Sunday 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions 11
11.1 - Panel (Council)
CrimeSong in the Classroom: A Collaborative Project
Convener and Respondent: Amanda J. Slone
Amanda J. Slone and Kimberly Willard (University of Pikeville); Richard Underwood (University of Kentucky)
11.2 - Panel (Pavilion B)
Eco-Centered Modes and Frameworks of Appalachian Literature
Convener and Respondent: Jessica Cory
“Raven, Woman, Man: A/Religious Ecocritical Reading of Jim Minick’s Fire is Your Water,” Theresa Burriss (Radford University)
“Mountain Georgics: Everyday Nature in Appalachian Literature,” Ethan Mannon (Mars Hill University)
“Reconnecting Ridges and Residents: The Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral in Appalachian Letters,” Savannah Paige Murray (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
11.3 - Performance (Cabana B)
Muskingum County to Newfoundland—A Reading and Discussion
Convener: Scott Minar
“Gratiot,” Matt Wanat (Ohio University-Lancaster)
“The Other Newfoundland,” Scott Minar (Ohio University-Lancaster)
11.4 - Roundtable (Pavilion A)
Sustaining a Movement Through Appalachian Writers’ Gatherings
Convener: Pauletta Hansel
“Sustaining a Movement Through Appalachian Writer’s Gatherings,” Pauletta Hansel (Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative)
“Lincoln Memorial University’s Arts in the Gap and John C. Campbell Folk School,” Dana Wildsmith (Lincoln Memorial University)
“Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative,” Scott Goebel (Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative)
“Hindman Settlement School,” Rebecca Gayle Howell (Hindman Settlement School)
“Table Rock Writers Workshop,” Georgann Eubanks (Table Rock Writers Workshop)
“Thomas More College’s Creative Writing Vision Program,” Sherry Cook Stanforth (Thomas More College)
11.5 - Mixed Panel and Performance (Grand B)
Re-stitching the Seams By Telling Our Stories
Convener: Gresilda A. Tilley-Lubbs
“Restitching the Seams Through Image and Word: Loss and Isolation from the Geographic, Social, and Economic Fringe,” Joyce Compton Brown (Gardner-Webb University)
“Humor in Appalachian Lit: A Reading from Bernadette Peters Hates Me: True Tales from a Delusional Man,” Keith Stewart (Independent Writer)
“The Luck of the Appalachians,” Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University)
“What is an Appalachian Coal Miner’s Daughter?” Gresilda A. Tilley-Lubbs (Virginia Tech)
11.6 - Panel (Colonnade A)
Appalachian Music Reaching to the Borderlands and Beyond
Convener: Aisha S. Ivey
“Hillbilly Park: Creating Identity in the Borderlands,” Michael J. Luchtan
“Pedro Cooper: Music Remade,” Laura Gayle Green (Florida State University)
“Farm and Fun Time Legacy: Radio and Regional Music,” Nathan Sykes
“Appalachian Old Time Fiddling in Florida,” Aisha S. Ivey (Florida State University)
11.7 - Panel (Cabana A)
Sounding Appalachian
Convener: Paul E. Reed
“Breaking into ‘Sounding Appalachian’,” Michael Montgomery (University of South Carolina)
“Holistic Features of Appalachian English: Rootedness, Prosody, and Intonation,” Paul E. Reed (University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa)
11.8 - Panel (Statesman)
Appalachia on Film: Telling It True?
Convener: Allison E. Carey
“Logan Lucky: Exploitation or Class Critique?,” Walter E. Squire (Marshall University)
“Filming Depravity: The Hillbilly Monster and Spectatordom in James Franco’s Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God,” Britton Cody Lumpkin (Marshall University)
“Marrying a Mountain in Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story,” Allison E. Carey (Marshall University)
11.9 - Panel (Portico)
Materiality and Material Culture, Part 2
Convener: Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth
“Nine-Dollar Shawls and Forty-Dollar Bills: Materiality, Reading, and the Problem of Interpretation,” John Conley (Western Kentucky University)
“Doors Unmarked: A Qualitative Study of Blue-Collar Invisibility in Rural Appalachia,” Babz Jewell (Ohio University)
“The Old Deery Inn and Museum: Cultural Symbolism and The Tourism Marketplace,” Rebecca Proffitt (East Tennessee State University)
11.10 - Panel (Taft)
Broadening the Scope of Regional History
Convener: Grace Toney Edwards
“Finding John Henry: Examining the Legend, the Ballad, and the Man,” Breanna Gladden (Shepherd University)
“The Swamp Dragon Home Guard and the Civil War in West Virginia,” Cameron Mallow (Shepherd University)
“Female Firsts: From Appalachian Virginia to the White House and Beyond,” Grace Toney Edwards (Radford University) and John Charles Nemeth (Education and Research Consulting)
11.11 - Performance Panel (Grand A)
Appalachian Creative Writing from the Mountains, the Cityscapes, the Dissected Plateaus, and the Prairies
Convener: Sarah Beth Childers
“An Infestation,” Sarah Beth Childers (Oklahoma State University)
“My Mother Has Postponed the Apocalypse,” Rebecca Childers (Marshall University)
“Two Gods,” Lori D’Angelo (Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences)
Sunday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ASA Program Committee meeting, Grand Ballroom Foyer
