2017 American Literature Association Symposium, “Regionalism and Place in American Literature,” New Orleans, September 7-9

Eudora Welty and Regionalism I
Chair: Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston and Bucknell University
1, “Putting Place in Motion: Eudora Welty, Transport, and Modernist Regionalism,” David McWhirter, Texas A&M University
2. “Never Confined in Any Frame: Welty’s Photographic Regionalism,” Allison Rittmayer, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
3. “The Post Office and the Pedestal: Regional Community and Sexual Tyranny in Welty’s Fiction,” Kevin Murphy, Towson University, and Donnie McMahand, Towson University
4. “Lost in the Heat: The Global and Miscegenated South of South in Eudora Welty’s ‘No Place for You My Love,’” Rebecca Mark, Tulane University

Eudora Welty and Regionalism II
Chair: Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston and Bucknell University
1. “New Orleans, The Birthplace of Ready-Made Victims: Welty’s Purr-ple Hat,” Dawn Trouard, University of Central Florida
2. “Casting a Wider Net: Eudora Welty, Regionalism, and Cultures of Display,” Elizabeth Oxler, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
3. “A Curtain of Grit: Eudora Welty and the Rough South,” Jacob Agner, University of Mississippi
4. “Welty on the North, The South, and Civil Rights Era in her Never Published Work,” Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston and Bucknell University