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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
Oct. 1 | Travel Grants for Graduate Students
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Hoffman, Nicole T. "Scribbling, Writing, Author(iz)ing: Four Nineteenth-Century Women Writers," University of Utah, June 1990.
This dissertation explores systems of filiation, education, mentorship, publication, and social class within which four nineteenth-century women-Catharine Beecher, Sarah Josepha Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller-constituted themselves as authors. It studies how the “author-function” both maintains and questions social hierarchies and how it inscribes and re-inscribes womanly subjectivities. Considered are the importance of class and family connections in establishing a person as an “Author”; the role of education in constructing authorial subjectivities and in teaching writerly conventions; the overlooked but essential work of reviewers, editors, and publicizers; and the crucial role played by writing in the establishing, maintaining, and resisting of social boundaries.
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