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Porter Session in Charleston
The 1998 conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature took place at the Lightsey Conference Center at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, April 16-18, 1998. Janis Stout, secretary of the KAP Society, chaired the session entitled "Katherine Anne Porter: The South and Beyond" on Friday, April 17. Beth Alvarez, University of Maryland, presented "The Subtle Politics of 'He': Katherine Anne Porter's Portrait of the Southern Proletariat." "'The Old Order: A Crazy Quilt of the Past" was the subject of the paper of Leslie Butler, University of Kentucky. Robert K. Miller, University of St. Thomas, read "Cover Ups: Katherine Anne Porter and the Economics of Concealment." Finally, Professor Stout presented "The Imperial Eyes of Evelyn Scott and Katherine Anne Porter."
Presidential Election Returns
Report of the Secretary
As a result of the election held in January by mail, Beth Alvarez has been elected to the presidency of the KAP Society. Ballots were received from twenty-five of the forty-one members in good standing, and the vote was unanimous in favor of Alvarez. I am happy to certify her election.
--Janis Stout
Katherine Anne Porter Session
at American Literature Association Conference in Baltimore
Editor's Note: This article was inadvertently omitted from Volume 4, Number 2, of the newsletter.
Darlene Unrue, President of the Katherine Anne Porter Society, chaired the Society's session held in Baltimore on Friday, May 23, 1997. The session consisted of four papers. The first, "'A Spiritual Sense of Gravity': Exile and Self-Identity in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Cycle," was read by Andrew R. Burke, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia. Professor Mary Titus of St. Olaf College, presented "'Fresh Make-Up': Gender Roles, Social Control, and Costume in Porter's 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider.'" "The Concept of Wonder in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction" was the subject of the paper of Professor Christine Hanks Hait of Columbia College. Finally, Joseph Csicsila, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an adjunct instructor at Eastern Michigan University, read "Katherine Anne Porter Anthologized."
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