Gaelicly yours,
The 13th International
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference
July 4-10th, 2015 in Dublin and Waterford, Ireland
From Hemingway’s description of his friend’s “very fair wavy hair, a high forehead,
excited and friendly eyes and a delicate long-lipped Irish mouth” in A Moveable Feast to
his signature in The Crack-Up, “Gaelicly yours, Scott Fitzgerald” [sic], the literary world of
F. Scott Fitzgerald is suffused with a Nostalgic Ireland. From the Irish Melodies to Dick’s
“Irish face” in Tender is the Night; the Irish girls, Tammany politics, and the Irish problem,
and Anthony and Geraldine’s conversation over Chevalier in The Beautiful and Damned;
Pat Brady or Katherine Moore in The Last Tycoon; and Monsignor Darcy and Beatrice
Blaine in This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s novels, short stories, and essays are populated
with the remnants of an elusive Ireland.
With those elements in mind, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society is pleased to host an opportunity to develop this clear
yet underexplored legacy on Fitzgerald’s creativity and personality. The conference features research presentations
on all aspects of Fitzgerald’s life and work, but offers a special focus on the Irish influences and aspects of his writing
and career.
You will hear topics ranging from Irish and Irish-American characters featured in stories like “Benediction” to
“Babylon Revisited”, to his interrogation of the treatment of traditional Irish and Irish-American tropes including
papers on Moral Authority, Catholicism, Alcoholism, Social Mobility, and the Irish Cultural Heritage in both his short
and full-length fiction. Other presentations focus on the legacy, influence, and interaction between Fitzgerald and
Irish & Irish-American authors such as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Shane Leslie, and Joseph O’Neill among others. You'll
even see a presentation on Fitzgerald and Waterford's own Raymond Chandler. We are very excited to feature
Keynote Plenaries by Kendall Taylor, Carlo Gébler, James West, Scott Donaldson, Sarah Churchwell & Horst Kruse.
Since you've had a couple of days to take in the sites in Dublin, we are happy to welcome you to our host university,
Waterford Institute of Technology. During your stay in Ireland's oldest city, we hope that you'll take the time to visit
any of the number of intellectual and cultural venues, such as the three Museums of the Viking Triangle, including
Reginald’s Tower (the oldest urban civic building in Ireland); Christchurch Cathedral; Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery;
the historic Catholic seminary, St. John’s College, the Theatre Royal and Garter Lane Arts Centre; and, most
famously, Waterford Crystal. As conference participants, you will also be treated to visit the nearby John F. Kennedy
Trust at the Irish America Hall of Fame, and the Irish Emigration Experience at the Dunbrody Famine Ship museum
during our Closing Banquet.
We would like to offer thanks to all of our partners at Waterford Institute of Technology for hosting our conference.
Thank you to Head of School Dr Richard Hayes for his gracious support, and Professor Michael Howlett, Head of the
Department of Applied Art, for sharing his Joycean expertise. Thanks to Anna Wells for acting as our check-in
marshal, and very special thanks to Walter O’Leary for continual advice, guidance, and local support.
We are so pleased to see participants from across the globe—coming in from Georgia to Japan to help make this a
truly international experience. On behalf of the program directors, Professor William Blazek and Professor Philip
McGowan, as well as the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society executive board, let me welcome you to Waterford: Céad míle
fáilte!
Gaelicly yours [sic],
Dustin Anderson
The 13th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference Site Director
Program at a Glance
Saturday, July 4th
 3:30 - James Joyce Tour— the Council Chamber, Dublin City Hall (Dame Street)
Sunday, July 5th
 11:00 - Complimentary Bus from Dublin to Kilkenny & Waterford departs—Nassau Street (near
Trinity College)
 6:00 - Opening Reception—Waterford City Hall
Monday July 6th, - Friday, July 10th
See Academic Program for full details. The WIT buses in Waterford will make a stop at 8.20 at the Tower
Hotel and then to Manor Village on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for sessions at WIT’s Main
Campus.
Monday, July 6th
 8:45 - Welcome and Announcements, O'Connell Bianconi Building Atrium
 9:00 - Session 1, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 10:45 - Session 2, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 12:30 - Keynote Plenary by Kendall Taylor, Lunch provided at the Gallery Restaurant
 2:00 - Kuehl Fellowship Presentations
 2:30 - Irish Coffeemaking Masterclass, Tourism & Leisure Education Building
 5:30 - Keynote Reading by Carlo Gébler, Engineering and Sciences Building Auditorium
Tuesday, July 7th
 9:00 - Session 3, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 10:45 - Session 4, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 12:15 - Lunch on Your Own
 1:30 - Session 5, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 3:15 - Session 6, O'Connell Bianconi Building
Wednesday, July 8th
 The WIT buses will leave Manor Village at 9am for our excursion to Admore, Blarney Castle, and
Blarney Woolen Mills. The buses will return to Waterford by 5pm.
Thursday, July 9th
 9:00 - Session 7, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 10:45 - Session 8, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 12:15 - Keynote Plenary by James L. W. West III, Lunch provided at the Gallery Restaurant
 2:30 - Plenary Meeting: F. Scott Fitzgerald Society General Meeting, Engineering and Sciences
Building Auditorium
 3:45 - Keynote Plenary by Scott Donaldson, Engineering and Sciences Building Auditorium
Friday, July 10th
 9:00 - Session 9, O'Connell Bianconi Building
 10:45 - Plenary Discussion: Current Issues in Fitzgerald Studies, Engineering and Sciences Building
Auditorium
 12:00 - Lunch on Your Own
 1:30 - Keynote Plenary by Sarah Churchwell & Horst Kruse, Engineering and Sciences Building
 4:45 - The WIT buses will leave Manor Village for our banquet at the JFK Center in New Ross.
Saturday, July 11th
 9:00 - Cork Optional Tour departs—Tower Hotel.
Gaelicly Yours, Scott Fitzgerald
Thirteenth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
Conference
Academic Program
Monday, 6 July
8.45-9.00
Welcome and Announcements
9.00-10.30
Session 1
O'Connell Bianconi Building Atrium
1A. Irish Connections
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast)
1) “Fitzgerald’s ‘Irish Town’: A Look at the Local Context of Saint Paul during Fitzgerald’s Youth,” Stu
Wilson (Library Strategies Consulting Group, Saint Paul)
2) “A Charming, Impish Irish Harlequin: The F. Scott Fitzgerald of the Edmund Wilson Bookman Article
and Early Twentieth-Century Stereotypes of the Irish,” Deborah Davis Schlacks (University of
Wisconsin Superior)
3) “Adapting Fitzgerald’s Irish Legacy: ‘The Camel’s Back’ from Paper to Celluloid,” Martina Mastandrea
(University of East Anglia)
1B. Ethnic Portraits
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Gail Sinclair (Rollins College)
1) “The Perfect Jew? Gatsby, Hildesheim and Rosedale,” Katie Ahern (University College Cork)
2) “‘When Gangster Eyes Are Smiling’: Reading and Teaching The Great Gatsby as a Gangster Novel,”
Catherine R. Mintler (University of Oklahoma)
3) “Identity and Its Discontents in The Last Tycoon,” James D. Bloom (Muhlenberg College)
10.30-10.45
Refreshment Break
10.45-12.15
Session 2
2A. Pious Mother and Substitute Father Tropes in Fitzgerald’s Fiction
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: Deborah Davis Schlacks (University of Wisconsin Superior)
1) “Absent and Substitute Fathers in Fitzgerald’s Fiction,” Marla Bruner (Georgia Southern University)
2) “Fitzgerald’s Flappers: Supplanting the Pious Mother Figure with the Modern Irish Ideal,” Farrah R.
Senn (Brewton Parker College)
3) “Father Schwartz's Idealism in ‘Absolution,’” Masanori Baba (Kyushu Women's University)
2B. Moral and Philosophical Investigations
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Stu Wilson (Library Strategies Consulting Group, Saint Paul)
1) “The Medieval Morality Play and The Great Gatsby,” Chrissy Auger (Eckerd College)
2) “Social Mobility in The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night,” Roberta Fabbri Viscardi (University of
São Paulo)
3) “Drunken Fights and Terrible Injuries: Why This Pattern in All of Fitzgerald Novels Except The Great
Gatsby?” Kim Moreland (George Washington University)
12.30-2.00
Lunchtime Keynote Plenary (A): Kendall Taylor, “Engendered Fate: Edouard Jozan and His Influence
on the Life and Work of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald”
Moderator: Kirk Curnutt (Troy University)
Lunch provided in the Gallery Restaurant
2.00
2.30
Awarding of Kuehl Fellowships; Further Announcements
Irish Coffeemaking Masterclass by Ray Cullen
6.00-7.00
Keynote Plenary (B): Reading by Carlo Gébler
Engineering and Sciences Building Auditorium
Introduced by Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Gallery Restaurant
Tourism & Leisure Education Building
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Tuesday, 7 July
9.00-10.30
Session 3
3A. The Great Gatsby: Time and Place
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: William Blazek (Liverpool Hope University)
1) “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Religion,” Kentaro Sugino (Shinshu University)
2) “‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before’: Gatsby’s Catholic Approach to Time,”
Thomas Bevilacqua (Florida State University)
3) “‘Mr. Nobody from Nowhere’: The Immigrant Experience in The Great Gatsby and My Antonia,” Paul
D. Reich (Rollins College)
3B. Exploring Social and Literary Contexts
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Linda De Roche (Wesley College)
1) “‘Beautiful Little Fools’: Fitzgerald’s Sad Young Women,” Rebecca Dunbar (University of Glasgow)
2) “A ‘varying offensive’: The Many Representations of WWI in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
David Alan Rennie (University of Aberdeen)
3) “Fitzgerald and His German War Heroes: Erich Ludendorff and Otto Braun,” Horst Kruse (University
of Münster)
10.30-10.45
Refreshment Break
10.45-12.15
Session 4
4A. Literary Influences: Then and Now
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: Anne Margaret Daniel (The New School for Public Engagement)
1) “Death at the Party: Joyce and Fitzgerald,” Christopher Ames (Shepherd University)
2) “‘The Old Island’: Mapping Literary Inheritance in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Joseph O’Neill’s
Netherland,” Caroline Chamberlin Hellman (City Tech, CUNY)
3) “Fitzgerald’s Influence on the Work of Richard Yates,” Steven Goldleaf (Pace University)
4B. Fitzgerald’s Hollywood
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Bonnie Shannon McMullen (University of Oxford)
1) “Fitzgerald’s Very Special Effects in The Last Tycoon,” Pascale Antolin (University of Bordeaux 3)
2) “Second Acts: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood’s Literary Canteen,” Laura Rattray (University of
Glasgow)
3) “On the Trail of the Author in The Pat Hobby Stories,” Marie-Agnès Gay (University of Lyon 3)
12.15-1.30
Lunch on Your Own
1.30-3.00
Session 5
5A. The No. 1 Fitzgerald Detective Agency
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow)
1) “Just How Many Cars Does Gatsby Own?” Deborah Clarke (Arizona State University)
2) “Gatsby as Detective Story”, Kirk Curnutt (Troy University)
3) “Fitzgerald and Chandler,” Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast)
5B. The House of Wealth
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Marie-Agnès Gay (University of Lyon 3)
1) “Such Beautiful Shirts: Commodifying the Gatsby Myth,” Anne Zimmermann (Rollins College)
2) “Little Bright Eyes: A Contextual Case for ‘The Rich Boy,’” Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University)
3) “Westport and ‘The Grey House’ of The Beautiful and Damned,” Walter F. Raubicheck (Pace
University)
3.00-3.15
Refreshment Break
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3.15-4.45
Session 6
6A. Fitzgerald on Screen and in Print
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: Walter F. Raubicheck (Pace University)
1) “Fitzgerald Live on Playhouse 90: An Examination of David Shaw’s 1958 Teleplay for The Great
Gatsby,” Park Bucker (University of South Carolina, Sumter)
2) “Illustrating ‘The Rich Boy,’” Jennifer Nolan-Stinson (North Carolina State University)
3) “The Screen Adaptation of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’” Bujar Nuhiu (Duisburg-Essen
University)
6B. Ireland and America: the Writer, the Priest, and the Lover
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Dustin Anderson (Georgia Southern University)
1) “‘Amory is an uncanonised saint’: Scott Fitzgerald, Shane Leslie, and Constant Catholicism,” Anne
Margaret Daniel (The New School for Public Engagement)
2) Ireland and Fitzgerald’s Early Mentors Sigourney Fay and Shane Leslie,” Maggie Gordon Froehlich
(Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton)
3) “The Dark Struggle for Hope: Beloved Infidel and Hollywood Representations of the Irish-American,”
Alberto Lena (University of Vallodolid)
Evening Meal on Your Own
Wednesday, 8 July
9.00
5.00
Bus Departures for Excursion to Blarney Castle and Ardmore Cliff Walk
Return to Waterford
Evening Meal on Your Own
Thursday, 9 July
9.00-10.30
Session 7
7A. Literary and Biographical Traditions
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: Suzanne del Gizzo (Chestnut Hill College)
1) “Yeats and Fitzgerald’s Fission of Personality into Character,” Jonathan Fegley (Middle Georgia State
College)
2) “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘dark fields of the republic’: Midwestern Rural Codas of the Pastoral,” Hannah
Biggs (Rice University)
3) “The Many Faces of Zelda Fitzgerald: Fictional Lives, Feminist Biography, and the Creation of an
Icon,” Helen Turner (University of Essex)
10.30-10.45
Refreshment Break
10.45-12.15
Session 8
8A. Neglected Subjects, New Interpretations
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
Moderator: David W. Ullrich (Birmingham-Southern College)
1) “Fitzgerald and Aging,” Suzanne del Gizzo (Chestnut Hill College)
2) “From the ‘slow Chicago with a Memphis sideswoop’ to Josephine Baker’s ‘chocolate arabesques’:
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dance,” Jade Broughton Adams (University of Leicester)
3) “The Pitch and Beat of The Jazz Age: Jazz, Satire, and the Reception of This Side of Paradise,” Sadaf
Fahim-Hashemi (University of East Anglia)
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8B. Fitzgerald’s Short Stories and Essays
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Park Bucker (University of South Carolina, Sumter)
1) “From the ‘Cracked Plate’ of Despair to the Comic North Pole Expedition: ‘Pasting It Together’
Thanks to the ‘Power of the Written Word,” Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Jean Monnet University, SaintEtienne)
2) “Cracks in ‘The Lees of Happiness’ and ‘An Alcoholic Case,’” Catherine Delesalle-Nancey (University
of Lyon 3)
3) “‘The nicest smaller house in town’: The Space of Home in Some Early Fitzgerald Short Stories,”
Bonnie Shannon McMullen (University of Oxford)
12.15-2.30
Lunchtime Keynote Plenary (C): James L. W. West III (Penn State University) “The Cambridge
Fitzgerald Edition: A Progress Report”
Moderator: Jackson R. Bryer (University of Maryland)
Lunch provided in the Gallery Restaurant
2.30-3.45
3.45-4.00
Plenary (D): F. Scott Fitzgerald Society General Meeting
Refreshment Break
4.00-5.00
Keynote Plenary (E): Scott Donaldson (College of William and Mary) “Scott and Dotty: The
Fitzgerald-Parker Relationship” followed by sale and book signing of The Impossible Craft
Moderator: Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Engineering and Sciences Building Auditorium
Engineering and Sciences Building Auditorium
Evening Meal on Your Own
Friday, 10 July
9.00-10.30
Session 9
9A. Roundtable—Translating Fitzgerald
Moderator: Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne)
1) Sara Antonelli (Università di Roma Tre)
2) Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University)
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G17
9B. Textual Relationships: Tender and Paradise
O'Connell Bianconi Building, G18
Moderator: Caroline Chamberlin Hellman (City Tech, CUNY)
1) “Diagnosing the Doctor: Dick Diver’s Ephebophilia in Tender Is the Night,” Allie Rabon Pennington
(University of Alabama at Birmingham)
2) “Financing Finnegans Wake,” Mark J. Noonan (City Tech, CUNY)
3) “‘Her Perfect Grace and Dignity’: Mrs. Winthrop Chanler in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Paradise,” David W.
Ullrich (Birmingham-Southern College)
10.30-10.45
Refreshment Break
10.45-12.00
Plenary Discussion (F): Current Issues in Fitzgerald Studies and Developments at the Fitzgerald
Museum, Montgomery.
Panel Members: Jackson R. Bryer, Kirk Curnutt, Julian McPhillips, Leslie McPhillips
Engineering and Sciences Building Auditorium
Lunch on Your Own
12.00—1.30
1.30-2.30
Keynote Plenary (G): Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia) & Horst (University of Münster):
Gatsby Insights—Careless People and Fitzgerald at Work
Moderator: Kirk Curnutt (Troy University)
Engineering and Sciences Building Auditorium
4.45
Bus Departures for New Ross, J. F. Kennedy Centre: Conference Banquet
Saturday, 11 July
9.00
Bus Departures for Optional Day-Excursion to Cork
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