Go to Invited Presentations * Go to Local Presentations CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS 2017“The Frenchwoman Dépaysée: Edith Wharton, Gabrielle Landormy, and Transnational Identities.” Session: Literature, Drama, and Transnational Identities. Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. Bordeaux, France. 5-8 July 2017.“Charity Goes to the Movies: Cinema, Citizenship, and Modernity in Edith Wharton's Summer.” Session: Edith Wharton’s Summer. Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA. 5-8 January 2017. 2016"Breaking into the Movies": Scenario Writing, Sentiment, and the Middlebrow Authorship of Rose Wilder Lane and Winifred Eaton Reeve (Onoto Watanna).” Special Session: “First Encounters: Early Cinema and American Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association 18. Pasadena, CA. 17-20 November 2016. “Sunset Magazine and the New Western Woman.” Seminar: Women in Periodical Culture. MSA18. “Edith Wharton’s Suspense Theater: Naturalism and Gothic Modernism in the 1920s Stories.” Society for the Study of the American Short Story Conference. Savannah, GA. 20-22 October 2016. “The Story of an Arm: Jack London and Edith Wharton.” Jack London Society Symposium, Napa, CA. 15-19 September 2016. “Cherry.” Panel: “Jack London’s Last Year.” JLS, Napa, CA. 15-19 September 2016. “Henry Ward Beecher’s ‘Children': Celebrity Ministers in Harold Frederic, Ellen Glasgow, and Edith Wharton.” Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Conference. Spokane, WA. 24-25 June 2016. “The Case of Lily Bart, Hoarder.” Wharton in Washington Conference. Washington, D. C. 2-4 June 2016. “Digital Wharton.” Roundtable participant on CWEW panel. Wharton in Washington Conference. Washington, D. C. 2-4 June 2016. “Jack London’s Marriage Revolution: Sex and Spiritualism in ‘Planchette’ and The Little Lady of the Big House. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Seattle, WA. 22-25 March 2016. 2015“Women with Weapons: Edith Wharton, Knitting, and Maker Culture.” Panel: Lives Welded and Woven. Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 4-8 November 2015. Chair and organizer. “Preparing a Single-Author Edition: A Roundtable Discussion on the Complete Works of Edith Wharton (CWEW).” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 4-8 November. “The Victim as Vampire: Gothic Naturalism in the White Slave Narrative.” Session: Haunting Realities. American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 21-24 May 2015. Digital Wharton Symposium Speaker. https://digitalstudies.camden.rutgers.edu/2015/03/25/digital-wharton-brainstorming-symposium/Rutgers University-Camden, New Jersey. April 17, 2015. “Batterman Lindsay and Pacific Northwest Native American Culture.” Special Session: “Recovering Pacific Northwest Women Writers.” Presidential Theme Panel. Organizer: Laura Laffrado, Western Washington University. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Vancouver, BC. 7-11 January 2015. 2014“Writing Jack London’s Northland: Elizabeth Robins’s Klondike Diaries.” Jack London Symposium. Berkeley, CA. 29 October-2 November 2014. "Bohemian Time: Mary Austin, Willa Cather, and the Contradictions of Temporal Modernity.” Centuries in Common: Traversing 1900. American Literature Association Conference. Washington, D.C. 22-25 May 2014. “Wasted Bodies: Poverty, Disability, and Cinematic Naturalism in Wharton, Crane, and Early Film.” MLA Special Session: Poverty and Naturalism. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Chicago, IL. 9-12 January 2014. 2013"California and the “Super-woman”: Mary Austin, Jack London, and The Little Lady of the Big House.” Western American Literature Conference. Berkeley, CA. 9-12 October 2013. “Undercover in San Francisco: Miriam Michelson and Frank Norris in Chinatown.” Undercover America. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Boston, MA. 3-6 January 2013. 2012“The Revenge of the Repressed: Citizenship and Resistance in the Stories of Elia Peattie, Kate M. Cleary, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. Denver, CO. 10-13 October 2012. “Reforming San Francisco: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Drunkard’s Dilemma in Frank Norris and Emma Pow Bauder.” C19 Americanists Conference. Berkeley, CA. 12-16 April 2012. Invited Participant. "What's Still Missing? What Now? What Next? A Roundtable on Digital Archives in American Literature." Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century American Literature Division Panel. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Seattle, WA. 5-8 January 2012. Session Organizer and Participant. "The Sidewalks of New York: Edith Wharton's Slum Stories and Early Cinema." Technologies of the Real: Early Cinematic Naturalism in Norris, London, and Wharton. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Seattle, WA. 5-8 January 2012. "Jack London and the 'Super-Woman': Mary Austin's A Woman of Genius and London's The Little Lady of the Big House." Jack London Biennial Symposium. Logan, UT. 3-6 October 2012. - Panel participant, "New Directions in London Studies." - Panel participant, "My Favorite Jack London Essay." 2011“Women and Naturalism.” Roundtable on The Oxford Handbook of American Naturalism. American Literature Association Conference. 26-29 May 2011. Boston, MA. “Teaching Stephen Crane.” Stephen Crane Roundtable. American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 26-29 May 2011. Chair and Co-Organizer with Bernard Koloski. “Author Society Web Sites.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 26-29 May 2011. "The Frenchwoman Dépaysée: Edith Wharton’s French Ways and Their Meaning, Gabrielle Landormy, and the Transnational Body." Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Los Angeles, CA. 6-9 January 2011. 2010"Street Language: Wisecracking Modernism in Pre-Code Films." “Classical Sound Film and Cultures of Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Victoria. British Columbia. 11-14 November 2010. “’Have you read my ‘Christ’ story?’: Mary Austin’s The Man Jesus, London’s The Star Rover, and the “Bone-Headed” Masses.” Jack London Biennial Symposium. Santa Rosa, CA. 4-6 November 2010. “’The Greatest Pathos and the Highest Tragedy’: W. D. Howells’s Letters to Harvey Greene.” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. 27-30 May 2010. - Session Organizer and Panel Chair for Theodore Dreiser Society Sessions. “W. D. Howells’s Civil War.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Spokane, WA. 16-17 April 2010. 2009“Making an American Citizen: Teaching Citizenship in Social Problem Films of the Progressive Era.” Visual Productions of Citizenship in American Culture. American Studies Association Conference. Washington, D.C. 5-9 November 2009. “She don’t want no ‘doptin’ of yours”: Stealing Children in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Annals of ‘Steenth Street” and Ann Petry’s The Street.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 22-24 October 2009. “Edith Wharton’s “Book of the Grotesque”: Sherwood Anderson, Modernism, and the Late Stories.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 21-25 May 2009. - Respondent for Hamlin Garland panel on Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly, featuring Donald Pizer and Stephen Brennan. ALA 2009. - Panel Chair and Session Organizer for Theodore Dreiser Society sessions. ALA 2009. “Thoreau in the Suburbs: Transcendentalism in Douglas Sirk’s All that Heaven Allows.” Film panel. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference (RMMLA). Snowbird, UT. 8-10 October 2009. “Land, Revenge, and Redemption in the Western Stories of Mary Hallock Foote and Rose Wilder Lane.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference (PNASA). Lincoln City, OR. 16-18 April 2009. “It could have been any street”: Ann Petry’s The Street and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s In ‘Steenth Street Stories.’ International MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Conference. Spokane, WA. 2-5 April 2009. 2008“Claiming California: Land Use, Speculation, and the Pioneer Myth in Jack London’s and Rose Wilder Lane’s California Novels.” Jack London Biennial Symposium. Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. 8-10 October 2008. “Edith Wharton Meets Aquaman: The Glimpses of the Moon and Imperiled Male Culture in Entourage.” “Wharton in Popular Culture.” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. 24-28 May 2008. “What Charity Saw: Edith Wharton’s Summer and the Progressive Era Social Problem Film.” Edith Wharton and History Conference. Lenox. MA. 26-28 June 2008. “Teaching Stephen Crane’s The Monster.” Stephen Crane Panel. American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. 24-28 May 2008. “’Where are my children?’: Pregnancy and Abortion in the Progressive Era Film.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference (PNASA). Walla Walla, WA. 8-10 April 2008. 2007“Love in Leisure Spaces: Tourism, Courtship, and Marriage in The Coast of Bohemia and An Open-Eyed Conspiracy.” William Dean Howells Society Session. American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 24-27 May 2007. “’National Housekeeping’ and the Industrial Home: The Child Worker in Lillie Chace Wyman’s Reform Fiction.” Pacific Northwest American Studies (PNASA) Association, Portland, OR. 27-28 April 2007. 2006“Narcissism for the Nation: Undine Spragg and Patriotism in The Custom of the Country.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Philadelphia, PA. 27-30 December 2006. - Session Organizer and Chair. “Nation, Race, and Citizenship in Edith Wharton’s Works.” “A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick’s Out of Bohemia.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 7-11 November 2006. “Digital Americanists: American Literature Site.” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. 27-30 May 2006. “Disrupting the Transracial Romance in the Stories of Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Spokane, WA. 14-15 April 2006. 2005Session Organizer and Chair. "French Ways and Their Meaning: Consuming, Collecting, and French Identity in Edith Wharton." MLA Annual Convention. 27-30 December 2005. "Society Novel" or Social Critique?: Wharton's House of Mirth, David Graham Phillips's The Social Secretary, and Frank Norris's The Pit." Edith Wharton Conference: Celebrating the Centenary of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Poughkeepsie, NY. 23-25 June 2005. “Relative Truths: Father Forbes and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Priesthood.” Session: Rediscovery of Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware. Invited paper. American Literature Association. Boston, MA. 27-30 May 2005. - Session Organizer and Chair, Hamlin Garland Session. "Daughters of Bohemia: 1890s Novels of the Woman Artist." Nineteenth-Century American Literature Panel. Rocky Mountain MLA Annual Conference (RMMLA). Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 20-22 October 2005. “Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman: An Early Naturalist?" Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Portland, OR. 14-16 April 2005. 2004"The Expatriate as Nation-Builder: Rose Wilder Lane's 'Little House' in 1920s Albania." Modernist Studies Association. Vancouver, BC. 21-24 October 2004. Session chair and panel organizer. American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco. 27-30 May 2004. --Edith Wharton's short fiction session organizer and chair. -- Hamlin Garland session organizer and chair. "More than a Family Resemblance? Agnes Crane’s “A Victorious Defeat” and Stephen Crane’s The Third Violet." Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference (PNASA). Warm Springs, OR. 16-17 April 2004. "The Strength of the Stubborn: Disastrous Naming in 'Samuel' and Rose Terry Cooke’s 'Freedom Wheeler’s Controversy with Providence.'” Jack London Biennial Symposium. Santa Rosa, CA. 23-25 May 2004. 2003“Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman: Regionalism and Social Justice.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. Fort Worth, Texas. 24-28 September 2003. “It is a kind of exile, isn’t it?”: Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, and the Place of the Literary Expatriate.” Edith Wharton in London: 2003. London, England. 14-17 July 2003. 2002"Kinetoscopic Realism: Technology, Silent Film, and the Teaching of Naturalism.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. New York, NY. 27-30 December 2002. “Miss Lulu Bett from Novel to Film.” American Literature Association Conference. Long Beach, CA. 30 May -2 June 2002. - Session Organizer and Chair. Stephen Crane Society Sessions, ALA 2002. “Lane, Wharton, Fisher, and the Politics of Home.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference (PNASA). Spokane, WA. 18-20 April 2002. 2001"William Dean Howells and Mary Wilkins Freeman." American Literature Association Conference. Cambridge, MA. 24-27 May 2001. - Session Organizer and Chair. Stephen Crane Society Sessions, ALA 2001. "Figures of Nationhood: Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country and Robert Grant's Unleavened Bread." Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference. San Antonio, Texas. 14-18 February 2001. 2000“Cloisters of Childhood: Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Architecture of Race.” Southern Women Writers and the Short Story: Place, Gender, Genre. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Washington, D. C. 27-30 December 2000. “’Home Fires’ and After: Region, Memory, and the Great War in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Deepening Stream.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Washington, D.C. 27-30 December 2000. “The New Woman and the Tragic Muse: Agency and Artistry in "The Muse's Tragedy," The Custom of the Country, and Robert Grant's Unleavened Bread.” Edith Wharton at Newport: 2000 Conference. Newport, Rhode Island. 21-25 June 2000. "He Was a Man": Rose Wilder Lane's Jack London.” American Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, California. 25-28 May 2000.
“Edith Wharton as Muckraker? The Fruit of the Tree and the Social Problem Novel.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Moscow, Idaho. 20-22 April 2000. 1999"Imagining Albania in America: Rose Wilder Lane and the Politics of 'Home.'" Still at Issue: Legacies of Progressive Era Women. American Studies Association International Conference. Montreal, Quebec. 28-31 October 1999. "Taking Tips and Losing Class: Challenging the Service Economy in Mildred Pierce." Panel: “Whose Modernism?: Class Resistance, the Body, and Depression-Era Fiction.” Modernist Studies Association Conference, State College, PA. 7-10 October 1999. "Revisioning Pastoral Romance: Hamlin Garland's Rose of Dutcher's Coolly and Edith Wharton's Summer. American Literature Association. Baltimore, Maryland. 27-30 May 1999. "The (American) Muse's Tragedy: Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Jack London." Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Lincoln City, Oregon. 8-10 April 1999. 1998Edith Wharton and her 1920s Contemporaries. Session Organizer and Chair for Affiliated Organization Session (Edith Wharton Society). Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. San Francisco, California. 27-30 December 1998. "Beyond 'the sunbonnets': Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and the New Western Heroine." Western Literature Association. Banff, Alberta. 15-17 October 1998. "'The Muse's Tragedy' and the Eternal Triangle: Jack London and Edith Wharton." Jack London Society Biennial Symposium. Huntington Library, Pasadena, California. 7-11 October 1998. "New Perspectives on The Damnation of Theron Ware." American Literature Association Conference. San Diego, California. 27-30 May 1998. "Stepping Westward: Edna Ferber, Rose Wilder Lane, and Domestic Regional Fiction." Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 9-11 April 1998. 1997Respondent for Panel on American Women Writers of the 1920s. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Toronto, Ontario. 27-30 December 1997. "Domesticating Trilby: Frank Norris and the Naturalistic Art Novel." Sixth International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism. Los Angeles, California. 23-25 October 1997. "Frank Norris: Apprenticeship Writings." Panel presentation. American Literature Association Convention. Baltimore, MD. 22-25 May 1997. "'The Blue Juniata': Native American Voices in Little House on the Prairie." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NEMLA). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 20-22 April 1997. 1996"Jewett and the Naturalists: The Country of the Pointed Firs Meets the 'Masculine Principle.' Sarah Orne Jewett and Her Contemporaries: The Centennial Conference. Portland, Maine. 21-23 June 1996. "From Balcony Stories to Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School: Tales of Childhood in Southern Regional Fiction." Southern Women Writers Conference. Rome, GA. 12-14 April 1996. "Women with Weapons: Feminine Culture and Male Liberation in Martin Eden, George's Mother, and Vandover and the Brute." Jack London Society Biennial Symposium. Santa Rosa, CA. 2-5 October 1996. Organizer and Session Chair. "Edith Wharton: Shorter Fiction." Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Montreal, Quebec. 19-20 April 1996. 1995"Reading Class in Mildred Pierce." Conference on Working Class Lives. Youngstown, OH. 9-11 June 1995. "Neglected Masterpiece: Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, and Susan Lenox." Edith Wharton at Yale Conference. New Haven. 28-30 April 1995. "Competing Voices: Wild Men and Narrative Disruption in Little House on the Prairie." Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature in Nashville, TN. 20-22 April 1995. 1994Moderator for panel on "Community in the City and Suburb." Panel participants: Blanche Gelfant, Katherine Joslin, Wyn Kelley. American Literature Association Convention. San Diego, CA. 3-5 June 1994. "Harold Frederic's 'Hybrid Female': The Damnation of Theron Ware and the Transformation of Realism." Central New York Papers on Language and Literature. Cortland, NY. 16-18 October 1994. "Edith Wharton and the 'Authoresses': The Critique of Local Color in Wharton's Early Fiction." Northeast MLA Convention (NEMLA). Pittsburgh, PA. 8-10 April 1994. 1993"Rewriting the 'rose and lavender pages': Edith Wharton and Women's Local Color Fiction." American Literature Division Section Session: "Gender, Regionalism, and Realism: American Literature, 1880-1920." MLA Annual Convention. Toronto, Ontario. 27-30 December 1993. 1991"Sentimental Convention and Self-Protection: Little Women and The Wide, Wide World." Central New York MLA Conference in Cortland, New York. 20-22 October 1991. Computers and WritingThe Harcourt Brace Guide to Teaching Writing with Computers. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Print. Commissioned work. "The Computer-Based Writing Classroom." Chapter 6 of the Instructor's Manual and Answer Key to Accompany The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Fourteenth Edition and Instructor's Manual and Answer Key to Accompany Hodges' Harbrace Handbook, Fourteenth Edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001. 121-157 and 122-157. Print. Commissioned work. "Risky Business: Directing the Computerized Writing Lab." Joint presentation with Patricia Terry. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention (RMMLA). Spokane, WA. 20-21 October 1995. "Teaching Process, Testing Product: Computer-Based Classrooms and the Traditional Writing Exam." Joint Presentation with Anthony Hughes. SUNY Council on Writing Conference. Niagara Falls, NY. 23-24 April 1993. "Peer Review Strategies and the Writing Process." Communications Chair, Session Chair, and Paper Presentation. SUNY Council on Writing Conference. Buffalo, NY. New York. 20-22 April 1990. Interviews “The Secret Life of Edith Wharton.” Young Indy Documentaries. Jak Films, Inc. Prod. Betsy Bayha. Lucasfilm, 2007. Interviews on Jack London for a film documentary on the author. Million Images films, producers of PBS documentaries. 5 July 2006 in Alaska and 10 October 2006 in Oakland, California. |