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CFP: Hopkins Society Panels at ALA 2024

Posted on November 29, 2023 by admin

New Research and Perspectives on Pauline E. Hopkins: “In the West” and Elsewhere Hopkins scholarship has flourished in recent years, with a number of essays appearing in prominent journals and the 2022 publication of Yours for Humanity: New Essays on … Continue reading →

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CFP: Hopkins Society Panels at ALA 2023

Posted on November 10, 2022 by admin

Pauline E. Hopkins in Comparative Perspective The Pauline E. Hopkins Society invites proposals that examine any aspect of Hopkins’ work or life from a comparative perspective for presentation at the 34rd Annual American Literature Association Convention, to be held in Boston, … Continue reading →

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CFP: Hopkins Society Panel at ALA 2022

Posted on November 22, 2021 by admin

The Pauline E. Hopkins Society invites submissions for its panel, “Hopkins and her Contemporaries: Responses to Racial Violence, Appeals for Racial Justice,” at the 2022 meeting of the American Literature Association. Professor Edlie Wong of the University of Maryland, College … Continue reading →

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Putting Them on the Map project traces work of Colored Co-operative Publishing Co. agents

Posted on November 1, 2021 by admin

Dr. Alisha Knight has completed another phase of her digital humanities project Putting Them on the Map (puttingthemonthemap.org).  This website sheds light on the identities and lives of the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company’s agents who labored to promote its publications, namely the Colored American … Continue reading →

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PEHS Virtual ALA Panel 2021

Posted on May 20, 2021 by admin

Please join us via Zoom, Monday, June 14, from 2:30-4:00 pm (Eastern time) for our 2021 ALA Panel, “Hopkins and Social Justice.”  The session will be recorded and posted on a new ALA YouTube Channel, thus making our panel available for … Continue reading →

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CFP: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society Panel at ALA 2021 (deadline extended to 2/15!)

Posted on November 9, 2020 by admin

The PEHS requests submissions for its upcoming panel, “Hopkins and Her Contemporaries: Responses to Racial Violence, Appeals for Racial Justice.” Well over a century separates our historical moment from the “lynching era” of Wells, Hopkins, and their contemporaries.  Our two … Continue reading →

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Podcast Episode on Pauline E. Hopkins

Posted on October 8, 2020 by admin

The Pauline E. Hopkins Society’s president, Dr. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), was recently a featured guest on the podcast I Found This Great Book!, which focuses on “sharing mystery, speculative and classic literature by Black authors.” Sherrard-Johnson discusses “Talma Gordon” … Continue reading →

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New Edition of Hagar’s Daughter from Broadview Press

Posted on October 8, 2020 by admin

PEHS members John Gruesser and Alisha Knight are pleased to announce their new Broadview Press edition of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter, originally published in the Colored American Magazine (1901-1902).  

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For Humanity: Pauline E. Hopkins Panel at SHSU

Posted on June 17, 2020 by admin

In February 2020, Sam Houston State University hosted a panel on Pauline Hopkins as part of its Diversity Reader series. A full video archive of that panel is available on YouTube. SHSU Senior Research Scholar John Gruesser moderated the event, … Continue reading →

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ALA Panel Postponed to 2021

Posted on June 8, 2020 by admin

Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the cancellation of the American Literature Association’s 2020 meeting, the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will postpone its 2020 panel to the next scheduled ALA conference, planned for Boston in May 2021. We are pleased … Continue reading →

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