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 -
Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century

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.