AML Conference Program 2009
Utah Valle University Library, Orem, February 28, 2009
Rocky Mountain MLA
Snowbird, Utah, October 8-10, 2009
Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+ The Burgeoning Mormon Authorship in Genre Fiction
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:30PM- 3:00PM, Alan Goff, DeVry University
RB Scott, Independent Scholar. “R.B.Scott, Journalist and Author: The Impertinence of Writing Real, Confessions of a (Guilty) Mormon Boy.”
Tyler Chadwick, Idaho State University. “Reading the Mormon Gothic: LDS Vampires and the Uncanny.”
MaryAnn Taylor, Independent Scholar. “Twitterpation; or, Hath the Muse Fled.”
Textual Depictions of American Polygamy*
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in MAGPIE A Chair: Karin Anderson, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Lisa Olsen Tait, University of Houston. “‘Suggestions’ to the Girls: Post-Polygamy in the Fiction of Susa Young Gates.”
Heather Hadley, Utah Valley University. “The Paper Eaters.”
Jeniveve Jacobs Wahlquist, Utah Valley University. “Challenges of Polygamy as Portrayed in Two Classic Mormon Novels: The Giant Joshua and A Little Lower Than the Angels.”