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Mollie Barnes
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C19 us lit prof, childless cat lady, daughter, sister, aunt, friend,
author of PAPER HEROINES: https://uscpress.com/Paper-Heroines
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Join MFS in Toronto for MLA 2026: “Margaret Fuller and 19C American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science” @katopodis.bsky.social
Margaret Fuller’s “Entertainments of the Past Winter,” published in the July 1842 issue of the Dial, relays, “Wherever we went, there was Lyell’s Geology on the table, and many of the suggestions made by these lectures lingered in conversation throughout the winter.” She is referencing Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, which made the then relatively new concept of deep time palatable to a wide audience. Lyell aided Fuller’s understanding of how past and present are connected, and helped her to see the long and ongoing processes of nature. We often consider Fuller an early feminist, editor, educator, translator, music critic, and pioneering war correspondent, but we rarely frame her as a woman writer reading and responding to emerging sciences. Yet we know she was among many American women writers studying and responding to natural science. Susan Fenimore Cooper, Emily Dickinson, Fanny Fern, Almira Phelps, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Mary Treat are a few examples. MFS invites papers that engage American women writers and science, including but not limited to these topics: • Texts by practicing or aspiring women scientists and science teachers • Responses to new information in emerging natural sciences or medicine • Women’s relationship to nature, health, and medicine • Pediatrics and women observing children’s health and wellness • Growing awareness of climate and human impact • Early environmentalism and conservation efforts • Gardening, foraging, and agriculture • Outdoor fiction and nonfiction • Indigenous and multicultural knowledge(s) • Social ecologies, healthful communities and collaborations • Correspondence and building scientific circles and thinking While we welcome submissions that engage Fuller’s work, submissions need not be limited to work on Fuller. Early career scholars and graduate students are especially welcome to submit. Please send a title and 300-word abstract to Christina Katopodis (katopodis.christina@gmail.com) by March 20, 2025.
February 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Want to talk about why the work of women author societies is so urgent in 2025? or how to do community and coalition building? Send the Margaret Fuller Society your ideas for our #SSAWW 2025 panel! #C19 #amlit #pedagogy #recovery #margaretfuller @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social @legacy1984.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM