Sunday, April 8, 2018
Sunday 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Breakfast (ticketed) and ASA business meeting (Grand)
Sunday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Registration, exhibits, and posters (Millennium, second floor)
Sunday 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM ASA Steering Committee meeting (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
Sunday 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions 10
10.1 - Panel (Taft)
Investigations of Regional Writing
Convener: Thomas A. Holmes
“Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jane Hicks,” Thomas A. Holmes (East Tennessee State University)
“The Racial Other in Fred Chappell’s Brighten the Corner Where You Are,” Marcy Pedzwater (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Andy Catlett Goes to Hell: Literary Allusion in Wendell Berry's Remembering,” April Asbury (Radford University)
“Leaving the Mountains: Intersections of Feminist and Marxist Ideologies in Fielding Burke’s Call Home the Heart,” Anita Rose (Converse College)
10.2 - Panel (Council)
Harriette Simpson Arnow
Convener: Madison Allums
“Exploring the Gender Binary Through the Marriage of Gertie and Clovis in Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker,” Madison Allums (Furman University)
“The Signifying Storyteller: Harriette Simpson Arnow’s The Goat Who Was a Cow,” Matthew D. Sutton (East Tennessee State University)
“Investigating the Hillbilly Woman’s Linguistic Resistance and Cultural Preservation in Harriette Simpson Arnow’s The Dollmaker,” Cody Mullins (Ivy Tech Community College)
“Harriette Simpson Arnow’s Out-Migration: From Burnside, Kentucky to Ann Arbor, Michigan,” Martha Billips (Transylvania University)
10.4 - Panel (Colonnade A)
Negotiating Historical Experience in Music and Literature
Convener: Kathy Combiths
“Negotiating the Urban/Rural Experience and Appalachian Heritage in Adriana Trigiani’s Kiss Carlo,” Kathy Combiths (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
“Ballrooms of Bucktown: Crossroads of Migration, Music, and Dance in Cincinnati,” Phil Jamison (Warren Wilson College)
“Enduring Music: Migrant Appalachian Communities and the Shenandoah National Park,” Madeline Marsh (James Madison University)
“Turkey in the Straw: Appalachian Music and Meaning in Popular Culture,” Melissa N. Quarles (Florida State University)
10.5 - Performance (Cardinal)
“The Danger of a Single Story”: Ripping the Seams of Stereotypes and Piecing the People Back Together
Convener: Danielle Kelly
Danielle Kelly (West Virginia University at Parkersburg); Jonathan Corcoran, Mary Imo Stike, and Carter Sickels (Eastern Kentucky University)
10.6 - Panel (Cabana A)
Education for Transition to Career/College: Preparing Students, Gauging Outcomes
Convener: Tiffany Pennock Arnold
“Career Ready: Are You?” Shane C. Shope (Morehead State University), John R. Roush (Southern State Community College), and Daryl R. Privott (Morehead State University)
“Preparing Them to Stay: Rural Brain Drain and Low-Income, First Generation College Students,” Tiffany Pennock Arnold (Ohio University), and Kenna M. Reynolds Warren (West Virginia University at Parkersburg)
“Examining the Impact of Gender Attitudes on Academic Outcomes at a Regional Campus,” Kristi A. Barnes (Ohio University Southern)
“Berea College's Appalachian Male Initiative,” Chris Green, Bobby Starnes, and Rick Childers (Berea College)
10.7 - Panel: (Portico)
Materiality and Material Culture in Appalachia, Part 1
Convener: Zada Komara
“Among the Trees, the Boards, and the Planes: Relational Materiality and the Meaning of Work in the Craft of Musical Instruments,” Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth (University of Kentucky)
“Queer theory, Spatial Innovation, and the ‘Unsettling’ of the Appalachian Settlement School,” Karen Hudson (University of Kentucky)
“Bodies in Potion: Practice, Women’s Wellness Products, and the Body Progressive in Early 20th Century Appalachia,” Zada Komara (University of Kentucky)
“The Prospect of Preservation: Utilizing Alternative Legal Claims for Environmental Justice,” Emily Bergeron (University of Kentucky)
10.8 - Roundtable (Colonnade B)
Are We Losing a Generation? Poverty and the Opioid Crisis in Rural and Urban Appalachia
Convener: Thomas Wagner
JD Vance (Rise of the Rest Fund), Wendy Welch (Graduate Medical Education Consortium, Southwest Virginia), and Thomas Wagner (Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati)
10.9 - Roundtable (Pavilion A)
An Exploratory Discussion on the Creation of an Appalachian Special Collections Committee at ASA
Convener: Elizabeth Skene
Elizabeth Skene (Western Carolina University), Gene Hyde (University of North Carolina Asheville), Stewart Plein (West Virginia State University), and Rachel Vagts (Berea College)
10.10 - Roundtable (Pavilion B)
Black Mountain College—Interdisciplinary Explorations
Convener: Sandy Ballard (Appalachian State University)
“Organizing a Black Mountain College Semester: From Grant-writing to Harvesting Bamboo for Geodesic Domes,” William R. Schumann (Appalachian State University)
“Behind the Scenes in a Black Mountain College Semester: Connecting People and Resources for Creative Engagement,” Kelsey Wagner (Appalachian State University)
“How We Can Use What’s in Those Boxes: The Role of University Special Collections in a Black Mountain College Semester,” Dustin Witsman (Appalachian State University)
“Reading Other People’s Mail: What Do Library Special Collections Contribute to a Black Mountain College Semester?” Trevor McKenzie (Appalachian State University)
“Creating a Special Issue of Appalachian Journal on Black Mountain College,” Savannah Paige Murray (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
10.11 - Panel (Statesman)
What Are the Arts For? Rethinking Art, Craft, Music, and Writing in the Region
Convener: Alex Kim
“Reviving Rural Community Pottery Studios: A Pilot Study,” Alex Kim (Harvard University) and Sky Marietta (University of Kentucky)
“Visual Art as Literary Cross-Training: A Gallery Tour,” Matt Prater (Virginia Polytechnic University and State University)
“‘A Peculiar People, a Discrete Region’: Appalachian Literature Beyond External Constructs,” Laura L. Morris (Furman University)
“Contingent Culture: Talk, Music, and Political Economy in Southern Appalachia,” Ryan D. Cheney (Kingsborough CC, City University of New York)
