The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will present two panels at the 2025 meeting of the American Literature Association: “Hopkins and her Society: Fifteen Years of the Pauline E. Hopkins Society” and “Pauline Hopkins on the Page: At the Intersection of Periodical Networks and Fictional Worlds” (Panel cosponsored with RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals).
“Pauline Hopkins on the Page: At the Intersection of Periodical Networks and Fictional Worlds” (Panel cosponsored with RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals)
Chair: Sarah Salter, Emory University
1. Laura Clarke, Northeastern University. “Seasons and Serialization in Of One Blood”
2. Sarah Clere, Independent Scholar, Charleston, SC. “Pauline Hopkins’s Subversive Plagiarism in ‘General Washington: A Christmas Story’”
3. Kieran Sommer, University of Heidelberg. “Between Interracial Positioning and Transracial Identity: Booker T. Washington’s and Pauline Hopkins’ Depictions of Black-Indigenous Relations”
4. Marlas Whiteley, New York University. “Hopkins on Desire”
Respondent: Edlie Wong, University of Maryland, College Park
“Hopkins and her Society: Fifteen Years of the Pauline E. Hopkins Society”
Chair: Courtney Novostat, Carnegie Mellon University
1. Lisa Bognenko, Université Paris Cité, LARCA. “‘Virtuous atmosphere’: The Literary Politics of Air in Pauline Hopkins’s Domestic Spaces”
2. Jessie Heine, University of Oregon. “The Diasporic Scientist: Discourses of Racial Science and Ancestral Knowing in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood: or the Hidden Self“
3. Klara Loc-Ling Boger, University of Michigan. Blood Paradoxes: Racial Inheritance in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self“
4. Dulcey Hunter, University of South Florida. “From Tragic to Transcendent: Subversion of the Tragic Mulatta Trope in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces“
Respondent: John Cullen Gruesser, Sam Houston State University and President, PEHS
