Mentoring Breakfast Table Topics (in alphabetical order): “The Demands of Service: Tips for Time Management and Burn-Out” - Facilitated by Barb McKaskill Digital Humanities I: “How to learn more about DH and how to develop a DH project” - Facilitated by Paul Ohler Digital Humanities II: “Archives and Other Digital Projects” - Facilitated by Martha Nell Smith “Flourishing in Alternative Careers for PhDs” - Facilitated by Gail K. Smith “Forming Societies – Authors and Areas” - Facilitated by Sharon Harris and Sarah Olivier “Getting over ‘Associate:’ Promotion to Full Professor” - Facilitated by Karen Kilcup “The Job Search” - Facilitated by Heidi Hanrahan and Rickie-Ann Legleitner “Motherhood and the Academic Career” - Facilitated by Phyllis Cole and Miranda “The Online Academic Presence – Social and Professional Websites” - Facilitated by Campbell and Kristin Jacobson Publishing I: “Peer-reviewed articles” - Facilitated by Shirley Samuels Publishing II: “The Book Project” - Facilitated by Koritha Mitchell “Retirement: Planning and Working - Facilitated by Susan K. Harris “Why go into administration? - Considerations of the Administrative Track” - Facilitated by Deb Clarke and Sarah Robbins “Working in Women’s Studies” - Facilitated by Kimberly Brown Wednesday - Registration Desk will be open from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 Wednesday Special Welcome Roundtable Sessions 5:00 – 6:15 Syllabus Exchange Roundtable
Mary McCarthy’s The Group" Phoebe Jackson, William Paterson University, “’Most of Them Did the Best They Could’: Narrating the Lives of Working-Class Women in Elizabeth Strout’s Amy and Isabelle” Session 1-I TR (7:30 – 9) Advisory Breakfast 10:00 – 11:20 TR Session 2-A TR Crossing Boundaries Chair: Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta Elizabeth Decker, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Edith Summers Kelley: Beyond Weeds” Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta, “The Hybrid Yankee: Elinor Graham’s Our Way Down East” Sarah C. Holmes, New England Institute of Technology, “Recovery and Resistance: Alice Beal Parsons’s ‘Triumph’” Maribel Morales, Carthage College, “Mary Austin’s Lucia: A Feminist Text Rediscovered” Session 2-B TR Liminal Persons, Wild Lives: American Women from Pre-Revolution to Post- Reconstruction Chair and Organizer: Lucas Hardy, Youngstown State University Joshua Bartlett, University at Albany, “‘the groundless raging Sea’: Littoral Spaces and Liminal Persons in Phillis Wheatley’s ‘On Messrs Hussey and Coffin’” Lucas Hardy, Youngstown State University, “‘For my Thoughts are not your Thoughts’: Mary Rowlandson’s Idea of Pain” Kuiken, El Museo del Barrio, New York City, “‘Fit to be Free’: On Being a Person in Jewett’s ‘Mistress of Sydenham Plantation’” Michael Monescalchi, Rutgers University, “The Wilderness is Within: Ann Eliza Bleecker and the Nature of Melancholy” Session 2-C TR American Women Writers and Their Travels Society for American Travel Writing Panel Chair: Melanie Scriptunas, Independent Scholar
Communities in Mina Loy’s Late Fiction and Poetry” Dylan Winchock, Palomar College, “The Ritualistic and Transformative Power of Interstices in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place” AV Session 5-E TR “Blood-Stained Walls of Silence:” Perspectives on Women in the Liminal Space of Captivity - Roundtable and Organizer: Courtney Polidori, The College of New Jersey Samantha Atzeni, The College of New Jersey, “’Closed’ Women and the Use of Visual Iconography as Feminine Storytelling Space” Shelia Warner, Bluefield State College, “A Historical Perspective on the Incarceration of Women” Heather Fox, University of Florida, “Writing One’s Self Out: Subverting Captivity in Sociohistorical Narratives” Courtney Polidori, The College of New Jersey, “’I Cried After Each Episode:’ Women Prison Writers on Orange is the New Black” AV Session 5-F TR White American Women Writers at Extremes Chair: Vorris Nunley, UC-Riverside Organizer: Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton College Emily E. VanDette, State University of New York at Fredonia, “From Inclusion to Erasure: The Extremes of Fred Lewis Pattee’s Treatment of the Woman Author” Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton College, “American Women Writers on the Edge: Contemporary Adrenaline Narratives” Beth Capo, Illinois College, “Extreme Sex: Contemporary American Women Writers and Transgressive Sexualities” Emily VanDuyne, Stockton College, “‘A piece of burned meat wears my clothes’: Contemporary American Women Writers and Extreme Illness” Session 5-G TR 19th-century Liminal Spaces Chair: Claudia Stokes, Trinity University Marek Wilczynski, University of Gdansk, Poland, “Liminal Spaces in Annie Trumbull Slosson’s Local Color Fiction”
Mallory Findlay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “In Between Desire and Fulfillment: Reason and Emotion in Mary Wilkins Freeman and Kate Chopin Margaret Jay Jessee, University of Alabama at Birmingham, “A Literary Space: Nineteenth Century Women Physician Characters” Sean Gerrity, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Marooned in the Garret: Liminal Spaces and the Politics of Fugitivity in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” Session 5-H TR Ways of Telling the War Chair: Shirley Samuels, Cornell University Emily Waples, University of Michigan, “Conditioned Nature: Sarah Dorsey’s Civil War Fiction of Susceptibility” Sherry Shindelar, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "Battlefield Transgressions to Wedded Bliss" Kirsten Paine, University of Pittsburgh, “The [In]Visible Female Soldier: Sarah Emma Edmonds and Louisa May Alcott's Access to Military Bodies” Emily Anderson, University at Buffalo, "East Meets South: Sources for Sarah Piatt's Civil War Poetry" Session 5-I TR Race and Adaptations in Children’s Literature Lisa A. Kirby, Collin College Linda Trinh Moser, Missouri State University, “Pioneer Girls: Hybrid Migrations in Bich Minh Nguyen's Adaptation of Ingalls Wilder's ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Books” Shawna McDermott, University of Pittsburgh, “A 'Wild and Fantastic Grace': Race, Childhood, and Early American Nationalism in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie” Lisa A. Kirby, Collin College, “Meridel Le Sueur’s Wilderness: McCarthyism, Children’s Literature, and Re-envisioning America” - Chat with an editor session - Nicholas More Alcove 4:00 – 5:15 TR Session 6-A TR The Personal Economics of Sympathy Chair: Barbara Baumgartner, Washington University Organizer: Alison Tracy Hale, University of Puget Sound
Session 7-E FR Beyond Normativity: Black and Queer Women Writing the City Chair: Kimberly N. Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University Organizer: Jennifer Williams, Morgan State University Jennifer Williams, Morgan State University, “(Wo)Man of the House: Home Ownership and Gender Nonnormativity in Kristin Hunter’s God Bless the Child” Eve Dunbar, Vassar College, “Possessed by the Easy Life: Specter Capitalism, Race and Gender in Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy” Julie Nerad, Morgan State University, “The City Edition: The Feminist/Queer Alliance in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground” AV Session 7-F FR. Prison Narratives in American Women’s Writing Chair: Judith Scheffler, West Chester University Barbara Baumgartner, Washington University, “Confronting Gender and Race in a Liminal Space: Reading American Women Writers in a Men’s Prison” Judith Scheffler, West Chester University, “Refined 'in the furnace of affliction': Prison Visitors as Authors of Female Inmates' Spiritual Narratives” Michele Lise Tarter, College of New Jersey, "Life Sentences: Writing with Wisewomen behind Bars" AV Session 7-G FR To Be or Not to Be (Married) in Catharine Sedgwick’s Fiction Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Panel Chair: Deborah Gussman, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Michelle Gaffner Wood, Cedarville University, “Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Fiction” Christine Payson, Tufts University, “Refusing Leah’s Portion: Esther Downing, History, and Marriage in Hope Leslie” Jordan Von Cannon, Louisiana State University, “Neither Married Nor Single: Sedgwick's Alternate Paths of Female Development” Session 7-H FR Rebecca Harding Davis, Marriage Reform, and U.S. Policies on ‘Indian’ Reform Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World Panel
the Liminal West” Catherine Forsa, Case Western Reserve University, “Sensing Two Worlds: The Liminal Body in Mary Antin” Session 8-C FR From Margin to Center: Native American Women Writers Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL) Panel Chair: Cari Carpenter, West Virginia University Olivier, University of Denver, “Transformation as a Trope of Resistance in The Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston” Cari M. Carpenter, West Virginia University, “Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins in the Classroom: The Newspaper Archive” Jonathan Wilson, Ashford University, “Spaces of Continuation, Preservation, and Belonging: Louise Erdrich’s Concepts of Home” Isabel Dulfano, University of Utah, “From Erdrich's Shadow Tag to La Malinche- Native/Indigenous Feminism coming into the light” AV Session 8-D FR In between the Public and Private in Chicana Cultural Production and Organizer: Elena Avilés, Portland State University Norma A. Valenzuela, Kansas State University, “In-Between Public and Private: Chican@/Latin@ Transnacionales in Search of Home” Sandra Ruiz, UCLA, “La mujer en llamas: Lucha Corpi's Decolonial Movidas in Black Widow's Wardrobe Roybal, University of New Mexico, “Concealed Under (Petti)Coats: Defying Patriarchal Authority on the Border” Elena Avilés, Portland State University, Living with an “In-between” Tongue: Understanding Public/Private Language Politics in Contemporary Chicana Literature AV Session 8-E FR Networks, New Media, and New Forms in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Chair: Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College
Chair: Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia Organizer: Jean Marie Lutes, Villanova University Jean Lutes, Villanova University, “What Lily Bart has in Common with ‘Paul’s Case’: The Syndication of Intimacy in Wharton and Cather” Lisa Mendelman, UCLA, “Irony and Ambivalence: Gendered Forms in Interwar America” Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina, “‘A Visceral Femininity’: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Aesthetics of Adulteration” Session 15-B-SA U.S./Pakistani Relations: Moving from Liminal Space to Literary Engagement Chair: Susan K. Harris, University of Kansas Organizer: Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University Tehreem Aurakzai, Kinnaird College, “Border Trauma Sensitization: A Sojourn from Grande’s El Otro Lado to The Unnamed Mantoesque Earth” Kanza Javed, Kinnaird College, “The Lost Generation of the East: Gendered Narratives of Ambiguous Belonging and Displacement in Pakistani American Immigrant Writing” Mahwish Khan, Kinnaird College, “Internationalizing the Teaching of US American Literature in Pakistan: Immigrant Writings, Transnational Theory, and Empathy” Session 15-C SA Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives: The Status of African American Women Writers in the American Literary Canon Chair: Miranda A. Green-Barteet, University of Western Ontario Shirley Moody-Turner, The Pennsylvania State University, “Beyond American Literary Canons: Palimpsest and Liminal Textuality in Anna Julia Cooper’s Re-visioning of The First Fifty” Nicole Stamant, Agnes Scott College, “‘Ambivalence,’ Hybridity, and Racial Liminality in Shirlee Taylor Haizlip’s The Sweeter the Juice” Kimberly N. Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University, “‘One Bad Bitch’?: Morality Narratives and the New Cult of True Black Womanhood in Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter (1999)” AV Session 15-D SA Feminist Lineages and Legacies in Women’s Writing Chair: Carol Quirke, SUNY Old Westbury Organizer: Linda M. Grasso, York College and CUNY Graduate Center