Next Meeting

The next Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group meeting will be on Saturday February 23, 2013 at the University of North Texas in Denton and hosted by Kelly Wisecup.

Our common reading will be DoVeanna Fulton and Reginald Pitt’s Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women’s Oral Slave Narratives (SUNY 2010; Amazon link). The book is described as “a critical collection of three women’s oral slave narratives … that have received little scholarly attention owing … to the oral nature of the texts.” Our conversation will take up the question of orality, as well as what these narratives may bring to our understanding of the slave narrative genre more generally. DoVeanna Fulton and Daphne Brooks will be special guest participants in the discussion.

PLEASE NOTE: The response to this study group meeting has exceeded our expectations. If you did not RSVP to Kelly Wisecup by the January 15 deadline, and due to space limitations, unfortunately we will not be able include you in this gathering. We encourage you to join our mailing list to learn of future meetings.

LOCATION: The meeting will take place at the University of North Texas, at the Gateway Center, rooms 43/47 (on the ground floor).
The Gateway Center can be found on the UNT campus map. The street address is 801 North Texas Blvd, Denton TX.
Free parking is available near the Center (lot 20 on the map).

SCHEDULE:

12-1:15 pm Lunch (a vegetarian option will be available)
1:30-4:30 pm Discussion
4:30-5:00 pm Business Meeting
6 pm Dinner, Greenhouse Restaurant, 600 N. Locust, Denton TX 76201 (Each individual is responsible for the purchase of his/her own dinner.)

LODGING OPTIONS:
Comfort Suites at UNT, 1100 North I-35E, Denton, TX, US, 76201; (940) 898-8510
Rooms are $77 + tax. Non-smoking rooms have been blocked off for the UNT English Department and Kelly Wisecup. Please make your reservation by calling the hotel by February 9 (after which date the rooms will be released).

Heritage Inn Bed and Breakfast, 815 N. Locust, Denton, TX, 76201, (940) 565-6414
Rooms are  $86 + tax. Non-smoking rooms have been blocked off for the UNT English Department and Kelly Wisecup. Please make your reservation by calling the hotel by February 9 (after which date the rooms will be released).

ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY:
All are welcome to attend a talk by Professor Daphne Brooks (English, Princeton) at UNT on Friday, February 22 (3:30 PM, Willis Library Forum). Email Kelly Wisecup (kelly.wisecup@unt.edu) or see the UNT American Studies Collquium website for more details.

Please contact Desiree Henderson (dhenderson@uta.edu) or Theresa Strouth Gaul (t.gaul@tcu.edu) if you have any questions.

Previous Meetings

February 2012 at Texas State University San Marcos, hosted by Priscilla Leder. The common reading was Mary King’s Quincie Bolliver (1941).

September 2011 at the University of Texas at Dallas, hosted by Sabrina Starnaman. The common reading was Anzia Yezierska’s  Arrogant Begger (1927).

February 2011 at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK, hosted by Laura Stevens. The common reading was Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters (U Georgia P) and one of the editors of the edition, Jeffrey Richards, was a special guest participant.

October 2010 at Austin College, hosted by Randi Tanglen. The topic was “Teaching American Indian Women Writers” and included selections from Kilcup’s Native American Women’s Writing, c. 1800-1924; Bross and Wyss’s Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology; among other readings.

February 2010 at University of Texas Austin, hosted by Gretchen Murphy. The common text was Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura (Broadview 2007); Michael Drexler, editor of the edition, was a special guest participant.

March 2009 at University of Texas Arlington, hosted by Desiree Henderson. The common text was Jesse Alemán and Shelley Streeby, eds., Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (Rutgers, 2007), from which we read: The Female Warrior (1843) and Mary Denison’s The Prisoner of La Vintresse (1860). Jesse Alemán was a special guest participant.

November 2008 at Texas Christian University, hosted by Theresa Gaul. The common text was Elizabeth Stoddard’s Two Men (U Nebraska, 2008). Jennifer Putzi, editor of the edition, was a special guest participant.