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articles and presentations

ARTICLES

The Voyage Out: Thematic Tensions and Narrative Techniques.” Twentieth Century Literature 26,4 (winter 1980): 402-23.

“‘I Stand Here Ironing’: Motherhood as Experience and Metaphor.” Studies in Short Fiction 18,3 (summer 1981): 187-92.

Reprinted in The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen.  Edited by Kay Hoyle Nelson and Nancy Huse.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1994.  Pp. 128-33.

Mrs. Dalloway as Lyrical Paradox.” Ball State University Forum 23,1 (winter 1982): 42-56.

“Narrating the Self: The Autonomous Heroine in Gail Godwin’s Violet Clay.Contemporary Literature 24,1 (spring 1983): 66-85.

The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood.”  In The Faith of a (Woman) Writer. Edited by Alice Kessler-Harris and William McBrien.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

“The Politics of Reading: Feminism, the Novel, and Cultural Change.” Critical Exchange 25 (spring 1988): 37-49.

“Tillie Olsen: Probing the Boundaries between Text and Context.” Journal of Narrative and Life History 3 (1993): 255-68.

“Politics, Literary Form, and a Feminist Poetics of the Novel.”  In Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Second Edition.  Edited by Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.  Pp. 432-52.  (Excerpted from Living Stories, Telling Lives)

“‘Requa I’: Intersections of the Real and the Fictional.” Frontiers 28,3 (1997): 135-40.

“Placing Children at the Fulcrum of Social Change: Antiracist Mothering in Tillie Olsen’s ‘O Yes.’” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 18,1 (spring 1999): 11-28.  Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, volume 103 (Thomson Publishing, Gale Group, 2008).

“Making a Living, Making a Life.”  Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering 5,2 (fall / winter 2003): 21-28.

“Narrating Maternal Subjectivity: Memoirs from Motherhood,” in Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts, ed. Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O’Reilly. Wilfred Laurier University Press, Toronto, 2009.

“Narrating as a Mother: Experience, Cognition and Narrative Form in Jane Smiley’s Ordinary Love and Good Will,” in Maternal Thinking: Philosophy, Politics, Practice, ed. Andrea O’Reilly.  Demeter Press, York University, Toronto, 2009.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

“Narrating the Self: Fictional Structures for Female Autonomy,” Great Lakes Colleges Association Women’s Studies Conference: THE FEMINIST ACADEMY, November 1980

“Affirming Female Experience: Motherhood and Sexual Identity in A Proper Marriage,” Great Lakes Colleges Association faculty conference: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE, October 1981

The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood,” TWENTIETH CENTURY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN WRITERS CONFERENCE, Hofstra University, November 1982

“Narrating the Self: Rage and Identity in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel,” TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE CONFERENCE, University of Louisville, February 1983

“Women’s Writing: From Female Experience to Human Voice,” MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, Minneapolis, November 1983

“Eluding the Ideological Grid: Feminist Criticism and the Problem of Polar Oppositions,” discussant presentation, Comparative Literature Section, MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, Minneapolis, November 1983

“Feminism, the Bildungsroman, and the Politics of Form,” TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE CONFERENCE, University of Louisville, February 1984

“Growing Against Femininity: The Subversive Bildung of Del Jordan and Claudia MacTeer,” MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, St. Louis, November 1985

“Consensus or Community: Women Writers and the Locus of Narrative Authority,” MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, Chicago, November 1986

“Virginia Woolf and the Redefinition of Narrative Form,” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE LITERATURE, Ann Arbor, April 1987

“Female Autobiography and Feminist Theory: Issues in the Women’s Studies Seminar,” NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION, Atlanta, June 1987

“The Politics of Reading: Feminism, the Novel, and the Coercions of ‘Truth,’” Columbus, MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, November 1987

“Women’s Studies 101: the Politics of Experience,” respondent presentation, MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, Columbus, November 1987

“Feminist Dialogics and Cultural Change,” response to session on “Toward a Feminist Dialogics,” MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, San Francisco, December 1987

“De-Riddling Patriarchal Contradictions: Tillie Olsen and the Narrative Form of Experience,” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE LITERATURE, Columbus, April 1988

“Rewriting ‘Woman’: Motherhood and the Redefinition of Narrative Authority,” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE LITERATURE, Madison, April 1989

“History, Whose Story?—Virginia Woolf and the Plotting of Social Change,” MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, San Francisco, December 1991

“Tillie Olsen: Probing the Boundaries between Text and Context,” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE LITERATURE, Vanderbilt University, April 1992

“Tillie Olsen’s ‘Requa I’ Explorations in Class, Work, and Gender,” CONFERENCE ON WORKING CLASS LIVES/WORKING CLASS STUDIES, Youngstown State University, June 1995

“Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas: Redefining Authority,” FIFTH ANNUAL VIRGINIA WOOLF CONFERENCE, Otterbein College, June 1995

“Narrating as a Mother: Experience, Cognition, and Narrative Form in Jane Smiley’s Ordinary Love and Good Will,” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE LITERATURE, Ohio State University, April 1996

“‘Requa I’: Intersections of the Real and the Fictive,” Plenary session, WESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION/WESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1996

“Mothering, Narrative, and Cognition: What does it mean to write as a mother?” MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, an interdisciplinary conference of the Association for Research on Mothering, York University (Toronto), September 1997

“Generations of My Own: To the Lighthouse Three Decades Later,” 12th Annual VIRGINIA WOOLF CONFERENCE, Sonoma State University, June 2002

“Narrating Maternal Subjectivities: Memoirs from Motherhood,” MOTHERING AND FEMINISM, an interdisciplinary conference of the Association for Research on Mothering, York University (Toronto), October 2004

“Making Stories of Our Lives: Memoirs from Motherhood,” plenary talk at THE MOTHERLODE, tenth anniversary conference of the Association for Research on Mothering, York University (Toronto), October 2006

“Maternal Subjectivity in the Age of Memoir,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 2008

“Learning as a Mother: Race, Gender, and Social Change in the Memoirs of Jane Lazarre, MIRCI Conference, Toronto, Ontario, October 2012

“Parental Thinking: What does gender have to do with it?”  Sara Ruddick Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, October 2012


PUBLIC LECTURES

“Female Realities in Fictional Structures,” Symposium on Critics and Criticism: MIMESIS AND MEANING, The College of Wooster, April 1979

“Feminist Literary Criticism: Two Frames of Reference or One? Faculty College, The College of Wooster, fall 1980

“Women: Living Stories, Telling Lives,” Convocation address, The College of Wooster, January 1981.  Abbreviated version published in Wooster Alumni Magazine 95:3 (spring 1981), 2-5, 46-48.

“Rereading Women’s Lives: Tillie Olsen’s Generic Female,” public lecture at Kenyon College, March 1982

“The Subversive ‘I’: Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives,” Convocation address, The College of Wooster, January 1984

“Feminist Literary Criticism,” guest lecture for NEH Seminar at Cornell University, July 1986

“Consensus or Community: Women Writers and the Locus of Narrative Authority,” presentation of research, The College of Wooster Faculty Seminar, September 1986

“Thinking Forward Through Our Mothers: Women, the Novel, and Cultural Change,” Alumni Lecture, The College of Wooster, June 1987

“Writing Mothers, Rewriting Women’s Lives,” lecture in humanities symposium at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, November 1989

“Tillie Olsen: Rethinking Text and Context,” presentation of research, The College of Wooster Faculty Seminar, December 1990

Defining Interdisciplinary Is So Very Hard to Do,” panel presentation at Interdisciplinarity Conference, The College of Wooster, March 1991

“Toni Morrison: Stories as a Way of Knowing,” Open Lecture for Community and Summer School, The College of Wooster, June 1996

“Telling the Truth: Motherhood, Memory, and the Challenges of Language,” presentation of research, The College of Wooster Faculty Seminar, February 1999

“Making Stories of Our Lives: Rewriting the Mother-Daughter Plot,” Faculty at Large lecture, The College of Wooster, 28 March 2006 (also at Alumni weekend, June 2006)