Barbara Kingsolver was the featured author for this year’s Emory & Henry College Literary Festival Sept. 29-30. She gave a reading and public interview for the festival, while three noted scholars presented papers and reviews of her work.
Linda Wagner-Martin, professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, presented a paper entitled “Keeping an Eye on Paradise:’ The Exuberance of Prodigal Summer.” Meredith Sue Willis, adjunct assistant professor of Creative Writing, New York University, presented a paper entitled “Not Missing from The Lacuna: A Private Life in a Political World,” while Sandra Ballard, professor of English at Appalachian State University and editor of The Appalachian Journal, presented a paper entitled “‘Disclosing the Heart of the Form’: An Appreciation of Barbara Kingsolver’s Nonfiction.”
Steve Fisher, professor emeritus at Emory & Henry and a well-known scholar of Appalachian studies, conducted the interview with the author, which, along with all the proceedings of the festival, will be published in an upcoming issue of The Iron Mountain Review.
