Session 7-E FR Beyond Normativity: Black and Queer Women Writing the City Chair: Kimberly N. Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University Organizer: Jennifer Williams, Morgan State University Jennifer Williams, Morgan State University, of the House: Home “(Wo)Man Ownership and Gender Nonnormativity in Kristin Hunter’s God Bless the Child” Eve Dunbar, Vassar College, by the Easy Life: Specter Capitalism, Race and Gender in “Possessed Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy” Julie Nerad, Morgan State University, City Edition: The Feminist/Queer Alliance in Sally Miller “The Gearhart’s The Wanderground” AV Session 7-F FR. Prison Narratives in American Women’s Writing Chair: Judith Scheffler, West Chester University Barbara Baumgartner, Washington University, Gender and Race in a Liminal Space: “Confronting Reading American Women Writers in a Men’s Prison” Judith Scheffler, West Chester University, 'in the furnace of affliction': Prison Visitors as “Refined Authors of Female Inmates' Spiritual Narratives” Michele Lise Tarter, College of New Jersey, "Life Sentences: Writing with Wisewomen behind Bars" AV Session 7-G FR To Be or Not to Be (Married) in Catharine Sedgwick’s Fiction Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Panel Chair: Deborah Gussman, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Michelle Gaffner Wood, Cedarville University, the Liminal: The Architecture of Single “Inhabiting Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Fiction” Christine Payson, Tufts University, Leah’s Portion: Esther Downing, History, and Marriage “Refusing in Hope Leslie” Jordan Von Cannon, Louisiana State University, Married Nor Single: Sedgwick's Alternate “Neither Paths of Female Development” Session 7-H FR Rebecca Harding Davis, Marriage Reform, and U.S. Policies on Reform ‘Indian’ Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World Panel
Session 7-E FR Beyond Normativity: Black and Queer Women Writing the City Chair: Kimberly N. Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University Organizer: Jennifer Williams, Morgan State University Jennifer Williams, Morgan State University, “(Wo)Man of the House: Home Ownership and Gender Nonnormativity in Kristin Hunter’s God Bless the Child” Eve Dunbar, Vassar College, “Possessed by the Easy Life: Specter Capitalism, Race and Gender in Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy” Julie Nerad, Morgan State University, “The City Edition: The Feminist/Queer Alliance in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground” AV Session 7-F FR. Prison Narratives in American Women’s Writing Chair: Judith Scheffler, West Chester University Barbara Baumgartner, Washington University, “Confronting Gender and Race in a Liminal Space: Reading American Women Writers in a Men’s Prison” Judith Scheffler, West Chester University, “Refined 'in the furnace of affliction': Prison Visitors as Authors of Female Inmates' Spiritual Narratives” Michele Lise Tarter, College of New Jersey, "Life Sentences: Writing with Wisewomen behind Bars" AV Session 7-G FR To Be or Not to Be (Married) in Catharine Sedgwick’s Fiction Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Panel Chair: Deborah Gussman, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Michelle Gaffner Wood, Cedarville University, “Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Fiction” Christine Payson, Tufts University, “Refusing Leah’s Portion: Esther Downing, History, and Marriage in Hope Leslie” Jordan Von Cannon, Louisiana State University, “Neither Married Nor Single: Sedgwick's Alternate Paths of Female Development” Session 7-H FR Rebecca Harding Davis, Marriage Reform, and U.S. Policies on ‘Indian’ Reform Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World Panel
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