Research and Study Groups California (Southern)
Pacific Northwest SSAWW Study Group Topic: Women Writers and the Settlement of the Pacific Northwest: The Cultural Legacy of Emily Inez Denny’s Blazing the Way, Or True Stories, Songs, and Sketches of Puget Sound and Other Pioneers (1909). Join other colleagues around the region for a daylong dialog about the legacy of Emily Inez Denny’s written account of early Puget Sound-area pioneers. In a similar fashion to other narratives of settlement, Denny’s book demonstrates the incredible cultural influence of certain non-fiction narratives. Denny utilizes themes found within many frontier narratives (threat of Indian attack, virgin lands, exaggeration of pioneer activities, etc.), and these themes helped to pave the way for the development of the region. The group will focus on various approaches to the study of Emily Inez Denny’s Blazing the Way and examine secondary sources that offer supplementary information about early Seattle history and the literary and cultural significance of Denny’s book In addition to engaging conversation about scholarly and pedagogical approaches to Blazing the Way, the group will also visit the Museum of History and Industry to examine the visual representations of Seattle’s early history. The museum visit will take place in the morning from 10-11:30, and the cost will be minimal ($8). If we have enough confirmed participants, we can also request a group discount. For the fall meeting, the group will meet at Seattle University, located on Capitol Hill and near downtown Seattle. Please RSVP to Christina Roberts (robertch@seattleu.edu) by Oct. 29 th. For more information, go to http://ssawwnw.wordpress.com.
Texas The next Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group Meeting will be October 9, 2010 at Austin College in Sherman TX (north of DFW) and hosted by Randi Tanglen (rtanglen@austincollege.edu). Complete information about the event, including directions is available here: http://txssaww.wordpress.com/ The topic for this meeting is "Teaching American Indian Women Writers" and the common reading includes a range of recently recovered American Indian women's writing. We hope that you will be able to join us and please distribute this information to anyone you know who might be interested in participating. If you plan to attend, RSVP to Randi Tanglen at rtanglen@austincollege.edu by Sept. 20.
D.C.-Area American Women Writers Study Group Saturday, November 13, 2010 at the College of William and Mary The fall meeting of the D.C.-Area American Women Writers Study Group (which, given our growing geographical range, will change its name to the Mid-Atlantic American Women Writers Study Group after this meeting) will focus on the circulation of women’s poetry in late eighteenth century British America and the early United States. We’ll discuss the various ways that women’s poetry circulated, ranging from book publication to broadsides to manuscripts and commonplace books. Common readings for our discussion will include Phillis Wheatley’s 1773 Poems as well as a group of her broadsides and the hybrid print-manuscript poems of Virginia writer Margaret Lowther Page. Karen Weyler and Lauren Wallis of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will be our discussion leaders. In the morning, we will tour the Swem Library Special Collections Research Center at William and Mary and view a rare first edition of Wheatley's Poems, as well as the only extant copy of Page's book of poetry. Special Collections librarians will also make available a selection of women's manuscripts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will meet individually with interested scholars. A group lunch, generously provided by the William and Mary Women's Studies Program, will precede the afternoon discussion. We will conclude with an informal group dinner at a local restaurant.
Northeast 19th-Century American Women Writers Study Group
United Kingdom 19th-Century American Women Writers Research Group Department of American and Canadian Studies
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