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Posted on January 2, 2020
Florence Pugh, Saoirse Ronan, and Emma Watson in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019). Courtesy of Wilson Webb/Columbia Pictures. A recent story about Little Women in the Deseret News discusses why Alcott’s novel remains so popular: “Why do we keep remaking ‘Little Women’?” https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2019/12/24/21020463/little-women-remake-greta-gerwig-louisa-may-alcott Several Alcott scholars were quoted for the article, including Greg Eiselein, Julie […]
Posted on November 2, 2019
Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and I will be co-chairing a panel for the Louisa May Alcott Society at this year’s American Literature Association Conference in San Diego, California. Early submissions are welcome but we expect some will wait until after December 25th before submitting a proposal, which is when the new film adaptation arrives in theaters […]
Posted on October 10, 2019
My article on John Henry Newman as the first novelist saint is available online at Commonweal: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/newman-novelist When John Henry Newman is canonized by Pope Francis on October 13, the nineteenth-century cardinal and theologian will become the first new English saint in almost fifty years. He will also become the first novelist to be elevated to […]
Posted on August 12, 2019
Last month I had the privilege of attending a week-long seminar on “The Thought of John Henry Newman,” sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute, led by Newman scholar Fr. Ian Ker, at Merton College, Oxford. I am fascinated by the fact that, while the Transcendentalist movement was reforming religious life in New England, the Oxford, […]
Posted on May 20, 2019
On Saturday, May 18th, 2019, UCLA kicked off its centennial celebration. It also marked the Whitman Bicentennial with a marathon reading of “Song of Myself.” I was honored to be included in the program for this special event. Thank you to Whitmania organizers Amber West and Susannah Rodríguez Drissi for inviting me to participate. The […]
Posted on May 18, 2019
On Friday, May 17, 2019, Writing Programs at UCLA held its second annual Creating Connections symposium on writing pedagogy. The event brings together UCLA faculty and graduate students to discuss teaching methods for writing instruction. It is organized by students in the Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy in consultation with faculty and staff in UCLA Writing […]
Posted on March 21, 2019
My article, “Sleepy Hollow in Concord: Melville’s Gothic Parody of Transcendentalist Spirit in ‘The Apple-Tree Table’” appears in the current issue of The New England Quarterly. From the NEQ site: “Inspired by Concord’s newly consecrated Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Herman Melville’s “The Apple-Tree Table; or, Original Spiritual Manifestations” (1856) undercuts spirituality with materiality in a gothic parody […]
Posted on February 22, 2019 Leave a Comment
A few years ago I interviewed Matthew Schlein, founder and director of the Willowell Foundation about the Walden Project, an alternative education program for high school students based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Obviously I was interested in talking with Matt about his work because of our shared interest in Thoreau. But I […]
Posted on January 20, 2019
My exhibit celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Little Women is currently on display at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library. “Not a Bit Sensational but Simple and True”: Little Women features materials from UCLA Library Special Collections as well as the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and my own personal collection (which I share with […]
Posted on November 12, 2018
I recently spoke at the 2018 Society of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference in Denver, Colorado, where I presented part of a dissertation chapter that I am writing on nineteenth-century Transcendentalist reformer and writer Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. I was also invited to participate in a roundtable on Louisa May Alcott and the public humanities, […]
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