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Event Schedule
Meeting Place
The conference will be held in the University Center (on Normal Avenue) on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. Paper sessions will meet in the Missouriana Room, Indian Room, the Board Room (all on the top floor), and Room 205 (on the second floor). The Banquet and Keynote Address will be held in the Ballroom (on the top floor).
Banquet
The conference banquet is scheduled for 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 28, with a buffet dinner followed by the keynote address. Tickets to the banquet are $15, and paid reservations must be received by Oct. 1.
Keynote Address
 John N. Duvall is Professor of English at Purdue University and Editor of MFS Modern Fiction Studies. His work focuses on matters of racial and sexual identity in 20th-century American fiction. He has published on such authors as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, John Barth, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Don DeLillo, and John Updike. He is the author of Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction (2008), Don DeLillo’s UNDERWORLD (2002), The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness (2000), and Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities (1990). He also has edited four volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo (2008), Approaches to Teaching DeLillo’s WHITE NOISE (2006, with Tim Engles), Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies (2002); and Faulkner and Postmodernism (2002, with Ann J. Abadie). His recent graduate courses include Contemporary American Fiction, Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction, and William Faulkner and Toni Morrison.
Papers
This conference will feature scholarly presentations on a variety of topics related to William Faulkner and/or Toni Morrison. Topics will include Faulkner's and Morrison's narrative techniques as well as their treatments of race, gender, class, family, the South, and humor. There will also be papers on Faulkner and Morrison in the classroom. Sessions are scheduled for Thursday afternoon, all day Friday, and Saturday morning.
Faulkner/Morrison Exhibit
Books, manuscripts, and other memorabilia from Southeast Missouri State University's Louis Daniel Brodsky Collection of William Faulkner materials will be on exhibit throughout the conference. Also available for viewing will be Toni Morrison materials from Southeast's Kent Library holdings. The exhibit will be mounted in the Rare Book Room of Kent Library, next door to the University Center. Louis Daniel Brodsky, the Curator of the Brodsky Collection; Lisa Speer, Head of Kent Library's Special Collections; and Robert W. Hamblin, Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies, will host a special showing of the exhibit from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Friday, October 29. A reception for conference registrants will accompany that event.
A Reader's Theater Presentation based on the writings of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
7 p.m., Friday, October 29, University Center Ballroom
Historical Tour
On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 30, from 1:30 to 3:30, conference participants wll be treated to a bus tour of the Mississippi River riverfront and other historic sites in and around Cape Girardeau. Seating is limited, so please register in advance. Cost is $10 per person. (For those not taking the historical tour, the conference will conclude at noon on Saturday.)
More information about the conference schedule will be posted soon.
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