Each institution is encourage to sponser one student for the all-undergraduate panel(s). Students will benefit from faculty and financial support. Undergraduates are not required to pay dues or fees (unless they wish to attend the banquet) and will only incur costs for travel and hotel. Undergraduates are encouraged to ask their home departments about the availability of funds for travel assistance to help defray costs. Due to the smaller pool of submissions the panel(s) will tend toward a potpourri (no guarantee of coherent groupings of papers).
In cases where there are multiple students from the same institution, we will attempt to break these up in such a way as to provide students the opportunity to present in panels with students from other institutions. If schools wish to bring auditors for these panels we will not require registration or dues of participants only attending the undergraduate session(s).
Interested in chairing an undergraduate panel? Email scott.vanderploeg@kctcs.edu
We encourage submissions for this special session in honor of the literary works and teaching of James Baker Hall. We would like to see a reading of some of his poems and a few critical papers for this Kentucky author. For more information on Hall, please contact Rhonda Pettit pettitrs@ucrwcu.rwc.uc.edu
This panel will consider creative writing in foreign languages with accompanying English translation. For further information contact Tom van tvan@digicove.com
"By and by, Hard Times come a-knockin' at the door..." (My Old Kentucky Home)
Not only in Kentucky but also across the world and in every era, poets, novelists, dramatists and essayists have written about the brutal experience of poverty and oppression and their impact upon the minds, bodies and souls of those who suffer. It is the experience of such hard times, and the literary strategies that have been brought to bear to describe and engage them,that defines this special session topic.
Send full papers by December 19 to scott.vanderploeg@kctcs.edu
Papers not chosen for the plenary session will be folded into the conference program. Papers selected for the plenary will present in a special non-concurrent session on the Friday afternoon of the conference and will automatically be included in the publication selection process for next year's Kentucky Philological Review.
(Panel theme proposed by Neil Wright.)