2015 American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Twenty-Seven Years of Hopkins Scholarship: Perspectives on the Past and Future
Chair, JoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston-Downtown
“The Rise of Pauline Hopkins as a Blueprint for the Recovery of Other Writers and the Need for Hopkins Scholarly Editions,” Hanna Wallinger, University of Salzburg and John Gruesser, Kean University
“Digital Hopkins,” Eurie Dahn, The College of Saint Rose and Brian Sweeney, The College of Saint Rose
“The Other Book: Ellen Wetherell, Pauline Hopkins and the Colored Co-Operative Publishing Company,” Alisha Knight, Washington College.
Respondent, Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts University
Roundtable on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’ Of One Blood
Moderator: JoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston-Downtown
“Pauline Hopkins and the Gothic Tradition: The Self-Destroying Gothic Villain,” Bridget M. Marshall, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“Birthmarks: Trauma in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Peter Chapin, Iona College
“Signifying Specters: Haunting as Black Communication in Of One Blood,” Jessica Mitzner, Tufts University
“Distributed Agency among Pauline Hopkins, the Colored American Magazine, and Of One Blood,” Michelle N. Huang, The Pennsylvania State University
2014 American Literature Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
Open Topics Panel on Pauline Hopkins
Chair and Respondent: John Gruesser, Kean University
1. “Pauline Hopkins’ Proto-Postmodernism,” JoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston-Downtown
2. “All in the Family?: Black Masculinity and Diasporic Identity in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Kerstin Rudolph, College at Brockport SUNY
3. “In and Out of the Potomac: Hagar’s Daughter and the Politics of National Reunion,”
Brian Sweeney, College of St. Rose, Albany NY
2013 American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Pauline Hopkins and Intertextuality
Chair: Colleen O’Brien, University of South Carolina-Upstate
1. “Renegotiating New Negro Womanhood in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces,” Amy Bennett Zendzian, Boston University
2. “Pauline Hopkins’s Architectural Resistance: Lodging Singleness in ‘The Little Romance,’” Katherine Fama, Washington University in Saint Louis
3. “Calling for Civility: Hopkins’s Recontextualization of Emerson’s Abolitionist Rhetoric,” Karin L. Hooks, Ohio State University
New Directions in Hopkins Scholarship: A Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: John Gruesser, Kean University
1. Rynetta Davis, University of Kentucky
2. John Gruesser, Kean University
3. Alisha Knight, Washington College
4. Greg Laski, United States Air Force Academy
5. Colleen O’Brien, University of South Carolina-Upstate
6. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2012 American Literature Assocation Conference, San Francisco, California
Pauline Hopkins and Transnationalism
Chair: April Logan, Salisbury University
1. “Refusing Partisan Lines For Humanity: The Anti-Imperialist Editorial Vision Of Pauline Hopkins,” Rhone Fraser, Temple University
2. “An Undiscovered Country: Transnational Spirits and National Amnesia in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Sarah Ingle, University of Virginia
3. “Pauline Hopkins’s Mesmerizing Modernism,” Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
