We are pleased to announce the second event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner talking with Lori Harrison-Kahan about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about American women writers.

How have women writers used medical fiction and novels of development to rewrite cultural narratives of gender, sex, race, and disability for greater inclusion? Join Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Rickie-Ann Legleitner as they address this question and discuss how their new books engage with bodies and embodiment, oppositional acts of reinvention, and the relationship between our present moment and the cultural narratives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Assistant Professor of English and Bill Yowell Junior Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University-Central Texas, will be discussing (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (2022).

Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Interim Executive Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor of English Philosophy, and Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, will be discussing Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932: The Artist Embodied (2021).

Lori Harrison-Kahan, Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College, is the editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson (2019).

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