Upcoming: Margaret Fuller at MLA 2021

The 2021 MLA Annual Convention will be held online from 7 to 10 January, and the Margaret Fuller Society is hosting a roundtable on “19th-Century Women Writers and Archives,” presided by Margaret Fuller Society Vice President Sonia Di Loreto. Below is a list of speakers.

“The Margaret Fuller Society Archive,” Charlene Avallone, Margaret Fuller Society President, Independent Scholar

“Digitizing Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing Using Manifold,” Christina Katopodis, Margaret Fuller Society Website Manager, The Graduate Center, CUNY

“What Nineteenth-Century Women’s Music Collections Can Show Us,” Elizabeth Weybright, The Graduate Center, CUNY

“Arcadia in the Archives: The Utopian Imagination of Margaret Fuller’s Conversationalists,” Ariel Silver, Columbus Ohio Institute of Religion

“Transcendental Women Losing Their Religion,” David Faflik, University of Rhode Island

“‘Burning to support the Right’: The Poetic Archive of the Antislavery Cause,” Monica Pelaez, St. Cloud State University

“Persistence: From the Archives to the Digital Edition–Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project,” Lucinda Damon-Bach, Salem Salem State University

Image via Toronto Storeys

Margaret Fuller at MLA 2020 in Seattle

On Saturday, January 11, 2020, we gathered at the MLA Convention in Seattle, WA, for a panel on “Margaret Fuller’s Ecologies,” presided by Margaret Fuller Society Vice President, Jana L. Argersinger. Below is the list of presenters and their paper titles.

“The Ecological Spirituality of Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes
Lucas Nossaman, U of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Traveling West through Womanhood: Indigenous Women and the Landscape of Developmental Time in Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes
E S Dean, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

“From Genial to Daemonic: Margaret Fuller’s Early Theories of Relationality”
William Bond, Northeastern U

Abstracts are available here.

 

Mark Your Calendar for MLA – January 4-7, 2018

Margaret Fuller Society members will be at the MLA 2018 Convention in New York City on January 4-7. The society is sponsoring the panel “Margaret Fuller: New Critical Approaches,” organized and chaired by Executive Secretary Jeffrey Steele.

“Critique as Affect in Margaret Fuller’s Transcendentalist Writings”
by Mark Russell Gallagher

“The Trouble with Gender for Margaret Fuller”
by Christina Katopodis

“Haunting Affect in Fuller and Thoreau”
by Katie Simon

These papers take innovative approaches to Margaret Fuller and gender fluidity, queer theory, environmental criticism, affect and public feeling, transnational mobility, critical race studies, new feminist materialism, and new aesthetics.

The presidential theme this year is States of Insecurity. Sessions will be held in the New York Hilton Midtown, the Sheraton New York Times Square, and the New York Marriott Marquis. Click here for more information.

Featured photo courtesy of Christina Katopodis.