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6Brunnenburg. Eds. Daniel Kempton and H. R. Stoneback. Les Saintes-Maries-dela-Mer, France: Gregau Press, 2012.“‘An attention that is almost holy’: The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway.”Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place. Ed. by Donald P. Kaczvinsky.Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield with Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011.“At a Paella Picnic Over a Glass of Wine: Aldington & Eliot, Poetry & Pedantry,Lightheartedness & Love,” Locations and Dislocations. Eds. H. R. Stoneback andDaniel Kempton. Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France: Gregau Press, 2008. 6368.“In Spite of their Simplicity”: The Tall Men in Roberts’ ‘Record at Oak Hill,” ElizabethMadox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation. Eds. H. R. Stonebackand Steven Florczyk. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. 259-70.“Finitives Weaving the Weary Wilderness: To Make a Garden in The Great Meadow,”Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discover and Recovery. Eds. H. R.Stoneback, Steven Florczyk, and Nicole Camastra. NY: Quincy & Harrod Pressand The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2008. 139-44.“The Night Flies and I See Heaven’s White Light Rising: The Singer and The Pilgrim,”New Places: Proceedings of the Third International Richard AldingtonConference. Ed. H. R. Stoneback & Daniel Kempton. Gregau Press, les SaintesMaries-de-la-Mer, France, 2005. 147-53.Solicited chapter“Religion.” Ernest Hemingway in Context. Eds. Debra Moddlemog and Suzanne delGizzo. Cambridge University Press, 2012.Solicited Essay (Online Journal)“Young Hemingway’s Wound and Conversion.” Pilgrim: A Journal of CatholicExperience. Pilgrim Publishers Inc. March 2013. Web.Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)“Lighthearted Sinners and Pious Puritans, Followers, and Believers: Hemingway’s ‘HolyWar Meat Eaters and Beer Drinkers Happy Hunting Ground and MountainReligion’ in Under Kilimanjaro,” North Dakota Quarterly Special Edition:Hemingway in His and Our Time. 76.1-2 (Winter & Spring 2009): 106-120.“The Importance of Story, Fantasy, and Myth Retold in Lewis and Tolkien,”Shawangunk Review (Volume XVI, Spring 2005). 18-21.Newsletter Article“A Letter from Chris Offut,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 14 (March2013).“God’s Great Flood: Elizabeth Madox Roberts & Robert Penn Warren,” The ElizabethMadox Roberts Society Newsletter 14 (March 2013).“President’s Message,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 14 (March2013).“Wendell Berry & Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Common Ground,” The Elizabeth MadoxRoberts Society Newsletter 14 (March 2013).

7“A Cigar and a Book: Kentucky Lit,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter13 (March 2012).“Rovit Reviews Critical Books in The Sewannee Review,” The Elizabeth Madox RobertsSociety Newsletter 12 (March 2010).“Roberts Featured in Stoneback Keynotes—SAMLA and Hawaii,” The Elizabeth MadoxRoberts Society Newsletter 11 (March 2009).ReviewsHemingway’s Paris: Our Paris by H. R. Stoneback (New Street Communication, LLC,2010). “Paris: In Our Time,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 12(March 2011).The Waters Under the Earth by Peter Siegal (Canon Press, 2005). North DakotaQuarterly, 74.2 (Spring 2007): 203-06.Essays“Kentucky, Kentucky Poets, & the Poetry of Kentucky,” Kentucky: Poets of Place. Ed.Matthew Nickel. The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2012.“‘The Fire of the World’s Body’: A Brief Glimpse into the Hymnody of H. R.Stoneback.” Ibid. 48-51.“Robert Pinsky.” McGill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition. Salem Press,Inc., September 2006.“W. S. Merwin.” McGill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition. Salem Press,Inc., September 2006.Creative Work“The Leek Soup Song” (poem), Shawangunk Review 24 (Spring 2013). 79.“The Gift” (poem), Ibid. 80-82.“A Name for Something that Was Gone” (poem), Kentucky: Poets of Place. Ed. MatthewNickel. The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2012. 39-40.“Hierophany: A Translation” (poem), Ibid. 61-62.“Creek Poem” (poem), Ibid. 83-84.“Le Grand Cerf et l’Ombre” (poem) with commentary, Shawangunk Review 22 (Spring2011). 101-02.“I Always Hear Rain” (poem), From Penn’s Store to the World: An Anthology of Poems.Eds. H. R. Stoneback, Amanda Boyle, and Brad McDuffie. NY: Des HymnagistesPress 2011. 32-33.“The Schooling of Charlie T’s, Breaux Bridge, LA” (poem), Ibid. 42-43.“Ascension” (poem), Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology. Eds. Matthew Nickel and H. R.Stoneback. West Park, NY and Lafayette, LA: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2010. 52.“Bank of Karma” (poem), Ibid. 51.“A Cantico del Sole” (poem), Ibid. 50.“Le Grand Cerf et l’Ombre” (poem), Ibid. 48.“An Original Sin Image” (poem), Ibid. 53-56.“Portraite d’une Sainte” (poem), Ibid. 49.“Les Huîtres des Les Moutiers-en-Retz” (poem), Maple Leaf Rag IV, New Orleans, LA:Portals Press, 2010. 136-37.

8“St. Hubert’s Day—November 3, 2008” (poem), Southwest Review (Spring 2009): 28.“Flying Over Appalachian Contours” (poem), Southwest Review (Spring 2009): 29-30.“Trout Rising Into Sunlight” (poem), The Hudson River Valley Review 25.1 (Autumn2008): 109-110.“La Méthode—After Mass” (poem), Florida English: Special Imagist Issue 6 (2008): 48.“Kentucky Wonders: For Elizabeth Madox Roberts,” Illumination & Praise: Poems forElizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky. Ed. Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY &Breaux Bridge, LA: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2008. 9.“Variations: Elizabeth Madox Roberts” (poem), Ibid. 47-51.“Let us Hold These Hymns in Place” (poem), Countries of the Heart for Stoney &Sparrow. Ed. Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY: Mother-River-Flows-Two-WaysPress, 2007. 40-42.“The Poet Did Not Answer” (poem), What Thou Lovest Well Remains: Poems c/oBrunnenburg Castle, Ed. H. R. Stoneback, West Park, NY: Des HymnagistesPress, 2007. 32-33.“Late in the Night in Spain Thinking of Hemingway” (poem), Shawangunk Review(Volume XVIII, Spring 2007). 90-91.“A Good Clean Village—War Monument Gorge du Tarn, France” (poem), Ibid. 94-95.“Spring Morning at Riverby” (poem), Ibid. 92-93.“A Salutation to Darkness” (poem), Maple Leaf Rag III, Ed. John P. Travis, NewOrleans, LA: Portals Press, 2006. 131-32.“Not Just La Patria—Homage of an Expatriate” (poem), Homage to RPW: An Anthologyof Poem for Robert Penn Warren, Edited by H. R. Stoneback, West Park, NY:Des Hymnagistes Press, 2006. 37-38.“A Salutation to Darkness” (poem), Hurricane Poems: An Anthology, Edited by H. R.Stoneback, New York and Gravel Switch, Kentucky: Roncevaux Press, 2006. 2730.“Letter Poem Prayer for Catha” (poem), A Garland of Poems for Catherine Aldington.Edited by H. R. Stoneback, Des Hymnagistes Press and The International RichardAldington Society, 2006. 20-21.“For Stoneback Easter 2006 and After” (poem), Proceedings from The First InternationalBreece DJ Pancake Conference, Ed. Matthew Nickel, West Park, NY: MotherRiver-That-Flows-Two-Ways Press, 2006.“Not Just La Patria—Homage of an Expatriate” (poem), Shawangunk Review 17 (Spring2006). 156-57.“A Salutation to Darkness” (poem), Ibid. 184-87.“Homage to the Un-Answering Dark” (poem), recorded on “Hurricane Hymn,” (recordedNovember 3, 2005 at Oasis Café, New Paltz, NY).“Driftwood,” (poem) Shawangunk Review 16 (Spring 2005). This poem wastranslated into French by Catherine Aldington, daughter of British Writer RichardAldington, and was published in this same journal titled “Bois Roulés.” 62-65.“Wednesday Descends (Ash Wednesday 2005)” (poem), Ibid. 66.“Memory Lingers” (poem), Ibid. 67.“A Modern Song of Songs, Romance of Romances, Paraklausitheron (Ash Wednesday,2004)” (poem), Shawangunk Review 15 (Spring 2004). 110-11.

9“Death Can Make All Places Strange, Even Places Where You Dream” (poem), Ibid. 9192.“Planting Garlic With Santiago” (short story), Ibid. 108-09.“Dried Sap and the Ugly Root” (poem), Shawangunk Review 14 (Spring 2003). 78.“This Wednesday’s Rain” (poem), Ibid. 79.“While the Light Fails on a Summer’s Evening in a Secluded Fog, History is Now andStresa (or This Western Wind)” (poem), Ibid. 80-81.Scholarly Papers pre-Misericordia UniversityConference Papers“Tracking, Hunting, and Religion: Ernest Hemingway & Under Kilimanjaro.” Paperread at the Sport Literature Association Conference in Monmouth, NJ (June26-29, 2013).“Strange Gods: Elizabeth Madox Roberts & T. S. Eliot.” Paper read at the 15th AnnualElizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield,Kentucky (April 20-22, 2013).“Elizabeth Madox Roberts and the Vision of Poetry.” Paper read at the South AtlanticModern Language Association Convention in Durham, NC (November 9-11,2012).“‘Al som de l’escalina’: T. S. Eliot & Ernest Hemingway.” Paper read at theAmerican Literature Association Symposium in New Orleans, LA (October 5-7,2012).“‘We’d take him fishing to the ’Voix tomorrow’: Hemingway, Chesterton, andCatholicism.” Paper read at the 15th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference inPetoskey, Michigan (June 17-22, 2012).“‘They thought they were their own shadows’: Catherine Aldington—Daughter ofRichard Aldington.” Paper read at the III International Imagism Conference& VII International Richard Aldington Society Conference, Les-Saintes-Mariesde-la-Mer, France (June 1-3, 2012).“‘Time flowed tightly . . . Outside, singing’: Yearning Toward Vision in the Poetry ofElizabeth Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren.” Paper read at the AnnualElizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield,Kentucky (April 21-23, 2012).“‘Loving the life he spills’: Blood at the Crossroads in Faulkner and Hemingway.” Paperread at the Faulkner & West Point at 50 Conference, West Point, NY (April19-21, 2012).“The ‘Act of Perception’ and ‘Creation of Form’ in Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” Paperread at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention inAtlanta, Georgia (November 4-6, 2011).“‘Then I began to love him more than anything on earth’: Hemingway’s Fishing andHunting Meditations.” Paper read at the 28th Annual Conference of the SportLiterature Association in Orono, ME, (June 22-25, 2011).“‘Can a song of a rose answer me?’: Wastelands, Mystic Agrarianism, and Prophecy inElizabeth Madox Roberts’ ‘The Prophet.’” Paper read at the AnnualElizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield,Kentucky (April 16-18, 2011).

10“‘In a world without supernatural sanctions’: Robert Penn Warren & ErnestHemingway.” Paper read at the Robert Penn Warren Circle 2011 conferencein Bowling Green, Kentucky (April 14-16, 2011).“‘Get God into it’: Roberts and Mysticism.” Paper read at the South AtlanticModern Language Association Convention in Atlanta, Georgia (November 7-9,2010).“Hymnagism and the Poetry of H. R. Stoneback.” Paper read at the SouthernWriting/Southern Writers Conference at the University of Mississippi, Oxford,Mississippi (July 15-17, 2010).“E. M. Roberts, Dark Nights, and Mysticism.” Paper read at the Annual ElizabethMadox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky(April 24-26, 2010).“The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway.” Paper read at the On MiracleGround XVI Lawrence Durrell Conference in New Orleans, LA (July 7-10,2010).“Stronger at the Alpine Places: ‘Grüss Gott’ Across Hemingway’s Mountain FaultLines.” Paper read at the 14th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference inLausanne, Switzerland (June 25-July 3, 2010).“Imagism & Hymnagism: Pound & Hemingway.” Paper read at the II InternationalImagism Conference & VI International Richard Aldington Society Conference,Brunnenburg Castle, Dorf Tirol, Italy (June 20-22, 2010).“Teaching Regional Fiction in Other Regions: How Cajuns Respond to Elizabeth MadoxRoberts.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language AssociationConvention, Atlanta, GA (November 6-8, 2009).“‘The most natural growth, indigenous to the soil’: Elizabeth Madox Roberts andFolklore.” Paper read at the Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts SocietyConference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky (April 18-20, 2009).“‘Local knowledge informs love’: John Burroughs, Groundhogs, Japanese Knotweed,and Conservation.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern LanguageAssociation Convention, Louisville, KY (November 7-9, 2008 ).“‘The Fire of the World’s Body’ or ‘I Saw the Light’: A Brief Glimpse into the Hymnodyof H. R. Stoneback.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern LanguageAssociation Convention, Louisville, KY (November 7-9, 2008 ).“‘Holy Rollers,’ ‘Change-of-Lifers,’ and The Virgin: Original Sin, Piety, and the‘Pilgrimage-Under-Duress’ in Hemingway’s ‘The Last Good Country.’” Paperread at the Nick Adams Society XVI Hemingway Conference “Hemingwayin the North Country,” Lake Placid & SUNY-Plattsburg, NY (October 8-11,2008).“Mistral’s Vast Ghost: Aldington’s Personal Landscape and Spirit of Provence.” Paperread at the V International Richard Aldington Society Conference, lesSaintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France (July 8-10, 2008).“At the Crossroads of Mysticism with Durrell and Stoneback: Questing After the DeusLoci into the Twenty-first Century.” Paper read at the On Miracle Ground XV“Lawrence Durrell at the Crossroads of Arts and Science” Conference of theInternational Lawrence Durrell Society at Universite Paris X, Paris, France (July1-4, 2008).

11“‘The Lovely Old Bird Man’: Burroughs, Nature Writing, and Modernism.” Paperread at Sharp Eyes V Conference, John Burroughs: Nature Writing andNineteenth Century Science at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (June 15-19,2008).“Across the Canal and into Kansas City: Hemingway’s Westward Composition ofAbsolution in Across the River and into the Trees.” Paper read at the 13thInternational Hemingway Society Conference in Kansas City, MO (June 9-15,2008).“Irregular sketchy outlines, like those of the landscape”: Birds and Poets, BovineMadness, John Burroughs, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” Paper read at the10th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg andSpringfield, Kentucky (April 19-21, 2008).“On Birds and Poets, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and John Burroughs.” Paper read atthe South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Atlanta, Georgia (November9-11, 2007).“Pound for Pound’s Sake: The Literary Relationship of Richard Aldington and EzraPound.” Paper read at the 22nd Ezra Pound International Conference inVenice, Italy (June 26-29, 2007).“‘Nothing is Lost’: The Recognition of Complicity and Communion in Deadwood.”Paper read at the 18th Annual Conference of the American LiteratureAssociation (ALA) in Boston, Massachusetts on the Robert Penn Warren panel(May 24-27, 2007).“‘In Spite of Their Simplicity’: The Tall Men in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s ‘Record atOak Hill.’” Paper read at the 9th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference inHarrodsburg, Kentucky (April 21-23, 2007).“How to Climb up the ‘Steps of Time’ into the ‘Fire of the World’s Body’; Or AnAnalysis of Robert Penn Warren’s Influence through Loyalty & Love, Joy &Language, Complicity & Communion in the Writing of H. R. Stoneback.” Paperread at the Robert Penn Warren Circle Annual Meeting in Bowling Green andGuthrie, Kentucky (April 19-20, 2007).“Mantegna’s Bitter ‘Nail Holes’ and that Revolutionary Dyspeptic ‘Old mount-to-thehead’: Hemingway’s Prescription as Revelational Force in ‘The Revolutionist’and ‘The Gambler, The Nun, and the Radio.’” Paper read at the New YorkCollege English Association Conference, SUNY-New Paltz, New York (April 1314, 2007 ).“At a Paella Picnic Over a Glass of Wine: Aldington & Eliot, Poetry & Pedantry,Lightheartedness & Love.” Paper read at The 4th International RichardAldington Society Conference in les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France (July 6-8,2006 ).“Doing ‘Lighthearted’ Everything a Man Could Do: Hemingway’s The DangerousSummer.” Paper read at “Hemingway in Andalusia,” 12th InternationalHemingway Conference in Malaga and Ronda, Spain (June 25-30, 2006).“‘Henceforth your name will be’ Felix Culpa: The Recognition of the Flesh, TheAcceptance of Sacrifice, and the Mystery of Magdalenian Salvation in ‘TheSacrifice of the Maidens.’” Paper read at 8th Annual Elizabeth MadoxRoberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (April 22-24, 2006 ).

12“‘A Normal, Human, Christian Impulse’: The Weight of Sin and Fear of Being BuriedAlive in Warren’s The Cave.” Paper read at Robert Penn Warren Circle AnnualMeeting in Bowling Green and Guthrie, Kentucky (April 21-23, 2006).“Finitives Weaving the Weary Wilderness: To Make a Garden in The Great Meadow.”Paper read at 7th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference inHarrodsburg, Kentucky (April 23-25, 2005).“The Night Flies and I See Heaven’s White Light Rising.” Paper read at The 3rdInternational Richard Aldington Society Conference in les Saintes-Maries-de-laMer, France (July 6-8, 2004).“‘On Writing,’ Holiness and Saintliness; What was Hemingway Doing?” Paper readat 11th International Hemingway Society Conference in Key West, Florida (June7-12, 2004).“The Importance of Story, Fantasy, and Myth Retold.” Paper read at the SUNY NewPaltz Graduate Symposium on Alien Genres, New Paltz, NY (April 2004).“In the Garden of Kentucky, By the Rivers of the Hudson, We As ‘Children of the Earth’Remember Eden.” Paper read at the 6th annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts SocietyConference in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (April 2004).“Place and Women in Tolkien and Lewis.” Paper read at Mythcon 34 in Nashville,Tennessee (July 25-28, 2003).“Place, Memory, and Hunger: Patterns in Roberts and Hemingway.” Paper read atthe 5th annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg,Kentucky (April 2003).“Rasselas and the Necessary Journey or Down From the Porch and Out Into theWorld.” Paper read at the 26th annual conference of the Northeast AmericanSociety for Eighteenth Century Studies in Manhattan, NY (October 2002).Creative Performances pre-Misericordia UniversityPoetry ReadingsFeatured poet at the Sport Literature Association Conference in Monmouth, NJ, June 2629, 2013.Featured opening reader at the Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, October 7, 2012.Kentucky Writers Day April 2012 at Penn’s Store, the world premiere of Kentucky: Poetsof Place.Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Festival in New Paltz, October 2011.SUNY-New Paltz Alumni Poetry Reading, September 2011.Poetry readings premiering Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology in 2010: at KentuckyWriters Day in Gravel Switch, KY and Brunnenburg Castle, Dorf Tirol, Italy.Des Hymnagistes featured poetry panel at the South Atlantic Modern LanguageAssociation Convention, Atlanta, GA, 2010.Featured reader at Off Square Books, Oxford, MS for the Southern Writing/SouthernWriters Conference at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi (2010).International Hemingway Conference poetry readings from 2004-2012.Participated in Three Kentucky Poets (In Exile) Poetry Reading at the South AtlanticModern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 7, 2009.Opening reader at Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, LA for featured poet H. R.Stoneback, 2009.

13Poetry Reading at the Imagism Conference at Brunnenburg Castle in Dorf Tirol, Italy,2007.Read poems and organized reading “Hymns and Poems,” SUNY-New Paltz, 2007.Participated in Robert Penn Warren Centennial, SUNY-New Paltz, 2005.Honors pre-Misericordia UniversityButterbean Award for Scholarship on the Poetry of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, ElizabethMadox Roberts Society. 2012.Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette NationalPanhellenic Council for outstanding contributions to academic achievement andpersonal growth of students. 2011.International Lawrence Durrell Society Prize for New Scholarship at the Durrell and theCity: Reconstructing the Urban Landscape Conference in New Orleans, LA.2010.Outstanding Volume of Poetry, II International Imagism Conference, Dorf Tirol, Italy.2010.Kentucky Writers Day: Contributions to poetry and Kentucky Literature. 2010.Honors and Outstanding Graduate, SUNY-New Paltz. May 2007.Outstanding Younger Hemingway Scholar, The Nick Adams Society, AmericanLiterature Association Conference at St. Botolph Cl

2 ENG 341: Imaginative Writing (Spring 2014) ENG 415: Christianity and Literature (Fall 2014) At the State University of New York at New Paltz: ENG 160: Composition I (Fall 2003-Fall 2006) ENG 180: Composition II (Fall 2011-Spring 2013, Spring2007) ENG 200: Analysis and Interpretation of Literature (Spring 2012)