The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society is pleased to announce its panelists for the 31st Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 21-24 in San Diego, California.  A business meeting will follow the panel; times for both will be announced when available.

Pauline E. Hopkins and Social Justice
Organized by the Pauline E. Hopkins Society
Chair: John Cyril Barton, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Respondent: John Gruesser, Sr. Research Scholar, Sam Houston State University

1. “‘After Seeming Death’: Justice and the Making of Equivocal Bodies in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Hubert Cook, Connecticut College

2. “Creative Plagiarism as Folk Historiography in Pauline Hopkins’s Winona,” Emily Mulvihill, University of California, Riverside

3. “‘Caste Prejudice, race pride, boundless wealth, scintillating intellects’: Pauline Hopkins’s Response to Booker T. Washington in The Colored American and Of One Blood, Kelsey Flint-Martin, University of South Carolina

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society invites submissions on the topic of “Pauline E. Hopkins and Social Justice” for its panel at the 31st Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 21-24 in San Diego, California.

Click here for the full CFP.

Please join us as we celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society’s founding through panels, an awards presentation at the African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS) reception, and a reading of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s award-winning play Peculiar Sam; or the Underground Railroad (1879).Our second panel, a roundtable,  will reflect on the past decade and future of the Society and Hopkins studies, and we are excited to introduce a Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society Achievement Award at the AALCS reception.

Saturday, May 25, 12:40-2:00pm
Title: “Afrofuturism and Pauline Hopkins” (panel)
Chair: Eurie Dahn, The College of Saint Rose

1.     “Afrofuturist Visions of Racial Uplift in the Speculative Fiction of Pauline Hopkins and W. E. B. Du Bois,” Ryan Schneider, Purdue University
2.     “Sonic Futurity in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self,” Maleda A. Belilgne, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
3.     “Generic Insurgence: Pauline E. Hopkins, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Speculative Fiction,” M. Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara, Italy

Respondent: Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State University

Saturday, May 25, 2:10-3:30pm
Title: Celebration of Pauline Hopkins Studies: Past, Present, and Future (roundtable)
Chair: Eurie Dahn, The College of Saint Rose

1.     Hanna Wallinger, University of Salzburg
2.     JoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston-Downtown
3.     Brian Sweeney, The College of Saint Rose
4.     Edlie L. Wong, University of Maryland
5.     Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
6.     John Gruesser, Sam Houston State University

Business meeting to follow at 3:40pm.

Saturday, May 25, 6:30-7:30 PM

Presentation of the High School Essay on social justice award, Scholarship Award, and first ever Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society Achievement Award at the African American Literature and Culture Society Reception.

Saturday, May 25, 7:30-9:00 PM Essex Center

Reading of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s award-winning play Peculiar Sam; or the Underground Railroad (1879) presented by Arminda Thomas.

Arminda Thomas is Associate Artistic Director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writers’ Unit and a dramaturg, director, writer, and musician with a passion for plays which give voice to diasporic experiences. Thomas holds an MFA in dramaturgy and script development from Columbia University.

Nisi’s Shawl’s recent article, “What Men Have Put Asunder: Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,“ appears on sci-fi/fantasy site Tor.com. It will be of interest to scholars of Hopkins and fans of science fiction alike.

In honor of its tenth anniversary celebration, the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society is pleased to announce its third bi-annual awards competitions for high school students and professional scholars.  Please circulate widely; we invite all submissions ahead of our March 15, 2019 deadline.  For full details, follow the links below.

2019 High School Scholarship and Creative Writing Awards

2019 Professional Scholar Award

Friday, May 25th, 3:40-5:00pm
Session 12-D Pauline E. Hopkins’s Activism (Pacific F)
Organized by the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
Chair: John Cullen Gruesser, Kean University
1. “Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism,” Rhone Fraser, Howard University
2. “Racial Transmigration in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Amadi I. Ozier, Rutgers University
3. “Anti-Lynching Activism in Pauline E. Hopkins’ Contending Forces,” John Cyril Barton, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Respondent: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Friday, May 25th, 5:10-6:30 PM
Session 13-M Business Meeting: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (Pacific C)
2018 PEHS Annual Meeting Agenda

Friday, May 25th, 7:15 PM
African American Literature and Culture Society Reception

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will sponsor a panel at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, to be held November 7-11, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.

Past and Future Cultures:  Deep Contextualizations of Pauline Hopkins
Chair:  JoAnn Pavletich

April C. Logan, Assistant Professor, Salisbury University
“Pauline Hopkins’s Cultural (Mis)Appropriations”

Karin L. Hooks, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, Lorrain County Community College
“The Stenographer as Novelist”

Rynetta Davis, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
“No; she could not remain single”:  Shifting Perspectives on Single Black Women in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces (1900) and Hagar’s Daughter (1901-02)

JoAnn Pavletich, Associate Professor, University of Houston Downtown
“Critical and Pedagogical Legacies: The Shaping of Pauline Hopkins”

Pauline E. Hopkins’s Activism

Organized by the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Chair: John Cullen Gruesser, Kean University

1.     “Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism,” Rhone Fraser, Howard University
2.    “Racial Transmigration in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Amadi I. Ozier, Rutgers University
3.     “Anti-Lynching Activism in Pauline E. Hopkins’ Contending Forces,” John Cyril Barton, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Respondent: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

We have extended the deadline for abstract submission for Pauline Hopkins Society panels at the 2018 American Literature Association meeting, held in Boston from May 24-27.

The PEHS will sponsor two panels: Pauline Hopkins and Genre and Pauline Hopkins’s Activism in 2018.

Proposals for both panels should be sent to Eurie Dahn, Program Committee Chair, at dahne@strose.edu by January 18, 2018.

For full details, see our Conferences page.