The following is an excerpt of Old Main Journal, an e-communication from the President's office at Bethany College. The Rev. Dr. Larry Grimes is pastor of our Beech Bottom Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and a member of the Commission on Ministry in our region.
Dr. Grimes Presents at International Hemingway Conference
Dr. Larry Grimes, Perry E. and Aleece C. Gresham Chair in Humanities and Professor of English at Bethany College, has returned to campus after participating in the 13th Biennial International Hemingway Society Conference. The conference was held June 9-15 at the Marriott Country Club Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Grimes made two presentations — “Hemingway’s Afro-Cuban Novel: An Exercise in Multicultural Reading of The Old Man and the Sea” and “Close Reading in the Trenches or Entrenched Reading in the Closeness? Pleasures and Problems in Reading The Sun Also Rises.” He was also featured in roundtable discussions at several sessions and served as moderator for Session VII, “Teaching The Old Man and the Sea.”
