Charline Jao

SSAWW and SSAWW’s Graduate Student Caucus are co-hosting two upcoming online panels, showcasing the exciting work of our dissertating graduate student members. Join us for the following two online panels in late April and early May to learn more about their research and their experience in SSAWW’s Mentorship Match Program, which pairs dissertating graduate students with a faculty member for one academic year.

  • Panel 1: Friday, April 24 at 12pm Eastern, featuring
    • Cora Anthony (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) on “The Queer Literary Genealogies of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers”; Dr. Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison), mentor and respondent 
    • Elisa Fuhrken (Northeastern University) on “Rescripting the Body: Gender, Race, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century America, 1860-1918”; Dr. Kathryn McKee (University of Mississippi), mentor and respondent 
  • Panel 2: Friday, May 1 at 12pm Eastern, featuring
    • Elisabeth McClanahan Harris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) on “Power Play: Games, Jokes, and Performance in 19th Century American Asylum Narratives”; Dr. Sarah Chinn (Hunter College), mentor and respondent
    • Dusti Smith (Texas Tech University) on “Textual Bodies and Public Lives: Women’s Literary Celebrity in Nineteenth Century Women’s Literature”; Dr. Laura Fisher (Toronto Metropolitan University), mentor and respondent
    • Hilary Pacheco (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ) on “Horror, Haunting, and Madness: Queering Temporality in Black Speculative American Literature”; Dr. Kim Hester Williams (Sonoma State University), mentor and respondent 

To attend one or more of these panels, please register to receive a Zoom link here. We look forward to seeing you at these panels to learn more about our graduate students’ amazing work!