October 2022 at the University of Texas Dallas, hosted by Ashley Barnes. The common reading was Texas: The Great Theft, by Carmen Boullosa (Deep Vellum Books, 2014). The English language translator of the novel, Samantha Schnee, was a special guest participant.
February 2022, virtual meeting hosted James Finley, Texas A&M University-San Antonio. The common reading was Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Gates Ajar (Penguin, 2019), co-edited by Elizabeth Duquette and Claudia Stokes. Dr. Stokes was a special guest participant.
February 2021, virtual meeting hosted by LuElla D’Amico, University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio TX. The common reading was Helen Louise Thorndyke’s Honey Bunch: Just a Little Girl (1923), as it appears in the digital edition The Sweet Public Domain: Celebrating Copyright Expiration with the Honey Bunch Series.
February 2020 at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, hosted by Sarah Salter. The common reading was Leonor Villegas de Magnón’s The Rebel (Arte Publico Press).
October 2019 at Texas Tech University, hosted by Elissa Zellinger. The common reading was Iola Leroy by Frances E. W. Harper, edited by Koritha Mitchell (Broadview, 2018), and Dr. Mitchell was a special guest participant.
February 2019 at the University of North Texas, hosted by John Edward Martin. The common reading was Effie M. Moore’s Alone by the Sea: The Story of Jane Wilikinson Long, Mother of Texas (Naylor Co. 1951), recently digitized by the UNT Libraries and available here.
February 2018 at Southern Methodist University, hosted by Tim Cassedy. The common reading was Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Miss Grief and Other Stories, edited by Anne Boyd Rioux (Norton, 2016). Dr. Boyd Rioux was a special guest participant.
October 2017 at University of Texas Austin, hosted by Gretchen Murphy. The common reading was Rebecca Rush’s Kelroy, edited by Betsy Klimasmith (Broadview, 2016). Dr. Klimasmith was a special guest participant.
February 2017 at Austin College (Sherman, TX), hosted by Randi Tanglen. The common reading was A. Jennie Bartlett’s Elder Northfield’s Home: or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar, edited by Nicole Tonkovich (U Nebraska P, 2015). Dr. Tonkovich was a special guest participant via Skype.
October 2016 at Trinity University in San Antonio, hosted by Claudia Stokes. The common reading was Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems, edited by Elizabeth Duquette and Cheryl Tevlin (U Nebraska, 2014). Dr. Duquette was a special guest participant.
April 2016 at University of Texas Dallas, hosted by Sabrina Starnaman. The common reading was Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction, edited by Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp (Wesleyan UP). Dr. Yaszek was a special guest participant.
February 2015 at University of Houston-Downtown, hosted by DoVeanna Fulton. The common reading was Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (1838), edited by Joycelyn Moody (West Virginia UP 2014). Dr. Moody was a special guest participant.
October 2014 at University of Texas Arlington, hosted by Desiree Henderson.The common reading was Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823, edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, U Nebraska UP, 2014). Dr. Strouth Gaul was a special guest participant.
March 2014 at University of Texas San Antonio, hosted by Joycelyn Moody. The common reading was Jane Edna Hunter’s autobiography A Nickel and a Prayer (1940), edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas. Dr. Andreá Williams was a special guest participant.
October 2013 at Weatherford College, hosted by Sarah Lock. The common reading was Laura Curtis Bullard’s Christine, or Women’s Trials and Triumphs (U Nebraska 2011). Denise M. Kohn, editor of the edition, was a special guest participant.
February 2013 at University of North Texas, hosted by Kelly Wisecup. The common reading was DoVeanna Fulton and Reginald Pitt’s Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women’s Oral Slave Narratives (SUNY 2010). Special guest participants included DoVeanna Fulton and Daphne Brooks.
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 Strouth Gaul. The common text was Elizabeth Stoddard’s Two Men (U Nebraska, 2008). Jennifer Putzi, editor of the edition, was a special guest participant.
Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group 