FPR Conference Registration Now Open

The 2021 FPR conference theme is “After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods.” We’ll gather on October 16 at Middle Tennessee State University. The keynote speaker will be Andrew Bacevich, who…

The 2021 FPR conference theme is “After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods.” We’ll gather on October 16 at Middle Tennessee State University. The keynote speaker will be Andrew Bacevich, who recently wrote The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory and edited American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition. Other speakers include Bill Kauffman, Jason Peters, Jeremy Beer, Brian Volck, Rachel Ferguson, and Michael Federici. A full schedule will be posted soon. We’ll update this page with details over the coming weeks.

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Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro is a Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. His books include Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (written with Jack Baker), and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms.