Papers Presented
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 1993
"Katherine Anne Porter in the Modern Age," Darlene Unrue, Chair
- Janis Stout, Texas A & M University, "Porter and the Twentieth-Century Intellectual Scene."
- Ruth M. (Beth) Alvarez, University of Maryland, "'Hacienda' and Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico!"
- Will Brantley, Middle Tennessee State University, "Katherine Anne Porter and the Liberal Impulse."
American Literature Association Symposium on Women Writers, October 1993
Virginia Spencer Carr, Chair
- Rae Carlton Colley, Emory University, "'Sick on the Subject of Sex': Porter's Marginalia on D. H. Lawrence."
- Janis P. Stout, Texas A & M University, "Katherine Anne Porter's 'Reflections on Willa Cather.'"
- Darlene Harbour Unrue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "Doctor Freud and Miss Katherine Anne Porter."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, June 1994
"Katherine Anne Porter: The Southern Connection," Janis Stout, Chair
- George Hendrick, University of Illinois, "Slaves, Slavery, and the Porters: Myth and Reality in the Fiction of Katherine Anne Porter."
- Merrill Skaggs, Drew University, "Cather's Influence on Katherine Anne Porter's 'He.'"
- Margaret Bauer, Texas A & M University,"Understanding Ellen Gilchrist's 'Rich' via Four Porter Intertexts."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 1995
"Katherine Anne Porter in Context," Beth Alvarez, Chair
- Charlotte Beck, Maryville College, "'Grasshopper and Ant': The Complementary Careers of Katherine Anne Porter and Caroline Gordon"
- Thomas Austenfeld, Drury College, "Porter's Totalitarianism Revisited"
- Jeanette McVicker, SUNY, Fredonia, "Katherine Anne Porter, the New Criticism, and the 'New' Modernism."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 1996
George Hendrick, Chair
- Gary M. Ciuba, Kent State University, Trumbull, "'If I am to be the heroine of this novel': Desire, Deceit, and 'Old Mortality.'"
- Beth Alvarez, University of Maryland, "'Royalty in Exile': Pre-Hispanic Art and Ritual in 'María Concepción.'"
- Panel discussion, "Katherine Anne Porter Research in Progress/Research Needed," moderated by George Hendrick. Panelists included Gary Ciuba, Beth Alvarez, Darlene Unrue (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College), and Janis Stout (Texas A & M University).
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 1997
Darlene Unrue, Chair
- Andrew R. Burke, University of Georgia, "'A Spiritual Sense of Gravity': Exile and Self-Identity in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Cycle."
- Mary Titus, St. Olaf College, "'Fresh Make-Up': Gender Roles, Social Control, and Costume in Porter's 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider.'"
- Christine Hait, Columbia College, "The Concept of Wonder in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction."
- Joseph Csicsila, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Eastern Michigan University, "Katherine Anne Porter Anthologized."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 1998
Will Brantley, Chair
- Beth Alvarez, University of Maryland, "The Subtle Politics of 'He.'"
- Trent Masiki, Texas A & M University, "Issues of Black Self-Determination in 'The Circus' and 'The Old Order.'"
- Robin Cohen, Southwest Texas State University, "Xochitl, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and Katherine Anne Porter Among the Indians."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 1999
"New Views on Katherine Anne Porter," Janis Stout, Chair, Stout's overview of the current state of Porter scholarship followed by three papers.
- Melinda Williams, Texas Woman's University, "The Rhetorical Use of Memory and Knowing in Porter's The Grave."
- Susana M. Jiménez Placer, University of Santiago De Compostela, Galicia, Spain, "Grandmother, Aunt Nannie, and the Rolling Pin of Life."
- Lisa C. Roney, Pennsylvania State University, "Tuberculosis and Changing Views of Illness in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2000
Thomas Austenfeld, North Georgia College and State University, Chair
- Andrea Tinnemeyer, Rice University, "Women on the Verge: Writing About the Mexican Revolution."
- Karen Weathermon, Washington State University, "At Home in Books: Utopias and Heterotopias in Katherine Anne Porter's Domestic Space."
- Alexandra Subramanian, College of William and Mary, "Katherine Anne Porter, Seymour Lawrence and that whole extraordinary episode of Ship of Fools."
Darlene Unrue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, summarized and responded to the three papers.
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2001
Christine Hait, Chair
- Elisabeth Lamothe, Université de Bordeaux, France, "Katherine Anne Porter and the Poetics of the Crazy Quilt."
- Gary Ciuba, Kent State University, Trumbull, "'Given Only Me for Model': Disciples of Desire in Porter's The Old Order."
- Patricia L. Bradley, Northern Kentucky University, "Katherine Anne Porter and the Southern Circus Intertext."
- Thomas Austenfeld, North Georgia College and State University, "Ethical Criticism and Porter's Voice."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2002
"Katherine Anne Porter's Non-Fiction," Beth Alvarez, Chair
- Jeanette McVicker, State University of New York-Fredonia, "Katherine Anne Porter's Cotton Mather: A Failure of Convergences."
- Jerry Lee Findley, Austin Peay State University, "The Never-Ending Wrong: A Historic Moment of 'millennial change.'"
- Alexandra Subramanian, "'The Other Half of a Double Life': Katherine Anne Porter's Non-fiction Writing and Publishing Obligations."
Carl Griffin of Georgia Perimeter College/Dunwoody Campus served as the respondent to the papers.
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2003
"Katherine Anne Porter and Other Writers: Parallels and Influence," Darlene Harbour Unrue, Chair
- Thomas Austenfeld, North Georgia College and State University, "'Our Cleopatra': Peter Taylor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Southern Identity."
- Charlotte Goodman, Skidmore College, "Matrilineage: From Virginia Woolf to Katherine Anne Porter, from Katherine Anne Porter to Jean Stafford."
- Shannon Baley, University of Texas at Austin, "Performing Nothing: Grotesque Vaudeville and Landed Tragedy in Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Katherine Anne Porter's 'Hacienda.'"
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2004
"International Influences on Katherine Anne Porter's Life and Writing," Alexandra Subramanian, Chair
- Beth Alvarez, "'A Perfectly Proper Picture': Mexico and Art in Katherine Anne Porter's 'Virgin Violeta.'"
- Jerry Findley, "Culture, Politics, and International Conflict in 'The Leaning Tower.'"
- Mary Titus, "Katherine Anne Porter and the Feminist Oriental Tale"
Jan Bloemendaal, Leiden University, served as the respondent to the papers.
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2005
"Determining the Tragic in Katherine Anne Porter's Life and Work," Thomas Austenfeld, Chair
- Richard Pickering, University of Connecticut, "Confronting the Sacco-Vanzetti tragedy in The Never-Ending Wrong."
- Christine Hait, Columbia College, "Falling Down: Motion Imagery, Suffering, and the Downward Path to Wisdom in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction."
- Lisa Roney, University of Central Florida,"Physical Difference in Ship of Fools: An Interrogation of Eugenics."
- Darlene Unrue, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, "Katherine Anne Porter and the Ordeal of Maternity."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2006
"Katherine Anne Porter and the Artist," Christine Hait, Chair
- Beth Alvarez, University of Maryland, "Diego Rivera's Creation and the Mexican Art Scene in Katherine Anne Porter's 'The Martyr.'"
- Thomas Austenfeld, North Georgia College and State University, "The Spinet and The Coffin: Katherine Anne Porter and the Art of Music."
- David Madden, Louisiana State University, "The Charged Image in 'Flowering Judas.'"
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2007
"Porter, War, and Politics," Beth Alvarez, Chair
- Jerry Findley, Indiana University, "Millennial Change: Historicizing the Political Movements of the Twentieth Century."
- Richard Pickering, University of Connecticut, "Jeffersonian-Democrat Hackles: Katherine Anne Porter and the Hollywood Witchhunt."
- Christine L. Grogan, University of South Florida, "A Reading of 'That Tree': Katherine Anne Porter as Expatriate."
- Janis Stout, Texas A & M University, "Porter in a World That Kept On Falling."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2008
"Innocence and Experience in the Stories of Katherine Anne Porter," Jerry Findley, Chair
- Beth Alvarez, University of Maryland, "'fools of life, . . . fugitives from death' in Katherine Anne Porter's 'Holiday.'"
- Kellie Warren, Tulane University, "The Ethnographic Participant-Observer as Narrator: Ethics and Memory in Katherine Anne Porter."
- Alexandra Subramanian, Independent Scholar, "'Magic': Porter Breaks the Spell of Her Publishing Commitments."
American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2009
"Katherine Anne Porter: The Transformation of Autobiography into Art," Darlene Unrue, Chair
- Christine L. Grogan, University of South Florida,"'. . . but she was too free': Aunt Amy's Mysterious Hemorrhage in 'Old Mortality.'"
- Wayne McDonald, University of Akron, "Out of Place, Out of Time: The Lusk Committee in 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider.'"
- Laura Furman, University of Texas at Austin, and Lynn Miller, Director, WriteSpace International, "Katherine Anne Porter as 'Passenger on the Ship of Fools': A Play."
