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 DArc opening remarks
10:30-1:00
Screening of 1931s 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
Dutchers Films
Mark Brown: Richard Dutchers 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: Whats 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 MultiModality
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.