Southwest Region
Regional director: Karen Youmans, Oklahoma Baptist University (Karen.Youmans@okbu.edu)
Southwest 2010 Regional Conference
Christian Literary Values and the Changing Print Culture
More than 65 people attended the Southwest 2010 Regional conference, which was held in conjunction with the 6th annual McBride Lecture for Faith & Literature at Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City. Sixty-two presentations were made at the conference, which was held Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2010. Dana Gioia delivered the conference plenary lecture on "Literacy, Literature, and the Individual: Transforming the Quality of Personal Character."
Papers exploring the Christian Literary Scholarship of Ralph C. Wood were presented in plenary sessions by eight of his former students now teaching at universities around the country. A reception was held in his honor, and he received commemorative plaques both from his students and from SWCCL.
For more information, contact the Program Chair: Merle Gatewood, Department of Language and Literature, Oklahoma Christian University, Box 11000, Oklahoma City, OK 73136-1100, merle.gatewood@oc.edu.
2009 Regional Conference
Phillip Donnelly of Baylor University was the keynote speaker at the 2009 meeting, which was titled "From Lesser Lights to Greater: Grace and Literary Traditions." The conference was held October 1-3 at Houston Baptist University.
2008 Regional Conference
Gregory Wolfe provided the keynote address to at the 2008 Southwest Regional conference, which met October 2-3 at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Almost 100 people attended the meeting, and dozens of papers were delivered on various aspects of the conference theme, "Christianity and the Things of This World."
The 2007 Regional Conference
titled "Alarming Necessities": Taste, Reading, and Theology, met September 28-29, 2007, in Arlington, Texas. The conference was hosted by Dallas Baptist University and featured keynote speakers Steven Prickett and Frank Burch Brown.
The 2006 Regional Conference
met Sept. 28-30 concurrently with Inscription: A Conference on the Christian Teaching of Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature, at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. Speakers included Jill Baumgaertner, David Jeffrey, and David Naugle.
2005 Regional Conference
The Southwest CCL Region held its 2005 meeting at the University of Texas, Brownsville. The keynote speaker was Ruben Martinez, author of The Other Side, Crossing Over, and The New Americans.