Conference at
a Glance
Wednesday, October 21st
Registration, 3:00-7:00 (Lobby)
Thursday, October 22nd
Registration, 7:30 a.m. -7:00 p.m. (Ballroom Foyer)
Book Exhibit, 8:00-5:00 (Cook)
8:00-9:15, concurrent sessions
9:30-10:45, concurrent sessions
11:00-12:15, concurrent sessions
12:15-1:15, lunch (on your own)
1:15-2:30, concurrent sessions
2:45-4:00, concurrent sessions
4:15-5:30, concurrent sessions
5:30-7:00,
Welcome Reception
& Celebration of Legacy’s 25th
Anniversary (Courtyard)
Friday, October 23rd
Registration, 7:30-5:00 (Ballroom Foyer)
Book Exhibit, 8:00-5:00 (Cook)
7:30-8:30, Advisory Board Breakfast meeting (Frampton Room)
8:00-9:15, concurrent sessions
9:30-10:45, concurrent sessions
11:00-12:15, concurrent sessions
12:15-1:45 – Regional Networking Lunch (register in advance)
12:15-1:45 – Susan Glaspell Society Business Meeting
2:00-3:45, First Plenary - American Women’s Writing Now
4:00-5:15, concurrent sessions
5:15-6:00, SSAWW Open Business Meeting
6:00-8:00, A Staged
Reading of Susan Glaspell’s Alison’s
House
(presented by the Susan Glaspell Society) (Reynolds)
6:30-8:00,
Open Reading – Conference Participants can come and share their own
creative work or passages from lesser-known (but
should be known) women writers (Flower)
Saturday,
October 24th
Registration, 8:00-12:00 (Ballroom Foyer)
Book Exhibit, 8:00-12:00 (Cook)
8:00-9:15, concurrent sessions
9:30-10:45, concurrent sessions
11:00-12:15, concurrent sessions
12:15-1:30, lunch (on your own)
12:15-1:30, lunch
sponsored by the Fuller, Sedgwick and Stowe societies
(register in advance but open to all) (Bromley/Claypoole Room)
1:30-2:45, concurrent sessions
3:00-4:45, Closing Plenary, Transnational American Women’s
Writing
5:00-7:00, Closing Reception (Courtyard)
Thursday,
October 22
8:00-9:15, concurrent sessions
Thursday, 8:00-9:15
Expansion and the
“Frontier” (Reynolds)
Chair:
Richard S. Pressman, St. Mary’s University
- Deidre Dallas Hall,
The University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “‘Incredible Adventures Still Farther South’: Of Race and Expansion
in Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs”
- Edward Watts,
Michigan State University, “The Complicated West of Anna Snelling’s Kabaosa; or The Warriors of the West
(1841)”
- Marlowe
Daly-Galeano, University of Arizona, “Why is There No American Jane
Austen?: Genre, Great Women Artists, the Frontier and Ramona”
Thursday, 8:00-9:15
Reinscribing Regionalism in
Mid-Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (Flower)
Chair: Donna Campbell, Washington
State University
1. Louis H. Palmer, III,
Castleton State College, “The Other Dixie Limited: Flannery O’Connor Takes on the Agrarians”
2. Lisa A. Long, North
Central College, “Race and Region in Toni Morrison’s Midwestern Fiction”
3.
Phoebe Jackson, William Paterson University, “Embodying Regionalism:
Social Class in Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker”
Thursday, 8:00-9:15
Aesthetics and
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets (Shippen)
Chair:
Andrew C. Higgins, State University of New York-New Paltz
1. Eliza Richards,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Elizabeth Akers, Adelaide Whitney,
and the Poetry of War”
2. Sara Smilko, University
of Colorado at Boulder, “Geographical Aesthetics: Sarah Piatt’s Transnational
Regionalism”
3. Andrew C. Higgins, State
University of New York-New Paltz, “‘Yet Fiercer Forms and Viler’: Aestheticism
and the Poetry of Sarah Piatt”
4. Jess Roberts, Albion
College, “Rosa’s Performance, or What Absalom, Absalom! Can Teach Us about
Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry”
Thursday, 8:00-9:15
Perspectives on
Modernism (Whitpen)
Chair:
James Speese, Lehigh University
- Shannon Whitlock, The University of Georgia, “‘I unexpectedly disintegrated’: Testing the Boundaries of Genre in Mina
Loy’s Insel”
- Timothy F. Jackson,
Boston University, “Millay’s Prosodic Growth”
- Maureen Honey,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “The Sapphic Modernism of Angelina Weld
Grimke and Amy Lowell”
Thursday, 8:00-9:15
E.D.E.N. Southworth and
Sensational Fiction (Frampton)
Chair:
Pamela Washington, University of Central Oklahoma
1. Joyce W. Warren, Queens
College, City University of New York, “The Construction of Aberrant Identities
in Southworth and Alcott”
2. Jessica DeSpain,
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, “Capitola the British Sensation: The
British Serialization of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand, or Capitola the Madcap”
3. Sari Edelstein, Skidmore
College, “‘Metamorphosis of the Newsboy’: Category Crisis
in E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand”
4. Beth L. Lueck,
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, “The Maniac Bride: Southworth’s Sensational and Gothic
Transformations”
9:30-10:45, concurrent sessions
News Worthy: Women
Writers and the News Media (Reynolds)
Chair:
Abbey Zink, Western Connecticut State University
1. Abbey Zink, Western
Connecticut State University, “Mary Roberts Rinehart and Dangerous Days”
2. Yoon Young Choi,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Remembering Outside the News: History, Nation
and Newsmedia in Susan Choi’s American
Women”
3. Margaret Lowry, The
University of Texas-Arlington, “Eleanor Roosevelt and Ruth Millet: Public Women,
Public Conversations”
Thursday, 9:30-10:45
Gendering the Color
Line: Neglected 1920s and 30s Black
Women Writers (Flower)
Chair:
Rynetta Davis, University of Kentucky
1. Karoliina Engstrom,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker
T. Washington: Jessie Fauset’s Pragmatic Women in Comedy: American Style”
2. Katherine
Rogers-Carpenter, University of Kentucky, “Working Women in Dorothy West’s
Short Fiction: Movements Towards Militancy”
3. Rynetta Davis,
University of Kentucky, “Beyond the Harlem Renaissance: Recovering the Literary Legacy of Zara
Wright”
Thursday, 9:30-10:45
Beyond Charlotte Temple: Susanna Rowson’s Other
Works (Frampton)
Chair:
Desirée Henderson, University of Texas-Arlington
1. Eileen Razzari Elrod,
Santa Clara University, “The Other Rowson/Rowson’s Others”
2. Marion Rust, University
of Kentucky, “Universal Elements: Rowson, Jedidiah Morse and the Geography
Textbook”
3.
Jennifer Desiderio, Canisius College,
“Authoring Cultural Cohesion in Reuben
and Rachel”
4. Lorinda B. Cohoon,
University of Memphis, “Rowson, the Idea, and the Child: Constructing Citizens
in the Republic Through Spelling Lessons, Geographies, and Advice”
Thursday, 9:30-10:45
Reading Body, Writing
Body (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) (Ballroom
D)
Chair: Suzanne Ashworth, Otterbein College
1. Janet
Badia, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, “‘The dogs are eating
your mother’: Ted Hughes and the Plath
Reader”
2. Cynthia Patterson, University of South Florida Polytechnic,
“Writing
Hermaphrodites: American Women Writers and 19th Century Discourses
of Ambiguous Sex”
3. Vanessa Steinroetter, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, “Modeling the African American Woman Reader: Depictions of Women Readers
in the Christian Recorder during the
1850s and 1860s”
4. Suzanne Ashworth, Otterbein College, “‘Beautiful Monster’:
Reading, Writing, and Otherness in Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite”
Thursday, 9:30-10:45
Dred and the Politics of Unpopular Fiction (The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
– Session #1) (Whitpen)
Chair:
Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
1. Tess Chakkalakal,
Bowdoin College, “‘Saucy Freedom’: Dred and
the Antislavery Marriage Plot”
2. Jeannine DeLombard,
University of Toronto, “After Dred:
Law, The Minister’s Wooing, and
Future Directions for Stowe Studies”
3. Deak Nabers, Brown
University, “The Sentimental Soldier”
4. Catherine Saunders,
George Mason University, “Missed Connections: Interracial Family Stories and
the Abolitionist Argument in Dred”
Respondent:
Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
Thursday, 9:30-10:45
Jewish American Women
Writers
(Studies in American Jewish Literature)
(Ballroom E-1)
Chairs:
Hannah Berliner Fischthal, St. John’s University and Dan Walden,
Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University
1. S. Lillian Kremer,
Kansas State University, Professor Emerita, “Representing Jewish Women: From
Yezierska to Ozick”
2. Lois Rubin, Pennsylvania
State University-New Kensington, “Linda Pastan and Maxine Kumin as Jewish
Poets”
3. Michael Taub, Purchase
College, “Wendy
Wasserstein”
Respondent:
Dan Walden, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University
11-12:15, concurrent sessions
Murray, Rowson, Rush,
Sedgwick: British/Anglo-Irish Adaptation and Revision in Early American Novels
(Frampton)
Chair:
Jill Kirsten Anderson, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
1.
Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma, “The Constantias of the 1790s”
2. Catherine A. Swender, Spring Hill College, “Transatlantic
Connections in the Late Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel”
3. Jill Kirsten Anderson,
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, “Eighteenth-Century Context /
Nineteenth-Century Text: Kelroy’s
Emergent Heroine”
4. Ellen Foster, Clarion
University of Pennsylvania, and Melissa J. Homestead, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, “From Clarence Hervey to Gertrude Clarence: Catharine
Sedgwick’s Americanization of Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”
Thursday, 11-12:15
Forgotten
Texts, Surrounding Contexts: Jewish American Women Writers of the Late
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Flower)
Chair: Barbara Cantalupo, Penn State
University-Lehigh Valley Campus
1. Orit
Rabkin, University of Oklahoma, “Making Room for the Private Diary of Anne
Schlezinger: Rearticulating Jewish American Women's Texts”
2. Julia
Hans, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, “Love from the Neck Up: The
Forgotten Satires of Thyra Samter Winslow (1885?-1963)”
3. Shannon
McMahon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Primroses in the Ghetto: A
Study of the Reading Practices Surrounding Mary Antin and Martha Wolfenstein”
Thursday, 11-12:15
Voices from the Settlement House (Reynolds)
Chair: Sabrina
Starnaman, University of California-San Diego
1. Sarah Lock, Weatherford College, “Hilda Satt Polacheck’s I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House
Girl Settlement Literature from a ‘Neighbor’s’ Perspective”
2.
Judith A. Ranta,
“The New
York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library, ‘Herself a worker among the laboring classes’:
Jennie Collins and Her Boffin’s Bower”
3. Sabrina Starnaman, University of California-San
Diego, “The
Settlement House on a Silver Platter: A Reexamination of Anzia Yezierska’s Salome of the Tenements”
Thursday,
11-12:15
Women and Environments:
Gardens, Cures, and Trash as Art (Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment) (Ballroom D)
Chair:
Annie Merrill
Ingram,
Davidson College
1. Lauren LaFauci, University
of Michigan, “‘Green-blooded Plants’ and ‘Leafy Lungs’: Elizabeth Wright’s
Nature Cure”
2. Arielle Zibrak, Boston
University, “‘That Story and This Day’: Recycling Waste in Rebecca Harding
Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills”
3. Lisa Giles, University of
Southern Maine, “‘The Island Dreams in Flowers’: Celia Thaxter’s Victorian
Seeing”
4. Respondent: Annie Merrill Ingram, Davidson College
Thursday, 11-12:15
Perspectives on
Contemporary Popular Literature (Shippen)
Chair:
Laura Nicosia, Montclair State University,
1. Laura Nicosia, Montclair
State University, “Contemporary Vampiric Heroes in Search of Community:
Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, Charlaine
Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries
and Alan Ball’s True Blood”
2. Jim Nicosia, Writer and
Independent Scholar, “Judy Moody, Clarice Bean and Franny K. Stein: Boy Books
for Girls/Girl Books for Boys”
3. Gabrielle Halko, West
Chester University of Pennsylvania, “Mapping the In-Between: Life, Death,
and Limbo in the Contemporary Young Adult Novel”
Thursday, 11-12:15
Claiming Authorship,
Disputing Publication: The Material Practices of Nineteenth-Century Women Poets
(Ballroom E2)
Chair:
Paula Bernat Bennett, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Professor
Emerita
1. Desirée Henderson,
University of Texas Arlington, “Susanna Rowson and the Culture of Poetic
Reprinting”
2. Faith Barrett, Lawrence
University, “‘Thy Sister’s Keeper’: Lucy Larcom and the Profession of Poetry”
3. Jennifer Putzi, The
College of William and Mary, “(Re)Proving Female Authorship: Elizabeth Akers
Allen and the ‘Rock Me To Sleep’ Controversy”
4. Alexandra Socarides,
University of Missouri, “‘It was with great difficultly that she was persuaded
to print’: Dickinson, Higginson, and the Problem with Print”
Thursday, 11-12:15
Recovery and Discoveries
(Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Mary Chinery, Georgian Court University,
1. Mary Chinery, Georgian
Court University, “A Tale of Two Ediths:
Edith Wharton, Edith Gould, and the Play, ‘The Man of Genius’”
2. Colleen M. Martell, Lehigh University, “‘To live as if to
live and love were one’: Feminist Configurations of Love, Embodiment, and
Resistance to Oppression in the Fictionalized Autobiography of Mary Gove
Nichols”
3. Priscilla Vance Leder,
Texas State University-San Marcos, “Voice and Vision in Caroline Miller’s Lamb in His Bosom”
Thursday, 11-12:15
Collaborative Voices in
19th-Century U. S. Women's Literature (Whitpen)
Chair:
Katharine Rodier, Marshall University
1. Monika M. Elbert,
Montclair State University, “The American Gretchen, Idealized Helpmeet to
Victimized Worker: Negotiating
Woman’s Place in History through Goethe’s Faust Legend”
2. Julie Hall, Sam Houston State University, “Voices, Vision, and Sophia Hawthorne’s Notes in
England and Italy”
3. Katharine Rodier, Marshall University, “Co-Producing Emily Dickinson? Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas
Wentworth Higginson”
4.
Joycelyn
K. Moody,
University of Texas-San Antonio, “Mentor,
Collaborator, Friend, or Foe?: U.S.
Women Writing (across) Slavery and Race”
12:15-1:15 – LUNCH (on your own)
1:15-2:30, concurrent sessions
Thursday, 1:15-2:30
Middle-class
Jewish American Women Writers of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries (Flower)
Chair:
Monika Elbert, Montclair State University
1. Jennifer
S. Tuttle, University of New England, “Romancing the Rest Cure: Illness and
Assimilation in the Work of Emma Wolf”
2. Barbara
Cantalupo, Penn State University- Lehigh Valley Campus, “Emma Wolf's Short
Stories in The Smart Set”
3.
Rachel Leah Jablon, University
of Maryland, “"Songs
of the Jewess: The Role of Music in the Novels of Emma Wolf"
Thursday, 1:15-2:30
Food for Thought: Food
Writing & Representations of the Kitchen (Frampton)
Chair:
Piper Huguley-Riggins, Spelman College
- Larisa Asaeli,
Texas Christian University, “The Forgotten Household Name: Marion Harland
and Her Food Writing”
- Elizabeth Mahn
Nollen, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, “‘Home, Sweet Home’: The
Kitchen as Locus of Female Power in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle”
- Piper
Huguley-Riggins, Spelman College, “Poverty Cooking: Food in American
Literature from Women Writers During the Great Depression and WWII”
Thursday,
1:15-2:30
Margaret Fuller:
Textual, Emotional, and Geographical Practices (The Margaret Fuller Society)
(Reynolds)
Chair:
Jeffrey Steele, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1. Hea-Gyong Jo, Wayne
State University, “Margaret Fuller's Risorgimento: Feminist Editing, Adam
Mickiewicz and the 'Symbolo Politico Polacco' in the Spring of 1848”
2. Meg McGavran Murray with
Kittye Robbins-Herring, Mississippi State University, “Pointing the Way
to Her Psycho-Sexual Liberation: the Impact of Sand on Fuller”
3. Charlene Avallone,
Independent Scholar, “Margaret Fuller, George
Sand, and the Feminine ‘School of Newspaper Correspondence’”
4. Jeffrey Steele,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Fuller's Psychological, Textual, and
Political Geographies”
Thursday, 1:15-2:30
Indigenous Women's
Aesthetics (Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures – Session
#1) (Ballroom D)
Chair:
Cari Carpenter, West Virginia University
1.
Deborah Miranda, Washington and Lee University, “‘unruly and
discordant texts’: Ethnographic Field Notes as Transitional Native American
Literature”
2. Richard Pearce, Wheaton
College, Professor Emeritus, “Image and Story: Women and Ledger Art”
3. Christina Roberts,
Seattle University, “Urban Indian Poetics: Esther Belin's From the Belly of My Beauty”
Thursday, 1:15-2:30
Emily Dickinson at Home
and Abroad (The Emily Dickinson International Society – Session #1) (Shippen)
Chair:
Hiroko Uno, Kobe College, Japan
1. Li-hsin Hsu, Edinburgh
University, Scotland, “What Are ‘Tradition’: Dickinson and Helen Hunt Jackson
in Chinatown”
2. Trisha Kannan,
University of Florida: “Emily Dickinson's Thirtieth Fascicle”
3. Barbara Mossberg,
California State University, Monterey Bay, “The Case for Cato's Daughter as
Expatriate Writer”
4. Natalie Phillips,
University of Maryland, “Emily Dickinson's Correspondences”
Thursday, 1:15-2:30
Form and Resistance
(Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Tracey Lynn Clough, University of Texas-Arlington
- Cynthia Murillo,
Tennessee State University, “The Transformative Power of The Double in
American Women’s Gothic Fiction, 1870-1930”
- Jodi Van Der
Horn-Gibson, Molloy College, “From Bonner to
Parks: Black Female Playwrights, Form and Resistance”
- Augusta Rohrbach,
Washington State University, “Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and the Politics
of the Poetess”
Thursday, 1:15-2:30
New Perspectives on
Gender in Willa Cather's Fiction (The Willa Cather Society) (Ballroom E2)
Chair:
Ann Romines, George Washington University
1. David Magill, Longwood
University, “‘Mixing Memory and Desire’: Willa Cather's The
Professor's House and White Masculinity's Nostalgic Origins”
2. Theresa DeFrancis, Salem
State College, “World War I, the Body, and the Machine in Willa Cather's One
of Ours”
3. J. Gabriel Scala,
Lebanon Valley College, “For the Love of Women: Cather, Homosexuality,
and Sexual Trauma”
4. Kari Ronning, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Ann Romines, George Washington University, “New
Perspectives on Gender Emerging from Recent Volumes of the Willa Cather
Scholarly Edition”
2:45-4:00, concurrent sessions
Thursday,
2:45-4:00
Perspectives on Susan
Warner’s Wide, Wide World & Her
Contemporaries (Flower)
Chair:
Jennifer L. Brady, Emory University
1. Christina G. Clancy,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “The Conduct of Boredom in Warner’s The Wide, Wide World”
2. Sarah Sillin, University
of Maryland-College Park, “International Exploits and Domestic Rewards:
Rereading Travel and Empire in Susan Warner and Maria Cummins”
3. Jennifer L. Brady, Emory
University,
“Directed Reading in the Sentimental Novel: The Case of Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World”
Thursday,
2:45-4:00
Nineteenth-Century
Sentimentality and Affect (Frampton)
Chair:
Marissa Gemma, Stanford University
1. María Carla Sánchez, University
of North Carolina-Greensboro “Universal Sentiments?:
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Language of Affect”
2. Holly M. Kent, Lehigh
University, “‘The Anguished Swell of Sympathy’: The Politics of Emotion in
Antebellum Abolitionist Women’s Gift Book Fiction”
3. Lesley Ginsberg,
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, “Antebellum Sentimentality and the
Woman Writer: Grace Greenwood’s History
of My Pets”
4. Lisa M. Oliverio,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “‘Vain Reading’: Mary Anne
Sadlier’s Bessy Conway and the Development of Catholic Sentimentality”
Thursday, 2:45-4:00
Gender and Place in
Sedgwick and Her Contemporaries (The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society)
(Reynolds)
Chair: Lisa West, Drake University
1. Pat Kalayjian,
California State University-Dominguez Hills, “Sedgwick's Mapping of America's
Gender Terrain”
2. Karen Woods Weierman,
Worcester State College, “Free Soil and Gospel Ground: L.M. Child, M.W.
Chapman, and ‘The Case of the Slave-Child, Med,’”
3. Deborah Gussman, Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey, “Gender and Place in Married or Single”
Thursday,
2:45-4:00
Rediscovering Native
American Women’s Literature: A Roundtable Discussion
(Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures – Session #2)
(Ballroom D)
Chair:
Christina Roberts, Seattle University
1. Stephanie Sellers,
Gettysburg College, “Earliest Autobiographies/As-Told-To Stories in English
about Native Women”
2. Robert Dale Parker, University of Illinois, “Early American Indian Women's
Poetry, 1815-1930”
3. Carolyn Sorisio, West
Chester University of Pennsylvania, “The Newspaper Record, Sarah Winnemucca
Hopkins and Authorship”
4. Cari Carpenter, West
Virginia University, “‘An overdose of mad’: Sarah Winnemucca and the Western
Newspaper”
Thursday,
2:45-4:00
Writers Reading (The
Emily Dickinson International Society – Session #2) (Shippen)
Chair: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland
1. Paula Bernat Bennett,
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Professor Emerita, “‘Did the Tiger
Crouch in this Shrunken Frame?’: Dickinson and the Nineteenth-century Female
Cult of Cleopatra”
2. Vivian Pollak,
Washington University in St. Louis, “Dickinson, Muriel Rukeyser, and ‘The Life
of Poetry’”
3. Marcy Tanter, Tarleton
State University, “Martha Dickinson Bianchi: A Writer, not only an
Editor-Niece”
Thursday, 2:45-4:00
Transatlantic Women –#1
– Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
(Whitpen)
Chair,
Rodney Mader, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
1. Lynda J. Davis, Texas Christian University, “‘To Make a Lady of’:
Allegorical Marriages and Transnational Studies in Martha Meredith Read’s Margaretta”
2. Rachel Carnell,
Cleveland State University, “Charlotte Lenox and Trans-Atlantic Captivity
Narratives”
3. Anne Baker, North
Carolina State University, “Tempestuous Passages: Storms in the Fiction of
Susanna Rowson”
Thursday,
2:45-4:00
Legacies
of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Roundtable Discussion (Legacy: A Journal of Women Writers (25th Anniversary
Celebration) – Session #1) (Ballroom E1)
Sharon Harris,
University of Connecticut
Gary Williams, University
of Idaho
Renee Bergland, Simmons
College
Jennifer Putzi, William
& Mary College
Elizabeth Stockton,
Southwestern University
Cindy Weinstein,
California Institute of Technology
Thursday,
2:45-4:00
Who Do You Love: Miscegenation and Middlebrow Fiction (Ballroom
E2)
Chair: Deborah Lindsay Williams, Iona College
1. Lisa Botshon, University
of Maine-Augusta, “Our ‘Perverse Predisposition to Mismate’: Miscegenated
Desire, Orientalism, and the Remaking of the American Family in Early 20th-Century
Middlebrow Women’s Writing”
2. Meredith Goldsmith,
Ursinus College, “Sleeping with the Enemy?: Miscegenous Sex in Vera Caspary’s White Girl and Esther Hyman’s Study in Bronze”
3. Julia Ehrhardt,
University of Oklahoma Honors College, “Starving for Love: The Meanings of
Jewish/Anglo-Saxon Miscegenation in Fannie Hurst’s Back Street”
4. Jaime Harker, University
of Mississippi, “Sentimental Miscegenation: Pearl Buck, Women’s Novels, and the
Cold War”
Respondent:
Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts-Boston
4:15-5:30, concurrent sessions
Thursday,
4:15-5:30
Class Matters (Flower)
Chair:
Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta
1. Roxanne Harde,
University of Alberta, “‘One Way to Get an Education’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
and the Borders Between Working and Other Children”
2.
Kimberly Cox, Texas A&M University, “The Working Class Home:
Poverty, Trash, and the Home Dream in Bastard
Out of Carolina and The Beans of
Egypt Maine”
3. Teresa Coronado,
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, “Travelling Around a Social Ladder: Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal of Sarah Knight, Humor, and Social Class”
4.
Lisa Kirby, North Carolina
Wesleyan College, “Complicated (Re)productions: Working-Class Birth Narratives in Edith Summers Kelley, Grace Lumpkin,
and Meridel Le Sueur”
Thursday,
4:15-5:30
Women at Work: Representations
of Labor (Reynolds)
Chair:
Kathy L. Glass, Duquesne University
1. Andreá N. Williams, The
Ohio State University, “Black Labor and the Sentimentalized Southern Economy in
Katherine Tillman’s Clancy Street”
2. Anne Brubaker,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Balancing the Equation: Women
Bookkeepers in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction”
3. Kathy L. Glass, Duquesne University, “Love at Work:
Reassessing Labor in Frances Harper’s ‘The Two Offers’”
4. Kellen
Graham, Temple University, “The Denigration of Women’s Work in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s What Diantha Did”
Thursday,
4:15-5:30
Re-Staging the Nation:
Powerlessness and Power in Anna Deavere Smith's Documentary Theater (Screening
included) (Ballroom D)
Chair:
David Rogers, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
1. Aaron Chandler,
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Little Life Sentences: Sentimentalism
and its Ghost in Anna Deavere Smith's Plays”
2. David Rogers, The
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “White Male Bodies Do Matter: Democratic
Embodiment in Anna Deavere Smith’s House
Arrest”
Thursday, 4:15-5:30
Lane’s 1881 Mizora: Science, Utopianism,
Progressivism, Imperialism (Shippen)
Chair:
Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware
1. Alison Tracy Hale,
University of Puget Sound, “Utopian Gothic: Mizora’s Haunted Vision”
2. Lydia Fisher, University
of Puget Sound, “Mizora’s Response to
Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Fiction”
3. Bridgitte Barclay,
University of Texas-Arlington, “Teaching Mizora as an Ambiguous Utopia”
Thursday,
4:15-5:30
Transatlantic Women
– #2 – Mid-late Nineteenth Century
(Whitpen)
Chair:
Melanie S. Gustafson, University of Vermont
1.
Melanie S.
Gustafson, University of Vermont, “From Bangor to Stuttgart: Blanche Willis
Howard’s Search for Literary Success and Personal Autonomy”
2.
Sarah Russo,
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, “The European Origins of the American Woman
of Genius: The 1870s Fiction of Stoddard, Phelps and Woolson”
3.
Kimberly V.
Adams, Elizabethtown
College, “H. B. Stowe’s ‘The
True Story of Lady Byron’ (1869): The Reactions of the British Press”
Thursday,
4:15-5:30
New
Directions in the Study of American Women Writers
(Legacy: A Journal of Women Writers (25th Anniversary Celebration) –
Session #2) (Ballroom E1)
Nicole Tonkovich, University of
California-San Diego
Laura Laffrado,
Western Washington University
Jean Lutes,
Villanova University
Sarah
Robbins, Texas Christian University
Carolyn
Sorisio, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Susan
Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts-Boston
5:30-7:00, Reception (Courtyard) —
Welcome & Celebration of Legacy’s 25th Anniversary
Friday, October 23rd
7:30-8:30 – SSAWW
Advisory Board (Breakfast) Meeting (Frampton Room)
8:00-9:15, concurrent sessions
Friday, 8:00-9:15
Mid-Nineteenth-Century
Women Writers & Representation (Flower)
Chair:
Shelly Jarenski, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- Christa Holm
Vogelius, University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor, “The Slight Pencil’s Witchery: Sigourney’s
Ecphrastic Model of Viewership”
- Rebecca Jaroff, Ursinus College, “‘The Power of Womanhood’:
Finding Subjectivity, Strength, and Superiority through Nature in
Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s ‘The Sinless Child’”
- Rita Bode, Trent
University, “Telling it Slant: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’”
- Gregory Specter,
University of Missouri, “‘After seeing the photograph it is hardly
necessary to say that Jo and L.M.A. are not one’: Louisa May Alcott and the Problems of Photographic
Representation”
Friday, 8:00-9:15
“God Wrote It”:
Nineteenth-Century Sentimental Women Authors and the Question of Artistry (Reynolds)
Chair:
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst College
1. Faye Halpern,
University of Calgary, “Sentiment and the Question of Artistry Versus
Hypocrisy.”
2. Debra J.
Rosenthal, John Carroll University, “The Sentimental Appeal to Paternity in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Moby-Dick”
3. Michael J.
Davey, Valdosta State University, “The Rhetoric of Emotional Response: Cooper,
Stowe and the Art of Sentiment”
Friday, 8:00-9:15
Un-Mothers/Mothering in American Women’s Writing (Shippen)
Chair:
Maglina Lubovich, Drake University
1. Megan Peabody, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Adopting Adoptive Motherhood:
The Creation and Destruction of the Maternal in Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman’s
Short Fiction”
2. Alison Betts, The
University of Arizona, “‘I’d give anything to show you the baby, Miss Bart’: Conflicts of
Commodification and Maternity in The
House of Mirth”
3. Jamie Libby Boyle, University
of South Carolina, “Motherless Children and Childless Mothers: The Anti-Sentimental
Un-Mother in Angelina Weld Grimke’s Rachel”
4. Carmen Pearson, Independent
Scholar, “The Mothers of Modernism in the Selected Novels of Mildred Walker”
Friday, 8:00-9:15
Domesticity and Its
Discontents (Ballroom D)
Chair:
Linda Chandler, LaGuardia
Community College-CUNY
1. Kristin Jacobson, The
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, “Desperate Marriages in Contemporary
Domestic Fiction”
2. Diane Lichtenstein,
Beloit College, “1920s Domestic Fiction”
3. Jane E. Rose, Purdue
University-North Central, “The Coquette as National Threat: Female Passion,
Fashion, and Materialism in the Novels of Louisa Tuthill, Mary Jane Holmes and
E. D. E. N. Southworth”
Friday, 8:00-9:15
Artistic Actions:
Conducting Literary “Work” (Whitpen)
Chair: Kim D. Green, Emory
University
1. Kim D. Green, Emory
University, “Ascent and Descent:
Identity and Movement in Linden
Hills and No Crystal Stair”
2. Jessie L. Dunbar, Emory
University, “Marriage
and Mobility: Nancy Prince and the Geography of Containment”
3. Susana M. Morris, Auburn
University, “‘He
wants to put his story next to hers’: The Dilemma of Bearing Witness in Beloved”
Friday, 8:00-9:15
Roundtable: Bridging Art
and Literature, an Anzaldúan Practice
(Society for the Study
of Gloria Anzaldúa – Session #1) (Ballroom E2)
1. Norma Cantú, University
of Texas-San Antonio
2. Marta Sanchez,
Independent Artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
9:30-10:45, concurrent sessions
Friday, 9:30-10:45
Postbellum
Sentimentalism (Frampton)
Chair:
Cynthia J. Davis, University of South Carolina
1.
Elizabeth Duquette,
Gettysburg College, “Reconstruction, Reunion, Remarriage”
2.
Christine Holbo, Arizona
State University, “Helen Hunt Jackson and the Dilemmas of Public Sentiment”
3.
Katherine Adams,
University of South Carolina, “Feeling Wrong: Racial Sympathy at the Turn of
the Century”
4.
Janet G. Casey, Skidmore
College, “Sentimentalism for a New Century: Farm Fiction and the Middlebrow”
Friday,
9:30-10:45
Religion and
Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing:
A Complementary Pair of Panels
Panel I: Christian Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century
American Women's Writing
(Reynolds)
Chair: Mary Wearn, Macon State College
1. Carol Holly, Olaf
College “‘The Higher Life’: An Examination of Rose Terry Cooke's Literary
Theology”
2. Kevin Pelletier,
University of Richmond, “Uncle Tom's Cabin and Apocalyptic Sentimentalism”
3. Eric Gardner, Saginaw
Valley State University, “Christian Recorders and Other (Sometimes Rebellious)
Early Black Women Writers”
4. Gregory Eiselein, Kansas
State University, “Pluralism, New American Religions, and Alcott's Feminist
Faith”
Friday, 9:30-10:45
Counterfactual
Counterhistories: Women Writers Reinventing the Past (Shippen)
Chair:
Eliza Richards, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
1.
Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University, “All the News We Choose to Save: The Scrapbook
as an Idealized Newspaper”
2.
Susan K. Harris, University of Kansas, “Leveraging the Future:
Literary Convention and Counterfactual History in A New England Tale and Ramona”
3.
Mary Louise Kete, University of Vermont, “Spectral History: Our Nig and the Project of Spiritualist
Narration”
4.
Laura Korobkin, Boston University, “Reparations, Responsibility and
Refinement: Imagining State and Federal Law in Contending Forces”
Respondent: Eliza Richards,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Friday, 9:30-10:45
Multi-disciplinary
Approaches to Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society)
(Whitpen)
Chair: Jennifer S. Tuttle, University of New England
1. Randi Lynn Tanglen,
Austin College, “‘A New Race of New Men’: Millennial
Politics in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The
Crux (1911) and Catharine
Beecher’s A Treatise on Domestic Economy
(1841)”
2. Michelle A. Stuckey,
University of California-San Diego, “‘The Best
Kind of People’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Biofuturity, and the Utopian
Imaginary”
3. Mariela Méndez,
University of Richmond, “Gendering Genre: Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and Alfonsina Storni”
Friday,
9:30-10:45
Domesticity and
Community in Works by American Women (Ballroom D)
Chair: Miranda Green-Barteet, University of Western Ontario
1. Lesley Wallace Wooten,
University of Oregon, “‘A Universal Language That All Can Understand’: Class
and Racial Difference in Alcott’s Female Community”
2.
Miranda Green-Barteet, University of Western Ontario, “Without
Community: Transforming Domestic Spaces in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
3. Andrea Wolfe, Ball State
University, “The Use of Domestic Ideology to Empower Black Mothers in Pauline
Hopkins’s Contending Forces”
4.
Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Texas A&M University, “Dinner is Performed:
Cooking and the Single Girl in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun”
Friday, 9:30-10:45
Women Writers and
Periodicals (Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Shannon Thomas, Ohio State University
1. Erin Hendel, University
of California-Davis, “‘No Language But Her Own’: Language Play and Cultural
Authority in Zitkala-Ša’s Magazine Fiction”
2. Elizabeth Lorang, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Interrogating the Book Form: The Textual History and Environment of
Celia Thaxter’s Among the Isles of Shoals”
3. Rita Williams,
University of Delaware, “Julia Ward Howe’s A
Trip to Cuba: Troubling the Borders of Region and Nation”
Friday, 9:30-10:45
Philosophy and
Characterization in Kate Chopin’s The
Awakening and Short Fiction (The Kate Chopin International Society)
(Flower)
Chair:
Kelli Purcell O’Brien, The University of Memphis
1. Kimberly Greenfield, The
University of Memphis, “‘Désirée’s Baby’:
A Linguistic Look at the Intersection of Desire With Reality”
2. John Staunton, Eastern
Michigan University, “Unsettling Readers: Kate Chopin, Pedagogy, and the
Discourses of Knowing”
3. Joseph George, University
of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Antagonists for Her to Overcome: A
Phenomenological Approach to The
Awakening”
4. Kelli Purcell O’Brien,
The University of Memphis, “Tonie: A Unique Look at the Recurring Character in
Kate Chopin”
Friday, 9:30-10:45
Anzaldúan Approaches
(Society for the Study
of Gloria Anzaldua – Session #2) (Ballroom E2)
Chair: Norma Cantú, University of Texas-San Antonio
1. Aída Hurtado, University
of California-Santa Cruz, “Is Obama a Chicana Feminist? An Anzaldúan Analysis
of the President’s Political Consciousness”
2. Magda Garcia, University
of Texas-San Antonio, “An Anzaldúan Analysis of a 19th Century Text:
The Squatter and the Don”
3. TBA
11-12:15, concurrent sessions
Friday, 11-12:15
The Afterlife of the
Sentimental Novel (Frampton)
Chair:
Melissa Strong, University of California-Davis
1. Maura Grady, University
of Nevada-Reno, “The Devil Wears Pulp: Female Masculinity in Corporate Chick
Lit”
2. Melissa Strong,
University of California-Davis, “Sentimentality in the City: Wharton’s and Richardson’s
Working Women”
3. Julie Wilhelm,
University of California-Davis, “Home Sweet Wal-Mart: Where the Heart Is
and the Contemporary Sentimental Novel”
Friday, 11-12:15
Religion and
Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing:
A Complementary Pair of Panels
Panel II: Contending Faiths in Nineteenth-Century
American Women's Writing
(Reynolds)
Chair:
Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State University
1. Nancy F. Sweet,
California State University-Sacramento, “Religious Rebellion and the Antebellum
Convent Narrative”
2. Karlyn Crowley, St.
Norbert College, “Deep Stealth Swedenborgianism in Julia Ward Howe's The Hermaphrodite”
3. Mary Wearn, Macon State
College, “‘Do we not love the near earth more than the far heaven?': Sarah
Piatt’s Apostate Materialism”
Friday, 11-12:15
Memoir, Memory and
Writing about the Self (Shippen)
Chair:
Elizabeth Vogel, Arcadia University
1. Julie Buckner Armstrong,
University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, “‘Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine’:
Restorative Justice and the Discourse on Racial Violence”
2. Christine R. Wilson,
Wright State University-Lake Campus, “Writing the Self in Contemporary American
Pregnancy Memoirs”
3. Elizabeth Vogel, Arcadia
University, “Women Writing in the Age of Memoir: The Troubling Case of
Patchett’s Truth and Beauty”
Friday, 11-12:15
Contemporary
Native American Women Writers Re-Visioning Tradition and Identity – A
Roundtable Discussion (Ballroom D)
Chair: Vanessa Holford
Diana, Westfield
State College
1.
Vanessa Holford Diana, Westfield
State College, “‘Tell her two stories’:
Western and Dakota Feminisms in Susan Power’s The Grass Dancer”
2.
Stephanie Gustafson, Central New
Mexico Community College, “Creating an
Emotional Landscape: Anita Endrezze's Gynocentric Re-Imagination of Yaqui
Mythology”
3.
Robin Riley Fast, Emerson
College, “Native Lives: Multi-Genre
Texts by Nora Marks Dauenhauer & Ernestine Hayes”
4.
Kristi Marie
Steinmetz, New York University, “Possibilities in Recovering Leslie Marmon Silko's ‘Yellow Woman’ from ‘Male
Identification,’ and/or, Constructing Anzalduan-Bridges as Fledgling Myths”
Friday, 11-12:15
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Getting Your
Essays Published But Were Afraid To Ask: A Roundtable Discussion (Ballroom E1)
Moderator: Martha Cutter, University of
Connecticut-Storrs
1. Karen Alexander, Rutgers
University-New Brunswick, Editor, Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society
2. Jocelyn Moody, University of Texas-San Antonio, Former Editor, African American Review
3. Laura M. Stevens,
University of Tulsa, Editor, Tulsa
Studies in Women’s Literature
4. Nicole Tonkovich,
University of California-San Diego Editor Legacy:
A Journal of American Women Writers
5. Martha Cutter,
University of Connecticut-Storrs, Editor, MELUS:
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US
Friday, 11-12:15
Letters and Cultural Transformations in
the United States, 1760-1860: A Roundtable Discussion (Ballroom E2)
Chair: Sharon M. Harris, University of
Connecticut-Storrs
1.
Eve Tavor Bannett, University of Oklahoma,
“Letters and Master-Narratives: Mercy Otis Warren, John Adams, and Catherine
Macauley”
2.
Theresa Strouth Gaul, Texas Christian
University, “Letters and Authorial
Agency: Catharine Brown”
3.
Bonnie Carr O'Neill, Mississippi State
University, “Letters and Periodical Publication: Fanny Fern”
4.
Linda Grasso, York College and The
Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Letter Editions as Epistolary
Fictions: Rebecca Primus, Addie Brown, and Their Editor”
5.
Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University,
“Letters and Authenticity: Charles Brockden Brown and
Emily Dickinson”
Friday, 11-12:15
Business, Bankruptcy,
and Financial Crisis: Women and
Economics in Women’s Writing of the 1830s (Southern California Society for the
Study of American Women Writers) (Flower)
Chair: Mary Eyring, University of California-San
Diego
1. Mary Eyring, University
of California-San Diego: “‘The poor must
have a living’: Sarah Josepha Hale and
the Business of Charity”
2. Mary Templin, University
of Toledo, “‘The property is not ours’: Eliza Follen and Bankruptcy Policy in
the 1830s”
3. Leslie Hammer,
University of California-Santa Barbara, “Creating the ‘Fiction’ that Earning
Money is a Woman’s Natural Right: Hannah
Lee and the Rhetoric of Feminist Capitalism”
Friday, 11-12:15
The 21st-Century Women
Writers Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion (Whitpen)
Moderator:
Lisa Koch, George Mason University
1. Susan S. Williams, Ohio
State University, “Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Fiction in the
Pre-Education Classroom”
2. Lois Rubin, Pennsylvania
State University-New Kensington, “Global Contexts: Developing an International Women Writers
Course”
3. Martha Nell Smith,
University of Maryland-College Park, “Emily
Dickinson’s Correspondences: Teaching a ‘Born-Digital’ Text to
‘Born-Digital’ Students”
12:15-1:45 – Regional Networking Lunch
(Sign up when you register)
12:15-1:45 – Susan Glaspell
Society Business Meeting (Flower)
2:00-3:45 – First Plenary –American Women’s Writing Now (Ballrooms)
Chair:
Karen L. Kilcup, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Norma Cantu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Joanne Dobson, Fordham University
Deborah Miranda, Washington and Lee University
Cherise Pollard, West Chester University
Angela Sorby, Marquette University
4:00-5:15, Concurrent Sessions
4:00-5:15, Concurrent Sessions
Friday, 4:00-5:15
Making Sympathy Visible: The Production of Sympathy in
American Women's Writing (Frampton)
Chair:
Kimberly Lamm, Duke University
1. Heather Thompson-Gillis,
The Ohio State University, “Between the True and New Woman: The Function of
Sympathy in the Social Reform Poetry of Sarah Piatt”
2. Naomi Greyser , University of Iowa, “On Sympathetic
Grounds: The Critical Limits of Sentiment in the Speeches of Maria W. Stewart
(1831-33)”
3.
Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M
University-Commerce, “Sympathetic
Reports: Fanny Fern, Newspaper Journalism, and the Public Stage”
4. Kimberly Lamm, Duke
University, “Fashioning and Investing in Sympathy: A Sartorial Reading of The Lamplighter (1854)”
Friday, 4:00-5:15
Literary Intersections
with Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Science and Law (Reynolds)
Chair:
Tina Gianquitto, Colorado School of Mines
1. Nicole C. Livengood,
Marietta College, “Antislavery Discourse and Scientific Racism in Julia Ward
Howe’s The Hermaphrodite”
2. Melissa J.
Lingle-Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “Lady Lawyers and Scribbling
Women: Representations of Law, Justice and the New Woman Lawyer in American
Women’s Discourse”
3. Karyn Valerius, Hofstra
University, “To Worship Beauty: Paternal Impressions in Harriet Prescott
Spofford’s ‘The Amber Gods’”
4.
Elizabeth Stockton, Southwestern University, “‘By the help of God and a good lawyer’: Performing Race and Gender in
the Antebellum Courtroom”
Friday, 4:00-5:15
Conference Planning for
the Author Society: A Roundtable Discussion
(The Harriet Beecher
Stowe Society – Session #2) (Shippen)
Moderator:
Beth L. Lueck, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
1. Beth L. Lueck,
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, “Planning an International Conference on a
Shoestring Budget”
2. Brigitte Bailey,
University of New Hampshire, “Framing Conference Questions, Developing
Programs, and Collaborating with Other Organizations”
3. Lucinda Damon-Bach,
Salem State College, “From the Ground, Up: Five Conferences in Ten Years for
Sedgwick and Her Contemporaries”
4. Charlene Avallone,
Independent Scholar, “Some Ways to Conference that Involve the Local Community”
Friday, 4:00-5:15
Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s
Literature (Whitpen)
Chair: John Ernest,
West Virginia University
- Martha J. Cutter, University of Connecticut-Storrs, “Dialectical Passing Plots in Hannah
Crafts’s The Bondswoman’s Narrative”
- John Ernest, West
Virginia University, “‘Manage Your Own Secrets’: African American Women’s
Autobiographies after the Civil War”
3.
Stafford Grégoire, City
University of New York, “Archetypal ‘Looks’ in Incidents of a Slave Girl”
Friday, 4:00-5:15
Teaching Native American Women’s
Writing (Ballroom D)
Chair:
Lynn Domina, State University of New York-Delhi
1. Lynn Domina, State
University of New York-Delhi, “Teaching the Work of Louise Erdrich in a Single
Author Course”
2. Jane Haladay, The
University of North Carolina-Pembroke, “The Interdisciplinary Imperative for
Teaching Jeannette Armstrong”
3. Annette Portillo, University of Texas-San Antonio, “Redefining
Autobiography: Strategies for Teaching Native American Women’s Life Stories”
4. Martina Sciolino, University
of Southern Mississippi, “Teaching Native American Women’s Writing: Linda
Hogan’s Ecopoetics and the Great Books Curriculum”
Friday, 4:00-5:15
Women Writing the City:
Urban Spaces in Twentieth-Century Literature
(Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Lisa J. Udel, Illinois College
1.
Donna Campbell, Washington State University, “‘It
could have been any street’: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s In ’Steenth Street Stories and Ann Petry’s The Street
2. Lisa J. Udel, Illinois
College, “Metro-Sexuals: Women Writing the City”
3. TBA
Friday, 4:00-5:15
Susan Glaspell’s Allison’s House and the Legacy of Emily
Dickinson (Susan Glaspell Society) (Flower)
Chair:
J. Ellen Gainor, Cornell University
1. Basia Ozieblo,
University of Malaga, Spain, “No Hard Evidence: Alison’s House and Emily Dickinson”
2. Sharon Friedman, New
York University, “Susan Glaspell’s Alison’s
House and the Many Meanings of Emily Dickinson’s Legacies”
3. Drew Eisenhauer,
University of Maryland, College Park, “Susan Glaspell, Eva Le Gallienne:
Queering . . . Chekhov?”
5:15-6:00 – SSAWW Open Business Meeting (Ballrooms)
6:00-8:00 – A staged Reading of
Susan Glaspell’s Alison’s House (presented
by the Susan Glaspell Society) (Reynolds)
6:30-8:00, Open Reading – Conference Participants can come and share their own
creative work or passages from lesser-known (but should be known) women writers
(Flower)
Saturday,
October 24th
8:00-9:15, concurrent sessions
Saturday, 8:-00-9:15
Teachers, Preachers, and
Speechifiers: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Public Voices (Flower)
Chair:
Stacy Carson Hubbard, State University of New York-Buffalo
1. Elizabeth Petrino,
Fairfield University, “‘Do Your Duty to Your Brothers and Sisters’: Domestic
Literacy and Civic Values in Lydia Sigourney’s Writing”
2. Christina Zwarg,
Haverford College, “Verena Tarrant’s Interrupted Lecture: Or, Mrs. Piper and
the Question of Her Speech”
3. Stacy Carson Hubbard,
State University of New York-Buffalo, “‘Bound to do her Bidding’: Sojourner
Truth’s Voice of Authority”
4. Timothy Scherman,
Northeastern Illinois University, “‘Is There No Better Work than to Write
Books?’: Elizabeth Oakes Smith, the Transcendentalists, and the Public”
Saturday, 8:-00-9:15
19th-Century Poetry vs.
the Poetess (Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Kristen Keller, Washington State University
1. Amber LaPiana,
Washington State University, “Pre-Poetess: Maria Gowen Brooks and the Female
Subjectivity of ‘Judith’ and ‘Esther’”
2. Kirsten Silva Gruesz,
University of California-Santa Cruz, “Maria Gowen Brooks, In and Out of the Poe
Circle”
3. Shannon Thomas, Ohio
State University, “‘My Rose, my book, my work, I see them all’: Celia Thaxter
and the Politics of the Poetess”
4. Mary De Jong,
Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College, “‘Sing Away’: The Vocation of
Frances Osgood, Poetess”
Respondent:
Elissa Zellinger, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Saturday, 8:-00-9:15
Literary Last Works (Frampton)
Chair: Ashley Bourgeois,
University of Kentucky
1. Kathryn Powell, Texas
State University, “Committing Silence: The Last Work of Kate Chopin”
2. Ashley Bourgeois, Texas
State University, “In Her (Own) Words: A Conscious Adaptation by Nella Larsen”
3. Adriana Lechuga, Texas State University, “For Money or
Title: A Social and Historic Assessment of Anglo-American Marriages in Edith
Wharton's ‘The Buccaneers’”
4. Elizabeth Welch, Texas
State University, “‘If We Had Our Lives to Live Over Again’: Reexamining
Cather’s Final Novel”
Saturday,
8:-00-9:15
Representing and
Contextualizing Friendship (Reynolds)
Chair:
Sarah Wadsworth, Marquette University
1.
Sarah Wadsworth, Marquette University, “Our Mutual Friend: The Writings of Alice A.
Bartlett in the Context of the Alcotts, Emersons and James’s”
- Amy Lee Bennett,
Boston University, “Imaginary Friendships in the Writing of Sarah Orne
Jewett”
- Caroline H.
Wigginton, The University of Texas-Austin, “A ‘Union of the Soul’:
Friendship, Piety, and Politics in Milcah
Martha Moore's Book”
Saturday, 8:-00-9:15
Reconstructing Captivity
and Relocating Affiliation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing
(Shippen)
Chair:
Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University
1. Elizabeth L. Wilkinson,
University of St. Thomas, “White Women and the Transrhetorical Agency of
Indianism”
2.
J. Samaine Lockwood, George
Mason University, “Rewriting History, Rethinking Regionalism: The Writings of
C. Alice Baker”
3.
Mischelle Anthony,
Wilkes University, “A Grotesque Tea & Sympathy: Claustrophobic Discourse in
Gilman's ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
4.
Eric Gary Anderson,
George
Mason University, “Talking
Rooms: The Haunted Architecture of
Captivity and Affiliation in Toni Morrison's Late Fiction”
Saturday, 8:-00-9:15
Perspectives on Early
Twentieth-Century Literature (Whitpen)
Chair:
Jennifer M. Nader, University of New Mexico
- Amy Easton Flake,
Brandeis University, “American Anti-Suffrage Fiction: Window to an
Alternative Women’s Movement”
- Barbara
Baumgartner, Washington University, “Missis Flinder’s Abortion”
- Debra Bernardi,
Carroll College, “Demonic Desires: Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith
Wharton in Italy”
- Nancy Helen Von
Rosk, Mount Saint Mary College, “The Fragility of Female Solidarity in
Edith Wharton’s Brunner Sisters”
Saturday, 8:-00-9:15
History and Memory
(Ballroom D)
Chair:
Maria Holmgren-Troy
1. Lisa Kohlmeier,
Claremont Graduate University, “Regina Anderson Andrews and the Uses of History
for Racial and Social Change”
2. Maria Holmgren-Troy, Karlstad University, “Genre as Cultural Memory in Octavia Butler’s Survivor”
3. Jennifer Freeman
Marshall, Emory University, “The Walker Effect: the Impact of Alice
Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s Canonization”
9:30-10:45, concurrent sessions
Saturday, 9:30-10:45
Hardboiled Women: Women
Writing Crime Stories and Roman Noir
(Flower)
Chair:
Julie Prebel, Occidental College
1.
Birgit Spengler, Goethe
University, “Rewriting the Genre: Detection in Nineteenth-Century Women's
Writing”
2. Brian Sweeney, Brown
University, “The Butler Didn’t: The Servant Problem, Professionalism, and Anna
Katharine Green’s The Leavenworth Case: A
Lawyer’s Story”
3. Julie Prebel, Occidental
College, “Critiquing Masculinity and the Emergence of a ‘New’ Femme Fatale in
Dorothy Hughes’s In a Lonely Place”
4. Philip Goldstein,
University of Delaware, “Gender, Genre, and Rhetoric in Sara Paretsky’s
Detective Fiction”
Saturday, 9:30-10:45
Arachne’s Web—21st
Century Edition: Locating Early American
Women Authors (Frampton)
Chair: Angela Vietto, Eastern Illinois University
1. Tamara Harvey, George
Mason University, “Arethusa and the Gendered Paths of Colony and Trade”
2. Lisa Logan, University
of Central Florida, “Mapping the Self:
Negotiations of Space and Place in the Domestic Violence Memoirs of
Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston”
3. Amanda Irvin, Texas
Christian University, “Sarah Savage’s The
Factory Girl, by a Lady: Writing “‘Working Women’ into the Public Sphere”
4. Karen Weyler, University
of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Mourning New England: Phillis Wheatley’s Elegies
and the Politics of Performance”
Saturday, 9:30-10:45
Sympathy and the Body
(Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1. Gillian Silverman, University of Colorado
Denver, "The Circulation of Mysterious Fluids: Sympathy and the
Nineteenth-Century Woman Reader"
2. Melissa Yinger,
University of California, Santa Cruz, “Sense and Non-sense: Sympathy and
Humanity in Renaissance England and Antebellum America”
3. Marianne Noble, American
University, Emily Dickinson's Embodied Idea of Sympathy
Saturday,
9:30-10:45
The Feminization of
American Things: Books, Sculpture, Landscape, Angels (Reynolds)
Chair: Jordan Alexander Stein, University of Colorado at
Boulder
1. Lara Langer Cohen, Wayne
State University, “Why Is a Book Like a Woman?”
2. Dana Seitler, University
of Toronto, “A Different Kind of Beautiful: The Sculptural Body Politic in
Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron
Mills”
3. Jordan Alexander Stein,
University of Colorado at Boulder, “Angels in (Mexican) America”
4. Daniel Worden,
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, “Landscaped Culture: Mary Austin,
Ethnography, and Literary Form”
Saturday, 9:30-10:45
Perspectives on Edith
Wharton (The Edith Wharton Society) (Shippen)
Chair:
Hildegard Hoeller, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center-City
University of New York
1. Margaret Toth, Manhattan
College, “Diets, Corsets, and the Technologically-Produced Image: Wharton and
Women's Visual Cultures”
2. Jennifer
Glennon, University of Oxford, “Edith Wharton and Scholarly Women”
3.
Amanda White, American University, “‘Organized Beneficence’:
Edith Wharton and the Women's Culture of Philanthropy”
4. Mary V. Marchand,
Goucher College, “‘The Noisy Play of Montessori Infants': Wharton’s Repudiation
of the Women’s Club Movement”
Saturday, 9:30-10:45
Women Periodical
Essayists
(Research Society for
American Periodicals – Session #1) (Whitpen)
Chair:
Jared Gardner, Ohio State University
1. Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio
State University, “Judith Sargent Murray: Gendering Economics in the Massachusetts Magazine”
2. Carolyn Karcher, Temple
University, Professor Emerita, “Fanny Fern in the Context of the New York Ledger”
3. Sara Lindey, Saint
Vincent College, “Between Books & Periodicals: Fanny Fern’s Female Reader”
4. Edward Whitley, Lehigh
University, “The Queen of Bohemia and The
Saturday Press: Ada Clare’s Periodical Essays and the Making of Bohemian
New York”
Saturday, 9:30-10:45
Perspectives on
Transnationalism #1 (Ballroom D)
Chair:
Yolanda Padilla, University of Pennsylvania
1.
Yolanda Padilla, “The Essential
Border Mexican: Reading the Immigrant Nationalism of Leonor Villeges de
Magnón's The Rebel”
2.
Kimberly O’Neill, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Women at War Gender, Migration, and the Mexican
Revolution”
- Myriam J.A. Chancy,
Louisiana State University, “Subjectivities in Motion: Carribean Women’s
Literary (Dis)articulation of Being”[Gregory F1]
Saturday, 9:30-10:45
Autobiographical Themes
in Late Twentieth Century American Women’s Poetics (Ballroom E2)
Chair:
Nzadi Keita, Ursinus College
1. Cherise A.
Pollard, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, “Negotiating New Blackness:
Shifting Senses of Racial and Gendered Identity in Gwendolyn Brooks’ Prose and
Poetry”
2. Ruth Porritt,
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, “Dead-Living
Eyes and Dead-Living Heart: How Tess
Gallagher’s Autobiographical Recollections Complicate Her Poetry”
3.
Nzadi Keita, Ursinus College, “‘step back
world.’/ ‘we be splendid’: Contemporary Poetry and Black Women's
Bodies”
4. Trudi Witonsky, University
of Wisconsin, Whitewater, “Trying what it means, to stand fast; what it means to move: Poetry,
Prose, and Adrienne Rich’s Creative Praxis.”
11-12:15,
concurrent sessions
Saturday, 11-12:15
The Art of Ruth
Stone: The Art of Her Poetry, The Art of Editing, and the Art of Collaborating
with a Major American Woman Writer: A Roundtable Discussion (Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Kandace Brill Lombart
1. Martha Nell Smith, Univ.
of Maryland
2. Maria Gillan, Editor, Paterson Literary Review
3. Rosanne Wassermann,
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Saturday, 11-12:15
Women Writers and
Environment: On the Politics of Nature (Northwest Study Group) (Ballroom E2)
Chair: Lydia Fisher, University of Puget Sound
1. Michelle Fankhauser,
Washington State University, “Flower Power: Margaret
Fuller's Formulation of Gender in Autobiographical Romance”
2. Tina Gianquitto,
Colorado School of Mines, “Plant Smuts and School Reforms:
Lydia Becker and the Strange Case of Lychnis devoice”
3. Nicole Merola, Rhode
Island School of Design, “Superfund Gothic: Joyce Carol
Oates's ‘The Falls’”
Saturday,
11-12:15
Beyond Plum Bun: New Directions in Scholarship on Jessie Redmon Fauset: A
Roundtable Discussion (Flower)
Chair: Rynetta Davis, University of Kentucky
1. Claire Oberon Garcia, Colorado
College, “Issues of Translation, Representation, and Mutilation in
Jessie Fauset’s Early Stories”
2. Kimberley
Lamm, Duke University, “‘I don’t know what she does with my ex-millinery’:
Fauset’s ‘Mary Elizabeth’ (1917) and the Politics of Clothing”
3. Gaynor
Blandford, The Boston Conservatory, “Jessie Redmon Fauset and The Great War”
Saturday,
11-12:15
War, Revolution and Politics in Dramatic Works of Sarah Pogson, Lula
Vollmer, and Naomi Wallace (Frampton)
Chair:
Sherry Engle, Borough of Manhattan Community College-City University of New
York
Chair:
Marlene Sider, Executive Director, American
Historical Theatre, Philadelphia
1.
Maria Beach, Oklahoma State University, “Combating Violence and
Illiteracy: Lula Vollmer’s Sun-Up”
2. Sherry Engle, Borough of
Manhattan Community College-City University of New York, “An American Exile:
Art, War and Politics in Three Works by Naomi Wallace”
3.
Elizabeth Stroppel, William
Paterson University, ”Women and War, Rape and Ruin: Lynn Nottage’s Ruined”
Saturday, 11-12:15
American Women’s
Narratives of Travel and Empire (Reynolds)
Chair:
Anne E. Boyd, University of New Orleans
1. Elizabeth Thompson, Ohio
University, “Prairie Visions:
Feminine Autonomy and Native American Extinction in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes”
2. Anne E. Boyd, University
of New Orleans, “Art, Imperialism, and Hybridity in the Reconstruction South:
Woolson's Rodman the Keeper: Southern
Sketches”
3. Patrick Gleason,
University of California-San Diego, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s Caribbean Travel and
the Transamerican Routes of New England Regionalism”
4. Sarah Robbins, Texas
Christian University, “Nellie Arnott as a Character in Mission Literature”
Saturday,
11-12:15
19th-Century Reform
Writing (Shippen)
Chair:
Carolyn Karcher, Temple University, Professor Emerita
- Fran L. Lassiter, Chestnut Hill College, “Maria W. Stewart: A Forgotten Voice in the
History of Racial and Social Reform”
- Kristina Huff,
University of Delaware, “Lydia Maria Child’s Heroic Abolitionists”
- Alice Rutkowski,
State University of New York-Geneseo “From Bondage to Contract:
Interracial Marriage and Civil Rights in Lydia Maria Child, Rebecca
Harding Davis and Anna Dickinson”
- Judith Scheffler,
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, “A Brand Plucked out of the Fire:
Religious Themes in the Life Writings of Nineteenth-Century Quaker Female
Activists”
Saturday, 11-12:15
Advice Columns and
Letters Columns: New Explorations of Women's
Writing (Research Society for American Periodicals – Session #2) (Whitpen)
Chair:
Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University
1. Jill Lamberton, Wabash
College, “Letter Columns in Late Nineteenth-Century Student Magazines: Women's
Transatlantic Strategies for Securing Access to
Elite Higher Education”
2. Jean Lutes, Villanova
University, “Women Writers and Mass-Produced Emotional Expression: How the
Grandmother of Advice Columns Got Us Started”
3. Julie Golia, Columbia
University, “‘Our Column Mother’: The Newspaper Advice Columnist as Journalist
and Icon, 1895-1955”
4. Emily Toth, Louisiana
State University, “What Ms. Mentor Knows, or How Advice Writing Changes Women”
Saturday, 11-12:15
Perspectives on
Transnationalism #2 (Ballroom D)
Chair:
K. Hyoejin Yoon, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
1. Elizabeth Archuleta,
“Queens, Princesses & Squaws: The Trafficking of Indigenous Women’s Bodies”
2. Jean Pfaelzer,
University of Delaware, “Digging in the Archives to Curate ‘Chinese American
Women: A History of Resistance and Resilience’ for the National Women's History
Museum”
3. K. Hyoejin Yoon, West
Chester University of Pennsylvania , “Exhibitions of Femininity and Material
Culture in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Museums: The Case of Afong Moy”
4.
Abigail Palko, University of Notre Dame, “Now You will See How a Slave Was Made a
Woman: Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose
and Maryse Condé’s Moi Tituba,
sorcière …”
12:15-1:30 – LUNCH (on your own)
Or 12:15-1:30 –LUNCH (Sponsored by the
Fuller, Sedgwick and Stowe societies; open to all (with advanced registration))
(Bromley/Claypool
Room)
1:30-2:45, concurrent sessions
Saturday, 1:30-2:45
Rebecca Harding Davis
and Women (Rebecca Harding Davis Society) (Flower)
Chair: Mischa Renfroe, Middle Tennessee State
University
1.
Sharon
M. Harris, University of Connecticut-Storrs, “Davis's ‘A Story of Berrytown’
and Nineteenth-century Medical Culture”
2.
Benjamin
Priest, State University of New York-Buffalo, “Women in Literature: Rebecca
Harding Davis and the Contested Meaning of American Regionalism”
3.
Therese
Tomaszek, Davenport University, “Feminism and a Theory of the Commonplace in
the Essays of Rebecca Harding Davis”
4. Robin Cadwallader, Saint
Francis University “Rebecca Harding Davis and Mary Rankin: Two Women Write
about Their Lives in the Iron-Mills”
Saturday, 1:30-2:45
Nineteenth-Century
Mormon Women Writers (Frampton)
Chair:
Edward Whitley, Lehigh University
1. Rachel Cope, Syracuse
University, “Composing her Life: Lucy Mack Smith as Spiritual Memoirist”
2. Jennifer Reeder, George
Mason University, “Songs and Flowers of
the Wasatch—A Utah Collection of Female Cultural Refinement”
3. Lisa Olsen Tait,
University of Houston, “Susan Young Gates: Mormon. Woman. Writer”
Respondent,
Susanna Morrill, Lewis and Clark College
Saturday, 1:30-2:45
Constance Fenimore
Woolson and the Ambivalence of Gender and Region (Constance Fenimore Woolson
Society) (Reynolds)
Chair: Kathryn B. McKee, University of
Mississippi
1. Kristen M. Comment,
Independent Scholar, “‘The singular power one woman sometimes has over
another’: Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Anonymous Defense of Alice Perry’s Esther Pennefather”
2. Heidi Hanrahan, Shepherd
University, “‘Is not peace better? I
can’t tell’: North and South in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Poetry”
3. John Pearson, Stetson
University, “Woolson’s Land of the Lotus Eater”
Saturday, 1:30-2:45
Queer Identities and
Lesbian Literature (Shippen)
Chair:
Dorri R. Beam, University of California-Berkeley
- Karen E. Weekes,
Pennsylvania State University-Abington College, “Lesbian Autobiography and Composite
Forms”
- Danielle Demuth,
Grand Valley State University, “Twentieth-century Lesbian Literature in
the Twenty-first Century: Lesbian Lit History and the Future of Gale Wilhelm”
- Dorri R. Beam,
University of California-Berkeley, “Passion and (Margaret) Sweat:
Reconsidering Ethel’s Love-Life
(1858)”
Saturday, 1:30-2:45
Southern Civil War and
Postbellum Literature (Whitpen)
Chair:
Jennifer L. Gross, Jacksonville State University
1. Wendy Whelan-Stewart,
University of Louisiana-Lafayette, “Speaking the South’s Language:
Neo-Platonism, True Womanhood, and Augusta Jane Evan’s Macaria”
2. Kerstin Rudolph,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Sherwood Bonner’s Sentimental
Excess: Postbellum Relationships Between Black and White Women in Regional
Fiction”
3.
Jennifer L. Gross, Jacksonville State University, “Widows in
Confederate Fiction: ‘The Lives of The Men Would Be Changed Comparatively
Little’”
Saturday, 1:30-2:45
“Tradition
and the Individual Talent”: The Mark of Modernism on Four American Women
Writers (Ballroom D)
Chair: Kristi Branham, Western Kentucky University
1. Bess
Fox, Marymount University, “Diary of the
Author as a Young Theorist: Reading Susan Sontag’s Journals”
2. Cheryl Hopson,
Roanoke College, “Writing/Revising the Self as Artist and Mother: Reading Alice
Walker's ‘One Child of One's Own’: A Meaningful Digression within the Work(s)”
3.
Holly Karapetkova, Marymount University, “‘Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I’: Reading Anne Spencer in the White
Literary Tradition”
4.
Kristi Branham, Western
Kentucky University, “Anatomy of a Woman Writer: Fannie Hurst and the ‘Back
Street’ of American Modernism”
Perspectives on
Contemporary Literature (Ballroom E1)
Chair:
Diane Todd Bucci, Robert Morris University
- Marci L.
Carrasquillo, Simpson College, “‘Watch me re-position the stars’:
Democratizing the Road Narrative in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine”
- Julie S. Amberg,
York College of Pennsylvania, “New Considerations of Color: Race and Power
in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy”
- Reinaldo Silva,
Universidade de Aveiro-Portugal, “Madly in Love Outside the Church and the Nunnery: The Portuguese
Priest and Nun Revisited in Katherine Vaz’s Fiction”
Saturday, 1:30-2:45
The Significance of the
U.S.-Mexican War in Popular Literature
(Texas Society for the
Study of American Women Writers) (Ballroom E2)
Chair:
Randi Lynn Tanglen, Austin College
1. Tracey-Lynn Clough, University of Texas at Arlington, "Women of War: Sensational Women in U.S.-Mexican
War Literature"
2. Christopher Conway, University of Texas at Arlington,
"Ravished Virgins and Warrior Women: Mexican Responses to the U.S.-Mexican
War"
Respondent: Randi Lynn
Tanglen, Austin College
3:00-4:45, Closing Plenary, Transnational American
Women’s Writing
(Ballrooms)
Chair: Karen L. Kilcup, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Elizabeth Archuleta, Arizona State University, Tempe
Alison Easton, Lancaster University
Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic
Katherine Hyunmi Lee, Indiana State University
5:00-7:00, Closing Reception (Courtyard)
Participants, SSAWW 09
Adams, Katherine, 17
Adams, Kimberly V., 15
Adamson, Joni, 35
Alexander, Karen, 21
Amberg, Julie S., 34
Anderson, Eric Gary, 27
Anderson, Jill Kirsten, 7
Anthony, Mischelle,27
Archuleta, Elizabeth, 32, 35
Armstrong, Julie Buckner, 20
Asaeli, Larisa S., 9
Ashworth, Suzanne, 6
Avallone, Charlene,
10, 23
Badia, Janet , 6
Bailey, Brigitte, 23
Baker, Anne, 13
Bannet, Eve Tavor, 7, 21
Barclay, Bridgitte, 15
Barrett, Faith, 8
Baumgartner, Barbara, 27
Beach, Maria, 31
Beam
,
Dorri R., 33
Bennett, Amy Lee, 27
Bennett, Paula Bernat, 8, 12
Bergland, Renee, 13
Bernardi, Debra, 27
Betts, Alison, 16
Blandford, Gaynor, 31
Bode, Rita, 6
Botshon, Lisa, 13
Boudreau, Kristin, 28
Bourgeois, Ashley, 26
Boyd, Anne E., 31
Boyle, Jamie Libby, 16
Brady, Jennifer L., 11
Branham, Kristi, 33
Brubaker, Anne M.,
14
Bucci, Diane Todd,
34
Cadwallader, Robin, 33
Campbell, Donna, 4, 24
Cantalupo, Barbara, 7,9
Cantú, Norma, 17, 19, 22
Carnell, Rachel, 13
Carpenter, Cari, 10, 12
Carrasquillo, Marci L., 34
Casey, Janet G., 17
Chandler, Aaron, 14
Chandler, Linda, 17
Chinery, Mary, 8
Choi, Yoon Young, 5
Clancy, Christina G., 11
Clough, Tracey-Lynn, 10, 34
Cohen, Lara Langer, 29
Cohoon, Lorinda B., 5
Comment, Kristen M., 33
Conway, Christopher, 34
Cope, Rachel, 33
Coronado, Teresa, 14
Cox, Kimberly, 14
Crowley, Karlyn, 20
Cutter, Martha J., 21, 24
Daly-Galeano, Marlowe, 4
Damon-Bach, Lucinda, 23
Davey, Michael J., 16
Davis, Cynthia J., 17
Davis, Lynda, 13
Davis, Rynetta, 5, 31
DeFrancis, Theresa, 11
DeJong, Mary, 26
DeLombard, Jeannine, 6
DeMuth, Danielle, 33
Desiderio, Jennifer,
5
DeSpain, Jessica, 5
Diana, Vanessa
Holford, 21
Dobson, Joanne, 22
Domina, Lynn, 24
Dunbar, Jesse L., 17
Duquette, Elizabeth, 17
Easton-Flake, Amy, 27, 35
Edelstein, Sari, 5
Ehrhardt, Julia, 13
Eiselein, Gregory, 18
Eisenhauer, Drew, 25
Elbert, Monika M., 9
Elrod, Eileen Razzari, 5
Engle, Sherry, 31
Engstrom, Karoliina, 5
Ernest, John, 24
Eyring, Mary, 22
Fankhauser, Michelle, 30
Fast, Robin Riley,
21
Fischthal, Hannah Berliner, 6
Fisher, Lydia, 15, 30
Foster, Ellen, 7
Fox, Bess, 33
Friedman, Sharon, 25
Gainor, J. Ellen, 25
Garcia, Claire Oberon, 31
Garcia, Magda, 19
Gardner, Eric, 18, 20
Gardner, Jared , 29
Garvey, Ellen Gruber, 32
Gaul, Theresa Strouth, 21
Gemma, Marissa Lynn, 11
George, Joseph, 19
Gianquitto, Tina, 23, 30
Gilbert-Hickey, Meghan, 19
Giles, Lisa, 8
Gillan, Maria, 30
Ginsberg, Lesley, 11
Glass, Kathy L., 14
Gleason, Patrick, 31
Glennon, Jennifer, 29
Goldsmith, Meredith, 13
Goldstein, Philip, 28
Golia, Julie, 32
Grady, Maura, 20
Graham, Kellen, 14
Grasso, Linda, 21
Green, Kim D., 17
Green-Barteet, Miranda, 19
Greenfield, Kimberly, 19
Grégoire, Stafford,
24
Greyser, Naomi, 23
Gross, Jennifer
Lynn, 34
Gruesz, Kirsten Silva, 26, 35
Gussman, Deborah, 12
Gustafson, Melanie, 15
Gustafson,
Stephanie, 21
Haladay, Jane, 24
Hale, Alison Tracy, 15
Halko, Gabrielle, 8
Hall, Deidre Dallas, 4
Hall, Julie, 9
Halpern, Faye, 16
Hammer, Leslie, 22
Hanrahan, Heidi, 33
Hans, Julia, 7
Harde, Roxanne, 14
Harker, Jaime, 13
Harris, Sharon M., 13, 21, 33
Harris, Susan K., 18
Harvey, Tamara, 28
Hendel, Erin, 19
Henderson, Desirée, 5, 8
Hewitt, Elizabeth, 21, 29
Higgins, Andrew C., 4
Hoeller, Hildegard, 29
Holbo, Christine, 17
Holly, Carol, 18
Holmgren-Troy, Maria, 27
Homestead, Melissa J., 7
Honey, Maureen, 4
Hopson, Cheryl, 33
Horn-Gibson, Jodi Van Der, 10
Hsu, Li-hsin, 10
Hubbard, Stacy Carson, 26
Huff, Kristina, 32
Huguley-Riggins, Piper G., 9
Hurtado, Aída, 19
Ingram, Annie Merrill, 8
Irvin, Amanda, 28
Jablon, Rachel Leah, 9
Jackson, Phoebe, 4
Jackson, Timothy F., 4
Jacobson, Kristin, 17
Jarenski, Shelly, 16
Jaroff, Rebecca, 16
Jo, Hea-Gyong, 10
Kalayjian, Pat, 12
Kannan, Trisha, 10
Karapetkova, Holly, 34
Karcher, Carolyn L., 29, 32
Keita, Nzadi, 30
Keller, Kristen, 26
Kent, Holly M., 11
Kete, Mary Louise, 18
Kilcup, Karen L., 22, 35
Kirby, Lisa, 14
Koch, Lisa, 22
Kohlmeier, Lisa, 27
Korobkin, Laura H., 18
Kremer, S. Lillian, 6
LaFauci, Lauren, 8
Laffrado, Laura, 15
Lamberton, L. Jill, 32
LaPiana, Amber, 26
Lamm, Kimberly, 23, 31
Lassiter, Fran L., 32
Lechuga, Adriana, 26
Leder, Priscilla V., 8
Lee, Katherine Hyunmi, 35
Lichtenstein, Diane, 17
Lindey, Sara, 29
Lingle-Martin, Melissa Jane, 23
Livengood, Nicole C., 23
Lock, Sarah, 7
Lockwood, J. Samaine, 27
Logan, Lisa, 28
Lombart, Kandace Brill, 29
Long, Lisa A., 4
Lorang, Elizabeth, 19
Lowry, Margaret, 5
Lubovich, Maglina, 16
Lueck, Beth L., 5, 23
Lutes, Jean , 15, 32
Mader, Rodney, 13
Magill, David, 11
Marchand, Mary V., 29
12Marshall, Jennifer Freeman, 27
Martell, Colleen M.,
8
McKee, Kathryn B., 33
McMahon, Shannon, 7
Méndez, Mariela, 18
Merola, Nicole, 30
Miranda, Deborah, 10, 22
Moody, Joycelyn K.9,
21
Morrill, Susanna, 33
Morris, Susana M., 17
Mossberg, Barbara, 10
Murillo, Cynthia, 10
Murray, Meg McGavran, 10
Nabers, Deak, 6
Nader, Jennifer M., 27
Nicosia, Jim, 8
Nicosia, Laura, 8
Noble, Marianne, 28
Nollen, Elizabeth Mahn, 9
O’Brien, Kelli Purcell, 19
Oliverio, Lisa M., 11
O'Neill, Bonnie Carr, 21
O'Neill, Kimberly, 29
Ozieblo, Basia, 25
Padilla, Yolanda, 29
Palko, Abigail L.,
32
Palmer, Louis H. (III), 4
Parker, Robert Dale,
12
Patterson, Cynthia,
6
Peabody, Megan, 16
Pearce, Richard, 10
Pearson, Carmen, 16
Pearson, John, 33
Pelletier, Kevin, 18
Petrino, Elizabeth, 26
Pfaelzer, Jean, 15, 32
Phillips, Natalie, 10
Pollak, Vivian, 12
Pollard, Cherise, 22, 30
Porritt, Ruth, 30
Portillo, Annette,
24
Powell, Kathryn, 26
Prebel, Julie, 28
Pressman, Richard, 4
Priest, Benjamin, 33
Putzi, Jennifer, 8, 13
Rabkin, Orit, 7
Ranta, Judith A., 7
Reeder, Jennifer, 33
Renfroe, Mischa, 33
Richards, Eliza, 4, 18
Robbins, Sarah, 15, 31
Roberts, Christina, 10, 12
Roberts, Jess, 4
Rodier, Katharine, 9
Rogers, David, 14
Rogers-Carpenter, Katherine, 5
Roggenkamp, Karen,
23
Rohrbach , Augusta, 10
Romines, Ann, 11
Ronning, Kari, 11
Rose, Jane E., 17
Rosenthal, Debra J., 16
Rubin, Lois, 6, 22
Rudolph, Kerstin, 34
Russo, Sarah L., 15
Rust, Marion, 5
Rutkowski, Alice, 32
Sanchez, Marta, 17
Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. 16
Saunders, Catherine, 6
Scala, J. Gabriel, 11
Scheffler, Judith A., 32
Scherman, Timothy, 26
Sciolino, Martina, 24
Seitler, Dana, 29
Sellers, Stephanie, 12
Sider, Marlene, 31
Sillin, Sarah, 11
Silva, Reinaldo, 34
Silverman, Gillian, 28
Smilko, Sara, 4
Smith, Martha Nell, 12, 22, 30
Socarides, Alexandra, 8
Sorby, Angela, 22
Sorisio, Carolyn, 12, 15
Specter, Gregory, 16
Speese, James, 4
Spengler,
Birgit, 28
Starnaman, Sabrina, 7
Staunton, John, 19
Steele, Jeffrey, 10
Stein, Jordan Alexander, 29
Steinmetz, Kristi
Marie, 21
Steinroetter,
Vanessa, 6
Stevens, Laura M., 21
Stockton, Elizabeth L., 13, 23
Stroppel, Elizaeth, 31
Strong, Melissa, 20
Stuckey, Michelle A., 18
Sweeney, Brian, 28
Sweet, Nancy F., 20
Swender, Catherine
A., 7
Tait, Lisa Olsen, 33
Tanglen, Randi Lynn, 18, 34
Tanter, Marcy, 12
Taub, Michael, 6
Templin, Mary, 22
Thomas, Shannon, 19, 26
Thompson, Elizabeth, 31
Thompson-Gillis, Heather, 23
Tomaszek, Therese, 33
Tomlinson, Susan, 13, 15
Tonkovich, Nicole, 15, 21
Toth, Emily, 32
Toth, Margaret, 29
Tuttle, Jennifer S., 9, 18
Udel, Lisa J., 24
Uno, Hiroko, 10
Valerius, Karyn, 23
Vietto, Angela, 28
Vogel, Elizabeth, 20
Vogelius, Christa Holm, 16
Von Rosk, Nancy Helen, 27
Wadsworth, Sarah, 27
Walden, Dan , 6
Washington, Pamela, 5
Wassermann, Rosanne, 30
Warren, Joyce W., 5
Wassermann, Rosanne, 30
Watts, Edward, 4
Wearn, Mary, 18, 20
Weekes, Karen E., 33
Weierman, Karen Woods, 12
Weinstein, Cindy, 6, 13
Welch, Elizabeth, 26
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Weyler, Karen, 28
Whelan-Stewart, Wendy, 34
White, Amanda, 29
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