Mary McCarthy’s The Group" Phoebe Jackson, William Paterson University, of Them Did the Best They Could’: Narrating “’Most the Lives of Working-Class Women in Elizabeth Strout’s Amy and Isabelle” Session 1-I TR (7:30 9) Advisory Breakfast – 10:00 11:20 TR – Session 2-A TR Crossing Boundaries Chair: Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta Elizabeth Decker, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Summers Kelley: Beyond Weeds” “Edith Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta, Hybrid Yankee: Elinor Graham’s Our Way Down “The East” Sarah C. Holmes, New England Institute of Technology, and Resistance: Alice “Recovery Beal Parsons’s ‘Triumph’” Maribel Morales, Carthage College, Austin’s Lucia: A Feminist Text Rediscovered” “Mary Session 2-B TR Liminal Persons, Wild Lives: American Women from Pre-Revolution to Post- Reconstruction Chair and Organizer: Lucas Hardy, Youngstown State University Joshua Bartlett, University at Albany, groundless raging Sea’: Littoral Spaces and “‘the Liminal Persons in Phillis Wheatley’s Messrs Hussey and Coffin’” ‘On Lucas Hardy, Youngstown State University, my Thoughts are not your Thoughts’: Mary “‘For Rowlandson’s Idea of Pain” Kuiken, El Museo del Barrio, New York City, to be Free’: On Being a Person in Jewett’s “‘Fit of Sydenham Plantation’” ‘Mistress Michael Monescalchi, Rutgers University, Wilderness is Within: Ann Eliza Bleecker and the “The Nature of Melancholy” Session 2-C TR American Women Writers and Their Travels Society for American Travel Writing Panel Chair: Melanie Scriptunas, Independent Scholar
Mary McCarthy’s The Group" Phoebe Jackson, William Paterson University, “’Most of Them Did the Best They Could’: Narrating the Lives of Working-Class Women in Elizabeth Strout’s Amy and Isabelle” Session 1-I TR (7:30 – 9) Advisory Breakfast 10:00 – 11:20 TR Session 2-A TR Crossing Boundaries Chair: Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta Elizabeth Decker, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Edith Summers Kelley: Beyond Weeds” Lisa Botshon, University of Maine at Augusta, “The Hybrid Yankee: Elinor Graham’s Our Way Down East” Sarah C. Holmes, New England Institute of Technology, “Recovery and Resistance: Alice Beal Parsons’s ‘Triumph’” Maribel Morales, Carthage College, “Mary Austin’s Lucia: A Feminist Text Rediscovered” Session 2-B TR Liminal Persons, Wild Lives: American Women from Pre-Revolution to Post- Reconstruction Chair and Organizer: Lucas Hardy, Youngstown State University Joshua Bartlett, University at Albany, “‘the groundless raging Sea’: Littoral Spaces and Liminal Persons in Phillis Wheatley’s ‘On Messrs Hussey and Coffin’” Lucas Hardy, Youngstown State University, “‘For my Thoughts are not your Thoughts’: Mary Rowlandson’s Idea of Pain” Kuiken, El Museo del Barrio, New York City, “‘Fit to be Free’: On Being a Person in Jewett’s ‘Mistress of Sydenham Plantation’” Michael Monescalchi, Rutgers University, “The Wilderness is Within: Ann Eliza Bleecker and the Nature of Melancholy” Session 2-C TR American Women Writers and Their Travels Society for American Travel Writing Panel Chair: Melanie Scriptunas, Independent Scholar
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