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The 12th Annual Tennessee Williams Scholars'
Conference Schedule

March 30, 2007

Director: Dr. Robert Bray

Williams Research Center
410 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA

  9:30-10:30  

"The Hotel as Privileged Site of the Sex Industry in Williams's Drama"
Dr. Denys Landry, The University of Montreal

"Manuscript Sources for Sweet Bird of Youth"
Dr. Brian Parker, The University of Toronto

Moderator: Dr. Will Brantley, Middle Tennessee State University

 
         
10:30-11:30

"Candles to the Sun and Spring Storm: Explorations Toward Williams's Dramatic South"
Dr. David Radavich, Eastern Illinois University

"The Dramatization of Desire: Tennessee Williams and Federico Garcia Lorca "
Dr. José Ignacio Badenes, Loyola Marymount University

Moderator: Thomas Keith, New Directions Publishing

         
  11:30-1:00   Lunch  
         
  1:00-2:00  

"Spatial Reversal in The Night of the Iguana "
Halla Diyab, The University of Leicester

"Williams and Opera: Comparative Drama, Lyricism, and Artistic Vision in Bibals Version of The Glass Menagerie"
Dr. John Rindo, The University of Puget Sound

"Portrait of a Lady: Williams's Plastic Resolution of Character"
Dr. Lena hill, The University of Iowa

Moderator: Dr. Stuart Noel, Georgia Perimeter College

 
         
2:00-3:00

"Marketing a Scandal: Elia Kazan and the Baby Doll Poster "
Dr. Barton Palmer, Clemson University

"Boom! and Bust: Tennessee Loses Hollywood "
Dr. Michael Raines, Eastfield College

Moderator: Dr. Robert Bray, Middle Tennessee State University

         
  3:00-4:00   "The Politics of Tennessee Williams "
Dr. Nicholas Moschovakis, Reed College
Dr. Annette Saddik, New York City College of Technology
Prof. Allean Hale, The University of Illinois
Dr. Robert Bray, Middle Tennessee State University
Margaret Thornton
 
         
  4:00-4:30   Performance of Summer at the Lake, a Williams one-act play
Joi Hoffsommer, Illinois Wesleyan University
Sandra Zielinski, Illinois State University
Bob Quinlan, Illinois State University

Directed by Gary Ambler
 
         

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