Having completed Mothers of Invention , Faust has no immediate plans to investigate southern women any further. Instead, she has begun a new research project. Last fall, on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, she gave a lecture at Gettysburg. The Civil War had a death toll unequaled in any other American war. How it affected their view of the purposes of life.
Death raises questions from the most material to the most spiritual levels.
In her acceptance speech for the Ira Abrams teaching award, Faust was eloquent in defending the interdependency of research and teaching. I might be at a conference or in the archives and have less time to spend marking papers. On a more profound level, there is the fact that we are all engaged in an enterprise together. All of us both teach and learn. We become partners in an equation of mutual participation.