friday, September 30th
SESSION 4B
Faith and Doubt and American Writers
Chair: Laura Pogue
JB207
Anita Helmbold
The King's University College
Faith and Doubt Duke it Out, or, Reading Tobias Wolff's
"The Rich Brother" as Psychomachia
Rebecca Huskey
University of Oklahoma
"Jesus Told Me that Faith and Doubt Are Twins": Sherman Alexie
Wrestles with the Concept of God
SESSION 4C
Saints, Sinners, and Seekers
Chair: William Tillman
Jana Wesson-Martin
Hardin-Simmons University
Faustian Pacts and Spiritual Journeys
Joshua Boyd
Baylor University
A Lot of "schmaltzy Christian pop": Worshipping a
Workhorse God in Kevin Roose's The Unlikely Disciple
3:25 - 3:40
BREAK
3:40 - 4:30
FIFTH SESSION
SESSION 5A
Graham Greene's Characters & Themes
Chair: Adriel Wong
Mary Elizabeth Walker
Hardin-Simmons University
Sin, Confession, Hope: Similarities in Three of
Graham Greene's Protagonists
Seth C. Holler
University of Arizona
"Point me out the happy man": Graham Greene on Pity and Faith
Shewanda Riley
Tarrant County College
Reading, Writing and Religion: Doubt and Faith in Contemporary
African American Christian Fiction
JB208
Franz S. Klein
University of Dallas
From Saint to Sinner: Discerning the Role of the Non-Martyr in
T. S. Eliot's Major Plays
JB Multipurpose Room
JB200
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