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SSAWW Panels at ALA 2013

Thursday, 23, 2013 12:00 –1:20 pm

Session 3-E Early and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Globalization (Essex

North Center 3rd Floor)

Organized by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Chair: Jean Lee Cole, Loyola University Maryland

1. “The Christian Sister: Maria Cummins & American Sympathy Abroad,” Sarah Sillin, University of

Maryland, College Park

2. “Interlocality and the Postbellum Southern Imagination,” Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi

3. “Breaking Separate Spheres, Building Nationalism & Empire: Nineteenth Century Women's Sea Journals,” Melanie Ried, University of Hawai'i

 

Friday May 24, 2013 12:40 – 2:00

Session 10-F Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Women Writers and Globalization

(St George B 3rd Floor)
Organized by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Chair: Jacqueline Emery, SUNY College at Old Westbury

1. “Leslie Scalapino’s Global Scope,” Lisa Samuels, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

2. “Manifest Domesticity Reconsidered: Reading Asian American Women’s Writing as Postcolonial

Texts,” Su-ching Wang, University of Washington

3. “Traversing Cold War Fantasies in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” Paula

K. Burns, University of South Dakota

4. “Another Country: Exile at Home in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying,” Caroline Hellman, City Tech, CUNY

 

Friday May 24, 2013 2:10 –3:30

Session 11-P Business Meeting: Society for the Study of American Women Writers (Parliament 7th

Floor)