Conference Program
2007
Thursday, April 26th
2:00 PM

McCarthy’s Sense of Ending

Jay Ellis, University of Colorado at Boulder

John C. Hodges Library

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:45 PM

Full Circle: "The Road" Rewrites "The Orchard Keeper"

Louis Palmer, Castleton State College

John C. Hodges Library

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

The Route and Roots of "The Road"

Wesley G. Morgan, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

John C. Hodges Library

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Friday, April 27th
9:00 AM

Compassionate McCarthy? "The Road" and Schopenhauerian Ethics

Euan Gallivan, University of Nottingham

John C. Hodges Library

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Hospitality in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

Phillip Snyder, Brigham Young University

John C. Hodges Library

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:45 AM

'Golden Chalice, Good to House a God': Still Life in "The Road"

Randall Wilhelm, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

John C. Hodges Library

10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

The End Of The Road: Pastoralism and the Post-Apocalyptic Waste Land in "The Road"

Tim Edwards, University of West Alabama

John C. Hodges Library

10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

The Post-Southern Sense of Place in "The Road"

Chris Walsh, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

John C. Hodges Library

10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

1:30 PM

'Babbling Gospelarity' and Suttree's Search for Gnosis

Dianne Luce, Midlands State Technical College

John C. Hodges Library

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Hereditary, Doubling and Redemption in "The Road" and "Suttree"

Rick Wallach, University of Miami

John C. Hodges Library

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

3:00 PM

"I Yearn for the Darkness": Epicurean Thoughts on Death in McCarthy

Andrew Husband, Sam Houston State University

John C. Hodges Library

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

“The Lingering Scent of Divinity” in "The Sunset Limited" and "The Road"

Susan Tyburski, Colorado School of Mines

John C. Hodges Library

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

4:30 PM

Oprah, the Pulitzer and All That; What Next for McCarthy's Work and McCarthy Scholarship?

Edwin Arnold, Appalachian State University

John C. Hodges Library

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Saturday, April 28th
10:00 AM

Suttree Stagger

J.C. Tumblin, Knoxville, TN

Knoxville, TN

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM