Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Triennial Conferences
2021, Baltimore
Feminism(s) and American Land: Examining Early Feminist Ecologies Through Legacies of White Extractivism
Sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Chair: Eagan S. Dean
Kathleen Lawrence, “Preparatory Encounters: Margaret Fuller ‘Leading an Indian Life’ Before Summer on the Lakes”
Chip Badley, “Margaret Fuller and the Erotics of the Picturesque”
Lawrence Lorraine Mullen, “(Un)execeptional Transgender Lives of the West: A Re-reading of Frederick Jackson Turner’s ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History’” Chadha Brahem, “‘The Warriors’: Native American Women in Leslie Silko’s Narratives”
2018, Denver
Phyllis Cole, Immediate Past President, receives the SSAWW Award for Lifetime Achievement
In the Company of Margaret Fuller: Unexpected Genealogies of Feminism
Sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Chair: Jana Argersinger
Fritz Fleischmann, “Margaret Fuller and John Neal “
Etta M. Madden, “Genealogies of Translation: Fuller, de Staël and Caroline Crane Marsh”
Yoshiko Ito, Taisho University “Looking for Transpacific Genealogy in Early Feminism: A Study on the Analogy between Margaret Fuller and Ume Tsuda”
Jenessa Kenway, “The Visual Genealogy of Margaret Fuller”
Afternoon Tea Sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society.
Fuller on panels organized by others:
Lesli Vollrath, “Voices of Resistance Unfolding: Teaching Margaret Fuller as a Nasty Woman in Woman in the Nineteenth Century”
Sarah Salter, “Margaret Fuller’s Italian Regionalism”
2015, Philadelphia
Margaret Fuller: Travel, Transnationalism, and Identity
Chair: Charlene Avallone
Christa Holm Vogelius, “Margaret Fuller’s Transatlantic Imagination”
James Weaver, “‘That indispensable part of a travelling journal’: Omission, Digression, and Resistance in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes and Beyond”
Stephanie K. Barron, “Hybrid Identities and Liminality in Gloria Anzaldúa and Margaret Fuller”
Fuller on panels organized by others:
Sarah Salter, The Pennsylvania State University, “Fuller on the Lakes: Authorship, Admixture, and Advocacy”
2012, Denver
Afternoon Tea Sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society.
Fuller in sessions organized by others:
Derric Ludens, “The Importance of Symbolism: Fuller, Creuzer, and Nineteenth‐Century Philology”
Phyllis Cole, “Electric Shock from Land to Land: Margaret Fuller, Fredrika Bremer, and Transatlantic Feminism”
Emily VanDette, “From Margaret‐Ghost to Sexy Muse: The History of Margaret Fuller’s Objectification and Alienation”
2009, Philadelphia
Margaret Fuller: Textual, Emotional, and Geographical Practices
Sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Chair: Jeffrey Steele
Hea-Gyong Jo, “Margaret Fuller’s Risorgimento: Feminist Editing, Adam Mickiewicz and the ‘Symbolo Politico Polacco’ in the Spring of 1848”
Meg McGavran Murray with Kittye Robbins-Herring, “Pointing the Way to Her Psycho-Sexual Liberation: the Impact of Sand on Fuller”
Charlene Avallone, “Margaret Fuller, George Sand, and the Feminine ‘School of Newspaper Correspondence’”
Jeffrey Steele, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Fuller’s Psychological, Textual, and Political Geographies”
Fuller on panels organized by others:
Michelle Fankhauser, Washington State University, “Flower Power: Margaret
Fuller’s Formulation of Gender in Autobiographical Romance”
Elizabeth Thompson, Ohio University, “Prairie Visions: Feminine Autonomy and Native American Extinction in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes”
2006, Philadelphia
Margaret Fuller: Influence, Rhetoric, and Genre
Sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Chair: Jeffrey Steele
Mary De Jong, “Caroline Healey Dall and the Defense of ‘Margaret’”
Jason Hoppe, “Critical Intimacies: Rhetorics of Flirtation, Duty, and Evaluation in Margaret Fuller’s Letters, 1839-1841”
John Higgins, “Effulgence, Ecstasy, and Transparency in the Poetry of Fuller and Emerson”
Virginia Jackson, “Fuller’s Forms and Fuller’s Genres”
Fuller on panels organized by others:
Phyllis Cole, “Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Feminist Affinities across the Civil War Divide”
Jennifer Dawson, “’We address America rather than Americans’: Epistolary Rhetoric as Cultural Critique in Margaret Fuller’s Tribune Dispatches””
Roundtable Discussion, “Women, Monsters, and Freaks: Emily Dickinson among American Poetesses, Authoresses, and Savantes in the Nineteenth Century”
Jeffrey Steele, “Margaret Fuller”
Soirees? Salons? Conversations?: Women’s Intellectual and Social Gatherings From 1820-1880 Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society
Chair: Patricia Kalayjian
Mary Kelley, “‘Learning to Stand and Speak’: Antebellum Women’s Literary Societies and The Making of Public Opinion”
Lisa West, “‘Conversation’ and ‘Sketch’ as Genre in Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes and Sedgwick’s Redwood”
Joanne Dobson, “An Evening in a Salon: A Reading from a Novel in Progress”
Respondent: Charlene Avallone
2003, Fort Worth
Margaret Fuller: Influences, Models, and Networks
Sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Chair: Jeffrey Steele
Jeffrey Steele, “Exempla, Role Models, and Influences: Relational Paradigms in Fuller’s Writing”
Stephanie Barron, “The Frontispiece of Woman: Emily Plater as Margaret Fuller’s Ideal Exaltada,”
Charlene Avallone, “Paradigms of Recovery/Problems of Exceptionalism: Putting Fuller, Peabody, and Sedgwick in the Company of Women”
Fuller on panels organized by others:
Paul Galante, “‘My Italy’ and ‘My country’: Representing ‘Italianita’ and American in Margaret Fuller’s Italian Letters and Tribune Dispatches,”
Julianne Munjak, “New Homes and Summer Rambles: Kirkland, Fuller and the Making of the Middle West”
