Registration:1:30-2:00
(ScarboroughFoyer)
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Session4-A:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughOne)
AfricanAmericanShortStories
Chair:MaryemmaGraham,UniversityofKansas
1.“TheCivilRightsMovementandtheBlackShortStory,”JuliusFleming,
UniversityofMaryland
2.“Geo-TaggingEdwardP.Jones,”KentonRambsy,UniversityofTexasatArlington
3.“AfricanAmericanShortStoriesonFilm,”DanteJames,UniversityofDayton
4.“LiteracyandthePowerofCommunicationinOctaviaButler’sShortStories,”
BrianaWhiteside,UniversityofAlabama
Session4-B:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughTwo)
StoriesoftheAmericanSouth
Chair:J.GeraldKennedy,LouisianaStateUniversity
1.“Numbered,Numbered:CommemoratingtheCivilWarDeadinConstance
FenimoreWoolson’s`RodmantheKeeper’,”KathleenDiffley,Universityof
Iowa
2.“PeterTaylor’sAestheticofDarkness,”ThomasF.Haddox,Universityof
Tennessee
3.“ErnestGaines’sBloodline:Race,Region,Masculinityandthe
ShortStoryCycle,”JohnWhartonLowe,UniversityofGeorgia
Session4-C2:20-3:50(ScarboroughThree)
NewWritersontheAmericanScene
Chair:JamesW.Thomas,PepperdineUniversity
1.“FemaleMadnessandtheHazardsofBlackNationalBelonginginAyanaMathis’s
TheTwelveTribesofHattie,”CarolineA.Brown,UniversityofMontreal
2.“IndiansinAmerica:CulturalandGenderedContactZonesinChitraDivakaruni’s
`SilverPavements,GoldenRoofs’,”MarilynEdelstein,SantaClaraUniversity
3.“PossessionandNorthAmericanIdentityinAnneHébert’s`Letorrent’,”Conor
Scruton,WesternKentuckyUniversity
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Session4-D2:20-3:50(ScarboroughFour)
ARoundtableDiscussion:“InterestingIntersections:WhenShort
StoriesbecomeFilm”
Chair:JamesH.Meredith
Participants: AllenJosephs,UniversityofWestFlorida
JeanneFuchs,HofstraUniversity
JamesH.Meredith,ColoradoStateUniversity--Global
KathleenRobinson-Malone,EckerdCollege
E.StoneMeredith,ColoradoStateUniversity--Global
Session5-A4:00-5:20(ScarboroughOne)
EdgarAllanPoe
Chair:RichardKopley,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,DuBois
1."ReconstructionsofPoe's'TalesoftheFolioClub'since1928:Approachesand
Prospects,"AlexanderHammond,WashingtonStateUniversity
2."EdgarAllanPoe,'PsycheZenobia,'andtheTraditionofAnti-FeministGothic
Satire,"DavidCody,HartwickCollege
3."FethersandSpectacles:HowMusicShapesGenreinPoe'sShortStories,"
CharityMcAdams,ArizonaStateUniversity
Session5-B4:00-5:20(ScarboroughTwo)
AmericanWomenWriters
Chair:DonnaM.Campbell,WashingtonStateUniversity
1.“`EyeswithoutSpeakingConfesstheSecretsoftheHeart:’EdithWhartonand
LouisaMayAlcott,”DebraRyals,PensacolaStateCollege
2.“TheArtist’sDilemmainCather’s‘ComingAphrodite!”TracienneRavita,Georgia
StateUniversity
3.“`InPraiseofQuietStories’:TheDramaticImpetusofKindnessinWendellBerry
andSarahOrneJewett,”MatthewForsythe,RollinsCollege
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Session5-C4:00-5:20(ScarboroughThree)
NewApproachestotheShortStory
Chair:DustinAnderson,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1.“PedagogyandtheShortStory,”BrianneJaquette,CollegeoftheBahamas
2.“TeachingStylesinShortStories:UsingCarver’s‘ASmallGoodThing’and
Faulkner’s‘BarnBurning’asExamples,”SuocaiSu,CityCollegeofChicago
3.“`CreaturesofHabit’:TheRoleofHabitsinShortStoryCharacterCreation,”
ThomasW.Howard,JacksonCollege
Session5-D4:00-5:20(ScarboroughFour)
NewViewsofAmericanStories
Chair:OliviaEdenfield,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1."GothicOriginsoftheAmericanShortStory:Irving,Poe,Hawthorne,"
AlfredBendixen,PrincetonUniversity
2.“WhyDansieandJosieSleep:ImaginingDeathinAfricanAmericanStories,”
EmilyDeHaven,UniversityofKentucky
3.“TheRepresentationsoftheDeceasedin`Spunk’byZoraNealeHurstonand
`ClarenceandtheDead(AndWhatDotheyTellYouClarence?AndtheDead
SpeaktoClarence)’byRandallKenan,”SharonLynetteJones,WrightState
University
Session5-E4:00-5:20(Savannah)
NewReadingsofShortFiction
Chair:LeeClarkMitchell,PrincetonUniversity
1.“UrbanSpaceandPoliticalAgencyinAliceDunbar-Nelson’s‘ThePearlinthe
Oyster,”SidoniaSerafini,UniversityofGeorgia
2.“GothicProjectionsofMadnessandRacialInferiority:ThePerilsofHyper
Rationalityin"TheFalloftheHouseofUsher"and"BenitoCereno,"
JohnGruesser,KeanUniversity
3."DiagnosesofJhumpaLahiri'sInterpreterofMaladies,"BradleyEdwards,
GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
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SpecialEvent:Reception
5:30-7:00
(Windows)
KeynoteAddress:
J.GeraldKennedy
“NationalStrangenessinthe
AntebellumTale”
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Saturday,October22,2016
Registration:8:00-8:40a.m.
(ScarboroughFoyer)
Session6-A:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughOne)
ContemporaryShortStories
Chair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia
1.“Metaphysics,Positivism,andtheTruthofFiction:RebeccaGoldstein’s‘Legacyof
RaizelKaidish’,”EmilyBudick,HebrewUniversityofJerusalem
2“ChuckPalahniuk’sLivingDead:GenerationMe’s‘Zombies’intheAgeof
Depression,”PatrickOsborne,FloridaStateUniversity
3.“TheWorstandBestShortStoryJohnUpdikeEverWrote,”JamesW.Thomas,
PepperdineUniversity
Session6-B:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughTwo)
NewApproachestoF.ScottFitzgerald:ReinventingtheCanonical,
RecoveringthePopular
Chair:KirkCurnutt,TroyUniversity
1."Can'tBuyMeLove:CommodificationandRedemptioninF.ScottFitzgerald's
'ThePopularGirl'(1922),"FarrahR.Senn,Brewton-ParkerCollege
2."‘Absolution’(1924)andTransnationalIdentities,"DustinAnderson,Georgia
SouthernUniversity
3.“Visualizing‘TheRichBoy’(1925):F.ScottFitzgerald,F.R.Gruger,andRed
BookMagazine,”JenniferNolan,NorthCarolinaStateUniversit
Session6-C:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughThree)
NewFormsofShortFiction
Chair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1.“MorphingGenres:NovelsinFlashandFlashCycles,”JenniferJ.Smith,
FranklinCollege
2.“SpeculativeFiction:BackintheBeginningoftheEndoftheWorldwithJunot
Diaz’s`Monstro’,”ChristianeE.Farnan,SienaCollege
3.“DecenteredNarrativesandFantasticOthernessinKellyLink’sPostmodern
AmericanFairyTales,”AndrewM.Hakim,PrincetonUniversity
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Session6-D:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughFour)
Women, God, and Violence in the Short Fiction of Andre Dubus
Chair: James Meredith, Colorado State University, Global
1. “Saving Maid Marian: Southern Chivalry in the Short Fiction of Andre Dubus,”
Olivia Carr Edenfield, Georgia Southern University
2. "The Theological Implications of Andre Dubus's 'A Father's Story',"
Patrick Samway, S.J., St. Joseph’s University
3. "Opening Sentences, Eruptive Violence, in Dancing after Hours," Lee Clark Mitchell,
Princeton University
Session7-A:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughOne)
AmericanWomenWritersandtheShortStory
Chair:DonnaCampbell,WashingtonStateUniversity
1.“TheEchooftheInnerVoice:HowWomenWritersPioneeredtheInterior
MonologueintheShortStoryForm,”SaraRutkoski,CityUniversityof
NewYork
2.“DorothyCanfieldFisher’sHillsboroPeople:FeministShortStoryandFounding
VermontState,”CeillieClark-Keane,NortheasternUniversity
3.“TheRevolutionaryShortStory:SandraCisneros’sWomanHolleringCreek,”
SoniaAlvarezWilson,CatawbaCollege
Session7-B:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughTwo)
NewConsiderations
Chair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1.“PeterTaylor:SupernaturalPresencesintheLateStories,”DavidM.Robinson,
OregonStateUniversity
2.“DoctorMartino’sOtherStories:UnityandCohesioninThese14,”KirkCurnutt,
TroyUniversity
3.“HumorandHorrorinTwoStoriesoftheHolocaustbyNathanEnglander,”Frank
G.Novak,PepperdineUniversity
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Session7-C:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughThree)
Nineteenth-CenturyIssues
Chair:JohnWhartonLowe,UniversityofGeorgia
1.“MaternalMoralityandMourning:WomanhoodinRebeccaHardingDavis’sCivil
WarFiction,”PaulaRawlins,UniversityofGeorgia
2.“TheNational‘AbortiveRomance’in‘EthanBrand’,”AllanBenn,EastStroudsburg
University
3.“ReadingtheAnimals:Faulkner’sExpansionofMelville’sEpistemological
ExpeditionintotheWilderness,”ElizabethH.Swails,UniversityofGeorgia
Session7-D: 10:10-11:30(ScarboroughFour)
Hemingway’sShortFiction
Chair:StevenFlorczyk,LongwoodUniversity
1.“TheEbroRiverValleyin‘HillsLikeWhiteElephants’,”MarieMullins,
PepperdineUniversity
2.“Adaptation,Extrapolation,andHemingway’s‘TheKillers’,”LesaCarnesShaul,
UniversityofWestAlabama
3.“”PaulinePfeiffer’sSafariJournalasaSourceforHemingway’s`TheSnowsof
Kilimanjaro’,”DennisB.Ledden,IndependentScholar
Session8-A:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughOne)
AmericanModernism
Chair:MatthewForsythe,RollinsCollege
1."TheComplexDesignofSherwoodAnderson's'Hands',"RichardKopley,
PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
2.“Race,Phenomenology,andO’Connor’sShortFiction,”BenMangrum,
DavidsonCollege
3.“ReversedGenderRolesandProstitutioninFitzgerald’s‘HeadandShoulders’,”
PaulBlom,IndependentScholar
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Session8-B:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughTwo)
WomenCharactersintheShortStory
Chair:NicoleCamastra,UniversityofGeorgia
1.“LaurenGroff’s‘GhostsandEmpties’andtheLiteraryParadigmoftheWalking
Woman,”NinaBannett,NewYorkCityCollegeofTechnology
2.“TheMedicalisSocial:ReexaminingRetrospectiveDiagnosisin‘TheYellow
Wallpaper’,”EmilyBanks,EmoryUniversity
3.“HomosexualAvoidanceandtheDestructionoftheFemaleinPoe’s‘TheBlack
Cat’,”UrshelaWigginsAtkins,PolkStateCollege
Session8-C:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughThree)
PerspectivesfromtheSavannahCollegeofArtandDesign
Chair:WeihuaZhang,SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign
1.“ShatteringtheLiteral:FlanneryO’Connor’sViolentIntention,”MaryAswellDoll,
SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign
2.“SexualIdentitiesinYiyunLi’sAThousandYearsofGoodPrayers,”MaryChi-Whi
Kim,SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign
3.“VoicesofRealPeople:StoriesofChineseImmigrantsinHaJin’sAGoodFall,
WeihuaZhang,SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign
Session8-D:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughFour)
NewExplorations
Chair:KirkCurnutt,TroyUniversity
1.“Trauma,theMissing,andFracturedLivesinLuisCamachoRuiz’sBarefootDogs,”
RobLuscher,UniversityofNebraska,Kearney
2.“RelationalAutonomyintheShortStoryCycle,”HelenaKadmos,
MurdochUniversity(Australia)
3.“RomancesofReunionintheShortFictionofBretHarte,”TaraPenry,BoiseState
University
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SpecialEvent:Luncheon:1:00-2:10(Windows)
Speakers:
DanteJames,TheAfrican-AmericanFilmSeries
RichardLayman,TheShortStoryProject
Session9-A:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughOne)
EarlyTwentiethCentury
Chair:JohnWhartonLowe,UniversityofGeorgia
1.“GoodInstinctsinJackLondon’s‘SouthoftheSlot’,”KennethBrandt,Savannah
CollegeofArtandDesign
2.“Dreiser’sCinematicModernism:‘Victory’asPrecursortoCitizenKane,”
RoarkMulligan,ChristopherNewportUniversity
3.“EdithWharton’sSuspenseTheater:NaturalismandGothicModernisminthe
1920sStories,”DonnaM.Campbell,WashingtonStateUniversity
Session9-B:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughTwo)
HemingwayandtheArtoftheShort-StoryCycle
Chair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia
1.“Hemingway’sModernistManifesto:InOurTimeandtheShort-StoryCycle
Genre,”,”StevenFlorczyk,LongwoodUniversity
2.“’Thewarwasalwaysthere’:MenWithoutWomenasaShort-StoryCycle,”
BradMcDuffie,NyackCollege
3.“Musicandthe‘PerseveringTraveler’:WinnerTakeNothingasaModernist
Short-StoryCycle,”NicoleCamastra,UniversityofGeorgia
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Session9-C:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughThree)
ApproachestoContemporaryStories
Chair:MeganFlanery,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1.“TheSouthernStoriesofRonRash,”LisaAbney,NorthwesternStateUniversity
2.“OneThousandDozenMarketableGoods:AnHistoricalCritiqueofaLesser
KnownJackLondonShortStory,”TerrenceCole,UniversityofAlaska
Fairbanks
3.“TheStreetCarnival:RecurrentMotifsinCisnero’sTheHouseonMangoStreet,”
LaceyB.Rogers,UniversityofNebraskaKearney
Session9-D:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughFour)
NewConsiderationsoftheStoryForm
Chair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1.“TheExpansionoftheGenre:FromtheStoryCycletoMicrofiction,”
OliverScheiding,UniversityofMainz(Germany)
2.“RhapsodyandRequiem:TheInfluenceofWho’sAfraidofVirginiaWoolfonthe
ShortStoriesofRaymondCarver,”JoshTemples,GeorgiaSouthern
University
3.“AnUnlikely‘Patriot’:ReconsideringtheShortFictionofMeridelLeSueur,”
LisaKirby,CollinCollege
Session10-A:4:00-5:20(ScarboroughOne)
StudiesinModernism
Chair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
1.“F.ScottFitzgerald’sLaterSaturdayEveningPostStories:FindingtheQuirksof
NewPlotLinesin1929,”NancyVanArsdale,EastStroudsburgUniversity
2.“WhoNeedsMasculinity?”MargaretBockting,NorthCarolinaCentralUniversity
3.“TheStoriesofDashiellHammett,”RichardLayman,Publisher,Columbia,SC
Session10-B:4:00-5:20(ScarboroughTwo)
FlanneryO’ConnorandBretHarte
Chair:MatthewForsythe,RollinsCollege
1.“NietzscheWentDowntoGeorgia:ExistentialAnxietyinO’Connor’s‘AGoodMan
IsHardtoFind’,”DavidPolanski,IndependentScholar
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2.“AdrianTomine’sKillingandDyingandtheMinimalistAmericanGraphicShort
Story,”RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia
3.“RomancesofReunionintheShortFictionofBretHarte,”TaraPenry,
BoiseStateUniversity
Session10-C:4:00-5:20(ScarboroughThree)
AmericanRealism
Chair:LeeClarkMitchell,PrincetonUniversity
1.“HowStephenCraneRevolutionizedNaturalismwiththeShortStory,”JeremyK.
Locke,UniversityofTennessee
2.“Whatis`Pace’inStephenCrane’s`ThePaceofYouth’,”BrianGingrich,Princeton
University
3.“ReadingNewOrleansStories,”JamesNagel,UniversityofGeorgia
ClosingReception5:30-7:00
(Windows)
SpecialEvent
AReadingofOriginalShortStoriesbySSASSMembers
Chair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia
1.KirkCurnutt,TroyUniversity
2.RichardKopley,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
3.JenniferMemolo,ClarksonCollege