thursday, September 29th
6:30 pm
RECEPTION | REGISTRATION
8:00 pm
POETRY READING
Benjamin Myers, followed by Book Signing
(Myers' Elegy for Trains)
JB Multipurpose Room
JB Multipurpose Room
friday, September 30th
7:30 - 8:30
REGISTRATION | COFFEE
JB Multipurpose Room
8:30 - 9:20
FIRST SESSION
SESSION 1A
Witnessing in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Chair: Kimberly Hawkins
Mollie Moore
Oklahoma Baptist University
Honest Lying: Mark Twain's Grotesque Exaggeration as Social Witness
SESSION 1B
British Prose Part 1
Chair: Jana Wesson-Martin
Mignon Thurow
University of Dallas
The Vanity of Doubt in Thackery's Vanity Fair
Geoffrey Reiter
The Baptist College of Florida
A Deep and Earnest 'Amen'" The Mystical Ecclesiology of Dracula
SESSION 1C
British Prose Part 2
Chair: Dr. Larry Fink
Ginger Stelle
Morthland College
Saving Poppie: Social Outreach in George MacDonald's Guild Court
MC227
Joel Henderson
Chattanooga State Community College
'Unless You Change and Become Like Children': The Puer Senex as
Witness in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Works of the American
Tract Society.
MC233
CMC
Philip Mitchell
Dallas Baptist University
Adventurous Types: The Narrative Historiography of
G.K. Chesterton's Early Biographies
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