A19 / Friday, 11 October, 2-4 pm: Ellen Garvey (New Jersey City University), “Why Were They Missing? Recovering Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Writings on Slavery beyond the Civil War” (Université Paris Cité, OdG Building, Room 830)

The next session of the A19 research seminar (LARCA, Université Paris Cité / VALE, Sorbonne Université) will take place on Friday, 11 October, 2-4 pm, at Université Paris Cité, OdG Building, Room 830 as well as on zoom. A zoom link will be posted on the A19 website the day before: https://a19.hypotheses.org/2039

A19 will host Ellen Garvey (New Jersey City University) for a presentation titled: “Why Were They Missing? Recovering Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Writings on Slavery beyond the Civil War”.

Ellen Gruber Garvey is Professor Emerita of English at New Jersey City University, where she taught English and Women’s and Gender Studies, and edited the semi-annual Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy on approaches to university teaching. She is the author of Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance. (Oxford UP, 2013) and The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s-1910s (Oxford UP, 1996). Her research engages race and gender in late nineteenth and early twentieth century US print culture through periodicals – readers’ reuse of them in scrapbooks, their organization and resale, recovering and analyzing little-known stories published in them. She is Vice President of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.

The full programme of A19 for 2024-2025 is available here: https://a19.hypotheses.org/programme-2024-2025

With all best wishes,

Cécile Roudeau and Thomas Constantinesco

Source: Thomas Constantinesco <thomas.constantinesco>