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Sixth International Conference on the Short Story in English

"SHORT FICTION 2000" Iowa City, Iowa, October 12-15, 2000 - Iowa Memorial Union

.. Wednesday, October 11

4:30 p.m. STUDENT VOLUNTEERS' MEETING [FACULTY/STAFF ROOM, 3RD FLOOR]

organizer, Selina Samuels, University of New South Wales

6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS' DINNER [SZATHMARY ROOM] program directors, SSSS trustees, officers, and guests

8:00 p.m. PAUL ENGLE MEMORIAL LECTURE: ARNOST LUSTIG and DAVID TOSCANA public event [RICHEY BALLROOM] no charge introduction, Christopher Merrill, Director of the International Writing Program

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Thursday, October 12

7:30 a.m. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM LOBBY] DESK WILL REMAIN OPEN FROM 8:00 A.M. TO 4:00 P.M. ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, AND 8:30 A.M. TO 12:00 P.M. ON SATURDAY

CREDIT PROGRAM REGISTRATION [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM LOBBY] DESK WILL REMAIN OPEN FROM

8:30 A.M. TO 9:30 A.M. ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY

8:30 a.m. OPENING REMARKS [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM) Mary Rohrberger, Exec. Director of the Society for the Study of the Short Story Maurice A. Lee, Director of the Conference Susan Lohafer, President of the Society for the Study of the Short Story

BOOKSALE: Throughout the conference, books by many of our participants will be on sale by the Iowa Memorial Bookstore [display in the 2nd Floor Ballroom Lobby] and by Prairie Lights Book­store [15 S. Dubuque St.] . Please see program for receptions sponsored by these bookstores.

INTERVIEWS: Scheduled interviews will be held in the Michigan Room.

REFRESHMENT BREAKS: In addition to the continental breakfasts , beverages will be available at mid-afternoon in the 2nd Floor Ballroom Lobby.

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ICSSE - 2 - Iowa City, Iowa

Thursday, 00 a.m.

9:00 a.m. PANEL A: CARIBBEAN LITERATURE [NORTHWESTERN] - 10: 15 a.m. moderator, Edward University of the West Indies, Mona

"Cascadura Dub: Versions of the Native Legend" Kenneth Ramchand, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

"The Trickster Recon!igurations of in Andrew Anancy's Score" Hyacinth York Canada

"Passport to a New Creole Society: Readings of a Short Story by Myriam Warner-Meyra" Pascale de Johns University

PANEL B: TRANSLATING THE SHORT STORY moderator, R. J. Robinson, Claflin

"Transforming Translations" Wanda The Netherlands

"Reflections on Translation" Marie-Odile France

"Short Stories and Translated Short Stories in Canada" Anne Malena, of Alberta, Canada

PANEL C: SETTING-UP THE MYSTERY STORY FOR A NEW CENTURY [MINNESOTA] moderator and panelist, Thomas Leitch, of Delaware

"From Doyle to Shifty Shorts and the New Series Jo Clarey, Grand Michigan

"A Short Taxonomy of the Short Thomas Leitch, un/verslf of

"Steven Milhauser's 'A Game of as Metaphysical Detective Story" Susan Elizabeth SWP<>r,':>" College of the Holy Cross

PANEL D: FENCED AND UNFENCED [INDIANA] moderator, Elizabeth Clark, The University of Iowa

"Fenced In or Out? The Wire in Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums'" Linda J. Byrd, Sam Houston State University and Sudanese Women Writers"

Alice Swensen, University of Northern Iowa "An Ecofeminist View of the Short Fiction of Virginia WoolF

Charlotte Zoe Walker, SUNY - Oneonta

READINGS: [ILLINOIS] introduction, Don Powell, Claflin UU"jr-:LI«

Mandy Sayer Carmen Tafolla Crystal E. Wilkinson

10:30 a.m. SHORT FICTION SCHOLARSHIP, THEORY, AND PEDAGOGY FLOOR BALLROOM]

- 11 :15 a.m. moderator, Susan University of Iowa public event "How to Grow Short Stories" $5.00 at door Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware for nonreg­ "Editorial Intrusion: Shifts in Short strants Jacki Ohio State

"How Can I the If You Haven't Read the Hawthorne Yet?: Fiction of Expectations"

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11 :15 a.m. [Lunch Break: cafeteria or food court in building, or area restaurants]

6th ICSSE - 3 - Iowa City, Iowa

Thursday, 1 :30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. ELLEN DOUGLAS, DEBORAH EISENBERG, OLIVE SENIOR

- 2:45 p.m. introduction, Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM]

public event $5.00 at door for nonregistrants

3:00 p.m. PANEL A: GENRE I: FICTIONAL NONFICTION AND NONFICTIONAL FICTION [INDIANA]

- 4:15 p.m. moderator, Susan Lohafer, University of Iowa "Fourth Person Unlimited: Fictive Imagination in Short Nonfiction"

Marilyn Abildskov, University of Iowa "Facts and Fancy: the 'Nonfiction Short Story'"

Michele Morano, University of Iowa '''Historiografiction': The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story"

Michael Orlofsky, Troy State University

PANEL B: GUEST EDITING AND ANTHOLOGY EDITING [PURDUE] moderator, Ann Charters, University of Connecticut

"One Editor's Odyssey: The Making of a University Press Short Story Anthology" Morris A. Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College

"Editing Anthologies for a Small Commercial Press" Kathy Pories, Algonquin Books

''Two Special Issues of The Journal of the Carribeari' Pascale de Souza, Johns Hopkins University Anna Malena, University of Alberta, Canada

PANEL C: TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS [NORTHWESTERN] moderator, David Hamilton, University of Iowa

"Katherine Mansfield and the Great War: 'An Indiscreet Journey'" Tracy E. Bilsing, Sam Houston State University

"In Search of the Perfect Moment: Flannery O'Connor's Presentation of Absence" Katrina Harack, University of Regina, Canada

"Order, Ordinary Life and Ordinary Language in Katherine Anne Porter's Short Stories" Susana Jimenez-Placer, University of Santiago de Composteda, Spain

PANEL D: GENRE II: CLOSURE IN SHORT FICTION I [MINNESOTA] moderator, John Gerlach, Cleveland State University

""Waking From the Dream: A Type of Closure in Ghanian Short Stories" Emmanuel Yaw Appiah, West Africa

"Dysfunction and Disintegration: Norma Jean's Losing Battle in Bobbie Ann Mason's 'Shiloh'" Brenda Gotthelf, Houston Community College

''The Problem of Narrative Closure in Thomas Hardy's 'Our Exploits at West Poley'" Kurt Neumann, William Rainey Harper College

READINGS: STUDENT WRITERS FROM THE IOWA WRITERS' WORKSHOP I [ILLINOIS] introduction, Frank Conroy, Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Susanna Daniel Bret Johnston Lewis Robinson Curtis Sittenfeld

61h lCSSE - 4 - Iowa City. Iowa

Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m. WRITING SHORT FICTION TODAY [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM] - 6:00 p.m. moderator, Moira Crone, University of New Orleans

public event Robert Olen Butler $5.00 at door Stuart Dybek for nonregistrants Sarah S. Kilborne

Chris Offutt Mandy Sayer

6:00 p.m RECEPTION AND CASH BAR, sponsored by IMU Bookstore [RICHEY BALLROOM]

6:30 p.m. · [Dinner Break: food court in building; area restaurants]

8:30 p.m. ETHAN CAN IN, JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON, FRANCINE PROSE public event introduction, Frank Conroy [2nd Floor Ballroom] $5.00 at door for nonregistrants

Friday, October 13

9:00 a.m. MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY: - 9:20 a.m. [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM]

Reports from officers of the Society: Mary Rohrberger, Founder and Executive Director Susan Lohafer, President Farhat Iftekharrudin, Treasurer

Open discussion Election of officers Recording Secretary: Erin Fallon

9:30 a.m. CREDIT PROGRAMS COURSE ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING [RICHEY BALLROOM] - 10:45 a.m.

PANEL A: STORYTELLING, COMMUNITY, AND PEDAGOGY [PURDUE] moderator, Barbara Eckstein, University of Iowa

A pedagogical exercise staged by members of Professor Eckstein's class on "Reading Short Stories"

PANEL B: GENRE III: SHORT STORY CYCLES AND SEQUENCES [MINNESOTA] moderator, Jo Ellyn Clarey

"Beyond the Short Story: Geographical and Psychological Community in Short Story Sequences" Jeff Birkenstein, University of Kentucky

"The Dynamics of Force in Updike's Too Far to Go" Robert Luscher, University of Nebraska - Kearney

"Patterns, Metaphors, and Ethnicity in the Short Story Sequence" Zenobia Baxter Mistri, Purdue University - Calumet and Linda McMillan, Purdue University - Calumet

6th ICSSE - 5 - Iowa City, Iowa

Friday, 9:30 a.m., cont'd.

PANEL C: NIGERIAN SHORT FICTION [INDIANA] moderator, Karen King-Aribisala

"Postmodernism and Contemporary Nigerian Short Fiction: The Example of Femi Fatoba" Ayo Kehinde, Obafemi Awokowo University, Nigeria

"Gender in Traditional Nigerian Short Stories" Obododimma Oha, Universite Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal

"Narrating the Nation: Social Responsibility & Critical Consciousness in Contemporary Nigerian Short Fiction"

Oyeniyi Okunoye, Obafemi Awokowo University, Nigeria

READINGS A: [NORTHWESTERN] introduction, David Hamilton, University of Iowa

Carol Bly Moira Crone Merrill Joan Gerber

READINGS B: [ILLINOIS] introduction, Barbara Mciver, Claflin College

Paula Martin Morel Andrus Nagay Elizabeth Nu· ez

READINGS C: [OHIO STATE] introduction, Selina Samuels, University of New South Wales, Australia

Sarah S, Kilborne Claire Larriere Theron Montgomery

11:00 a.m. SHORT STORY CRITICISM PAPERS & ROUNDTABLE [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM] - 12:15 p.m. moderator, Mary Rohrberger, University of New Orleans

public event Susan Lohafer, University of Iowa $5.00 at door Robert Luscher, University of Nebraska - Kearney for nonregistrants Charles E. May, California State University - Long Beach

Patrick Meanor, SUNY - Oneonta Kenneth Ramchand, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

12:15 LUNCH-TIME READINGS: SHORT STORY CONTEST, HONORABLE MENTION - 1 :30 introduction, Mary Rohrberger [ILLINOIS]

[Lunch Break: food court in building; area restaurants]

1:30 p.m. RACE, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND WRITING IN TODAY'S WORLD - 3:00 p.m. moderator and panelist, Bharati Mukherjee [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM]

public event Frederick Busch $5.00 at door Frank Conroy for non registrants Deborah Eisenberg

James Alan McPherson Francine Prose

3:15 p.m. PANEL A: DEEP SOUTH I DEEP NORTH -THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND AUSTRALIA'S QUEENSLAND - 4:30 p.m. [NORTHWESTERN]

moderator and panelist, Selina Samuels, University of New South Wales, Australia Moira Crone, Louisiana State University Ellen Douglas, visitor, Iowa Writers' Workshop Janette Turner Hospital, University of South Carolina Kathy Pories, Algonquin Books

6th ICSSE - 6 - Iowa City, Iowa

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

public event $5.00 at door

Friday, 3: 15 p.m., cont'd.

PANEL B: GENRE IV: CLOSURE IN THE SHORT STORY II [MINNESOTA] moderator, Susan Lohafer

"Closure in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hol/ering Cree/(, Rose Marie Cutting, St. Mary's University

"Some Thoughts on Short-Story Endings" Allan Weiss, York University, Canada

"Syntagmatic versus Paradigmatic Closure in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher" Per Winther, University of Oslo, Norway

PANEL C: VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND DiS-EASE IN THE SHORT STORY [PURDUE] moderator, Cynthia Hallett, Bennett College

"Ghost-Writing Towards Tenure: Haunted Academics in Alison Lurie, Penelope Lively, and Anita Brookner"

Elizabeth Clark, University of Iowa "Dis-ease in Andrea Barrett's Short Story 'Ship Fever'''

Corinne Dale, Belmont Col/ege ~rhe Legacy of Violence in Southern Short Fiction"

Charlotte Morgan, Dabney S. Lancaster Community Col/ege

PANEL D: CONTEMPORARY MEN AND THEIR STORIES [INDIANA] moderator, Andrus Nagay, Poland

"Short Stories of Barry Hannah" Richard Lee, SUNY - Oneonta

"Masculine Paradigms in the Short Fiction of Thom Jones and Tom Paine" Paul R. Lilly, SUNY - Oneonta

"George P. Elliott: A Forgotten Voice" Phillip Stambovsky

READINGS A: [ILLINOIS] introduction, Susana Jimenez-Placer, University of Santiago de Composteda, Spain

Carolyn Levy Katie Singer Charlotte Zoe Walker

READINGS B: WRITERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS I [OHIO STATE] introduction, Mary Rohrberger, University of New Orleans

Joseph Boyden Scott Farrin Joseph Longo

STUART DYBEK, ALEKSANDAR HEMON, CHRISTOPHER MERRILL, JANETTE TURNER introduction , Clark Blaise [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM] HOSPITAL

for nonregistrants

6:30 p.m.

7:45 public event $5.00 at

DINNER BANQUET [RICHEY BALLROOM] WELCOMING REMARKS:

Susan Lohafer, President, SSSS Jon Whitmore, Provost, The University of Iowa Linda Maxson, Dean of Liberal Arts, The University of Iowa Maurice A. Lee, Conference Director Henry N. Tisdale, President, Claflin College

GUEST SPEAKER: TOBIAS WOLFF Introduction, Susan Lohafer

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PANEL C: moderator, Susana

6th ICSSE - 7 - Iowa City. Iowa

Friday, 8:30 p.m.

8:30 p.m. FREDERICK BUSCH, ROBERT OLEN CHRIS OFFUTT public event introduction, Tobias Wolff FLOOR BALLROOM] $5.00 at door for n"'",,,,,n

Saturday, October 14

9:00 a.m. PANEL A: African-American Short Fiction [NORTHWESTERN] - 1 0:15 a.m. moderator and panelist, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, of Northern Iowa

Voice to Those Who Came Before: Dee and Maggie in Alice Walker's Use'" Julie University of New Orleans

"Patricia Graves' Short Stories: Postcoloonialism in Language Usage" Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, University of Northern Iowa

"The White Gaze: Defining Blacks in American Short Fiction" Billie Travalini

PANEL B: DEATH AS IMAGE AND THEME IN SHORT FICTION [INDIANA] moderator, Charles Dameron, of Texas Brownsville

UShort Stories to Film: Richard Ford's 'Great and 'Children' as Bright Angel' D. Griffin, State Community 'Ai."""It-:

"Melancholia and the Death Motil in Richard Fiction" Brenda M. Palo, of North Carolina Chapel Hill

"Death in Contemporary Short Fiction: Luc Sante's 'The Unknown Soldier' and Lorrie Moore's 'People Like That Are the Only Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk'"

Michael University Canada

AND MAGIC IN SHORT FICTION [PURDUE] University of Santiago de Composteda, Spain

"Mythic rnn,r"ln",nte> of Story" Maxine Conant

urhe Hansel and Gretel Theme in the Short Fiction of Frederick Buschff

Charlotte Zoe Walker, SUNY - Oneonta The Heroic Yi"n,,,,,.,no ????

Whail, Salisbury State ",,,,c'mr,,, Short Stories with Joseph Cambell:

PANEL D: NARRATIVE TRADITIONS AROUND THE WORLD [MINNESOTA] moderator, E. Wilkinson

"Woman and the Weapon: The of Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak!, Karen Nigeria

"Multiple Narrative in R.R.R. Dhlomo's Short 'Juwawa'" Christine Loflin, Emory

urhe African Short Story and the Oral Narrative Tradition" Remy Oriaku, of Ibadan,

"A Model of Refinement: An Writer and Characters" Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto, Canada

READINGS: introduction, Patrick Meanor, SUNY Oneonta

Garrett Karen L. Laborde Kirin Narayan Larry Wharton

6th ICSSE - 8 - Iowa City , Iowa

Saturday, 10:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m. IOWA INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM]

- 11 :45 moderator, Christopher Merrill, University of Iowa public event Izabela Filipiak, Poland $5.00 at door Viktoriya Fomina, Russia for nonregistrants Anuar Othman, Singapore

Nu Nu Yee, Burma

12:00 noon

12:45 p.m. public event $5.00 at door for nonregi­strants

1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

LUNCHEON [RICHEY BALLROOM]

RECOGNITIONS: CLAIRE LARRIERE, founder of conference series (1988, Paris)

presentation , Susan Lohafer SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS

presentation, Janette Turner Hospital First Prize: Donald Anderson Second Prize: Lucy Ferris and Kelly Shire

GUEST SPEAKER: FRANCINE PROSE introduction, Frank Conroy

PANEL A: GENRE THEORY V: FORMS AND FALLACIES [NORTHWESTERN]

moderator, Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa "Heresies and Acknowledged Devotions: The Short Story as Workshop for the Art of Fiction"

Teresa Ferreira Almeida Alves, Portugal "From Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Tale to the Topology of the Simplex Story"

Juani Guerra, Spain [read by Isabel Soto] "Minimalism in the Short Story"

Cynthia Hallett, Bennett College

PANEL B: EDITORS' ROUNDTABLE II [PURDUE] moderator, David Hamilton, The Iowa Review

Ralph M. Berry, Fiction Collective 2 Corinne Dale, Journal of the Short Story in English Farhat Iftekharrudin , Short Story Michael O'Shea, Studies in Short Fiction Maurice A. Lee, The Journal of Caribbean Literature

PANEL C: GENRE VI : MIXED MODES [INDIANA] moderator, Charles E. May, California State University - Long Beach

"The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling" Brewster E. Fitz, Oklahoma State University

"Narrative and Lyric: Elizabeth Bishop's 'In the Village'" John Gerlach , Cleveland State University

'''Unplot Yourself': Short Story Cycle as Autobiography in Sara Suleri 's Meatless Days" Rocio Davis, University of Navarre, Spain

PANEL D: ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING [ILLINOIS] moderator and panelist, Brian Dibble, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Robert Olen Butler Ellen Douglas Janette Turner Hospital James Alan McPherson

- 9 - Iowa City, Iowa

3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

event $5.00 at door for

Saturday, 3:00 p.m.

PANEL A: AUSTRALIAN SHORT FICTION [NORTHWESTERN] moderator, Mandy

""Moments of and in Janette Turner Dislocations' David University ofAveiro, Portugal

"The Short Stories of Elizabeth Jolley" Brian Dibble, Curtin University of

"'The Drovers Wife'" Developing the National Short Selina Samuels, University of New South Wales, Australia

PANEL 8: ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION [MINNESOTA] moderator, Sarah S. Kilborne

"Uses of Nonfictional Elements in Fiction" Kristjana Gunnars in the Short Stories of Laurie Col win" Patrick Meanor, SUNY - Oneonta

"The Last Memory. Uses of the Past in Alice Adams' Collection" Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa

PANEL C: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MALE WRITERS moderator, Morris A. Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College

"Eloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: the Mergine of Pre-modern and Modernist Narrative"

J. Scott Farrin, University of New Orleans "Graham Greene's 'A Visit to Morin': Faith, Truth, Falsity, and Looking-Glass Logic"

Albert J. Griffith, Our Lade of the Lake '''I Must Have . Commodification in Wheel of Time'"

Edgar University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

PANEL D: REGIONAL SHORT FICTION OF THE SOUTHWEST [INDIANA] moderator and panelist, Noor Islam, of Texas - Brownsville

"Border Communities in Alberto alvaro Rio's 'The Curtin of Trees'" Charles Dameron, University of Texas -- Brownsville

"'The Corn People Will Occur: Simon J. Ortiz' Men on the Moon» Farhal lfiekharrudin, of Texas - Brownsville

"Building the Robert Gish and Southwest" Noor Islam, of Texas - Brownsville

READINGS A: STUDENT WRITERS FROM THE IOWA WRITERS' WORKSHOP II [ILLINOIS] introduction, Frank Conroy, Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Nick Arvin Joshua Furst Amy Hassinger Tony Swofford

READINGS 8: [OHIO introduction, Wanda Boeke

Alfred Marion Bloem Karen

GUEST SPEAKER: FREDERICK BUSCH FLOOR BALLROOM] introduction, Beverley Byers-Pevitts, Texas Womens College

6th ICSSE - 10 - Iowa City, Iowa

Saturday, 6:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. RECEPTION AT PRAIRIE LIGHTS [15 S. DUBUQUE ST. - SEE ENCLOSED MAP]

6:45 p.m. [Dinner Break: area restaurants]

8:30 p.m. CLARK BLAISE, FRANK CONROY, BHARATI MUKHERJEE, TOBIAS WOLFF public event introduction, Chris Offutt [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM] $5.00 at door for nonregistrants

Sunday, October 15

9:00 a.m. WRITING IN A DIVERSE WORLD [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM] -10:15a.m. moderator, Maurice A. Lee

public event Amiri Baraka $5.00 at door Alfred Birney for nonregistrants Clark Blaise

Moira Crone Ellen Douglas

10:30 a.m. GUEST SPEAKER: AMIRI BARAKA [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM] - 11 :00 a.m. introduction, Maurice A. Lee, University of Central Arkansas

public event $5.00 at door for nonregistrants

11 :15 a.m. PANEL A: CLASSIC AND MODERN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION [PURDUE] - 12:30 p.m. moderator, Mary Lou Emery, University of Iowa

"'I have seen the extreme vanity of this world'" Puritan Captivity Tales and the Short Story" Morris A. Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson Col/ege

"A Different Perspective on 'The Minister's Black Veil '" Winifred Morgan, Edgewood Col/ege

"Seeing Faulkner's Nancy: Revisiting 'That Evening Sun'" Rebecca Trainor, New York University

PANEL B: CULTURE AND SHORT FICTION [NORTHWESTERN] moderator, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, University of Northern Iowa

"Postcolonial Storymaking-The Short Fiction of Pauline Melville" Angi Buettner, Germany

"Psychical Distance: Cross-cultural Interpretation of the Short Story" Della Burt-Bradley, Harold Washington Col/ege

"Fate, Diaspora and the Melody of Storytelling: The Portuguese-American Blues of Katherine Vaz" Teresa Cid, University of Lisbon, Spain

6th ICSSE - 11 - Iowa City, Iowa

Sunday, 11 :15 a.m., cont'd.

PANEL c: SPIRIT, MIND, AND STORY [INDIANA] moderator, Barbara Mciver, Claflin College

''The Female Academic in 'A Region of Ice' by Joyce Carol Oates: The De-Sexing of Sister Irene" Gail Elliott, Stephens College

"Story-telling in the Diaspora: Maxine Clair's Rattlebone" Isabel Soto, Spain

"Margaret Atwood's Short Fiction and the Cartesian Dichotomy" Linda H. Straubel, University of Wisconsin - Rock County

READINGS: SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS: PAST AND PRESENT [ILLINOIS] introduction, Mary Rohrberger

Donald Anderson Dale Hrebik Alison McNeil Kelly Shire

12:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS: Where Do We Go From Here? [2ND FLOOR BALLROOM] Mary Rohrberger, Executive Director Maurice A. Lee, Director

6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE

SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH

CO-HOSTS

THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY (SSSS)

THE IOWA WRITERS' WORKSHOP

SPONSORS

Office of the Provost, U I

Office of the Vice President for Research, UI: Arts & Humanities Initiative

Office of the Dean of Liberal Arts, UI

The Iowa Review

The U I Department of English

University of Texas at Brownsville

State University of New York at Oneonta & Dr. Patrick Meanor

Clafl in College & Dr. Zia Hasan

The University of Central Arkansas, Office of the Dean, College of Liberal Arts

In Support of Marion Bloem and Alfred Birney The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature

The Iowa Writers' Workshop in Support of Frank Conroy, Ethan Canin, Ellen Douglas, James Alan McPherson, and Chris Offutt

and the Workshop students

In Support of Mandy Sayer The Commonwealth Govern­ment of Australia through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory board