Presentations
Presentations“Anger,
Violence, and Belonging in Woman-Authored Infanticide Stories”
Paper presented at National American Studies Conference, Fall 2003.
“Georgia
O’Keeffe’s Painting and Writing: Anger, Sexuality, and Denial”
Paper presented at Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference, Fall 2003.
Paper presented at National American Studies Conference, Fall 2002.
Thesis and Themes: Book Talks about The Artistry of Anger
"Formulating a New Literary Paradigm"
Talk given at York College as part of the Faculty Forum Series, Spring 2001.
"Women are Angry-Why?"
Talk given at York College as part of Women's History Month Series, Spring 2001.
"Little-Girl-Gone-To-Woman"
Border-Crossing Narratives:
Contemporary Women Writers’ Reconfigurations of Love, Mothering, and Female
Maturation.
Paper presented at National American Studies Association Conference, Fall 1999.
"I am accused of tending to the past":
Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Literary History.
Talk given at York College as part of Women's History Month Series, Spring 1999.
"Woman-Authored Infanticide Stories as Political Discourse."
Paper presented at The CUNY English Forum, Spring 1998.
"Writing Keeps Women Sane."
Talk given as part of panel discussion "Women and Madness: Resolving Rage" sponsored by The CUNY Women’s Studies Certificate Program and the Center for the Study of Women and Society, Spring 1998.
"Women and Anger in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature."
Talk given at York College as part of Women’s History Series, Spring 1998.
"Inventive Desperation: The Justice of Maternal Murder in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Women's Literature."
Paper presented at American Literature Association Conference, Spring 1997.
"Behind the Cloak of Enchantment in Gillian
Armstrong's Little Women:
Feminist Affirmation or Hollywood Betrayal?"
Paper presented at National American Studies Conference, Fall 1996.
"'A Story's Like a Map'": The Multiple Functions of Story Telling in Shay Youngblood's The Big Mama Stories."
Talk given at Columbus Museum Literary Series, Spring 1996.
"Handmaidens of Power: Negotiating the Sacred and the Profane in Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Spiritual Autobiographies."
Paper presented at the International Conference on The Sacred and The Profane,
Fall 1995.
"'A Wide Curve of Ancient and Unexpressed Angers:'
Charting a Gendered History of "Black Rage" Texts and Articulations."
Paper presented at American Women Writers of Color Conference, Fall 1995.
"Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers and The American Success Myth."
Talk given at Columbus Museum Literary Series, Spring 1995.
"Hidden in the Garret, Imprisoned in the Nation:
The Aesthetics of Anger in Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl."
Lecture for Black History Month Celebration, Columbus State University, Spring 1994.
"Inspired Wrath: Maria W. Stewart's Use of Anger as Political Agitation."
Paper presented at Western Kentucky Women's Studies Conference, Fall 1994.
"Jean Toomer's Vision of Race and Gender Relations in 'Blood Burning Moon.'"
Talk given at Columbus Museum Literary Series, Fall 1994.
"Anger in the House: The "Other" Side of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature."
Paper presented at Western Kentucky Women's Studies Conference, Fall 1993.
"Imagining the Forbidden: Gendered Responses to the Myth of Edenic America."
Paper presented at New England American Studies Conference, Spring 1992.
"The Artistry of Anger."
Talk given at American Civilization Department, Brown University, Spring 1992.
"The Desert Has Its Compensations: Mary Austin's Vision of Nature."
Paper presented at New England American Studies Conference, Spring 1991.
"The Politics of Anger in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature."
Talk given at Gender Inquiries: Graduate Students' Works in Progress Across the Disciplines, Brown University, Spring 1991.