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News
July 2010 -
Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
Concord, Massachusetts
I was once again thrilled
to participate in the Annual Gathering. Although I was
there representing the Emerson Society, this year our
panel celebrated the bicentennial of Margaret Fuller's birth by focusing
on Fuller's role in the Transcendentalist circle. My own short paper
focused on "Margaret and Her Friends:
Caroline Dall, Emerson, and the Gender Politics of Transcendental
Conversation." It was wonderful to visit old colleagues and meet new
ones in Concord!
May 2009 -
Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Annual Conference,
Santa Clara, California
I will be chairing a panel on "Writing and
Teaching Global Feminist Histories" with several co-contributors
to my forthcoming anthology, Landmarks in the History of Feminist
Thought. Our panelists are specialists in feminist histories of Asia,
Europe, North America, and Africa!
November 2008 -
Community College Humanities
Association, Portland, Oregon
I attended the CCHA - Pacific-Western regional
conference in Portland for an opportunity to reunite with some of my
Concord summer colleagues and promote the NEH workshop programs for
community college faculty. I presented on how the Concord
experience impacted my current book project on Emerson by giving me
a new perspective on him as a community member and family man. I
also took a walking tour of historic Portland and had a great time
all around!
July 2008 -
I had the incredible opportunity to spend a
week in Concord, Mass. as part of an NEH "Landmarks in American
History" workshop. Myself and 25 other college instructors (and new
friends) stayed at the historic Colonial Inn and were treated to
seminars by leading scholars of Transcendentalism and guided tours
through sites in Concord and Boston such as Walden Pond, Brook Farm,
the Emerson house, the Old Manse, Orchard House, Concord Museum, and
the Freedom Trail of abolitionist activity in Boston. It was an
unforgettable experience, both personally and professionally.
JULY 2008 -
Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, Massachusetts
Scholar Len Gougeon (author of Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery
and Reform) and I will be representing the Emerson Society with a
panel on Emerson and social reform. My paper will examine
Emerson's views on marriage and women's rights. I'm looking forward to
meeting up with everyone at the gathering and to spending some time
in Concord!
JANUARY 2008 -
Woman Thinking now available in paperback!
Lexington Books has now released a lower-cost paperback edition of my
first book, Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in
19th-Century America, originally published in December 2005.
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