“‘One Eternal Round’: Mormon Literature Past, Present, and Future”

Annual Meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters

27 February 2010 at the UVU Library in Orem, Utah

The AML annual meeting is free for AML members, Irreantum subscribers, and students (please bring student identification). Registration starts at 8:00a.m. There will be a luncheon at 1:00pm, after the screening of Corianton. Seating for the luncheon is limited so tickets should be paid for ahead of time.

8:00-9:00

Registration

9:00-10:00

Session A (LI 505):

Harlow Clark: “Clever Theological End Runs”

Eric Samuelsen: “Beyond Hagiography: The Huebbener Paradox”

Session B (LI 506):

Ardis Parshall: “Corianton: A Curious Case of Mormon Culture”

Lisa Tait: “Julia Macdonald and Mormon Fiction of Biblical Proportions”

Session C (LI 515):

Stephen Carter: “Channeling the Muse: Using Outlines to Strengthen Literary Fiction”

Marilyn Brown: “Bones and Buns: Growing a Body of Mormon Literature”

10:00-10:30

Welcome, Introductions, James D’Arc opening remarks

10:30-1:00

Screening of 1931’s “Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love”

1:00-2:30

Luncheon, awards, business, presidential address

2:30-3:30

Session A (LI 120):

Gideon Burton: “Latter day Avatars for Mormon Expression”

Tyler Chadwick: “Peculiar (re)visions: The FOB Family Bible”

Session B (LI 505):

Jack Harrell: “Irreantum and the Future of Mormon Letters”

Angela Hallstrom, Margaret Blair Young, and Christopher Bigelow: “Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction and the Contemporary Mormon Short Story.”

Session C (LI 506):

Bruce Jorgenson: “Why do Mormon Wannabe Fantasists Wannabe Fantasists?”

Lee Allred: “In(to) the Void and Back Again: Organizing the Universe and the
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry of Michael R. Collings”

3:30-4:30

Session A (LI 120):

Nathan Waite: “Innocence, Redemption, and the Borderlands in Richard Dutcher’s Films”

Mark Brown: “Richard Dutcher’s Mormon Trilogy: The Necessity of Violence in Mormon Salvation Stories”

Session B (LI 505):

Patricia Karamesines: “When is a Platonic Friendship Not Platonic?  Husbands, Wives, and Significant Others in Shannon Hale's The Actor and the Housewife”

Kristi Young: “What’s a Nice Mormon Girl Doing Writing Stuff Like This: The Melding of Mormonism with the Supernatural Love Story”

Session C (LI 506):

Jared Tamez: “La Voz del Desierto: An Indigenous and “Uncorrelated” Mormon Publication in Mexico, 1879”

James Goldberg: “Wrestling with God: Invoking Scriptural Language and Mythos in LDS Literary Works”

4:30-5:30

Session A (LI 120):

Kjerstin Evans: Hopefully Mormon: Testimony Bearing in a World of Multi-Modality”

Katherine Cowley: “365 Personal Essays a Year, LDS Blogs, the Personal Essay, and One Cobble at a Time”

Session B (LI 505):

Joe Spencer: “The Four Discourses of Mormonism: Towards the Thinking of a Uniquely Mormon Hermeneutics”

Julie Nichols: “Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis as Trustworthy Opponents”

Session C (LI 506):

Carol Bradley: “Books of Remembrance:  Historical Fiction in LDS Literature”

Katherine Morris: “Mormon Artist and Other Online Publications”

Award winners will be reading from their works at a reception at the home of Charlotte England at 6:30 p.m. Join us for food, fun, and literary wow-and-dazzlement.