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Little Women 150

Posted on October 8, 2018

Throughout 2018 and 2019, fans of Louisa May Alcott will be celebrating the Little Women sesquicentennial. To mark this event, the Louisa May Alcott Society is publishing a collection of short essays curated by Kansas State University’s Greg Eiselein and Anne Phillips, with each essay devoted to a single chapter of Little Women. My contribution is a reading of Chapter 11, […]

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2018-2019 Barbara L. Packer Fellowship

Posted on August 13, 2018

I am honored to be the recipient of the 2018-2019 Barbara L. Packer Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Packer Fellowship was established by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society in honor of my late advisor Barbara Lee Packer (1947-2010). During my residence at the American Antiquarian Society, I completed research on […]

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2017 NCBCC

Posted on July 17, 2018

Some old news to share: I won second prize in the 2017 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. The award ceremony was held back in October at the Library of Congress, the same day I was to be in Lyon, France, for the “Thoreau from across the Pond” international symposium at the École Normale Supérieure. Though […]

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Thoreau bicentennial and a new website

Posted on July 13, 2018

I am happy to report that last summer’s Thoreau Society Bicentennial Gathering was a huge success. The Thoreau Society and the Thoreau Farm kicked off the celebration on July 12, 2017, with a birthday cake. The highlight of the AG was the moving keynote by Terry Tempest Williams. It was great meeting Terry and reuniting with […]

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