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