<strong>Gary</strong> M. <strong>Ciuba</strong> Page 8CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SESSIONS CHAIRED (continued)“ 'Like a Boulder Blocking Your Path': O’Connor’s Skandalon in The Violent Bear It Away,”The Violent and the Sacred in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction, Northeast ModernLanguage Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 17-18, 1998.Panelist, “Research in Progress/Research Needed,” Katherine Anne Porter Session,American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, May 30-June 2,1996.“ 'If I Am to Be the Heroine <strong>of</strong> this Novel': Desire, Deceit, and Porter’s ‘Old Mortality,' ”Katherine Anne Porter Session, American Literature Association Conference, SanDiego, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, May 30-June 2, 1996.Chair, “Walker Percy: Signifying Race,” Modern Language Association Convention,Chicago, Illinois, December 27-30, 1995.“‘One Singer Left to Mourn’: Death and Discourse in Porter’s ‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider,’ ”Death and the Southern Novel, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville,Kentucky, February 23-25, 1995.“No More <strong>for</strong> Azazel: <strong>Ph</strong>armakos and <strong>Ph</strong>armakon in The Thanatos Syndrome,” WalkerPercy Panel, American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, June1-5, 1994.“McCarthy’s Enfant Terrible: Mimetic Desire and Sacred Violence in Child <strong>of</strong> God,” FirstConference on Cormac McCarthy, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky, October15-17, 1993.“The Worm to Attack the Word: Hermeneutical Failure in Hurston’s Jonah's Gourd Vine,”Crossroads <strong>of</strong> Culture: Southern American Studies Association Conference, NewOrleans, Louisiana, February 25-28, 1993.“Percy’s Art as Device: A Novelist’s Dialogue with Russian Formalism,” Walker Percy:The Confluence <strong>of</strong> Art and Science, Modern Language Association Convention, SanFrancisco, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, December 27-30, 1991.“Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings: Time as Confluence,” Inventing the Past: Power,Politics, Poetics, Southern American Studies Association Conference, Williamsburg,Virginia, February 14-17, 1991.“Percy’s Enchanted Mountain,” Walker Percy: Faith, Fiction, and <strong>Ph</strong>ilosophy, Sandbjerg,Denmark, July 30 - August 4, 1989.“Percy’s Late, Late Show,” Regional Voices: Soundings from the Extended University,Kent State, March 10, 1989.“City at the End <strong>of</strong> the World: New Orleans and the New Jerusalem in The Moviegoer,”Walker Percy’s New Orleans as City <strong>of</strong> God and City <strong>of</strong> Man, Modern LanguageAssociation Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 28, 1988.
<strong>Gary</strong> M. <strong>Ciuba</strong> Page 9CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SESSIONS CHAIRED (continued)“Percy’s Novels to Make All Things New,” <strong>English</strong> Department Colloquium Series, KentState University, April 1988.“Miserable Stardom: Film Romantics in Percy’s Fiction,” Twelfth Annual Colloquium onLiterature and Film, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, October1987.“The Critique <strong>of</strong> Christianity and Kerygma <strong>of</strong> D. H. Lawrence in The Man Who Died,” D.H. Lawrence: From Eastwood to Taos, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NewJersey, April 1985.Chair, “Lawrence in America,” D. H. Lawrence: From Eastwood to Taos, Seton HallUniversity, South Orange, New Jersey, April 1985.“Albee's Descent <strong>of</strong> Man: Generational Conflict and Evolutionary Change,” Mid-HudsonMLA, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, November 1982.Chair, “Modern Drama,” Mid-Hudson MLA, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York,November 1981.“Ritual in Our Town,” Mid-Hudson MLA, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York,November 1980.“The Widow in Modern British Drama,” Mid-Hudson MLA, Marist College, Poughkeepsie,New York, November 1979.BOARD MEMBERSHIPSEditorial Advisory Board, Flannery O'Connor Review, 2000-present.Coordinating Committee, Walker Percy Society, 1994-2004.PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPSModern Language AssociationNortheast Modern Language AssociationSociety <strong>for</strong> the Study <strong>of</strong> Southern LiteratureSouthern American Studies AssociationKatherine Anne Porter SocietyWalker Percy Society