Presentations

 

Scholarly

 

             “Raids from the Prow of History: the Viking Press, Jews, and White Southern

                          Mountaineers.”   MLA 2007, Dec. Chicago, IL.  

             “Piecing Together the Appalachian Experience: 30 Years of Appalachian Literary

                          Criticism.” Appalachian Studies Association.  Merryville College.  23

                          March 2007

             “The Text in History and History in the Text: Unearthing Don West’s Clods of

                          Southern Earth.” Discover Appalachia in the Archives. Appalachian

                          Center, University of Kentucky, 1 Nov 2006.

             “James Still, Jesse Stuart, Don West, and Harry Harrison Kroll: Their

                          Biographers Speak.” Organized and chaired the panel.  Appalachian                                 Studies Association.  Dayton, OH, 17 March 2006.         

             “Rebinding ‘The Book of the Dead’: How Rukeyser Scripts U. S. 1 for Urban

                          Radicals.” Twentieth Century Literature and Culture Conference.                                      University of Louisville, KY.  24 Feb. 2006.

             “Crabgrass as Grassroots: The Contending Influences of Don West and Lucy                                Mason in Post-War Georgia.”  North American Labor History

                          Conference.   Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 21 Oct. 2005.

             “Essentializing Radicalism: Appalachian Folk and Percy MacKaye in the 1920s.” 

                          Appalachian Studies Association Conference. Radford University, VA.

                          20 March 2005.

             “James Still, the Spanish-American War, and Appalachia.”  South Atlantic

                          Modern Language Association.  Roanoke, VA.  16 Nov. 2004.

             “Three Kentucky Poets: Don West, James Still, and Jesse Stuart.” Kentucky

                          Philological Association. Morehead, KY. 5 March 2004.

             “Don West and Race in Atlanta, 1946–1948.” American Studies Association

                          National Conference.  Hartford, CT. 16 Oct. 2003.

             “The Healing Hermeneutics of Rhetoric: Rich, Jordan, and Talarico.” American

                          Literary Association Conference on 20^th-Century American Poetry. Palm                           Beach, CA. 15 March 2003.

             “Working Truth Inside Out: Popular Front Politics in Appalachian Poetry, Don

                          West, and Muriel Rukeyser.” Appalachian Studies Association

                          Conference. Helen, GA. 16 March 2002.

             “Precisely Poetry: Possibilities of Epic Poetic Discourse for Contemporary

                          Politics.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. U of Louisville, KY.

                          February 1996.

             “The Metaphysics of William Carlos Williams’s Red Wheelbarrow.” North Carolina

                          Philological Society. Elon College, Burlington, NC. April 1993.

             “The Little Magazine as Historical Consciousness.” Canonicity and Literature

                          Conference.  St. Louis, MO. March 1992.

                         

 

Pedagogy

             “From the Classroom to the Community: New Approaches to Higher Education in

                          Appalachia.”  Appalachian Studies Association.  Merryville College. 

                          23 March 2007.

             “Teaching Lyrical History from Diane Fisher’s Kettle Bottom.” The Women of                                Appalachia. University of Ohio-Zanesville, 28 Oct 2005.

             “Real Kentuckies: Citizen Power.” The Watson Conference on Rhetoric and                                   Composition. University of Louisville, KY. 11 October 2002.

             “Teaching Third World Poetry in Translation.” World Studies Conference.

                          Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. April 1997.

             “Slaying the Sublime Reader: Giving Your Students an Audience.” Praxis                                      Teaching Session. Indiana University Department of English.                                             Bloomington, IN.  March 1996.

            

Creativity

 

             Writers’ Symposium on Mountain Culture, Mountain Top Removal, and

                          Environment.  Organizer with the Birke Fine Arts Symposium.  Marshall                           University, Huntington, Oct. 20-21, 2006.

             Appalachian Writers Mountaintop Removal Tour.  Organizer with Ohio Valley                                Environmental    Coalition. Charleston, WV, Oct. 15-17, 2006.

             “Place, Community, and the Writer’s Life.”  Moderator of discussion with the

                          Yale Younger Poets Morris Manning, Davis McCombs, and Tony Crunk. 

                          Joy Bale Boone Symposium.  Gaines Center, University of Kentucky. 

                          6 March 2004.   

             “The Editors Speak: Networks and Scenes in Appalachian Literary Magazines.”                             Convened Round-table. Appalachian Studies Conference. Richmond, KY.

                          28 March 2003. 

             “The Artist, Her Work, and Other Marks of Cain: Tracing the Metonymy of

                          Authority.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. U of Louisville, KY.                           February 1996.

Chris Green

Assistant Professor of English

Appalachian Literature and Multicultural American Poetry