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I’ll be taking part in a plenary dialogue with Aarthi Vadde at the 30th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. The theme is “Profession and Performance,” and the University of South Dakota will host the event. More details to come.
I will be attending FiMA 2020: Feminist Revolutions, the second Feminist inter/Modernist Association conference, which will be held in Chicago from April 3-5, 2020. More details to come.
Location: Willow B, Sheraton Grand Seattle.
On Friday morning, I will be giving a paper on “Queer Disinheritance and the History of Modernism” as part of Alec Pollak’s wonderful panel on “Modernist Afterlives and the Politics of Literary Transmission.” Alec and I will be joined by Carla Kaplan, and Laura Heffernan has graciously agreed to chair the session. See you at 8:30 am in the Seymour Room!
At this year’s MSA conference, I will be co-presenting, with Anna Preus, “Seeing Modernist Collaboration, Then and Now: Digitizing Hope Mirrlees’ Paris,” which we have drawn from our ongoing work on a digitial edition of Mirrlees’ long poem. I will also be chairing a fabulous panel called “Where Do You Get Off? Modernist Women’s Writing and Graphic Ambivalence.”
Working Presentation Title: "On Not Knowing in Advance"
Session #613
Feminism in academia is at risk—as activism, as complicit in hierarchy, as an academic field, as postfeminism. The ostensible failure of feminism in the current political climate, however, is subject to debate. This session explores the “low theory” of resistance and transformation.
Speakers: Hilda Chacón (Nazareth C, Rochester, NY), Melanie Micir (Washington U in St. Louis), Beth Ann Muellner (C of Wooster), Veronica Popp (Elmhurst C), Christine M. Probes (U of South Florida, Tampa, Tampa), Presiding Michelle A. Massé (Lousiana State U, Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge)
Location: Concourse A, Hilton
Working Presentation Title: "Academic Class and Archival Research"
Session #455: "The Digital Futures of Literary Archives"
Location: Clinton Room, Hilton
At this year's MLA convention in Philadelphia, I will be speaking on a roundtable about "archival boundaries." The title of my contribution is "On Togetherness: Partnership in the Archive." Details TBA.
At this year's MSA conference in Pasadena, I will be speaking on a roundtable about modernism and amateurism. Details TBA.
I will be giving a talk entitled "No Canon for Old Women: Queer Inheritance and the History of Modernism" at Indiana University's Aging Modernisms symposium.
I will be presenting "That's Not Funny: Feminist Killjoys, Old Women, and Other Scorned Subjects" in a seminar called "Sex/Comedy." This will be my first time at the ACLA, and I'm really looking forward to it! If you'll be there, and you'd like to meet, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
Seminar: Age and Generation (Thursday, November 6th, 2:00-4:00 p.m.)
Panel: Modernist Masculinities (Friday, November 7th, 8:30-10:00 a.m.)
Roundtable: Weak Theory (Saturday, November 8th, 3:30-5:00 p.m.)
Paper: "'Not of National Importance': Sylvia Townsend Warner, Women's Work, and the Midcentury Historical Novel"
On Thursday, February 20th, 2014, I will be presenting "Counterfactual Feminism: Kate Atkinson and the Contemporary British Historical Novel" as part of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring Colloquium Series at Washington University in St. Louis. The paper will be available two weeks before the event. Please contact me if you'd like to receive a copy.