Saint Paul Hotel  651. 292-9292  WWW.St.Paulhotel.com Conference rate $145

(This is the central, conference hotel that will be convenient to all panels and transportation to all events on the program.)

Holiday Inn Rivercentre, St Paul  651. 225-1525  Conference Rate $85

(Ask for government rate during the conference This hotel is not as luxuriant or convenient as the Saint Paul.)

Registration fees:     Full registration is  $185 (including banquet)

                                    Full $140 (excluding banquet)

                                    Spouses $150 (including banquet)

                                    Spouses $100 (excluding banquet)

                                    Banquet alone  $45

8:00 am-12:30 pm: Registration (Landmark Center)

8:30 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks: Jackson R. Bryer (University of Maryland), President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society; Eleanor Heginbotham (Concordia College), and Dave Page (Inver Hills Community College), Conference Co-chairs

9:00-10:00 am: Plenary Session: Scott Donaldson (College of William and Mary), "F. Scott Fitzgerald, St. Paul Boy" (Ramsay, Room 313)

Session 1: The Twenties: Influences and Affinities (Butler, Room 326)

Moderator: Walter Raubicheck (Pace University)

1. Ronald Berman (University of California, San Diego), "Wilson and 'Whitehead"
2. J. Gerald Kennedy (Louisiana State University). "Poe, Fitzgerald. and the American Nightmare"
3. Linda P. Miller (Pennsylvania State University, Abington), "The Summer of 1926"

Session 2: The Great Gatsby I (Chief Justice, Room 130)

Moderator: Steven Goldleaf (Pace University)

1. Matthew McCutchin (Hillsborough Community College), "Advertisements of the Self:

Copywriting and The Great Gatsby"

2. Jeffrey Karon (University of Tampa), "The Liar's Paradox: Deception and Cheating in The Great

Gatsby"

3. Aleksandra Nikcevic-Batricevic (Montenegro, Yugoslavia), "The Reception of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Stories and Essays in the Serbo-Croatian Speaking World"

Session 3: The Last Tycoon Fitzgerald and Hemingway (Butler, Room 326)

Moderator: Alan Margolies (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)

1. Christopher Ames (Oglethorpe University), "Semi-Cowboy Clothes: Fitzgerald's `Western"'
2. Laurie Welsh Mirales (Newton, PA), "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Defining Monroe Stahr"
3. Sanjay Kumar (Banaras Hindu University), "`True Gen' on Fitzgerald in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: A Critique"
4. Joseph Isbell (University of Maryland), "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Doctor and Patient"

Session 4: The Mississippi River and Fitzgerald's Midwestern Imagination (Ramsay Room 326)

Moderator: Kirk Curnutt (Troy State University, Montgomery)

1. Edward Gillin (SUNY-Geneseo), "Life (From) the Mississippi"
2. Jonathan Fegley (Middle Georgia College), "St. Paul, the River, and the Mythos of F. Scott

Fitzgerald"

3. Gail Sinclair (Rollins College), "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Mythic Biography of a `Middle Westerner"'

Session 5: Fitzgerald's Short Fiction (Chief Justice, Room 430)

Moderator: Marvin J. LaHood (Buffalo State College)

1. Kim Moreland (George Washington University), "Cold, Hard, Beautiful, and Empty: Literary Naturalism and `The Cut-Glass Bowl' and `The Ice Palace"'
2. Jarom McDonald (University of Maryland), "Plays of the Week: Football as Performance in Fitzgerald's Short Fiction"
3. Allison Krebs (Eylria, OH), "The `Human Ingenuity and Effort Expended' in Fitzgerald's `Revisiting' of His `Babylon"'

Session 6: Fitzgerald and War (Ramsay, Room 317)

Moderator: Heidi Kunz (Randolph Macon Woman's College)

1. James H. Meredith (United States Air Force Academy), "Two Soldiers"
2. George Wickes (University of Oregon), "Tom Buchanan, Draft Dodger?"
3. William Blazek (Liverpool Hope University College), "The War Veteran in Tender Is the Night"

Session 7: Tender Is the Night I (Butler, Room 326)

Moderator: Donaria Romeiro Carvalho Inge (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)

1. Susan Wolfe (University of South Dakota), "Diving into Trauma: Wounded Voices in Tender is the Night"
2. Kathleen L. MacArthur (George Washington University), "Trauma and Incest in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night"
3. Robert Baldasarre (Pennsylvania State University, Abington), "Dick Diver, the `Redeemer Personality"'
4. Tiffany Joseph (University of Minnesota), "Trauma and Gender Performativity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night"

Session 8: The Great Gatsby II (Chief Justice, Room 430) Moderator: Michael K.

Glenday (Liverpool Hope University College)

1. Akiko Ishikawa (Meiji University), "Homer and The Great Gatsby"
2. Jane Vogel (Ithaca College), "(The) Butler Did It: Fitzgerald's Debt to the Author ofThe Way of All Flesh"
3. James C. L. Brown (George Washington University), "Re-imagining the Ideal: Notes on Daisy's Passing in The Great Gatsby"

6:00-8:00 pm: Reception (University Club)

8:30 am-12:30 pm Registration, Landmark Center

Session 9: Basil and Josephine (Butler, Room 326)

Moderator: Michael J. Meyer(DePaul University and Northeastern Illinois University)

1. Quentin E. Martin (Regis University), "The First Emotional Bankrupt: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Josephine Perry"
2. JoAnn M. Hawkins (University of St. Thomas), "Basil Duke Lee and Holly Avenue"
3. Anthony J. Berret (St. Joseph's University), "'Basil and the Dance Craze"

Session 10: "A Max Perkins Roundtable" (Ramsay, Room 317)

Moderator: James L. W.West III (Pennsylvania State University)

1. Rodger Tarr (Illinois State University)
2. Patti Raber (Fedora Films)
3. Sarah Potts (Fedora Films)
4. Kathleen Pearce (Fedora Films)

Session 11: The Great Gatsby III (Chief Justice, Room 430)

Moderator: B. Bussell Thompson (Hofstra University)

1. Horst H. Kruse (Muenster, Germany), "The Midwest, Catholicism, Immigrant Heritage: `Absolution' and the Writing of The Great Gatsby"
2. D.G. Kehl (Arizona State University), "From Gestural Tableau to Idea: Fitzgerald's `Unbroken Series of Successful Gestures"'
3. Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua (Universita di Torino, Italy), "Author and Hero in The Great Gatsby"

10:00-10:1 5 am:

Coffee Break

Eleanor Lanahan (Fitzgerald granddaughter)"Zelda Fitzgerald as Artist"

(Auditorium)

at Minnesota Club

Bus tours of St. Paul

3:00-6:00 pm: Tea Dance

at the Commodore

Performance, The Captured Shadow

(Landmark Center)

Session 12: Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Butler, Room 326) Moderator: Jeanne Fuchs (Hofstra University)

1. Bonnie McMullen (Oxford, England), "'Bernice Bobs Her Hair': `Tonsorial Intentions' and the Short Story"
2. Deborah Davis Schlacks (University of Wisconsin-Superior), "An Allusion of Astronomical Proportions: The Hair of Bernice and Fitzgerald's 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair"'
3. Andrea Porter (University of Alabama), "The Roots and Growth of 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair"'

Session 13: St. Paul and the Apprentice Years (Chief Justice, Room 430) Moderator: TBA

1. David J. Partie (Liberty University), "Rehearsals of Glory: The Influence of the Civil War on the Early Fiction and Drama of F. Scott Fitzgerald"
2. Diane Isaacs (University of Maryland), "St. Paul's Wayward Son: Fitzgerald's Image in the St. Paul Press, 1912-1945, and His Image Today"
3. Aiping Zhang (California State University, Chico), "Dreaming with a `New England Conscience': Fitzgerald's Ambivalence toward His Hometown"

Session 14: Fitzgerald and Popular Culture (Ramsay, Room 317)

Moderator: Jackson R.Bryer (University of Maryland)

1. M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College), "Two Boys from the Twin Cities: Jay Gatsby and Charlie Brown"
2. Stan Isaacs (Roslyn Heights, NY), "Fitzgerald, Gatsby, and the 1919 World Series"
3. Iska Alter (Hofstra University), "Bright Lights and Broadway: Theatrical Context and F. Scott 4 Fitzgerald's The Vegetable"
4. Richard Davison (University of Delaware), "Schulberg's The Disenchanted: Fitzgerald on Broadway"

Session 15: Fitzgerald & the Early Fiction (Ramsay, Room 317)

Moderator: Rodney P.Rice (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

1. Dom M. Wilson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Sympathy for the Devil: Women in This Side of Paradise"
2. Kathleen Connors (University of Maryland), "Fantasy and the Sublime in `The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"'
3. Ann Marie Ross (California State University, Dominguez Hills), "`Great Fish Hauled Out of the Mississippi': St. Paul as Setting of `The Ice Palace' and `Winter Dreams' and the Rehearsal of the Regional/National Theme in The Great Gatsby"

Session 16: Fitzgerald and the 1930s (Butler, Room 326)

Moderator: James H. Meredith (United States Air Force Academy)

1. Nancy Comley (Queen's College, CUNY), "Nostalgia and Displacement in Fitzgerald's Construction of `my midwest' and `My Lost City"'
2. Andrew Hook (Wooster College), "Fitzgerald, Zelda, and The Crack-Up"
3. Christian Messenger (University of Illinois at Chicago), "`Vicious Sentimentality': Fitzgerald's Ambivalent Relation to Sentiment in Tender Is the Night

Session 17: Fitzgerald and Faulkner (Chief Justice, Room 430)

Moderator: Peter Hays(University of California, Davis)

1. Lawrence Broer and Gloria Holland (University of South Florida), "Innocent as Charged: A Defense for Sutpen and Gatsby"
2. John D. Rockefeller V (Johns Hopkins University), "Contractual Ethics: Fitzgerald and Faulkner"

3. Tommie L. Jackson (St. Cloud State University), "Wedded Imagery in Tender Is the Night and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!"

1:15-2:30 pm Plenary Session: "Interviews with Frances Ring and Budd Schulberg" (Auditorium)

Moderator: Ruth Prigozy (Hofstra University)

3:00-5:00 pm: "Zelda, Scott, and Ernest: A Dramatic Dialogue Adapted from the Letters of Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds," by George Plimpton and Terry Quinn. Featuring George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Norris Church Mailer

6:30 pm: Banquet: Vocal performance by Blake Hazard, great-granddaughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald

10:00-11:00 am Session 18: Collecting Fitzgerald

Moderator: David Page (Inver Hills Community College)

1. Valerie Lien
2. Patrick Coleman
3. Robert Rulan-Miller

11:00 am-12:00 pm: Session 19: Visualizing Scott Fitzgerald (Landmark Center)

1. Thomas O' Sullivan (Curator of Library Arts and Exhibitions, Carleton College), "Picturing Scott: The

Man and his Work in Art"

2. Christine Podas-Larson (President, Public Art Saint Paul), "Honoring Scott in Public Art; Honoring Michael Price"